True Crime audiobooks

Serial Killers

By: Peter Vronsky

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, Ted Bundy, and the emergence of what he... Read more

Don't Tell a Soul

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor's little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn't lie if her life depended on it—and it did. Cherry's body was found on the side of a Texas road, after being doused... Read more

JonBenet

By: Steve Thomas & Donald A. Davis

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the most compelling murder case of our day, the death of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey galvanized the nation—and years after it occurred, the mystery still endures. Who killed the young beauty queen and why? Who is covering up for whom and who is simply lying? In JonBenet, the most authoritative and comprehensive study of the Ramsey... Read more

The Night Stalker

By: Philip Carlo

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Decades after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead and paralyzed the city of Los Angeles, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture, and sadistic murder. Philip Carlo's classic The Night Stalker, based on years of meticulous research and extensive interviews with Ramirez, revealed the killer and his horrifying crimes to be even more chilling... Read more

House of Evil

By: John Dean

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid-1960's, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a... Read more

Let's Kill Mom

By: Donna Fielder

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Days before, seventeen-year-old Jennifer Bailey, her thirteen-year-old brother David, and their friends Paul Henson and Merrilee White had made a gruesome pact: they'd kill their parents, steal their cars and credit cards, and flee to Canada.



Paul and Merrilee's parents thwarted their fates, but Jennifer and David's mother Susan Bailey wasn't so... Read more

Such Good Boys

By: Tina Dirmann

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An Abusive Mother



Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother's verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him a beating that sent him to the emergency room.



A... Read more

Poisoned Love

By: Caitlin Rother

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Accident, Suicide . . . or Murder?



On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing, and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning that she was leaving him. But family and friends weren't buying Kristin's story—particularly the idea that Greg would take his... Read more

American Murder Houses

By: Steve Lehto

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass—even centuries—but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses.



From a colonial manse in New England to a small-town home in Iowa to a Beverly Hills mansion, these residences have taken on a life of their own, gaining... Read more

My Sweet Angel

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015 when she was charged with the "depraved mind" murder of her five-year-old son Garnett. Prosecutors alleged that the 27-year old mother had poisoned him with high concentrations of salt through his stomach tube.



To the outside world Lacey had seemed like the perfect mother, regularly... Read more

Chin

By: Larry McShane

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Vincent "Chin" Gigante



He started out as a professional boxer—until he found his true calling as a ruthless contract killer. His doting mother's pet name for the boy evolved into his famous alias, "Chin," a nickname that struck fear throughout organized crime as he routinely ordered the murders of mobsters who violated the Mafia code.



Vincent... Read more

The Want-Ad Killer

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death—using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Here, complete with the testimony of... Read more

Framed

By: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. At Michael's criminal trial, the State offered no physical or forensic evidence, no... Read more

Whoever Fights Monsters

By: Robert K. Ressler & Tom Shachtman

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned from them how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us—and put them behind bars. Now the man who coined the phrase "serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the Lambs shows how he has tracked down... Read more

Gitchie Girl

By: Phil Hamman & Sandy Hamman

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A terrified voice cried out in the night. "Who are you? What do you want?"


The sound of snapping twigs closed in on the five teenagers enjoying an evening around a glowing campfire at Gitchie Manitou State Park. The night of music and laughter had taken a dark turn. Evil loomed just beyond the tree line, and before the night was over, one of the... Read more

Possessed

By: Kathryn Casey

Narrated by: Heather Auden

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston's hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could've prepared him for what he found: a beautiful woman drenched in blood, an older man lying dead on the floor, and a cobalt blue suede stiletto with tufts of white hair... Read more

The Serial Killer Files

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can't hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and... Read more

If You Only Knew

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near Detroit, they told police they found Billie's husband unconscious on the floor of the Rogers' mansion. Just another of his alcoholic benders, they assumed. But this time, Donald Rogers didn't wake up.



The investigation would reveal... Read more

The Innocent Killer

By: Michael Griesbach

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Innocent Killer, Michael Griesbach tells the story of one of the nation's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But two years after he was exonerated of that crime and poised to reap millions in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, Steven... Read more

The Stranger She Loved

By: Shanna Hogan

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill—a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop—discovered his wife of thirty years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah, home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he had persuaded her to undergo just a week prior.


At first the death of fifty-year-old Michele MacNeill, a former beauty queen and mother of eight,... Read more

Bitter Remains

By: Diane Fanning

Narrated by: Karyn O'Bryant

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler sons. It would be the last time she was seen alive.



Laura's ex, Grant Hayes—the father of her two sons—and his wife, Amanda, the mother of his newborn daughter, both pointed the finger at each other as the one guilty of murdering Laura, cutting up... Read more

Five Families

By: Selwyn Raab

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 33 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced... Read more

The Mafia Hit Man's Daughter

By: Linda Scarpa & Linda Rosencrance

Narrated by: Elise Arsenault

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet her childhood was far from idyllic. Classmates avoided her; boys wouldn't date her. Eventually she learned why: they were afraid of her father.



A made man in the Colombo crime family, Gregory Scarpa, Sr., was a stone-cold killer nicknamed the "Grim Reaper." Unlike... Read more

Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws

By: Kerrie Droban & Charles Falco

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite lacking any experience with motorcycle gangs, Charles Falco infiltrated three of America's deadliest biker gangs: the Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws. In separate investigations that spanned years and coasts, Falco risked his life, suffering a fractured neck and a severely torn shoulder, working deep under cover to bring violent sociopaths... Read more