True Crime

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Chicago May

by May Churchill Sharpe Read by Jim Locke 5
This is a cold-blooded recital of fact, a plain, unvarnished statement from a client to a lawyer. It is the history of the life of a notorio…

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.

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…

The Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy

by Jesse Pomeroy Read by Roger Melin 4.4
Jesse Harding Pomeroy was only 12 years old when he was arrested for the assault of 7 boys near his home in the South Boston area of Massach…

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…

The Chronicles of Newgate

by Arthur Griffiths Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the line…

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…

Against The Tide

by Debbie Hagan Read by Debbie Hagan 4.9
Corrupt business owners, unscrupulous local politicians, impossible odds and a highly unconventional student body are just a few of the obst…

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…

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…

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 3.9
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

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