True Crime audiobooks

Trapped Under the Sea

By: Neil Swidey

Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results
 
A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black... Read more

The Mad Sculptor

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

2015 Edgar Award NomineeBeekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: SKYSCRAPER SLAYER, BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly triple homicide at Beekman Place would rock the neighborhood yet again—and... Read more

Dossiers Criminels : Le prédateur nocturne

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

La nuit venue, Richard Ramirez, mieux connu sous le nom de Nightstalker, le prédateur nocturne, arpente les rues à la recherche de sang frais, massacrant au hasard de ses rencontres hommes et femmes jusque dans leurs propres maisons. Le tueur est totalement imprévisible. Ses crimes vont du simple cambriolage, au viol avec violence et au meurtre.... Read more

Dossiers Criminels : Le monstre de Florence

By: John Mac

Narrated by: William Cros

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Le monstre de Florence existe vraiment. C'est ainsi qu'on a appelé le ou les auteurs de doubles meurtres qui ont été perpétrés dans la région de la Toscane, en Italie, entre 1974 et 1985, semant l'effroi parmi la population. Chaque fois, un jeune couple est tué alors qu'il fait l'amour dans la nature. Au total, 16 personnes ont été assassinés.... Read more

Newtown

By: Matthew Lysiak

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

12/14/2012



Sandy Hook Elementary School



Newtown, Connecticut



We remember the numbers: 20 children and 6 adults, murdered in a place of nurture and trust. We remember the names: teachers like Victoria Soto, who lost her life protecting her students. A shooter named Adam Lanza. And we remember the questions: outraged conjecture instantly monopolized... Read more

Don't Look Behind You

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

I'll be watching you.Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent—a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don’t look behind you…run.Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling... Read more

Don't Look Behind You - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I'll be watching you.Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent—a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don’t look behind you…run. Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling... Read more

Fred & Rose

By: Howard Sounes

Narrated by: Howard Sounes

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

FRED & ROSE IS THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THIS INFAMOUS TRUE CRIME CASE - NOW UPDATED WITH A POSTSCRIPT FROM THE AUTHOR. AS FEATURED ON TV, AND IN THE PODCAST SERIES, UNHEARD: THE FRED & ROSE WEST TAPES

Fred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband and wife who loved and killed together.

During their long... Read more

But I Trusted You - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The most fatal mistake?Trust. It's the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and families. But when trust is placed in those who are not what they seem, the results can be deadly. Ann Rule, who famously chronicled her own shocking experience of unknowingly befriending a sociopath in "The Stranger Beside Me,"... Read more

Mortal Danger

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From trust to terror…from security to survival….Only Ann Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy—America's most notorious serial killer—could lend her razor-sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted but whose lethally violent nature, though... Read more

Mortal Danger - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From trust to terror... from security to survival... The author of The Stranger Beside Me brings her brilliantly informed understanding of the sociopath to this riveting true crime collection. Only Ann Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy - America's most notorious serial killer - could lend her razor-sharp... Read more

Dallas 1963

By: Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis

Narrated by: Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis & Tony Messano

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest... Read more

Practice to Deceive

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestseller—from “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) and the author of The Stranger Beside Me—is a shocking tale of greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an isolated and eerie island in the Pacific Northwest. The basis for the Lifetime movie event Circle of Deception.

With more than 50 million copies of her books... Read more

My Story

By: Elizabeth Smart & Chris Stewart

Narrated by: Elizabeth Smart

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing true story of abduction and survival from the courageous young woman who lived it—now the subject of a Lifetime original movie, I Am Elizabeth Smart.

In this memoir, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime. On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the... Read more

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Real-life murder. Real-life mystery.In some murder cases, the truth behind the most tragic of crimes crystallizes with relative ease. Not so with these fascinating accounts drawn from the personal files of Ann Rule, America’s #1 bestselling true-crime writer. What happens when the case itself becomes an intractable puzzle, when clues are... Read more

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Real-life murder. Real-life mystery.In some murder cases, the truth behind the most tragic of crimes crystallizes with relative ease. Not so with these fascinating accounts drawn from the personal files of Ann Rule, America's #1 bestselling true-crime writer. What happens when the case itself becomes an intractable puzzle, when clues are... Read more

Den of Thieves

By: James B. Stewart

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 19 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.

Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael... Read more

Parkland

By: Vincent Bugliosi

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture! The exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

In Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November), author Vincent Bugliosi “has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America” (Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Releasing... Read more

No Regrets

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed... Read more

Five Days at Memorial

By: Sheri Fink

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter

“An amazing tale, as... Read more

Parkland - Abridged

By: Vincent Bugliosi

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major motion picture! The exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

In Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November), author Vincent Bugliosi “has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America” (Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Releasing... Read more

No Regrets - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed... Read more

Picture Perfect

By: Shanna Hogan

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone, especially the ladies. So when he was found with a bullet wound in the face and his throat slashed, the brutal murder sent shock waves throughout his community. Who could have done... Read more

Bad Girls

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Phelps’s writing reads like a mystery novel.” —Suspense MagazineThe crime stunned quiet Mineral Wells, Texas: 49-year-old Bob Dow shot execution-style in his own bed, his invalid mother locked in the next room—and a cache of homemade porn starring the town’s underage girls. The two accused killers—teen lovers Bobbi Jo Smith and Jennifer... Read more