True Crime audiobooks

The Name of Death

By: Klester Cavalcanti

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Júlio Santana as seen through the eyes of acclaimed investigative reporter Klester Cavalcanti is not a monster: he is a loyal son, a family man, a devout Christian who is tormented by his conscience with every shot. But in a cruel and lawless area of Brazil, where every life has its price, respect for life is a luxury that he can’t afford.... Read more

Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs

By: Patrick K. O’Donnell

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs is a superbly told story of the men and women of the OSS. They helped write the book on special operations. I was struck by the similarity of the context of their stories to ones I've experienced in different combat situations. This book is a must-read for those in the special operations business today and... Read more

Long March to Freedom

By: Thomas R. Hargrove

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 21 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom, a record of his eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas, was the basis for the hit movie Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse. While the movie invented a fictitious romantic angle, Long March to Freedom is the actual journal Hargrove kept in captivity. The... Read more

Original Gangster

By: Frank Lucas

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In his own words, real-life American gangster Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Determined to break the Italian Mafia's monopoly over drug smuggling in New York, Frank cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United States directly... Read more

The Good Rat

By: Jimmy Breslin

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson, Kaipo Schwab & Richard Mover

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Jimmy Breslin can sniff out a story like he can sniff out a rat. Here, he tells a lifetime of anecdotes in his inimitable New York voice, giving us a view through the keyhole of the people and places that define the Mafia—characters like Sammy the Bull, the original snitch, and Gaspipe Casso, named for his weapon of choice; and hangouts like Pep... 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

Blood in the Snow

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In Washington Township, Michigan, on Valentine’s Day, 2007, Stephen Grant filed a missing persons report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two was beside himself with despair. Why would Tara abandon him and their family? Was she involved with another man?Stephen’s frantic, emotional search for Tara made national headlines,... Read more

Blood Justice

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel near Detroit. The next morning she was found gagged, raped, and tortured—her throat slit with such rage that she was nearly decapitated. Her husband Arthur never gave up hope that the future would bring enough evidence to close the case. But it was the past that held the... Read more

With One Shot

By: Dorothy Marcic

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The brutal murder of LaVerne Stordock, a respected family man and former police detective, shocked the residents of his rural Wisconsin community. On the surface, the case seemed closed with the confession of Stordock’s second wife, Suzanne. But the trail of secrets and lies that began with his death did not end with his widow’s conviction.Ever... Read more

The Cryotron Files

By: Iain Dey & Douglas Buck

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting true story of Dudley Buck―American scientist, government agent, and Cold War hero―whose pioneering work with computer chips placed him firmly in the sights of the KGB.Dr. Dudley Allen Buck was a brilliant young scientist on the cusp of fame and fortune when he died suddenly on May 21, 1959, at the age of thirty-two. He was the star... Read more

Fatal Vision

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 27 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Invisible

By: Stephen L. Carter

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life.

She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s—and without the strategy... Read more

Shell Shocked

By: Elliott Woods

Narrated by: Eric Vale

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Elliott Woods's "Shell Shocked" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Who's to blame when the violence of war comes home? "Shell Shocked" is the story of a man from El Paso who returned from his... Read more

Conan Doyle for the Defense

By: Margalit Fox

Narrated by: Peter Forbes

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods
 
A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story.    

After a wealthy woman was brutally... Read more

Killing for You

By: Keith Elliot Greenberg

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-six-year-old actor Daniel Wozniak was unemployed, facing eviction, and deep in debt for his upcoming wedding. So he devised a diabolical plan: He asked his neighbor Sam Herr, a young war veteran, to help him move some things into the attic of an empty theater. There, Wozniak shot Herr twice in the head before taking his ATM card and cell... Read more

Murdered Innocents

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On a December night in Austin, Texas, teenagers Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas closed up the yogurt store where they worked. The girls were joined by Jennifer's younger sister, Sarah, and her friend Amy Ayers.



Less than an hour later, all four girls were dead—tragic victims of an apparent fire. Until it was discovered that the girls had been... Read more

Pure Murder

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"We gotta kill 'em. They know what we look like."



On a hot summer night in Houston, two teenage girls—bright, beautiful, success-bound friends—took a shortcut home from a friend's apartment to make their curfew. They never reached their homes. The next morning, the families of the two girls began a frantic search, organizing friends and... Read more

Female Serial Killers

By: Peter Vronsky

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill—and the political, economic, social, and sexual implications.



From history's earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain's... Read more

Darker than Night

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1985, two twenty-seven-year-old friends left their suburban Detroit homes for a hunting trip in rural Michigan. When they did not return, their families and police suspected foul play. For eighteen years, no one could prove a thing. Then, a relentless investigator got a witness to talk, and a horrifying story emerged.



In 2003, this bizarre... Read more

Terror in Ypsilanti

By: Gregory A. Fournier

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, before the term serial killer was coined, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking prey until he made the arrogant mistake of killing his last victim in the basement of his uncle's home. All-American boy John Norman Collins was... Read more

The Crime of the Century

By: Dennis L. Breo & William J. Martin

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through a quiet Chicago townhouse like a summer tornado and stabbed, strangled, and killed eight young nurses in a violent sexual rampage. By morning, only one nurse, Corazon Amurao, had miraculously survived, and her scream of terror was heard around the world. As the eight bodies were carried... Read more

The Devil's Gentleman

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune—hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life... Read more

By Their Father's Hand

By: Monte Francis

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Neighbors were unaware of what went on behind the tightly closed doors of a house in Fresno, California—the home of an imposing, 300-pound Marcus Wesson, his wife, children, nieces, and grandchildren. But on March 12, 2004, gunshots were heard inside the Wesson home, and police officers responding to what they believed was a routine domestic... Read more

The Girl in the Leaves

By: Robert Scott, Sarah Maynard & Larry Maynard

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley, Ohio, four people disappeared without a trace: Stephanie Sprang; her friend, Tina Maynard; and Tina's two children, thirteen-year-old Sarah and eleven-year-old Kody. Investigators began scouring the area, yet despite an extensive search, no signs of the missing people were... Read more