True Crime

Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies

by Charles G. Mutzenberg Read by Roger Melin 4
As this book will show, there have been a variety of clashes and feuds which have taken place in and near Kentucky over the years, primarily…

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

by George Alfred Townsend Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.4
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…

Criminal Investigation

by Hans Gross Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

The Story of the Outlaw

by Emerson Hough Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
With historical narratives of famous outlaws; the stories of noted border wars; vigilante movements and armed conflicts on the frontier.

Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries

by Charles John Samuel Thompson Read by David Wales 4.2
A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially infor…

Red Rubber

by Edmund Dene Morel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the a…

Celebrated Crimes

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
This story chronicles the crimes of Antoine-Francois Desrues (also called "Derues") from his childhood to his execution. Desrues c…

The Mysterious Stranger

by Walter Bates Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …

The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt

by David Miller DeWitt Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.2
April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the p…

Darkness and Daylight

by Lyman Abbott, Thomas Byrnes, Helen S. Campbell and Thomas Wallace Knox Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, ske…

The History of Burke and Hare

by George Macgregor and George Mac Gregor Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

Celebrated Crimes

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…

Celebrated Crimes

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.6
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 164…

Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar'

by William Jackson Read by Roy Schreiber 4.6
Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons ac…

History of the Johnstown Flood

by Willis Fletcher Johnson Read by Tatiana Chichilla 4.5
An account of the Johnstown Flood, the most devastating loss of civilian life in the United States prior to the terrorist attacks of Septemb…

Whitehall 1212

by Wyllis Cooper 4.3
Whitehall 1212 was a weekly crime drama radio show named after the famous telephone number of Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London …

The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes

by George Barton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.7
Excerpt: "Raw truth often possesses greater human interest than the most polished fiction. Crime, in itself, is painful and sometimes r…

The Marquise de Brinvilliers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
The crimes of the Marquise of Brinvilliers, a French aristocrat during the reign of Louis XIV, included some of the most famous murders, sca…

Holmes' Own Story

by Herman W. Mudgett Read by Anautumnous 4.2
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …

Celebrated Crimes, Karl-Ludwig Sand

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story o…

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