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Case Closed

The Night Shift: 5

Case Closed

Macmillan

True Crime, News

4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tune in for the next episode of Season 11 of the Case Closed podcast, where we're serializing the audiobook edition of The Night Shift by Alex Finlay. It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again. Fifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive.  In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive the horrors of her tragedy; the brother of the fugitive accused, who’s convinced the police have the wrong suspect; and FBI agent Sarah Keller who must delve into the secrets of both nights—stirring up memories of teen love and lies—to uncover the truth about murders on the night shift. Twisty, poignant, and redemptive, The Night Shift is a story about the legacy of trauma and how the broken can come out on the other side, and it solidifies Finlay as one of the new leading voices in the world of thrillers. We’ll release two new episodes every week beginning April 10th! Make sure to subscribe to Case Closed to get notified each week as episodes drop. We don't want you to miss anything. Be sure to listen or download by May 22nd so you can hear the whole story. Can't wait until next week? You can find The Night Shift wherever audiobooks are sold.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Case Closed.

0:06.0

You're listening to The Night Shift by Alex Finlay,

0:09.6

narrated by Caddy McLean,

0:11.8

Brittany Presley, Gary Tiedeman, and Devin Hales.

0:16.4

Let's pick up where we left off last time.

0:22.1

Chapter 24. Chris

0:24.8

Chris knows he has an unhealthy obsession.

0:30.6

Sitting in the interview room of the Union County Jail,

0:34.1

he pulls up the anonymous travel vloggers site on his phone. During these long morning

0:39.8

breaks between clients, he often falls down the rabbit hole and watches video after video of

0:46.3

Mr. Nirvana's adventures. He imagines what it would feel like to be so free, free of his student loan debt, of a job he's come to

0:56.8

hate, of a relationship that's destined for failure, though maybe it's already failed. Claire

1:04.0

normally springs out of bed, but not this morning. He'd sensed she was waiting for him to leave, so she wouldn't have to talk to him.

1:13.7

He'd taken a shower, put on his fancy new suit, and is now the sharpest-dressed man in the morning

1:20.2

cattle call of indigent defendants. Chris has spent many hours trying to get a glimpse of Mr. Nirvana's face,

1:28.3

and he's far from the only internet sleuth on this case.

1:32.3

But the vlogger has evaded being outed thus far.

1:36.3

Comments and forums speculate that he scrubs the videos before posting,

1:40.3

editing out reflective surfaces, or anything else that might identify him.

1:45.6

Some theorize that Mr. Nirvana stays anonymous because he's on the run from something.

1:50.9

Others say he's doing it simply to add to his mystique.

1:55.3

In the past, Chris considered traveling abroad to track him down.

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