True Crime

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 …

The Smoke Eaters

by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
This book vividly brings to life the unimaginable risks of fire-fighting and the bravery and personal interactions of Captain Meaghan and 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…

The Powers That Prey

by Josiah Flynt Read by Chris Pyle 4.6
True stories of criminals (the powers that prey) and the system (the powers that rule) by journalists who went among the criminal classes to…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

Holmes' Own Story

by Herman W. Mudgett Read by Anautumnous 4.3
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …

Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies

by John B. Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. The present . …

The Border Bandits

by J.W. Buel and J. W. Buel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
''An authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws Jesse and Frank James and their bands of highwaymen.compiled from reliable sources…

Why Crime Does Not Pay

by Sophie Lyons Read by Ann Boulais 4.7
The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…

Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy

by E. Luscomb Haskell Read by Roger Melin 4.9
"The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy: The Most Remarkable Case in the History of Crime or Criminal Law" by E. Luscomb Haskell was pu…

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…

Crime: The Autobiography of a Crook

by Eddie Guerin Read by Jim Locke 3.5
This is not what one could call in any shape or form a pretty story. It is the plain unvarnished tale of a man who has been a notorious crim…

Celebrated Crimes

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guer…

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…

Nisida

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals

by Arthur L. Hayward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled b…

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