True Crime audiobooks

Hits and Memories

By: Mark "Chopper" Read

Narrated by: Dave Ferguson

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

'It was just after dawn on Thursday, November 14, 1991. The hatch on the cell door slid back. I could see the screw's face through the slit. I've seen better heads on a pig dog, but this time I could have kissed him.' Underworld standover man and executioner Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read was released from Pentridge Prison in November, 1991,... Read more

THE DELPHI BRIDGE MURDERS

By: Alfred Howard

Narrated by: Scarlett Adams

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Envision a serene community where each person is familiar with those living nearby. Imagine two teenage girls embarking on a hike, their laughter resonating through the trees... only to be discovered lifeless. This is the haunting truth behind the Delphi Bridge murders.For years, the case lingered in the shadows, an eerie enigma that captivated... Read more

Milat

By: Tom Gilling & Clive Small

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil. It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind the many false leads and dead ends, precious clues... Read more

The Shark Net

By: Robert Drewe

Narrated by: Michael Carman

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness. Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers - variously shooting, strangling, stabbing,... Read more

Historian hurjimmat rikokset

By: Maailman historia

Narrated by: Jalmari Laine

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Sydämettömiä murhaajia, taiturimaisia varkaita ja salaperäisiä kidnappauksia – tutustu rikoksiin, jotka ravistelivat maailmaa. Reginald Christie elää näennäisen normaalia elämää Lontoossa vaimonsa kanssa 1953. Kukaan ei tiedä, että mies on riistänyt seitsemän naisen hengen. 16-vuotias Paul Getty kidnapataan Roomassa 1973. Pian selviää, että... Read more

Meadow's Law

By: Quentin McDermott

Narrated by: Quentin McDermott

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable story of a battle between science and the law, and a mother's fight for justice. In 2003, Kathleen Folbigg was found guilty of smothering her four young children to death, one by one. Medical experts told her trial that they had never come across a family like hers, where three or more infants had died from natural causes.... Read more

Open Secrecy

By: Isak Ladegaard

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Examines how the global digital underground is liberated by "open secrecy"—a novel and ominous mix of tools for mass communication and anonymity Shadowy groups are increasingly capable of collective action. Using military-grade encryption, rerouting software, and cryptocurrencies, anonymous and pseudonymous actors can now communicate, solve... Read more

The Killing Fields of East New York

By: Stacy Horn

Narrated by: EJ Lavery

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields. On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old... Read more

Hatton Garden: The Inside Story

By: Jonathan Levi

Narrated by: Tim Bentinck

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For this team of old-school career criminals, The Hatton Garden Heist was supposed to be one last job, the fortune that would sort their retirement for good. The plan was to smash in and grab tens of millions of pounds from beneath the world-famous gold-and-jewellery district, and get away to live in luxury. But somewhere it all went... Read more

The Damage Done

By: Warren Fellows

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Bang Kwang prison–better known as the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning of 12 years of hell in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where prison guards laugh as... Read more

Jacks and Jokers

By: Matthew Condon

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

'The message was powerfully clear. If you threatened the harmony of the Joke, you didn't last long.' 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland, is soon to be controversially appointed Police Commissioner. As for the other two original Crooked Kings, Tony Murphy is set to ruthlessly take control of the workings of 'The Joke', while Glen... Read more

Hell's Angels - The Gang's Beastly Reputation

By: Vines Graener

Narrated by: Vines Graener

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

1. The Labor Day Run For the Hell’s Angels, the Labor Day Run was their crowning event—an annual spectacle of chaos and hedonism. It was a time for drinking, fighting, unrestrained indulgence, and drugs. The event could attract anywhere from a couple hundred to a thousand bikers, all coming together for a weekend of pure debauchery. It wasn’t... Read more

Cybersecurity

By: Marcus Kline

Narrated by: Sarah Donovan

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's interconnected world, technology has become the backbone of our daily lives, reshaping how we communicate, work, shop, and even socialize. The digital age has brought immense progress, opening up unprecedented opportunities for individuals and businesses alike. However, with these advancements come new challenges, particularly the... Read more

A Harvest of Innocence:

By: Dan Stidham & Tom McCarthy

Narrated by: Michael Feeney

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In a case based on a lie, only one man knows the truth. Attorney Dan Stidham breaks his self-imposed 30-year silence to expose details only he knows about the infamous West Memphis Three murders. Exposing what happened will allow him to close the door on a case that tormented him for years and to help exonerate the three innocent young men who... Read more

Wedderburn

By: Maryrose Cuskelly

Narrated by: Maryrose Cuskelly

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

'The slaughter was extravagant and bloody. And yet there were people in the small town of Wedderburn in Central Victoria who, while they did not exactly rejoice, quietly thought that Ian Jamieson had done them all a favour.' One fine Wednesday evening in October 2014, 65-year-old Ian Jamieson secured a hunting knife in a sheath to his belt and... Read more

The Court Reporter

By: Jamelle Wells

Narrated by: Jamelle Wells

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From true crime to petty crime – this is the memoir of one of Australia’s most experienced court reporters. As a seasoned court reporter, the ABC’s Jamelle Wells has filed thousands of stories on murderers, sex offenders, thieves, bad drivers, family feuds and business deals gone wrong. In more than 10 years, Jamelle has witnessed many of... Read more

I Let Him Go

By: Denise Fergus

Narrated by: Siân Polhill-Thomas

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

On 12th February 1993, Denise's life changed forever. As she was running errands at New Strand Shopping Centre, she let go of her two-year-old son's hand to take out her purse. Denise never saw her son again. In this extraordinary and heart-wrenching book comes the unflinching account of that terrible day from James Bulger's mother, Denise.... Read more

Looking for Madeleine

By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Narrated by: Samantha Dakin

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The book: - Identifies the blunders made during the police search for Madeleine - Draws on confidential police sources - Analyses the thousands of pages of the Portuguese police dossier - Pinpoints the misreading of forensic evidence that – for a time – turned Kate and Gerry McCann into formal suspects - Follows the clues indicating that the... Read more

Blood on the Rosary

By: Sue Smethurst & Margaret Harrod

Narrated by: Casey Withoos

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a special bond that twins share, an ethereal connection that can’t be put into words. Margaret Harrod shared that unique bond with her twin brother Michael. As children they were inseparable and at age 22, together, they gave their lives to the Catholic Church. Margaret became a nun and Michael a Salesian priest – it was the proudest... Read more

Gangland Oz

By: James Morton & Susanna Lobez

Narrated by: Susanna Lobez

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years on from the original bestselling Gangland Australia, top true-crime writer James Morton and barrister and broadcaster Susanna Lobez conspire again to track the rise and fall of Australia's talented contract killers, brothel keepers, robbers, bikers, standover merchants, conmen and drug dealers. They examine the role of police,... Read more

The Ship That Never Was

By: Adam Courtenay

Narrated by: John Eastman

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Sarah Island, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on... Read more

Loose Units

By: Paul F. Verhoeven

Narrated by: Paul F. Verhoeven

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Verhoeven's father, John, is a cop. Well, an ex-cop. Long since retired, John spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. Paul, however, is something of an artsy, sensitive soul who can’t understand why he doesn’t have the same heroism and courage as his dad. One day, John offers Paul the... Read more

The Night Dragon

By: Matthew Condon

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

‘He takes you in the middle of the night, like an angel, and you’re gone for good.’ – Witness at Vincent O’Dempsey’s committal hearing for murder, 2015. In 2017, Vincent O’Dempsey was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murders of Barbara McCulkin and her two young daughters. It took over 40 years to bring him to justice. Feared for... Read more

Hell on the Way to Heaven

By: Chrissie Foster & Paul Kennedy

Narrated by: Chrissie Foster

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Chrissie and Anthony Foster were like any other young family, raising their three daughters in suburban Melbourne with what they hoped were the right values. Chrissie could not have known that the stranger-danger she feared actually lurked in the presbytery attached to the girls' Catholic primary school. Father Kevin O'Donnell, a long-term... Read more