True Crime audiobooks

The Lufthansa Heist

By: Henry Hill & Daniel Simone

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 11th, 1978, a daring armed robbery rocked Kennedy Airport, resulting in the largest unrecovered cash haul in world history, totaling six million dollars. The perpetrators were never apprehended and thirteen people connected to the crime were murdered in homicides that, like the crime itself, remain unsolved to this day. The burglary... Read more

Then No One Can Have Her

By: Caitlin Rother

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

She thought she had married her soulmate. But when Carol Kennedy could no longer tolerate her husband's reckless womanizing and out-of-control spending, the artist, therapist and mother of two had to let him go. Just weeks after their divorce, Carol was found in her Arizona ranch home—bludgeoned to death with a golf club. Her ex, Steven... Read more

Deliver Us

By: Kathryn Casey

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Over a three-decade span, more than twenty women—many teenagers—died mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a fifty-mile stretch of highway running from Houston to Galveston. The victims were strangled, shot, or savagely beaten.




The day she vanished, Colette Wilson waited for her mother after band practice. Best friends Debbie... Read more

Picture Perfect

By: Shanna Hogan

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone, especially the ladies. So when he was found with a bullet wound in the face and his throat slashed, the brutal murder sent shock waves throughout his community. Who could have done... Read more

A Wilderness of Error

By: Errol Morris

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a Green Beret doctor named Jeffrey MacDonald called the police for help. When the officers arrived at his home they found the bloody and battered bodies of MacDonald's pregnant wife and two young daughters. The word "pig" was written in blood on the headboard in the master... Read more

The Black Hand

By: Chris Blatchford

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up on the violent streets of East L.A., where gang fights, robberies, and drive-by shootings were fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. When he finally landed in prison—at the age of nineteen—Enriquez found an organization that brought him the respect he always wanted: the near-mythic and widely feared Mexican Mafia, La... Read more

Laci

By: Michael Fleeman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Praying for a happy ending, friends and family stood by Laci’s grieving husband Scott. Four months later, Laci’s decomposed body was found in the murky waters of San Francisco Bay. The body of her child had washed ashore about a mile away, after a possible “coffin birth.” It was a sad closure to an exhaustive search, and a grim end to a marriage... Read more

In the Middle of the Night

By: Brian McDonald

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely daughters... Until July 23, 2007, when, according to police, two ex-cons invaded the Petit home hoping to embark on a routine robbery—one that would ultimately prove deadly. Read more

Unanswered Cries

By: Thomas French

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The fatal nightOn a warm Florida evening, Karen Gregory saw a familiar face at her door. What the beautiful young woman could not know was that she was staring into the eyes of her killer—a savage monster who would rape her, stab her to death, and leave her battered body on the floor outside the bedroom.The desperate searchDetectives frantically... Read more

Taken from Home

By: Eric Francis

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Grand Junction, Colorado, 2001: When Michael Blagg’s adoring wife, Jennifer, and his six year-old-daughter, Abby, disappeared from their home, Michael led the charge to find them, even going so far as to make a nationwide appeal on Good Morning America for information. But seven months later, investigators found Jennifer’s remains in a Mesa... Read more

Blood Will Tell

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

They Were The Perfect Family...For twenty years, Ken and Kristine Fitzhugh and their two sons had lived lives of comfortable middle-class normality in the university town of Palo Alto, California. Then came the shocking news that Kristine Fitzhugh was dead, the victim of a terrible accident.... By the time the Palo Alto Police Department looked... Read more

The Surgeon's Wife

By: Kieran Crowley

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.Gail’s... Read more

Monster City

By: Michael Arntfield

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The never-before-told true account of the serial killers who terrorized Nashville’s music scene for decades—and the cold-case Murder Squad determined to bring an end to their sadistic sprees.Nashville—a haven for aspiring musicians and a magnet for country-music fans. By the time Pat Postiglione arrived there in 1980, it was also the scene of an... Read more

Creepy Crawling

By: Jeffrey Melnick

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los... Read more

A Dark Night in Aurora

By: William H. Reid, MD, MPH

Narrated by: William H. Reid, MD, MPH

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man was allowed to record extensive interviews with the shooter. This is what he found.On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a... Read more

Little Shoes

By: Pamela Everett

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California crime stunned an already grim nation. Three little girls were lured away from a neighborhood park to unthinkable deaths. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast.... Read more

Judas

By: Astrid Holleeder

Narrated by: Naomi Frederick

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible true story of a woman who risked everything to put her brother, a murderous psychopath and one of the world's most infamous crime bosses, behind bars.

Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement in the 1983 kidnapping of the CEO and... Read more

All the Dreams We’ve Dreamed

By: Rus Bradburd

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall’s struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fired... Read more

Murder on Sunset Strip

By: Kim Cresswell

Narrated by: Jason Fella

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder on Sunset Strip is the second book in a compelling series of true crime short stories for readers who don't have time to read a full-length novel.

"The Story of Carol Bundy and Doug Clark" examines the chilling account of the serial killing duo whose deadly rampage began in 1980 on LA’s sunset strip. Read more

Black Dahlia, Red Rose

By: Piu Eatwell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The gruesome murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short, in the noir-tinged Los Angeles of 1947, has a permanent place in American lore as one of the most inscrutable of true-crime mysteries. Now, Piu Eatwell—relentless legal sleuth and atmospheric stylist—cracks the case after seventy years. With recently unredacted FBI files, newly released... Read more

Bind, Torture, Kill

By: Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, L. Kelly & Hurst Laviana

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named "BTK"—for "bind them, torture them, kill them"—he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the media. The nation was shocked when the fiend who was... Read more

Killer Clown

By: Terry Sullivan

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in his Chicago suburb. Few could imagine what lay buried beneath his house of horrors—until a teenage boy disappeared before... Read more

Dark Heart

By: Kevin Flynn & Rebecca Lavoie

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Was murder part of the game?



Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood—and a penchant for make-believe. More than a decade older, Seth Mazzaglia was well known in the community theater circle of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He, too, had a rich inner life—and he soon had Kat convinced that they were soul mates.



To intensify... Read more

Al Capone's Beer Wars

By: John J. Binder

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been—until now—a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important... Read more