True Crime audiobooks

All-American Murder

By: James Patterson & Alex Abramovich

Narrated by: Peter Coleman

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestselling memoir examines an NFL player's rise and fall from the Patriots to prison, recounting the first-degree murder conviction that led to his untimely death—and shocking posthumous CTE diagnosis.

Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His... Read more

The Girl on the Velvet Swing

By: Simon Baatz

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world.

In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White... 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

True Crime from Texas Monthly

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, the following articles spotlighting true crime are now available in a bundle as an audio download:

* "The Cheerleader Murder Plot" by Mimi Swartz, read by Pam Dougherty
* "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" by Skip Hollandsworth, read by Bruce DuBose
* "A Kiss Before Dying" by Pamela Colloff, read by Staci Snell and... Read more

The Talented Mr. Khater

By: Francesca Mari

Narrated by: Mallorie Rodak

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Francesca Mari's "The Talented Mr. Khater" 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.

The layered story of "The Talented Mr. Khater" begins with Callie Quinn, who upon graduating college, fulfilled her... Read more

The Cheerleader Murder Plot

By: Mimi Swartz

Narrated by: Pam Dougherty

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Mimi Swartz's "The Cheerleader Murder Plot" 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.

In "The Cheerleader Murder Plot," Mimi Swartz paints a scene of a place that makes the unthinkable -- the plot to... Read more

Just Desserts

By: Katy Vine

Narrated by: Lydia Mackay

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Just Desserts" 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.

Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins led a perfectly adequate middle class life in Corsicana, Texas. Mr. Jenkins, Sandy, worked as an accountant at... Read more

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

By: Skip Hollandsworth

Narrated by: Bruce DuBose

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Skip Hollandsworth's "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" 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.

Cowboy Bob was a master bank robber, robbing countless banks for thousands of dollars and confounding cops along... Read more

A Kiss Before Dying

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Staci Snell & Karissa Vacker

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "A Kiss Before Dying" 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.

Few stories feel as classic as a well-told ghost story, the kind that makes your hair stand on end or sends chills down your... Read more

Busting Out of Mexico

By: Jan Reid

Narrated by: Bruce DuBose

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Jan Reid's "Busting Out of Mexico" 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.

In Mexico, if violence and property damage are avoided, there is no law against breaking out of jail. When con artist Sterling... Read more

The Trouble with Innocence

By: Michael Hall

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Michael Hall's "The Trouble with Innocence" 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.

In 1978, a Texas jury found Kerry Max Cook guilty of the state's most brutal murder on record and sentenced him to... Read more

Cops and Robbers

By: Katy Vine

Narrated by: Lydia Mackay

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Cops and Robbers" 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.

Law enforcement in Hidalgo County would joke that without the drug trade, half the business in the county would fail. Others would... 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

Kidnapped

By: Charles Fox

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously published as Uncommon Youth, Charles Fox's Kidnapped examines the glamorous life, gilded family, and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973.

J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born.... Read more

Home Sweet Murder

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery ID's Murder is Forever TV series

HOME SWEET MURDER (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the evening, two people will be... Read more

Waco

By: David Thibodeau & Leon Whiteson

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch -- Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.

Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Texas. David Thibodeau survived to... Read more

Stalling for Time

By: Gary Noesner

Narrated by: Gary Noesner

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix.

“Riveting . . . the most in-depth and absorbing section is devoted to the 1993 siege near Waco, Texas.”—The Washington Post

In Stalling for Time, the... Read more

Murder, Interrupted

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series: In these two true crime thrillers, a reluctant hitman and a cheating husband fight for their lives . . . and a single mother exacts her revenge.
In Murder, Interrupted (with Alex Abramovich), rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson... 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

STARSTRUCK

By: Joey Alvarez

Narrated by: Michael Giorgio

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Hi there, my name is Joey. Today I’m just another thirty-something-year-old guy, living the suburban dream in southern California. But there’s something my neighbours don’t know about me. Something you’d never guess about me. Something, that up until these past couple of weeks, I’d never dream about telling you. Something you wouldn’t believe.I... Read more

Spymaster

By: Martin Pearce

Narrated by: Martin Pearce

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a provincial grammar school, Sir Maurice was the first Chief of MI6 who didn't come to the role via the traditional route. Oldfield was the voice of British Intelligence in Washington at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and was largely... Read more

White American Youth

By: Christian Picciolini

Narrated by: Christian Picciolini & Joan Jett

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.

Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose... Read more

Truth and Honour

By: Greg Marquis

Narrated by: Costas Halavrezos

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and conviction of the victim's son, Dennis Oland, for second ­degree murder.Oland's trial would be the most publicized in New Brunswick history. What... 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