True Crime audiobooks

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

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

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

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

Breaking the Ring

By: John Barron

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For 17 years, the Soviets knew every military move we made! That is how damaging the Walker family spy ring was to our national security. For the better part of two decades, John Walker, his son Michael, brother Arthur, and friend Jerry Whitworth comprised the KGB's greatest asset. Meticulously detailing the FBI investigation which finally broke... 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

Cruel Death

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The true-crime story of a homicidal husband and wife and a double murder in a Maryland resort town, by the bestselling author of Deadly Secrets.It was Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer season. Thousands headed to Ocean City, Maryland, to enjoy its scenic beaches, lively boardwalk, and trendy nightclubs. Among the bright-spirited... Read more

Hastened To the Grave

By: Jack Olsen

Narrated by: Susie Breck

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

They were a notorious gypsy family that seeped into their victims' lives like a deadly cancer. And they couldn't be stopped—until one courageous woman took on the cases no one else would touch...THE VICTIMS:
Elderly, well-to-do men and women who, due to their failing health, strength, and faculties, could be conned out of their fortunes by... Read more

Most Evil

By: Steve Hodel

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When veteran LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel discovered that his late father had known the victim in the infamous Black Dahlia murder case in 1947 Los Angeles, the ensuing three-year investigation became the New York Times bestseller Black Dahlia Avenger. Publication led directly to the discovery of a cache of hidden documents, covered up... Read more

The Assassin's Accomplice

By: Kate Clifford Larson

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Assassin’s Accomplice, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt, a little-known conspirator in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, and the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government. A Confederate sympathizer, Surratt ran the boarding house where the conspirators met to plan Lincoln’s... Read more

Farewell

By: Sergei Kostin & Eric Raynaud

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

1981. Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrand’s French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a file he would later call “one of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century.”Vladimir... Read more

Dead Run

By: Dan Schultz

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him twenty times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. Self-trained survivalists, the outlaws... Read more

Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a chilling reality that homicide investigators know all too well: the last face most murder victims see is not that of a stranger, but of someone familiar. Whether only an acquaintance or a trusted intimate, such killers share a common trait that triggers the downward spiral toward death for someone close to them: they are masters at hiding... 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

In the Name of Love

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer. Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense of his sudden disappearance one autumn night. On a final... Read more

A Rose for Her Grave

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A Rose for Her Grave tells the story of Randy Roth from the razor-sharp perspective of Ann Rule. Rule attended the Roth trial and includes gripping accounts and details from her personal files on the case. A Rose for Her Grave delves into the heinous crimes of the monster Randy Roth; a man who seduced and manipulated vulnerable women into... Read more

You Belong to Me

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A former Seattle policewoman, Ann Rule has extensive experience of violent crime and brings this knowledge to bear in this collection of fascinating case studies. You Belong to Me focuses on one of Florida's most shocking criminals—Tim Harris, the poster-perfect "All-American" State Trooper who hid bizarre and fatal fantasies behind his badge of... Read more

A Fever in the Heart

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A Fever in the Heart dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the northwest of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly twist that no one could have suspected. In this and several other riveting true-crime cases from... Read more

The End of the Dream

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive account of lethal greed and twisted desire from the files of America's #1 true crime writer, Ann Rule.They were best friends, four talented and charismatic young men who lived charmed lives among the evergreens of Washington state: Kevin, the artist; Steve, the sculptor; Scott, the nature lover and unabashed ladies' man; and Mark,... Read more

A Rage to Kill

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed for her "devastatingly accurate insight" (The New York Times Book Review) into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her bestselling Crime Files series. For this sixth stunning collection, Rule has culled from her private files the most-asked-about homicide cases—riveting accounts of... Read more

Empty Promises

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence.Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives inside a seemingly idyllic marriage: a beautiful... Read more

Last Dance, Last Chance

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents her 8th collection of crime stories drawn from her private files—and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences.Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic surgeon and a famed medical researcher whose flashy red Lamborghini... Read more

Kiss Me, Kill Me

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The dark side of love is no fairy tale….And while we may like to believe that crimes of the heart only victimize those who aren't careful, this shocking collection of real-life accounts will convince you otherwise.America's #1 true-crime writer, Ann Rule reveals how lovers become predators, how sex and lust can push ordinary people to desperate... Read more

Worth More Dead

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him?Because they were…Worth More DeadA cold case reopened—and solved—with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes... Read more