True Crime audiobooks

Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong

By: Jerry Clark & Ed Palattella

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as “a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer.” She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s strangest... Read more

The Dominici Affair

By: Martin Kitchen

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Jack Drummond, with his wife, Lady Anne, and their ten-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were on holiday on the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand' Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the next morning. More than two years later, the barely literate, seventy-five-year-old... Read more

Sole Survivor

By: Holly K. Dunn

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 28, 1997, just as she was starting her junior year of college at the University of Kentucky, Holly Dunn and her boyfriend, Chris Maier, were walking along railroad tracks on their way home from a party when they were attacked by notorious serial killer Angel Maturino Reséndiz, a.k.a. The Railroad Killer.



After her boyfriend is beaten to... Read more

Last Don Standing

By: Larry McShane & Dan Pearson

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the mafia.



Natale's reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region's mafia back to prominence in the 1990s. Smart, savvy, and articulate, Natale came up in the mob and saw... Read more

Lust Killer

By: Ann Rule & Andy Stack

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When young women begin mysteriously disappearing in Oregon, Police Lieutenant James Stovall leads a relentless search for a killer. With little evidence available, and the public screaming for answers, he must find a remorseless, brutal killer whose identity will shock them all . . . Read more

The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule & Andy Stack

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young man, Randall Woodfield had it all; he was a star athlete with good looks, and an award-winning student. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had more than his share of women. But he wanted more than just sex. An appetite for unspeakable violent acts led him to cruise the I-5 highway through California to Washington,... Read more

The Westies

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer.... Read more

Overkill

By: Lyn Riddle

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie Show was as compassionate as she was hardworking. The outgoing high-school junior worked part-time to pay for the home she and her divorced mother shared. Yet she always had time to tutor friends struggling in school. And she befriended a dejected classmate after his traumatic breakup with his pregnant long-time girlfriend Michelle... Read more

The Suspect

By: Jenny Friel

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On a clear autumn morning in 2004 Rachel O'Reilly, a thirty-year-old mother of two, was brutally battered to death in her home. It was a merciless killing that stunned the small, trusting community where she lived, and devastated her close-knit family.



In the days that followed the discovery of her body, it was thought that Rachel was the victim... Read more

Dangerous Ground

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2011, M. William Phelps made a bold decision that would change the landscape of reality-based television—and his own life. He asked a convicted serial killer to act as a consultant for his TV series. Under the code name "Raven," the murderer shared his insights into the minds of other killers and helped analyze their crimes. As the... Read more

Shotguns and Stagecoaches

By: John Boessenecker

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Shotguns and Stagecoaches tells the true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives.

The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains of the Western frontier. Armed with... Read more

Almost Paradise

By: Kieran Crowley

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For the audience that read Maria Flook’s New York Times bestseller, Invisible Eden, this is the extraordinary story of a high-stakes murder case set in the high society world of East Hampton—the playground of New York’s superrich.On October 22, 2001, handsome multimillionaire financier Ted Ammon was found bludgeoned to death in the magnificent... Read more

The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal

By: Nick Bryant

Narrated by: Nick Bryant

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places. The scandal originally surfaced during an investigation into Omaha, Nebraska's failed Franklin Federal Credit Union that went beyond the... Read more

Dock Boss

By: Neil G. Clark

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Dock Boss: Eddie McGrath and the West Side Waterfront is the fascinating account of one gangster's ascension from altar boy to the leader of New York City's violent Irish Mob.



Eddie McGrath's life and crimes are traced through the tail-end of Prohibition, the gang warfare of the 1930s that propelled him into the position of an organized crime... Read more

Red Card

By: Ken Bensinger

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal—the biggest corruption case of recent years—involving dozens of countries and implicating nearly every aspect of the world’s most popular sport, soccer, including the World Cup is “an engrossing and jaw-dropping tale of international intrigue…A riveting book” (The New York Times).

The FIFA... Read more

In My Father's House

By: Fox Butterfield

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.

The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's... Read more

Drug Warrior

By: Jack Riley

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

DEA Agent Jack Riley, "[Chicago's] most famous federal agent since the days of The Untouchables" (-Rolling Stone)tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic.

Jack Riley, grandson of a Chicago cop known for using his fists, was born to be a drug... Read more

Shallow Graves

By: Maureen Boyle

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community's diverse fabric. In Shallow Graves, investigative reporter Maureen Boyle tells... Read more

The Lazarus Files

By: Matthew McGough

Narrated by: Matthew McGough

Length: 27 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks.

On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband, John. The crime... Read more

The King of Con

By: Thomas Giacomaro & Natasha Stoynoff

Narrated by: Thomas Giacomaro

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A Jersey boy with a knack for numbers, a gift for making people trust him, and an all-consuming hunger to be king of the business world, Tom Giacomaro could convince anyone of anything. As a teenager, Tom Giacomaro began working in the mob-laden New Jersey trucking industry. A charming, brash-talking salesman, he climbed the ranks, and let his... Read more

Carmine the Snake

By: Frank DiMatteo & Michael Benson

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this blistering street-level account, “Mafia survivor” Frank DiMatteo teams up with true-crime master Michael Benson to take down one of the most notorious figures in the American La Cosa Nostra. This is the real inside story of Carmine “the Snake” Persico, from his crime-filled childhood on the streets of Brooklyn to the long-term jail... Read more

Chappaquiddick

By: Leo Damore

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman leaves a party with a wealthy US senator. The next morning her body is discovered in his car at the bottom of a pond.This is the damning true story of the death of campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick and of the senator—a thirty-seven-year-old Senator Ted Kennedy—who left her trapped underwater while he returned... Read more

Blood & Ivy

By: Paul Collins

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America’s most celebrated universityOn November 23, 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city... Read more

Best of Enemies

By: Gus Russo & Eric Dezenhall

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.

In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's... Read more