The Night Watcher with Daphne Woolsoncroft

Barely Famous

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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Daphne Woolsoncroft true-crime podcaster and debut thriller author joins Barely Famous to talk about Night Watcher, her chilling new novel about a Portland radio host who receives a terrifying on-air call that dredges up a serial killer from her past. Daphne shares how years of researching cases for Going West shaped her victim-first approach, why she spotlights lesser-known and BIPOC stories, and how her own family tragedy informs the respect and sensitivity she brings to true crime. We dig into the line between awareness and sensationalism, the cases that haunt her and forensic details in Night Watcher.

If you love thrillers, ethical true crime, and behind-the-scenes craft talk, this one’s for you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the shit show.
0:02.9	Things are going to get weird.
0:04.0	Get weird.
0:04.5	It's your fave villain, Kail Lowry.
0:06.4	And you're listening to Barely Famous. Today I'm barely famous.
0:27.6	I'm sitting down with Daphne Wollstonecroft,
0:29.8	and she's the host of Going West,
0:31.8	one of the top true crime podcasts.
0:33.9	We're talking about what it's like to dive
0:35.4	into some of the darkest cases week after week and how she separates real life from work and the wildest stories she comes across. She's also the author of a brand new book called The Night Watcher. All right, Daphne, welcome to Barely Famous Podcast. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, of course. So before we were just talking about writing books and stuff. Congratulations on The Nightwatcher.
0:54.7	Thank you. Yes. So tell me about the book. Obviously, you have a podcast. You have a true crime
0:59.7	podcast. But newer than that, you have your book. Yes. My book Nightwatcher just came out last week.
1:05.9	So it's about a radio show host in Portland, Oregon. And she's just living her life, doing her show, and she gets this terrifying on-air call
1:15.3	where the woman thinks there's a ghost in her house.
1:17.9	And it makes Nola realize that a serial killer from her childhood is back.
1:22.5	And she feels like she's being watched at her house.
1:25.7	So she thinks that the killer is back and coming for her
1:28.4	because when she was a kid, he killed her babysitter. And this is like a very prominent serial killer
1:32.4	in the area. So yeah, it's very scary. So what inspired the book, though? Well, because I have my
1:39.0	podcast going west, I knew that I wanted, I mean, I've always loved thriller novels and mysteries. Like,
1:43.7	I was such a Nancy Drew kid and have just always been into that genre and I love horror movies.
1:48.8	So I knew I wanted to write a thriller novel always.
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