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Broken Plea
- The Explosive Search for Truth Behind the Idaho Murders
- By: Christopher Whitcomb
- Narrated by: Christopher Whitcomb
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Read by the author. Was there more than one killer? Had the crime scene been cleaned and sanitized before the police arrived? Was furniture staged to throw off detectives? In one of the most extraordinary true crime stories ever published, Broken Plea questions...
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The delivery of the sad story
- By Amazon Customer on 12-05-26
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Strong Poison
- The iconic British detective series from one of our greatest ever writers
- By: Dorothy L Sayers
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING QUEEN OF CLASSIC CRIME, DOROTHY L SAYERS 'Dorothy L. Sayers is one of our best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph 'One of crime fiction's most memorable detectives' The New York Times 'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy...
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Perfect narrator for this classic series
- By Williams family on 18-05-26
By: Dorothy L Sayers
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Hunting Shadows: Peter Tobin
- The Truth About the Serial Killer Who Hid in Plain Sight
- By: Jane Hamilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Hunting Shadows is a gripping true crime memoir by Jane Hamilton, one of Scotland’s most experienced and well-known crime journalists. The book chronicles her decades-long career reporting on some of the country’s most harrowing and high-profile criminal cases—with a central focus on the chilling investigation into serial killer Peter Tobin.
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Nothing New
- By K M. on 13-05-26
By: Jane Hamilton
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The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
- By: John Pearson
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Profession of Violence pulls back the curtain on the rise and eventual fall of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, London's most infamous gangsters. Charting their transformation from East End boys to the ruling figures of London’s criminal underworld during the 1960s, John Pearson's vivid account shows how they ran an empire of organised crime the likes of which London had never seen. Built on lies, extortion, and extreme violence and murder, Pearson also shows the strange brotherly relationship that kept them bound in blood until their eventual downfall and imprisonment.
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Perfect 👏
- By Robert Hemingway on 14-05-26
By: John Pearson
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Le Médecin De L'enfer
- L'histoire Vraie De Harold Shipman, L'un Des Tueurs en Série Les Plus Prolifiques De Grande-Bretagne Avec Environ 218 Victimes (True Crime Explicite, T.7)
- By: Genoveva Ortiz, True Crime Seven
- Narrated by: Francois Bouillon
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Si vous avez été l’un des patients de ce médecin tueur en série prolifique, vous avez de la chance d'être encore en vie. Faites la connaissance de Harold Shipman, un tueur en série avec une propension troublante à assassiner un type spécifique de patients. Avec environ 250 victimes, il ne fait aucun doute que son nombre de meurtres pourrait être bien, bien plus élevé. Mais qu'est-ce qui l'a poussé à tuer ? Vous allez devoir continuer à lire pour le découvrir.
By: Genoveva Ortiz, and others
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Blood on the Trolley
- The Murder of Kareem Johnson
- By: David Splain
- Narrated by: Christopher T. Carley
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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On October 6, 2005, nineteen-year-old Kareem Johnson was stabbed aboard a Route 13 trolley in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. The attack left investigators with two crime scenes, conflicting witness accounts, limited physical evidence, and no usable surveillance footage. The case that emerged would rely heavily on human observation—and would be challenged in court for years. Blood on the Trolley is written by the detective sergeant who led the homicide investigation. This is not a dramatized true-crime story.
By: David Splain
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Broken Plea
- The Explosive Search for Truth Behind the Idaho Murders
- By: Christopher Whitcomb
- Narrated by: Christopher Whitcomb
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Read by the author. Was there more than one killer? Had the crime scene been cleaned and sanitized before the police arrived? Was furniture staged to throw off detectives? In one of the most extraordinary true crime stories ever published, Broken Plea questions...
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The delivery of the sad story
- By Amazon Customer on 12-05-26
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Strong Poison
- The iconic British detective series from one of our greatest ever writers
- By: Dorothy L Sayers
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING QUEEN OF CLASSIC CRIME, DOROTHY L SAYERS 'Dorothy L. Sayers is one of our best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph 'One of crime fiction's most memorable detectives' The New York Times 'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy...
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Perfect narrator for this classic series
- By Williams family on 18-05-26
By: Dorothy L Sayers
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Hunting Shadows: Peter Tobin
- The Truth About the Serial Killer Who Hid in Plain Sight
- By: Jane Hamilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Hunting Shadows is a gripping true crime memoir by Jane Hamilton, one of Scotland’s most experienced and well-known crime journalists. The book chronicles her decades-long career reporting on some of the country’s most harrowing and high-profile criminal cases—with a central focus on the chilling investigation into serial killer Peter Tobin.
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Nothing New
- By K M. on 13-05-26
By: Jane Hamilton
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The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
- By: John Pearson
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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The Profession of Violence pulls back the curtain on the rise and eventual fall of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, London's most infamous gangsters. Charting their transformation from East End boys to the ruling figures of London’s criminal underworld during the 1960s, John Pearson's vivid account shows how they ran an empire of organised crime the likes of which London had never seen. Built on lies, extortion, and extreme violence and murder, Pearson also shows the strange brotherly relationship that kept them bound in blood until their eventual downfall and imprisonment.
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Perfect 👏
- By Robert Hemingway on 14-05-26
By: John Pearson
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Le Médecin De L'enfer
- L'histoire Vraie De Harold Shipman, L'un Des Tueurs en Série Les Plus Prolifiques De Grande-Bretagne Avec Environ 218 Victimes (True Crime Explicite, T.7)
- By: Genoveva Ortiz, True Crime Seven
- Narrated by: Francois Bouillon
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Si vous avez été l’un des patients de ce médecin tueur en série prolifique, vous avez de la chance d'être encore en vie. Faites la connaissance de Harold Shipman, un tueur en série avec une propension troublante à assassiner un type spécifique de patients. Avec environ 250 victimes, il ne fait aucun doute que son nombre de meurtres pourrait être bien, bien plus élevé. Mais qu'est-ce qui l'a poussé à tuer ? Vous allez devoir continuer à lire pour le découvrir.
By: Genoveva Ortiz, and others
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Blood on the Trolley
- The Murder of Kareem Johnson
- By: David Splain
- Narrated by: Christopher T. Carley
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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On October 6, 2005, nineteen-year-old Kareem Johnson was stabbed aboard a Route 13 trolley in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. The attack left investigators with two crime scenes, conflicting witness accounts, limited physical evidence, and no usable surveillance footage. The case that emerged would rely heavily on human observation—and would be challenged in court for years. Blood on the Trolley is written by the detective sergeant who led the homicide investigation. This is not a dramatized true-crime story.
By: David Splain
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Mijn dochter is vermoord
- By: Wanda Beemsterboer-Avenarius
- Narrated by: Jennifer van Brenk
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Zaterdag 2 december 2006, mijn dochter Nadine belde aan bij haar ex-vriend Gerold. Een kwartier later lag ze dood op de vloer, bruut vermoord met een mes. Mijn wereld stortte in... In de jaren die volgden krabbelde ik weer overeind. Ik schreef de pijn van mij af, vocht voor de relatie met mijn man en zag mijn andere dochter Jacqueline mama worden. Het lukte haar de moordenaar van haar zusje te vergeven.
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Ruby Ridge
- The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family
- By: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Jess Walter
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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With a new introduction “The most comprehensive, even-handed and best written account of Ruby Ridge currently in print.” — Washington Times From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter, here is the story of what happened on Ruby Ridge: the tragic and unlikely...
By: Jess Walter
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Moors Murders Decoded
- Unmasking the Evil of Hindley and Brady (Decoded by Craig Beck)
- By: Craig Beck
- Narrated by: Craig Beck
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Moors Murders Decoded: Unmasking the Evil of Hindley and Brady. You already know the names. You have seen the mugshots on a hundred front pages. You have probably argued about the case over a drink, or paused on a documentary one rainy Sunday afternoon and wondered how two ordinary people from a Manchester street could have done what they did. The headlines only ever gave you the shape of it. They never gave you the why. This book is the why.
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Good Overall
- By Amazon Customer on 18-05-26
By: Craig Beck
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No Memory for Murder
- The Incredible Story of a Sadistic Murder in Halifax's Point Pleasant Park
- By: Blain Henshaw
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1975, Jimmy Odo was charged with the murder of fourteen-year-old Tony Cluett, who was found strung up crucifixion-style in Halifax’s Point Pleasant Park. Six years later, he was charged with bludgeoning to death Darlene Davidson, his former girlfriend’s five-year-old daughter. At trial in 1981, Odo testified that although he didn’t remember the killings, he had lied to avoid conviction for the Cluett murder. He also spoke of being part of a satanic cult while living in Montreal.
By: Blain Henshaw
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The Sins of Sheffield
- True Crime Tales from the Steel City (Strange Britain)
- By: Adrian Finney
- Narrated by: Peter McGiffen
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back into the soot-stained streets of Victorian Sheffield — a city where the clang of steel mingled with whispers of scandal, and respectability was often just a mask for something far darker beneath. The Sins of Sheffield, storyteller and historian Adrian Finney unearths the true tales that polite society tried to forget. These are stories of murderers and martyrs, forgers and fraudsters, con artists and outcasts — each revealing something about the city’s beating, human heart.
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Excellent!
- By John Marsden on 14-05-26
By: Adrian Finney
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True Crime Big Pack
- 50 Shocking Criminal Cases from Across the Globe
- By: Alexander Dragone
- Narrated by: Patrick Kelly Shannon
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a gripping anthology of 50 disturbing, real-world criminal cases; from serial killers and baffling cold cases to brutal murders and chilling disappearances, this audiobook delivers exactly what true crime aficionados crave: raw, immersive storytelling grounded in terrifying facts.
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime
- The Best New True Crime Stories
- By: Mitzi Szereto
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Dark passions, dark deeds—a deep dive into true crime stories of criminal couples. From harrowing heists to murderous mayhem, this collection of true crime stories will have you on the edge of your seat as you discover why two criminal minds are scarier than one—especially when they belong...
By: Mitzi Szereto
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Jack of All Trades
- The Untold Lives of Jack the Ripper
- By: Laars Head
- Narrated by: Andy David Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The Whitechapel murders of 1888 were once recorded in precise detail—five women, five names, five crime scenes. But over the decades, the facts have been buried by theory, distortion, and narrative excess. What followed wasn’t justice. It was noise. Ripperology began with real investigation. It devolved into a kind of open casting call—a parade of improbable suspects, each auditioning for the part of the killer.
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Great book
- By Gordon Comstock on 02-05-26
By: Laars Head
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The Man Who Couldn't Wait
- By: Debbie Whitmont
- Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The true story of Australia's first political assassination. Could the conviction of Vietnamese refugee Phuong Ngo for the 1994 assassination of Cabramatta MP John Newman be one of Australia's greatest miscarriages of justice? Cabramatta was embroiled in a heroin epidemic, gang wars and demands...
By: Debbie Whitmont
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Копейский маньяк
- История жизни и преступлений Вячеслава Яикова
- By: Алексей Решетун
- Narrated by: Алексей Решетун
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Судебно-медицинский эксперт и автор бестселлера «Вскрытие покажет» Алексей Решетун приглашает вас погрузиться в леденящую душу хронику одного из самых сложных расследований начала 2000‑х. 23 мая 2003 года в Копейске были обнаружены тела двух задушенных выпускниц в школьной форме—жестокое преступление, ставшее частью серии из шести убийств. Жертвами маньяка всегда оказывались женщины. Аудиокнига подробно описывает ход расследования и особенности работы следователей, медицинских экспертов и психиатров.
By: Алексей Решетун
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Никто не поможет
- Подробности преступлений 40 самых опасных маньяков в истории [Serial Killers: The Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History’s Notorious Murderers]
- By: Ричард Эстеп
- Narrated by: Андрей Троммельман
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Извращенная психика и респектабельный образ жизни, хладнокровная жестокость и неприметная внешность, крайняя степень садизма и способность очаровывать людей. Каждый серийный убийца уникален, но у них есть и общие черты, вызывающие у нас ужас и любопытство. Ричард Эстеп исследует профили известных маньяков, чтобы изучить сходства и различия их мотивов, поведения и методов совершения преступлений. Его цель — понять глубинные механизмы человеческой психики и обстоятельства, которые формируют будущего серийного убийцу.
By: Ричард Эстеп
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Серийный убийца рядом
- Двойная жизнь самых известных маньяков [The Serial Killer Next Door: The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers]
- By: Ричард Эстеп
- Narrated by: Андрей Троммельман
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Вы хорошо знаете своих соседей? Наверняка вы даже не догадываетесь, что они делают за закрытыми дверями. В своей книге писатель и телеведущий Ричард Эстеп описывает истории 30 серийных убийц, жизнь которых на первый взгляд ничем не отличалась от нашей. Эти жестокие преступники — риелторы, полицейские, врачи, садовники—маскировались так хорошо, что годами не вызывали подозрений у близких.
By: Ричард Эстеп
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The Family Man
- Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh
- By: James Lasdun
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son at Moselle, their home in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. By then, the story had become headline news across the country with its revelations of corruption in high places, massive fraud, opioid abuse, fake suicides, suspicious accidents, and the generational recklessness of the wealthy legal dynasty at its center.
By: James Lasdun
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Hinterhof
- By: Nickolas Resendez
- Narrated by: Bill Schafer
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on a true story of German immigrant struggle to leave home, and settle in America as the civil war ensues.
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Fred & Rose Decoded
- Inside the Minds of Britain's Most Depraved Killing Couple (DECODED by Craig Beck)
- By: Craig Beck
- Narrated by: Craig Beck
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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You have seen the grainy footage of the white tent in the back garden. You have caught the documentaries on a wet Sunday afternoon. You have argued over a pint about how a quiet Gloucester terrace ended up with twelve young women under its floors and patios. The headlines gave you the bones of the case. They never gave you the brain. This audiobook gives you the brain. Forget the lazy version where Fred is the leering monster and Rose is the puppet. That story is comforting, and it is wrong.
By: Craig Beck
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Garden of Graves
- The Shocking True Story of Long Island Serial Killer Joel Rikfin
- By: Maria Eftimiades
- Narrated by: A'rese Emokpae
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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On 28 June 1993, 34-year-old Rifkin was stopped by the police for not having licence plates on the pick-up truck he was driving. A minor crime, not something that would make the headlines, or so the police thought. Until, that is, they found the decomposing body of a young woman wrapped in a tarpaulin in the back of his truck. After his arrest, Rifkin told police of his horrific habit of picking up prostitutes in Manhattan and killing them, usually by strangulation, then dumping their bodies. He claims to have killed a total of 17 women. This book tells the story of this killer.
By: Maria Eftimiades
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Killing the Lieutenant
- Fighting Miami’s Cocaine Wars, Hunting Griselda Blanco, And My Fight To Stay Alive
- By: Raul J. Diaz, Sean Oliver
- Narrated by: Steve Schaeffer
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The infamy of Miami’s cocaine wars of the 1970s and 80s is forever etched into the darkest chapters of US history, and Lt. Raul Diaz was on the frontlines for all of it. The decorated and controversial law enforcement figure identified the shifting tide in the Magic City when law enforcement lost their grip on crime as a new breed of criminal flooded South Florida to ply their billion-dollar trade. In a deadly exclamation mark, Colombian cocaine godmother Griselda Blanco and her assassins swept through the city with a bloody and ruthless ambition that left countless dead bodies along the way.
By: Raul J. Diaz, and others
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True Crime 2-in-1 Collection
- 26 Shocking True Crime Cases From Madrid, London, and Santa Fe
- By: Alexander Dragone
- Narrated by: Patrick Kelly Shannon
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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26 Chilling True Crime Cases from across the globe. From the neon-drenched streets of Pattaya to the forests of the Pacific Northwest, these cases expose the raw, terrifying truth behind some of history’s most depraved killers. This anthology pulls back the curtain on serial murderers, ruthless kidnappers, and cold-blooded psychopaths; presenting the grim facts, intricate investigations, and psychological darkness that define true crime at its most disturbing.
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Gein Decoded:
- The Dark Psychology That Created America’s Original Psycho (Decoded by Craig Beck)
- By: Craig Beck
- Narrated by: Craig Beck
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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He killed two people. Just two. And yet Ed Gein's name has outlasted serial killers with dozens of victims. He inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. He changed the way America thinks about horror. Not because of what he did, but because of what he was.
By: Craig Beck
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Il delitto della dolce vita: il caso Bebawi
- Delitti italiani 2
- By: Francesco Caringella
- Narrated by: Alessandro Castellucci
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Sono le nove del mattino, del 20 gennaio 1964. A due passi da via Veneto, cuore della mondanità romana, una giovane segretaria scopre negli uffici della società tessile Tricotex un cadavere immerso in una pozza di sangue, crivellato da quattro colpi d'arma da fuoco. La ragazza lancia un grido disperato. Il morto è il suo principale, Farouk El Chourbagi, un giovane industriale egiziano, figlio di un ex ministro delle Finanze, protagonista delle notti della capitale.
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True Crime
- 13 Shocking True Crime Cases from New York, Seattle & Pattaya
- By: Alexander Dragone
- Narrated by: Patrick Kelly Shannon
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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True Crime Extreme: The World's Most Ruthless Murderers in "True Crime: The World's Most Ruthless Murderers," Alexander Dragone flings wide the doors to a world of unimaginable cruelty and the darkest abysses of the human psyche. Renowned for his historical chronicles of the 20th century, Dragone breaks new ground with this global odyssey of horror.
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L'estate di Garlasco
- La ricostruzione del delitto che ha sconvolto l'Italia (Delitti italiani 1)
- By: Francesco Caringella
- Narrated by: Alessandro Castellucci
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Il 13 agosto 2007, all'ora di pranzo, la quiete di Garlasco, un piccolo paese in provincia di Pavia, viene improvvisamente sconvolta: nella villetta in cui viveva con la sua famiglia i carabinieri trovano il corpo senza vita di Chiara Poggi, immerso in una pozza di sangue. Ad avvertirli, recandosi in caserma dopo una strana telefonata al 118, è il fidanzato della ragazza, Alberto Stasi: un giovane biondo, dagli occhi di ghiaccio e dall'aria insopportabilmente perfetta.
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Wahre Verbrechen Extrem, 1
- Die krassesten True Crime-Fälle aus London, Wien und Budapest
- By: Alexander Dragone
- Narrated by: Ernst-Marcus Thomas
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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True Crime Extrem: 13 schockierende Kriminalfälle aus aller WeltIn diesem ersten Band der Reihe „Wahre Verbrechen Extrem“ öffnet der Autor Alexander Dragone die Tore zur Hölle und präsentiert 13 der verstörendsten Kriminalfälle der internationalen Geschichte. Dies ist kein gewöhnliches True Crime-Buch–es ist eine tiefenpsychologische Analyse des absolut Bösen, dokumentiert mit erschreckender Präzision. Tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt ohne GnadeBegleiten Sie den Autor von den nebligen Gassen Londons über die prächtigen Boulevards von Paris bis hin in die dunklen Winkel Osteuropas und der USA.
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Andrei Chikatilo
- The Soviet Monster (Infamous Killers: Minds, Motives, and Murders, Book 10)
- By: David G. Stone
- Narrated by: Terrence Scott Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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He was a teacher, a father—and a predator who haunted the USSR. Between 1978 and 1990, Andrei Chikatilo terrorized the Soviet Union with a series of brutal, sexually sadistic murders. Operating in an era of state secrecy, his crimes went undetected for years as innocent men were blamed, files were buried, and authorities denied the existence of serial killers. The Soviet Monster is the definitive account of Chikatilo’s life, crimes, and the political climate that enabled him. True crime author David G.
By: David G. Stone