True Crime audiobooks

White American Youth

By: Christian Picciolini

Narrated by: Christian Picciolini & Joan Jett

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.

Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose... Read more

Killer Clown

By: Terry Sullivan

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in his Chicago suburb. Few could imagine what lay buried beneath his house of horrors—until a teenage boy disappeared before... Read more

Truth and Honour

By: Greg Marquis

Narrated by: Costas Halavrezos

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and conviction of the victim's son, Dennis Oland, for second ­degree murder.Oland's trial would be the most publicized in New Brunswick history. What... Read more

The Surgeon's Wife

By: Kieran Crowley

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.Gail’s... Read more

Laci

By: Michael Fleeman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Praying for a happy ending, friends and family stood by Laci’s grieving husband Scott. Four months later, Laci’s decomposed body was found in the murky waters of San Francisco Bay. The body of her child had washed ashore about a mile away, after a possible “coffin birth.” It was a sad closure to an exhaustive search, and a grim end to a marriage... Read more

In the Middle of the Night

By: Brian McDonald

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely daughters... Until July 23, 2007, when, according to police, two ex-cons invaded the Petit home hoping to embark on a routine robbery—one that would ultimately prove deadly. Read more

Taken from Home

By: Eric Francis

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Grand Junction, Colorado, 2001: When Michael Blagg’s adoring wife, Jennifer, and his six year-old-daughter, Abby, disappeared from their home, Michael led the charge to find them, even going so far as to make a nationwide appeal on Good Morning America for information. But seven months later, investigators found Jennifer’s remains in a Mesa... Read more

Blood Will Tell

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

They Were The Perfect Family...For twenty years, Ken and Kristine Fitzhugh and their two sons had lived lives of comfortable middle-class normality in the university town of Palo Alto, California. Then came the shocking news that Kristine Fitzhugh was dead, the victim of a terrible accident.... By the time the Palo Alto Police Department looked... Read more

A Deadly Affair

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A promising young attorney and a dedicated family man, Michael Fletcher seemed to have it all. But in the summer of 2000, Michael found himself standing trial for the murder of his pregnant wife, Leann. The verdict—guilty of second-degree murder—would leave friends, family, and the public at large scrambling to make sense of a twisted and... Read more

On the Brinks

By: Sam Millar

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Security guards told the police that they were surprised by assailants who had somehow evaded the sophisticated security system. They could not say how many robbers there were. It appears to be one of the biggest robberies in U.S. history."- The New York Times, front page

In 1993, $7.4 million was stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in... Read more

Unanswered Cries

By: Thomas French

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The fatal nightOn a warm Florida evening, Karen Gregory saw a familiar face at her door. What the beautiful young woman could not know was that she was staring into the eyes of her killer—a savage monster who would rape her, stab her to death, and leave her battered body on the floor outside the bedroom.The desperate searchDetectives frantically... Read more

The Pretender

By: Marc Ruskin

Narrated by: Francis J. Spieler

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Pretender, former FBI agent Marc Ruskin will pull listeners into the fascinating, elusive world of undercover operatives.

Of all the tools available to law enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the gold standard. This is true in TV shows and in the real world. In the era of electronic surveillance, UC work... Read more

The Bayou Strangler

By: Fred Rosen

Narrated by: Keith Foster

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of New Orleans suburbs. The victims-many of them transient street hustlers-had been brutally raped and strangled, leaving Louisiana's gay community rattled. When no leads were found and the murders continued, detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came... Read more

Secrecy World

By: Jake Bernstein

Narrated by: Jake Bernstein

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrecy World is the inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global... Read more

The Dillinger Days

By: John Toland

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

For thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will, as the Indiana State Police had only forty-one members, including clerks and typists. Dillinger’s daring escapes at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at... Read more

Almost Gone

By: John Baldwin & Mackenzie Baldwin

Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross, Cassandra Campbell & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing true story of a high-school senior, her parents, her secret online relationship with a handsome, manipulative stranger, and her well-laid plan to leave home and country to marry a man in Kosovo she thought she loved.

The Baldwins were a strong, tight-knit family living in Texas. When their seventeen-year-old daughter, Mackenzie,... Read more

Afraid of the Dark

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Detroit mortgage broker Mark Unger adored his wife Florence and their two young sons. But after a decade of marriage and increasing financial trouble, Mark’s life began to slowly unravel. He became addicted to pain killers and gambling, and ended up spending five months in rehab.Forced to go back to work, Flo became bitter and resentful of Mark... Read more

Breaking Free

By: Rachel Jeffs

Narrated by: Rachel Jeffs

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel... Read more

Bunk

By: Kevin Young

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 20 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice... Read more

The Jodi Arias Murder Trial

By: J.D. Rockefeller

Narrated by: Richard L. Walton

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When salesman Travis Victor Alexander hooked up with his girlfriend Jodi Ann Arias, little did he know that she was going to brutally murder him in his own apartment. Jodi killed Travis on the 4th of June, 2008 and she was sentenced to a natural life in state prison on the 13th of April, 2015. Jodi claimed in court that Travis would often beat... Read more

Sole Survivor

By: Holly K. Dunn

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 28, 1997, just as she was starting her junior year of college at the University of Kentucky, Holly Dunn and her boyfriend, Chris Maier, were walking along railroad tracks on their way home from a party when they were attacked by notorious serial killer Angel Maturino Reséndiz, a.k.a. The Railroad Killer.



After her boyfriend is beaten to... Read more

Absolute Madness

By: Catherine Pelonero

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown Slasher, Christopher allegedly claimed eighteen victims during a savage four-month spree across the... Read more

Survivor

By: Roberta Kray

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Only the strongest will survive...
NO ONE KNOWS CRIME LIKE KRAY

'A cracking good read!' Jessie Keane
'Martina Cole territory' Independent
'A compelling mystery' Heather Burnside
'Gripping' Daily Express
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Lolly has always known her mum was different. Sometimes Angela Bruce was ill in a quiet sort of way, but other times she roamed the... Read more

Convenient Suspect

By: Tammy Mal

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four  months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had never met... Read more