True Crime audiobooks

The Boston Stranglers

By: Susan Kelly

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in June, 1962, the Boston, Massachusetts, area was terrorized for eighteen months by an elusive serial killer who sexually assaulted and strangled to death a succession of women. Boasting that he was the killer and that he had raped an additional two thousand victims, Albert DeSalvo's horrific "confession" became the subject of a... Read more

Hastened To the Grave

By: Jack Olsen

Narrated by: Susie Breck

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 1994, the Oakland Tribune cracked the story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area. The victims were elderly, well-to-do, and, in each case, had been befriended by members of an extended Gypsy family - the Tene Bimbos. Fay Fanon, also known as Rat Dog Dick, a dynamic and unconventional private investigator in the Bay... Read more

Vanished Smile

By: R.A. Scotti

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest... Read more

Catastrophe

By: Deborah Strober

Narrated by: Connor Trinneer

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this comprehensive account of Bernie Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme, Catastrophe exposes the real story behind the financial mastermind's upstanding façade—his confession, his family's involvement, and his unlikely rise and incredible crash. The book defines and explains the whole diabolical debacle, including how Madoff evaded SEC watchdogs and... Read more

The Accountant's Story

By: Roberto Escobar

Narrated by: Ruben Diaz

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar, became the most successful... Read more

Madness Under the Royal Palms

By: Laurence Leamer

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 1999, a Palm Beach matron and her socially ambitious husband invited the elite of the island for a dinner dance honoring Prince Edward. Among those dancing to the string orchestra that evening would be those accused of murder and spousal abuse, and others who would suffer fates both unseemly and unspeakable. Among the outer circle there... Read more

Deadly Secrets

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

National bestselling and award-winning author M. William Phelps—star of Investigation Discovery’s smash-hit TV series Dark Minds—updates his classic work of true crime in which psychological drama, passion, and murder collide in a powerful audiobook with special appeal to women listeners.In the postcard-pretty town of Pleasant Valley, New York,... Read more

Murder in the Heartland

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most disturbing and moving look at murder in rural America since In Cold Blood.” —Gregg OlsenOn a December night in 2004, a 911 operator in Nodaway County, Missouri, received a frantic call from a woman who’d found her pregnant 23-year-old daughter in a pool of blood on the living room floor. Most shocking of all, the dying woman’s unborn... Read more

La masacre de Virginia Tech

By: Juan Gomez-Jurado

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

En este libro el periodista Juan Gomez-Jurado nos narra los acontecimientos ocurridos el lunes 16 de abril de 2007, en la universidad tecnologica de Virginia, dando lugar a un hecho conocido en todo el mundo como "La Masacre de Virginia Tech". Con una precision milimetrica Gomez-Jurado describe minuto a minuto como el estudiante koreano Cho... Read more

A License to Steal

By: Walter T. Shaw

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

As early as the 1940s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speakerphones, conference calls, and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of... Read more

Sleep in Heavenly Peace

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Cold Storage
In May 2003, an Arizona man who’d bought dozens of sealed boxes at an auction of unclaimed property made a horrifying discovery: the bodies of three plastic-wrapped infants, one of which had become mummified over the years. Police traced them to Dianne Odell, 50, a mother of eight children, who admitted the babies were hers but... Read more

The Irishman (Movie Tie-In)

By: Charles Brandt

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES

New York Times Bestseller

Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award® winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award® nominee Harvey Keitel, and written by Academy Award® winner Steven Zaillian.
 
The... Read more

Under the Streets of Nice

By: Ken Follett & Rene Maurice L.

Narrated by: Roddy McDowall

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari had engineered the European crime of the century.A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut—from the inside—with a note left behind that read, "Without guns, without violence, without hate." Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system... Read more

Making Jack Falcone

By: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia & Michael Levin

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

At six-foot-four-inches and 375 pounds, Jack Garcia looked the part of a mobster, and he played his part so perfectly that his Mafia bosses never suspected he was an undercover agent for the FBI. "Big Jack Falcone," as he was known inside La Cosa Nostra, learned all the inside dirt about the Gambino organized crime syndicate and its illegal... Read more

Fatal Vows

By: Joseph Hosey

Narrated by: Nick Summer

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In March of 2004, Kathleen Savio, the third wife of Police Sergeant Drew Peterson, was found dead in her bathtub. Three years later, in October 2007, twenty-three-year-old Stacy Peterson vanished from the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, leaving behind Peterson and their children. Drew Peterson, thirty years Stacy's senior, steadfastly asserted... Read more

Every Move You Make

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Con Man
In December 1989, in upstate New York, Gary C. Evans, 35, a master of disguise and career criminal who had befriended David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz, began weaving a web of deadly lies. Evans told a female friend that Damien Cuomo, the father of her child, had deserted her. Of that he could be certain, since he’d killed Cuomo, and... Read more

Fatal Vision - Abridged

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Christopher Reeve

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing. Read more

The Last Brother - Abridged

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Cruel Doubt - Abridged

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Blind Faith - Abridged

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Marshalls were the perfect family in the perfect town. They had new cars and a permanent place in the country club set. Then, on a chilly September night, Maria Marshall--the beautiful wife and mother--was murdered in cold blood. The tragedy had only just begun.

While sympathy poured in for Maria's husband Rob and their three sons, the... Read more

The Terminal Spy

By: Alan S. Cowell

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian... Read more

The Terminal Spy - Abridged

By: Alan S. Cowell

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian... Read more

How I Helped O. J. Get Away With Murder

By: Mike Gilbert

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking tale told in How I Helped O. J. Get Away With Murder is unlike anything you've read before; it isn't Mike Gilbert's "version" of what happened—it's the unvarnished truth: the truth about O. J., the murders, and the infamous trial. Not as Gilbert imagined or would like it to be, but how it actually was. Gilbert doesn't spare anyone,... Read more

I'll Be Watching You

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The true-crime story of Edwin Snelgrove, an American serial killer who wanted to out-kill Ted Bundy, from the New York Times bestselling author.In September 2001, Carmen Rodriguez, a beautiful thirty-two-year-old Hartford mother of four, went missing. At first police were stymied . . . until a killer's crucial mistake led investigators down a... Read more