True Crime audiobooks

Code Name: Lise

By: Larry Loftis

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

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Featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, New York Newsday, and on Today!
Best Nonfiction Books to Read in 2019—Woman’s Day
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“A nonfiction thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal

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Burned

By: Edward Humes

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?

On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires... Read more

Escape from Dannemora

By: Michael Benson

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

It was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade—two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way out of a maximum-security prison in the wilderness of upstate New York and managed to elude police for three weeks, sending the region into lockdown... Read more

The Allure of Premeditated Murder

By: Jack Levin & Julie B. Wiest

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Any murder causes pain and suffering that ripple through families and communities—of both the victims and the perpetrators—but premeditated murders cause the worst kind of damage. The Allure of Premeditated Murder is about the worst kinds of premeditated homicide in which the perpetrator plans an attack over a period of days, weeks, or months,... Read more

Malmömord

By: Greger Larsson

Narrated by: Peter Melin

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"När Joseph väl befann sig i rummet uppstod ingen vidare dialog. Istället kastade sig Bengt i det närmaste över pojken, och pressade honom ned i liggande ställning på golvet. Han tog raskt ett starkt grepp om halsen.""Bengt var iklädd endast kalsonger när han påbörjade styckningen. Dessförinnan hade han tömt kylskåpet på matvaror.""Efter... Read more

Double Lives

By: Eric Brach

Narrated by: George Newbern & Karen Peakes

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 Amazon New Release! ─ Terrifying true crime storiesTrue Crime is hot right now, with true crime books, TV shows, and podcasts topping lists of readers, viewers, and listeners across the country. Eric Brach's new book Double Lives: True Tales of the Criminals Next Door offers terrifying true stories about the criminals hidden among us and the... Read more

The Man Who Would Be Sherlock

By: Christopher Sandford

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Man Who Would Be Sherlock, a world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes.

Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and zealously campaigning for justice... Read more

Blåljusliv

By: Ulf Broberg

Narrated by: Kim Wesén

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Under mitten av 1900-talet arbetar Göran Boström som brandman i Uppsala, och han är under denna tid närvarande vid några utav Sveriges största katastrofer, men också vid några utav de mest otroliga händelserna. Under sin tid som brandman spränger han hål i den brinnande färjan Sally Albatross, jagar en apa i landshövdingens stall, och bistår i... Read more

Fallet Bobby

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Susanna Helldén

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Det går inte att med ord beskriva de fruktansvärda och upprepade lidanden den tioårige pojken Bobby tvingades utstå i sitt föräldrahem. Under flera veckor runt årsskiftet 2005–2006 utsattes pojken, som led av autism, för bland annat grov misshandel – så grov att domstolen senare valde beteckna den som tortyr. Misshandeln ledde slutligen till... Read more

Amy

By: James Renner

Narrated by: James Renner

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"I fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic not long before her body was discovered lying facedown in an Ashland County wheat field. I fell for her the first time I saw that school photo TV stations flashed at the beginning of every newscast in the weeks following her kidnapping in the autumn of 1989—the photo with the side-saddle ponytail . . . "

So... Read more

Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders

By: Christopher Goffard

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.

Since its release in fall 2017, the “Dirty John” podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California... Read more

The Spy Who Was Left Behind

By: Michael Pullara

Narrated by: Michael Pullara

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking true story of international intrigue —“a highly detailed, engrossing work” (Kirkus Reviews)—involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow. “In a post-truth era, we need a lot more fearless writers like Michael Pullara” (Robert Baer, author... Read more

You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late

By: Josephine Wolff

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach―the theft of 145.5 million Americans’ information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government’s theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump―makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of... Read more

Handsome Johnny

By: Lee Server

Narrated by: B. J. Harrison

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“No one knew more about the mob, Hollywood and Las Vegas than Johnny Rosselli, and Lee Server got it all in Handsome Johnny.” — Nicholas Pileggi, bestselling author of Goodfellas

A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century’s darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and... Read more

A Tale of Two Murders

By: Laura Thompson

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night of October 3, 1922, as Edith Thompson and her husband, Percy, were walking home from the theatre, a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was none other than Edith's lover, Freddy Bywaters. When the police discovered his relationship with Edith, she denied knowledge of the attack but was arrested... Read more

Journey into Darkness

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit.

In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of... Read more

An Unexplained Death

By: Mikita Brottman

Narrated by: Mikita Brottman

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere—a once-grand hotel—and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism.

“The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word ‘Missing,’ printed in a bold, high-impact font, are... Read more

The Dark Heart

By: Joakim Palmkvist

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling true crime story of poisonous family secrets, love gone wrong, and a cold case that refused to stay buried…In late summer of 2012, millionaire landowner Göran Lundblad went missing from his farm in Sweden. When a search yielded nothing, and all physical evidence had seemingly disappeared, authorities had little to go on—except a... Read more

Poisoned Love

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death. Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack—the result, her... Read more

The Truth About Aaron

By: Jonathan Hernandez

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The unvarnished true story of the tragic life and death of Aaron Hernandez, the college All-American and New England Patriots star convicted of murder, told by one of the few people who knew him best, his brother. To football fans, Aaron Hernandez was a superstar in the making. A standout at the University of Florida, he helped the Gators win... 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

The Serial Killer Files

By: Paul Simpson

Narrated by: John Banks

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

There are many myths about serial killers: that they are all dysfunctional loners; all white males; only motivated by sex; that they all travel and operate across a wide area; cannot stop killing; are all insane, or evil geniuses; and that they all want to get caught.

Of course, there are some serial killers who fit into these categories, but... Read more

The BTK Murders

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1974 to 1991, someone in the midwestern city of Wichita was leaving behind slain tortured bodies and anonymously proclaiming himself to police and reporters as "BTK" for "Bind, Torture, Kill." Then, for the next 14 years, BTK was silent. But when he began sending letters again, investigators would not miss their chance...Stunningly, police... Read more

Blood Money

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of an Olympic wrestler allegedly murdered by the wealthy heir to the Du Pont fortune, Blood Money takes readers inside the bizarre world of a multi-millionaire, and lays bare the brutal shooting and tense police siege that riveted the nation. Read more