True Crime audiobooks

The Midnight Assassin

By: Skip Hollandsworth

Narrated by: Clint Jordan

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885

In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in... Read more

A Burglar's Guide to the City

By: Geoff Manaugh

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. 

At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any... Read more

The Red Parts

By: Maggie Nelson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling genre-busting memoir by a major American essayist Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an... Read more

A Murder Over a Girl

By: Ken Corbett

Narrated by: Ken Corbett

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate

On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed his classmate, Larry King, who had recently begun to call himself "Leticia" and... Read more

Dragnet, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Webb & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in Los Angeles, and starring Jack Webb as the stoic Sergeant Joe Friday, Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama of all time, having made extensive runs on both radio and television. Webb, also the producer of the show, took the series to new highs, insisting on realism in every facet of the program. The... Read more

This Is Your FBI, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This Is Your FBI, as the title suggests, was a crime drama that featured true cases from the FBI and was told from an agent's viewpoint. The show's producer and director, Jerry Devine, had once worked for the FBI, so having him for the show would allow each story to be told in the best way possible. J. Edgar Hoover, who was the chief of the FBI... Read more

Nemesis

By: Misha Glenny

Narrated by: Zach Villa

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel, and perhaps Brazil's most wanted criminal. It's a gripping tale of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with math degrees. Traversing through rain forests and... Read more

Conviction

By: Juan Martinez

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.Through two trials, America watched with baited breath as Juan Martinez fought relentlessly to convict Jodi... Read more

A Mother's Reckoning

By: Sue Klebold

Narrated by: Sue Klebold

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four... Read more

The Lost Relic

By: Scott Mariani

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A SUPER-CHARGED THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott A WEB OF DECEIT.AND BEN HOPE IS CAUGHT UP IN THE MAYHEM… Whilst visiting a former SAS comrade in Italy, a... Read more

While the City Slept

By: Eli Sanders

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly

Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America
... 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

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

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

The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer

By: Unni Turrettini

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway’s history since Nazi Germany’s invasion. It was one hundred eighty-nine minutes of terror—from the moment the bomb exploded outside a government building until Anders Behring Breivik was apprehended by the police at Utoya Island. Breivik murdered seventy-seven people, most of them teenagers and young... Read more

Mordschwarzwald

By: Bernd Leix

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Aufruhr im nördlichen Schwarzwald: Die grün-rote Landesregierung plant einen Nationalpark! Die Bevölkerung zwischen Bad Wildbad und Freudenstadt ist gespalten: Tourismusmagnet oder Ökodiktatur? Befürworter und Gegner des Projekts stehen sich unversöhnlich gegenüber. Als die heftigen Unruhen sich immer weiter ausbreiten, schickt die... Read more

A Checklist for Murder

By: Anthony Flacco

Narrated by: Anthony Flacco

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life; working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, he projected the American dream. Even when he and his wife separated, it seemed amicable, just a small bump for the well-to-do family. But there was madness in his house: in private, Peernock was... 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

He Killed Them All

By: Jeanine Pirro

Narrated by: Jeanine Pirro

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro—the “true hero” (New York Post) of the hit HBO documentary series The Jinx—offers the transfixing true story of her tireless fifteen-year investigation into accused murderer Robert Durst for the disappearance of his wife Kathleen Durst.

Former district attorney Jeanine Pirro was cast as the bad guy fifteen years... 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

CRACK99

By: David Locke Hall

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy prosecuted by the US Department of JusticeA former US Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish:... Read more

They All Love Jack

By: Bruce Robinson

Narrated by: Bruce Robinson & Phil Fox

Length: 30 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The iconoclastic writer and director of the revered classic Withnail & I—"The funniest British film of all time" (Esquire)—returns to London in a decade-long examination of the most provocative murder investigation in British history, and finally solves the identity of the killer known as "Jack the Ripper."In a literary high-wire act... 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 Valley of the Shadow of Death

By: Kermit Alexander, Alex Gerould & Jeff Snipes

Narrated by: Kermit Alexander

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heart-wrenching memoir, former NFL star Kermit Alexander tells the devastating true story of the horrific massacre of his family and his subsequent years of despair, followed by a spiritual renewal that showed him a way to rebuild his family and reclaim his life.

On the morning of August 31, 1984, in the South Central section of Los... Read more