True Crime

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…

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 …

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…

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 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…

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…

Joaquin, the Claude Duval of California

by Henry L. Williams Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Joaquin Murrieta was a famous Californio bandit, known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado".Joaquin Murrieta was the son of worthy par…

Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts

by Thomas Holmes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Thomas Holmes served for 20 years as a police court missionary for the London courts. Police court missionaries, often sponsored by temperan…

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…

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…

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.

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 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…

American State Trials

by John D. Lawson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
"A collection of the important and interesting criminal trials which have taken place in the United States from the beginning of our go…

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 …

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…

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals

by Arthur L. Hayward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled …

A Book of Scoundrels

by Charles Whibley Read by Greg Lewin 3.7
An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…

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…

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