True Crime audiobooks

Shots on the Bridge

By: Ronnie Greene

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, New Orleans Police Department officers opened fire on residents crossing the Danziger Bridge. When the shooting stopped, a mentally challenged man and a seventeen-year-old boy were dead, riddled with gunshot wounds. A mother's arm was shot off, her daughter's stomach gouged with a... Read more

The Marquise de Ganges

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.

In this, the eighteenth of the series, Dumas explores the history of a famous French aristocratic family: that of Marie de... Read more

Man-Eater

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater.”After the butchered remains of... Read more

Avenue of Spies

By: Alex Kershaw

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II.

The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and... Read more

The Man in the Monster

By: Martha Elliott

Narrated by: Kyra Miller

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing portrait of a murderer and his complex relationship with a crusading journalist Michael Ross was a serial killer who raped and murdered eight young women between 1981 and 1984, and several years ago the state of Connecticut put him to death. His crimes were horrific, and he paid the ultimate price for them. When journalist Martha... Read more

Bridge of Spies

By: Giles Whittell

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie
 
“A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and... Read more

Heist

By: Jeff Diamant

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The bizarre true story of the criminals behind the second-largest bank heist in American historyOne night in a small North Carolina town, a down-on-his-luck guard at Loomis Fargo manages to steal $17 million—literally more than one ton of cash. Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money from the vault to the getaway van, David Ghantt... Read more

Strangers on a Bridge

By: James Donovan

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller and subject of the acclaimed major motion picture Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan.

Originally published in 1964, this is the “enthralling…truly remarkable” (The New York Times Book Review) insider account of the Cold War spy exchange—with a new foreword by... Read more

The Lufthansa Heist

By: Henry Hill & Daniel Simone

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 11th, 1978, a daring armed robbery rocked Kennedy Airport, resulting in the largest unrecovered cash haul in world history, totaling six million dollars. The perpetrators were never apprehended and thirteen people connected to the crime were murdered in homicides that, like the crime itself, remain unsolved to this day. The burglary... Read more

Crime Classics, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Lou Merrill & others

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crime Classics was a true-crime radio docudrama that aired on CBS from June 1953 to June 1954. Created, produced, and directed by Elliott Lewis, the program examined crimes and murders throughout history. Founded in Lewis' own personal interest in famous murder cases, the program meticulously recreated the facts, atmosphere, and personages of... Read more

Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws

By: Kerrie Droban & Charles Falco

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite lacking any experience with motorcycle gangs, Charles Falco infiltrated three of America's deadliest biker gangs: the Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws. In separate investigations that spanned years and coasts, Falco risked his life, suffering a fractured neck and a severely torn shoulder, working deep under cover to bring violent sociopaths... Read more

Poison Candy

By: Elizabeth Parker & Mark Ebner

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In August 2009, former madam Dalia Dippolito conspired with a hit man to arrange her ex-con husband’s murder. Days later, it seemed as if all had gone according to plan. The beautiful young Dalia came home from her health club to an elaborate crime scene, complete with yellow tape outlining her townhome and police milling about. When Sgt. Frank... Read more

Vaninka

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.

In this, the seventeenth of the series, Dumas, in this case more a novelist rather than a historian, turns his attention to a... Read more

Death Sentence

By: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A shocking true story of a double life undone by murder. --When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his 46-year-old fiancée Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor's family grieved with her—until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own son, Velma stunned her... Read more

Violated

By: Sarah Wilson

Narrated by: Chloe Massey

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that, since the 1990s, up to 1,400 young girls in the town had been regularly abused by sex... Read more

ZeroZeroZero

By: Roberto Saviano

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy

In many countries, “000” flour is the finest on the market. It is hard to find, but it is soft, light, almost impalpable—like the purest,... Read more

Yo jugué con un asesino

By: Natalia Cardenas

Narrated by: Nuria Trifol

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Sumérgete en este thriller policíaco a través de la voz de una de las mejores actrices de doblaje. Novela periodística basada en un hecho verídico. Relata la vida de Eduardo González Arenas, alias «Eddie». Y la de su asesino, Juanito. Eddie fue muy conocido porque desde 1970 a 1998 lideró la secta destructiva Edelweiss. Juanito es un auténtico... Read more

The Billion Dollar Spy

By: David E. Hoffman

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War
 
   While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the... Read more

Vendetta

By: James Neff

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa.

From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public... Read more

How to Catch a Russian Spy

By: Naveed Jamali & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

With an epilogue on recent Russian spying, a “page-turner of a memoir” (Publishers Weekly) about an American civilian with a dream, who worked as a double agent with the FBI in the early 2000s to bring down a Russian intelligence agent in New York City.

For three nerve-wracking years, from 2005 to 2008, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the... Read more

Marquise de Brinvilliers

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.

In this, the sixteenth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, brings his story-telling skills to a subject no less than... Read more

The Spiral Notebook

By: Stephen Singular & Joyce Singular

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and seventy wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, twelve kids and one teacher at Columbine High School were murdered by two students. In 2012, twenty children and seven adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Thirty-two were killed at Virginia Tech. Twelve killed at... Read more

90 Church

By: Dean Unkefer

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Mad Men meets The Wire in this gripping true-crime memoir by a former agent at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1960s New York.Before Nixon famously declared a “war on drugs,” there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.New York City, mid-1960s. The war in Vietnam was on the nation’s tongue—but so was something else. Clandestine and chaotic, but... Read more

The Darkest Night

By: Ron Franscell

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Casper, Wyoming: 1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky's car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable crimes at the hands of these men before... Read more