True Crime

Survivors' Tales of Famous Crimes

by Walter Wood Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this anthology of true crime tales, editor Walter Wood interviews those who were touched by the crimes recounted, sometimes as an acquain…

Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal

by International Military Tribunal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German WWII war criminals, the International …

True Detective Stories from the Archives

by Cleveland Moffett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In his true crime collection, True Detective Stories: From the Archives of the Pinkertons, Cleveland Moffett details some of the more fascin…

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by Thomas R. Gray Read by Joel Kindrick 4.8
This is a detailed description of the massacre that took place on August 21-23, 1831 that became known as Nat Turner's Rebellion. Nat Turner…

Practical Instruction for Detectives

by Emmerson W. Manning Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Having been connected for many years with two of the largest and most successful private detective agencies in this country, both as an oper…

My Experiences as an Executioner

by James Berry Read by ashleighjane 4.6
From 1884 until 1891, James Berry was an executioner. In this time he carried out 131 hangings. In this memoir he writes about the methods h…

The Chronicles of Newgate

by Arthur Griffiths Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the line…

The Great Taxicab Robbery

by James H. Collins Read by Roger Melin 4.3
In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the …

Ali Pacha

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.6
Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of Janina, rose to power during the early 1800s in one of the Ottoman Empire’s most unruly territories (Albania). His fe…

The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer

by William James McGlothlin Read by Lynne T 4.3
John Parsons Cook was a 28 year old bachelor, from a good family but not in robust health. He studied to become a lawyer, but instead of fol…

This is Your FBI

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This is Your FBI is a captivating radio series that aired from 1945 to 1953, officially backed by the FBI. Each episode details real-life ca…

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making -- all far fr…

The Warren Report

by The President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy, President'S Commission On The Assassination Of Presiden and President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family…

Thirty Years a Detective

by Allan Pinkerton Read by Mark Harrington 4.3
Detective Allan Pinkerton, creator of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, shares in this book the methods that criminals use to exploit…

Criminal Manchester

by William James McGlothlin Read by Phil Benson 4.8
Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour…

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty

by Sir John Barrow Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…

You Can't Win

by Jack Black Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…

Great Detective Stories

by Allan Pinkerton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, wrote a number of "great detective stories", which he claimed were &qu…

Criminal Investigation

by Hans Gross Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

God Goes to Murderer's Row

by Rev. M. Raymond Read by Maria Therese 4.7
The Hound of Heaven stalks the death house in pursuit of the soul of a modern Dismas in this true story of a doomed criminal who found God i…

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