The True Crime category has 1,229 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 13,216 ratings. The most-rated is If You Tell.
Obsessed
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Sheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she met the man of her dreams. Nelson Sessler had no idea how violently Sheila would react when he began seeing a co-worker, Anna Lisa Raymundo. Sheila eliminated her rival in a bloody knife attack - and then turned her rage on another victim she saw as an obstacle to her passions. M. Williams Phelps recounts the riveting story of a white-collar love triangle gone horribly wrong…and the terrifying infatuation that drove one woman to kill.
©2014 M. William Phelps (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
A Monster of All Time: The True Story of Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper
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Ambitious, attractive, and full of potential, five young college students prepared for the new semester. They dreamed of beginning careers and starting families. They had a lifetime of experiences in front of them. But death came without warning in the dark of the night. Brutally ending five promising lives, leaving behind three gruesome crime scenes, the Gainesville Ripper terrorized the University of Florida, casting an ominous shadow across a frightened college town.
What evil lurked inside him? What demons drove him to kill? What made him "A Monster of All Time"?
JT Hunter is a best-selling true crime author and attorney living in Florida.
©2018 RJ Parker Publishing (P)2018 RJ Parker Publishing
Trace Evidence
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For 10 years, the California Interstate 5 highway was haunted by a dangerous serial killer. Incredibly skilled at staying ahead of the investigators as the bodies started to pile up, there wasn't enough evidence to charge the culprit with murder even once he'd been identified. Instead, they had to build a first-degree murder case in a few months while the killer was locked up on an assault conviction. Key to this was a cast of four: Vito Bertocchini, the burly ex-street cop who took the killing of a beautiful young woman personally; Kay Maulsby, the rookie homicide detective who helped unmask the killer; Ray Biondi, who fought severe budget cuts that threatened to derail the investigation; and criminalist Faye Springer, who attempted to tie the suspect to his victims through subtle but persuasive microscopic evidence. Drawing on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with these investigators, as well as other important figures such as the killer's reclusive wife, number-one New York Times best-selling author Bruce Henderson builds a fascinating portrait of this unrepentant murderer.
©1998, 2013 Bruce Henderson (P)2020 Tantor
Principal Suspect
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Joseph Wambaugh's Echoes in the Darkness and its subsequent TV dramatization have made household words of both Susan Reinert, the murder victim, and Dr. Jay Smith, a high school principal and her accused killer. The naked body of Susan Reinert, a suburban Philadelphia school teacher, was found jammed into the hatchback of a car. Her two young children were missing and never found. Thus began one of the most prominent murder cases in Pennsylvania history, and one that would grip the nation. Now the defense attorney for the main suspect of the murders - Jay Smith, the principal of the school where Reinert taught - takes you inside the cover-ups and corruption that dramatically affected the outcome of the case. Did Jay Smith do it? Did he deserved the death penalty? It is you who must decide. Contains mature themes.
©1996, 2014 William C. Costopoulos (P)2021 Tantor
Nightmare at Noon: Notorious Texas
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Everything is bigger in Texas - especially crime. Two of America's best crime writers, Ron Franscell and Gregg Olsen, team up to tell the stories of a serial killer who slaughtered more people than any other psychopath of his day without ever being noticed; two of America's most shocking mass murders and how their grim echoes still linger today; and a mother so desperate for attention that she killed one of her children and repeatedly tried to suffocate the other.
©2015 Gregg Olsen & Ron Franscell (P)2015 Gregg Olsen
Assignment: Oswald
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From the FBI agent assigned to investigate Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the JFK assassination, comes the first authoritative, insider's account. Special Agent James Hosty began investigating Lee Harvey Oswald in October 1963, a full month before the JFK assassination. From November 22 on, Hosty watched as everyone from the Dallas Police, the FBI, the CIA, Naval Intelligence, and the State Department up through the Warren Commission to J. Edgar Hoover, Robert Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson reacted to and manipulated the facts of the president’s assassination - until Hosty himself became their scapegoat. After seeing his name appear in three inconclusive federal investigations and countless fact-twisting conspiracy theories (including Oliver Stone’s motion picture), Hosty decided to tell his own story. Assignment: Oswald is the authoritative insider’s account of one of our country’s most traumatic events. Combining his own unique, intimate knowledge of the case with previously unavailable government documents - including top secret CIA files recently released from the National Archives - Hosty tells the true story behind the assassination and the government’s response to it, including the suppression of a documented Oswald-Soviet-Castro connection. Hosty offers an exclusive insider’s knowledge of the mechanisms, the power structures, and the rivalries in and among the various intelligence and law enforcement agencies and why they have determined who knows what about the assassination. Here, at last, is an unmistakably expert and responsible account of the murder of President Kennedy.
©1996, 2011 James P. Hosty, Jr. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
La piena
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Questa è una storia di traffico di cocaina. I protagonisti sono i produttori, i distributori e le polizie di tre nazioni. Ma questa è anche la storia di una piena, un'onda di piena lenta e inesorabile che arriva imprevista e sale fino a travolgere la vita di un giovane uomo. È la storia di Gianfranco Franciosi, che grazie al suo talento di meccanico nautico, viene suo malgrado coinvolto in un traffico di cocaina proveniente dal Sud America e inizia a collaborare con la polizia italiana diventando di fatto un infiltrato. Anzi, diventa il primo civile infiltrato sotto copertura nella storia della lotta al narcotraffico in Italia. Nel corso di queste 10 puntate Matteo Caccia ci accompagna attraverso eventi straordinari, che sembrano far parte di un romanzo e non di una vita vera. Alle voci dei protagonisti e dei testimoni dei fatti si aggiunge il racconto di Gianfranco Franciosi in prima persona: gli eventi che lo portano prima in carcere, poi a partecipare al più importante sequestro di cocaina nella storia dell'Europa, e infine a entrare nel programma protezione testimoni perché la sua vita è ormai in pericolo. Gianfranco Franciosi è protagonista di una vicenda costellata di colpi di scena e svolte improvvise, che ci racconta come a volte la vita possa trasformarsi in una lotta per rimanere a galla. Di Matteo Caccia Scritto con Mauro Pescio Regia e musiche originali di Luca Micheli Una produzione Mismaonda per Audible Studios >> Questo podcast vi è offerto in esclusiva per Audible ed è disponibile solamente in formato audio digitale.
©2018 Audible Originals (P)2018 Audible Studios
Tueurs de l'occulte
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Depuis la fin des années 1960, les crimes à caractère occulte connaissent une progression foudroyante. À tel point que des corps policiers ont mis sur pied des unités d’élite spécialisée; en effet, la vision intime du monde de ces meurtriers est souvent peuplée de démons, de vampires et de goules. Ici, nous ne parlons plus de meurtres ou de modus operandi, mais de rituels et de sacrifices. Mais qui sont ces «tueurs de l’occulte»? Par quelle «logique» tordue en viennent-ils à croire qu’ils sont les messagers de quelque divinité? Qu’ils doivent tuer au nom d’un gourou ou de Satan? C’est ce que l’auteur tente d’expliquer dans ces pages bouleversantes. En sa qualité de journaliste spécialisé dans le domaine, Christian Page a bénéficié d’un accès privilégié aux archives judiciaires. Il a donc parcouru le monde afin de documenter les meurtres les plus insolites, est retourné sur les scènes de crime et a rencontré une foule de témoins, policiers, avocats, procureurs et juges. Il présente ici 13 histoires parmi les plus étranges et dérangeantes et les reconstitue avec minutie en suivant, pas à pas, l’évolution perturbante de ces «tueurs de l’occulte»: leur passé trouble, leurs croyances déformées et leurs crimes monstrueux. Ce livre se lit comme 13 nouvelles policières, sauf qu’ici tout est vrai. Même les noms n’ont pas été changés.
©2019 Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur (P)2020 Vues et Voix
Terror to the Wicked
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A little-known moment in colonial history that changed the course of America’s future. A riveting account of a brutal killing, an all-out manhunt, and the first murder trial in America, set against the backdrop of the Pequot War (between the Pequot tribe and the colonists of Massachusetts Bay) that ended this two-year war and brought about a peace that allowed the colonies to become a nation. The year: 1638. The setting: Providence, near Plymouth Colony. A young Nipmuc tribesman returning home from trading beaver pelts is fatally stabbed in a robbery in the woods near Plymouth Colony by a vicious white runaway indentured servant. The tribesman, fighting for his life, is able with his final breaths to reveal the details of the attack to Providence’s governor, Roger Williams. A frantic manhunt by the fledgling government ensues to capture the killer and his gang, now the most hunted men in the New World. With their capture, the two-year-old Plymouth Colony faces overnight its first trial - a murder trial - with Plymouth’s governor presiding as judge and prosecutor, interviewing witnesses and defendants alike, and Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony authority, as overseer of the courtroom, his sidearm at the ready. The jury - Plymouth colonists, New England farmers (“a rude and ignorant sorte,” as described by former governor William Bradford) - white, male, picked from a total population of 550, knows from past persecutions the horrors of a society without a jury system. Would they be tempted to protect their own - including a cold-blooded murderer who was also a Pequot War veteran - over the life of a tribesman who had fought in a war allied against them? Tobey Pearl brings to vivid life those caught up in the drama: Roger Williams, founder of Plymouth Colony, a self-taught expert in indigenous cultures and the first investigator of the murder; Myles Standish; Edward Winslow, a former governor of Plymouth Colony and the master of the indentured servant and accused murderer; John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony; the men on trial for the murder; and the lone tribesman, from the last of the Woodland American Indians, whose life was brutally taken from him. Pearl writes of the witnesses who testified before the court and of the 12 colonists on the jury who went about their duties with grave purpose, influenced by a complex mixture of Puritan religious dictates, lingering medieval mores, new ideals of humanism, and an England still influenced by the last gasp of the English Renaissance. And she shows how, in the end, the 12 came to render a groundbreaking judicial decision that forever set the standard for American justice. An extraordinary work of historical piecing-together; a moment that set the precedence of our basic, fundamental right to trial by jury, ensuring civil liberties and establishing it as a safeguard against injustice.
©2021 Tobey Pearl (P)2021 Random House Audio