Criminals

American Desperado: My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Jon Roberts, Evan Wright
• Narrated By Christina Rooney, Erik Davies, Johnathan McClain, and others

American Desperado is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal autobiography ever written. Like a real-life Scarface Jon was born into the upper levels of the Gambino crime family and witnessed his first murder at age seven. He became a one-man juvenile crime wave before joining an assassination squad in Vietnam.

The Big Book of Serial Killers: An Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Jack Rosewood, Rebecca Lo
• Narrated By Kevin Kollins
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There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk, and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires, and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living among society, going about their day-to-day activities until nightfall. They are the Dennis Rader's, the fathers, husbands, church-going members of the community.

Chopper 1: From the Inside

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Mark Brandon Read
• Narrated By Dave Ferguson

Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is the son of a strict Seventh Day Adventist mother and a shell-shocked former soldier who slept with a loaded gun at his side. Bullied at school, he grew up dreaming of revenge ("There are none so merciless as those who have been shown no mercy", as he later noted). He became a criminal legend who terrorised drug dealers, pimps, thieves and armed robbers on the streets and in jail - but boasts he never hurt an innocent member of the public.

Soldier Spy

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Tom Marcus
• Narrated By Jason Langley
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In the boot were six homemade pipe bombs, all linked to detonate at the same time from a single call on a brand-new pay-as-you-go phone found on the target. Special Branch also found Chinese Type 56 assault rifles with eight full magazines of ammunition. His target was a local school. He planned to attack two coaches of teenagers returning home after a school trip to France. Approximately 60 children, their accompanying teachers and their waiting parents. He was going to kill them all.

Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Sonny Barger
• Narrated By John Pruden
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Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the world over.

Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Jeff Guinn
• Narrated By George Newbern
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In the 1950s a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the Gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was a much-lauded leader in the contemporary civil rights movement. Eventually Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to Northern California. He became involved in electoral politics and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader.

Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend

• UNABRIDGED (29 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Peter FitzSimons
• Narrated By Richard Aspel
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Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs. Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy's brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home?

Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Michael D. Blutrich
• Narrated By Michael D. Blutrich
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Meet Michael Blutrich, mild-mannered New York lawyer and founder of Scores, the hottest strip club in New York City history, funded by the proceeds of an insurance embezzlement scheme. All Blutrich wanted was to lay low, make the club a success, and put his criminal acts behind him. But the Mafia got involved, and soon the FBI came knocking. Scores became wildly popular, in part thanks to Blutrich's ability to successfully bend the rules of adult entertainment. Unfortunately for Blutrich, it would all soon implode.

Madoff with the Money

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Jerry Oppenheimer
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman
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Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was taught growing up in the working-class town of Laurelton, Queens, to his high-life on Wall Street and the super-rich enclaves of Palm Beach and the French Riviera, best-selling author Jerry Oppenheimer follows the disgraced money manager's trail as he works his way up the social and economic ladder, and eventually scams his clients in a $50-billion Ponzi scheme.

Essex Boys: The Final Word: No More Myths, No More Lies - The Definitive Story

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Bernard O'Mahoney
• Narrated By Karl Jenkinson

On December 6, 1995, three key members of the infamous Essex Boys gang were lured to a deserted farm track on the pretense of planning a robbery. As the trio sat in their Range Rover, two gunmen approached the open rear door of the vehicle. Moments later, the first shots rang out signaling the start of a swift, yet bloody massacre. When the weapons fell silent, the three men lay dead.

Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia’s Most Feared Outlaw Bikers

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Caesar Campbell, Donna Campbell
• Narrated By Dave Ferguson

Among members of the outlaw motorcycle clubs, Caesar Campbell is a legend. Former sergeant-at-arms and chief enforcer for the Comancheros, Caesar became the founding member and sergeant-at-arms of the Australian chapter of the Bandidos. He epitomised bikie culture - unbeatable in a fight, brutal in the extreme, fearing no one and nothing, and loyal until death. This is Caesar's story, from his recruitment into the Comancheros, to the savage split within the club that led to the foundation of the Bandidos and the bloody massacre at Milperra that resulted from it.

The Unknown Mongol

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Scott Junior Ereckson
• Narrated By Jeff Hays
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This is the true story of ex-Mongols M.C. National President Scott Junior Ereckson. From a young teen, peering from behind a bush at an unknown Mongol, Scott fulfills his childhood dreams. In later years, after many experiences, he becomes one of the most respected and feared Mongols to this day.

The Misbegotten Son

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Jack Olsen
• Narrated By Kevin Pierce
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An account of the crimes of Arthur Shawcross describes how the paroled child killer shot, stabbed, suffocated, and strangled 16 Rochester, New York, prostitutes and examines how the legal system failed his victims.

Smuggler's Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Richard Stratton
• Narrated By Richard Stratton
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Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. He became a member of the Hippie Mafia, traveling the world to keep America high, living the underground life while embracing the hippie credo, rejecting hard drugs in favor of marijuana and hashish.

Precious Victims: Penguin True Crime

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Don W. Weber, Charles Bosworth Jr.
• Narrated By Kevin Pierce
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The police in Jersey County, Illinois, accepted Paula Sims' story of a masked kidnapper who snatched her baby girl, Lorelei, from her bassinet. Three years later, her second newborn daughter suffered an identical fate - and this time the police were unable to stop searching until they had discovered the whole horrifying truth. This is the full terrifying story of twisted sexuality and hate seething below the surface of a seemingly normal family and of the massive investigation and nerve-shattering trial that made the unthinkable a reality.

A Fine Day for a Hanging

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Carol Ann Lee
• Narrated By Maggie Ollerenshaw
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In 1955, former nightclub manageress Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. Following a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. She became the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and her execution is the most notorious of hangman Albert Pierrepoint's 'duties'. Despite Ruth's infamy, the story of her life has never been fully told. Often wilfully misinterpreted, the reality behind the headlines was buried by an avalanche of hearsay.

Good Cop, Bad War

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Neil Woods, J. S. Rafaeli
• Narrated By Malk Williams
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As an undercover police officer with the drugs squad, Neil Woods regularly risked his life on the streets, dealing with some of the most violent and unpredictable criminals in Britain. Good Cop, Bad War is a unique story about a man with a striking ability to infiltrate and extinguish drug gangs but who, as the success of his operations grows, becomes disillusioned with the war on drugs, as he sees how it demonizes those who need help whilst empowering the very worst elements in society.

Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Sheriff David Reichert
• Narrated By Dennis Boutsikaris

For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer - the most notorious serial killer in American history. He was the first detective on the case in 1982 and doggedly pursued it as the body count climbed to 49 and it became the most infamous unsolved case in the nation. Frantically following all leads, even as more bodies surfaced near the river outside Seattle, Sheriff Reichert befriended the victims' families, publicly challenged the killer, and risked his own safety - and the endurance and love of his family - before he found his madman.

Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Deirdre Bair
• Narrated By Rob Shapiro
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From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone - Public Enemy Number One - has gripped popular imagination. Rising from humble Brooklyn roots, Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. At the height of Prohibition, his multimillion-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling operation dominated the organized-crime scene.

The Trail of Ted Bundy: Digging Up the Untold Stories

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Kevin Sullivan
• Narrated By Kevin Pierce
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Within the audio of The Trail of Ted Bundy: Digging Up the Untold Stories, you'll hear the voices - many for the first time - of some of Ted Bundy's friends, as they bring to light the secrets of what is was like to know him while he was actively involved in murder. The stories of his victims are here as well, as told by their friends, including the information and anecdotes that didn't make it into the investigative files and are being published here for the first time.

The Highwayman: Larry Eyler, the Hoosier Highway Killer

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 33 mins)
• By Brian Lee Tucker
• Narrated By Wayne F Perkins

If there was ever a man that could be considered the personification of evil and cruelty, it was Larry Eyler. He was purely evil. He even believed in demons, and, considering his actions, might have wanted to be one himself. One of the many serial killers who struggled with the fact that he was homosexual, Larry Eyler was the youngest of four children brought up in Indiana, often beaten by step-fathers and sent to live by his mother with a bunch of other families.

Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Reymundo Sanchez
• Narrated By Rudy Sanda
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This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez's struggle to create a "normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto "once a king, always a king" rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heart-pounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once a King, Always a King recounts how Sanchez wound up in prison and provides an engrossing firsthand account of the Latin Kings.

Obeying Evil: The Mockingbird Hill Massacre Through the Eyes of a Killer

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Ryan Green
• Narrated By Steve White
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>Obeying Evil presents the shocking true story of Ronald Gene Simmons and the most disturbing family killing spree in the United States. Over the course of a week in 1987, he murdered 14 members of his own family, a former co-worker, and a stranger.

Hauptmann's Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Richard T. Cahill Jr.
• Narrated By Jim Seitz
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In 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published articles questioning his conviction. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up, and one posited that Lindbergh actually killed his own son and fabricated the entire kidnapping to mask the deed.

That Fiend in Hell: Soapy Smith in Legend

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Catherine Holder Spude
• Narrated By Erin C Gray
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As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too - among them Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith (1860 - 98), who with an entourage of "bunco-men" conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the "uncrowned king of Skagway", remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob.

Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Sonia Rodriguez, Reymundo Sanchez
• Narrated By Rebecca Mitchell
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At age five Sonia Rodriguez's stepfather began to abuse her; at 10 she was molested by her uncle and beaten by her mother when she told on him; and by 13 her home had become a hangout for the Latin Kings and Queens who were friends with her older sister. Threatened by rival gang members at school, Sonia turned away from her education and extracurricular activities in favor of a world of drugs and violence.

Heinz Guderian: The Life and Legacy of Nazi Germany's Famous Panzer Commander

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 31 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Colin Fluxman

Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was one of the most respected commanders and theoreticians of World War II. An innovative tank commander, he was a pioneer of German Blitzkrieg tactics and therefore a hugely influential figure in the way the war was fought. Guderian's profile was not always what might have been expected for a man of his abilities and influence, due to the shape of his career.

Gun Slinger or Serial Killer? Western Outlaw John Wesley Hardin

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Brian Lee Tucker
• Narrated By William Bahl
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>"A bullet to the front of the head demonstrates good marksmanship. A bullet to the back of the head demonstrates good judgment." So quotes John Wesley Hardin, one of the infamous killers of the old west. But, like modern day killer Henry Lee Lucas, was he more of a bragger than a killer? Or was he more of a serial killer than a gun slinger? Was it the loss of his only love, Jane Bowen that drove him over the edge? Or was he just born to be a killer? Find out.

In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Peter Hellman
• Narrated By Charles Constant
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After bursting onto the scene in 2002, Rudy Kurniawan quickly became the leading purveyor of rare wines to the American elite. But in April 2008, his lots of Domaine Ponsot Clos Saint-Denis red burgundy - dating as far back as 1945 - were abruptly pulled from auction. The problem? The winemaker was certain that this particular burgundy was first produced only in 1982.

The Big Book of Serial Killers: An Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Jack Rosewood, Rebecca Lo
• Narrated By Kevin Kollins
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There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk, and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires, and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living among society, going about their day-to-day activities until nightfall. They are the Dennis Rader's, the fathers, husbands, church-going members of the community.

Killer Twins: The True Story of the Whiteheads

• UNABRIDGED (28 mins)
• By Amy Ailish
• Narrated By Johnny Robinson
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Nikki White was a 34-year-old African-American mother of 16-year-old identical twins named Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah. But on the afternoon of January 13, 2010, she was found murdered in the bathroom of her boyfriend's home. Her twin daughters would be arrested for her murder in a crime that shocked their small Georgia town. But what really prompted the girls to murder their own mother?

From Pride to Prison

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 3 mins)
• By A. Rand Robison
• Narrated By A. Rand Robison
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The most important reason (for this book) is to write a cautionary tale about pride and what can happen when you get too full of yourself because of money or fame or just plain good luck. I learned, the hard way, that your prosperity can also be your adversity. I lived a hell on earth for four years as I was investigated, charged, convicted, and sentenced, climaxed by the four months I spent at Terminal Island. I wouldn't do it again in my worst nightmare, but I learned some valuable lessons I might never have otherwise learned.

Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Larry McShane, Dan Pearson
• Narrated By Alexander Cendese
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As the last don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the Mafia. Natale's reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region's Mafia back to prominence in the 1990s. Smart, savvy, and articulate, Natale came up in the mob and saw firsthand as it hatched its plan to control Atlantic City's casino unions.

Miss Rambo: The True Story of Spree Killer Sylvia Seegrist

• UNABRIDGED (26 mins)
• By Pamela Song
• Narrated By Johnny Robinson of Earthwalker Studios
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She drank furniture polish. She was obsessed with the military. Then she shot up a shopping mall. Sylvia Seegrist is unique among female serial killers in that she is the only one to shoot random strangers in a public place. While other killers of her gender seemed to have a certain motivation in mind, Seegrist was a paranoid schizophrenic that adopted more of a "masculine" attitude toward killing. She was a woman on a mission as she entered Springfield Mall in Pennsylvania and attempted to kill as many people as possible.

Husband Killer: The True Story of Audrey Marie Hilley

• UNABRIDGED (55 mins)
• By Anna Delaney
• Narrated By Chris Abernathy
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Audrey Marie Hilley was an escaped murderer who killed her husband and tried to kill her daughter with arsenic. She was a cunning woman who craved the good life and slipped arsenic to loved ones for money. Audrey eluded police for four years with a clever use of lies and an ability to blend into the background. She even convinced her second husband that she was her own twin sister. They looked like a normal, everyday American family. Until one day Audrey decided she had to kill everyone.

Bury Them Alive: The True Story of Serial Killer Tiffany Cole

• UNABRIDGED (34 mins)
• By Jessica Winston
• Narrated By Scott ODell
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When James "Reggie" and Carol Sumner moved to Jacksonville, Florida for their retirement, they had visions of good health and happiness. They never thought that their overnight invitation to longtime South Carolina neighbor, Tiffany Cole, would end up the way it did - with the Sumner couple being buried alive.