Depraved
A True Story of Sadistic Muder in the Heartland
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Narrated by:
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Shaun Grindell
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By:
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John Glatt
About this listen
John Edward Robinson was a 56-year-old grandfather from rural Kansas. An entrepreneur and Eagle Scout, he was even honored as "Man of the Year" at a Kansas City charity. To some of the women he met on the internet, he was known as Slavemaster - a sexual deviate with a taste for sadomasochistic rituals of extreme domination and torture...even killing.
Masquerading as a philanthropist, he promised women money and adventure. For 15 years, he trawled the web, snaring unsuspecting women. They were never seen again. But in the summer of 2000, the decomposed remains of two women were discovered in barrels on Robinson's farm, and three other bodies were found in storage units. Yet the depths of Robinson's bloodlust didn't end there. For authorities, the unspeakable criminal trail of Slavemaster was just beginning....
Depraved is a true story of sadistic murder in the Heartland, told by true-crime master John Glatt.
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As an exotic dancer at The Great Alaskan Bush Company in Anchorage, Mechele Hughes Linehan knew how to captivate men. Three of them were convinced she was engaged to them. Then one spring morning in 1996, one man, Kent Leppink, was found in the snow, shot in the head....Days before his death, Kent had removed Mechele's name from his million-dollar life insurance policy. He wrote a letter to his family stating that, should he meet foul play, Mechele would likely be among those involved. But she wasn't charged with Kent's death. She married a doctor, moved to Olympia, Washington, and began a new life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An intriguing tale with some twists
- By Brenda646 on 02-17-22
By: Michael Fleeman
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Lie After Lie
- The True Story of a Master of Deception, Betrayal, and Murder
- By: Lara Bricker
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
A seemingly perfect world held an even more unlikely killer... Julie Keown had a great job, financial security, and a perfect husband who was attending Harvard Business School. But after Julie suddenly died, and doctors discovered she’d been poisoned with the main ingredient in antifreeze, her parents began to suspect that her husband, James, was not so perfect. This blow-by-blow account shows how investigators and state police unraveled James Keown’s chilling web of deceit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring writing and lack of any narrative arc
- By Josh on 11-21-18
By: Lara Bricker
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The Tangled Web
- The Life and Death of Richard Cain—Chicago Cop and Mafia Hitman
- By: Michael Cain
- Narrated by: Clinton Wade
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 197
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 180
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 180
The Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of detective Richard Cain's criminal career as revealed by his half-brother, Michael. Cain led a double-life—one as a well-known cop who led raids that landed on the front pages, and the other as a "made man" in one of Chicago's most notorious mob families.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Reviews
- By G. D. Hoppe on 11-19-20
By: Michael Cain
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Lethal Guardian
- By: M. William Phelps
- Narrated by: J. Charles
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
A real-estate lawyer in Connecticut's moneyed seaside communities, Beth Ann Carpenter, 30, had beauty, brains, and success. But she wanted more - namely guardianship of her two-year-old niece, Rebecca, daughter of Beth's estranged sister, Kim.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lethal Guardian
- By Tamara on 10-19-10
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Bad City
- Peril and Power in the City of Angels
- By: Paul Pringle
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 399
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 356
On a cool, overcast afternoon in April 2016, a salacious tip arrived at the L.A. Times that reporter Paul Pringle thought should have taken, at most, a few weeks to check out: a drug overdose at a fancy hotel involving one of the University of Southern California’s shiniest stars—Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the prestigious medical school. Pringle, who’d long done battle with USC and its almost impenetrable culture of silence, knew reporting the story wouldn’t be a walk in the park. USC is the largest private employer in the city of L.A., and it casts a long shadow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow.
- By Anna on 07-22-22
By: Paul Pringle
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Inside Scientology
- The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
- By: Janet Reitman
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,166
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,847
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,864
Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world's fastest-growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of "volunteer ministers" offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing journalists and others through litigation and intimidation, even infiltrating the highest levels of government to further its goals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My cup of tea.
- By MWMcCabe on 08-09-11
By: Janet Reitman
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Killing the Dream
- James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- By: Gerald Posner
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story5 out of 5 stars 32
In the three decades since April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot to death in Memphis, scores of books and articles have questioned whether James Earl Ray, King's killer, acted alone or was part of a larger conspiracy. Now, based on explosive new interviews, confidential files, and previously undisclosed evidence, best-selling author Gerald Posner finally resolves the simple truth of the last great political murder mystery of the 1960s, definitively proving that Ray acted alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- By Thornton Mellon on 05-19-19
By: Gerald Posner
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The Real Lolita
- The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
- By: Sarah Weinman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 217
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Story4 out of 5 stars 218
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved novels ever. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner’s full story for the first time. Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Meandering and tedious while never delivering the promised story.
- By Timothy McCarthy on 09-15-18
By: Sarah Weinman
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The Eternal Nazi
- From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim
- By: Nicholas Kulish, Souad Mekhennet
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4 out of 5 stars 41
Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a devastating mark. According to the testimony of survivors, Heim euthanized patients with injections of gasoline into their hearts. He performed surgeries on otherwise healthy people. Some recalled prisoners' skulls set out on his desk to display perfect sets of teeth. Yet in the chaos of the postwar period, Heim was able to slip away from his dark past and establish himself as a reputable doctor and family man in the resort town of Baden-Baden.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not certain about this one...
- By Nancy on 11-24-22
By: Nicholas Kulish, and others
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Missing Man
- The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran
- By: Barry Meier
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Important story
- By Richard F. Callahan on 08-03-16
By: Barry Meier
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People Who Eat Darkness
- The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
- By: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,985
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,664
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,671
Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, and Lucie’s desperate but bitterly divided parents. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult or snatched by human traffickers? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? And what did her work as a hostess in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo really involve?
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is the audiobook against I rate all others.
- By El_Ron on 03-08-13
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In Plain Sight
- The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation
- By: Tom Smart, Lee Benson
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager who was kidnapped from her bed reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. Paced like a thriller, this true account moves between the parallel stories of the searchers and the abductor. Going beyond a mere eyewitness account, the book includes information culled from interviews with more than 150 people involved in the search and investigation, notes from family meetings, and memos from law enforcement officials.
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2 out of 5 stars
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You are one strange man.
- By Dustin Izsa on 03-21-20
By: Tom Smart, and others
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Class Action
- The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
- By: Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler
- Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
When the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn't think twice about accepting the grueling but well-paid job. What she hadn't considered was that she was entering a male-dominated society that fiercely resisted the inclusion of women, a prejudice born out in the brutal harassment of every female miner.
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4 out of 5 stars
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infuriating
- By Ron on 05-20-06
By: Clara Bingham, and others
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Going Clear
- Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Morton Sellers
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,618
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,050
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,023
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shockingly Great
- By Michael on 01-27-13
By: Lawrence Wright
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The Bettencourt Affair
- The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
- By: Tom Sancton
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 362
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Story4 out of 5 stars 327
Heiress to the nearly 40-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the 14th wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At 94, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city - and involving the most glamorous industry - in the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Juicy Chronicle
- By Jean on 10-24-17
By: Tom Sancton
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Laci
- Inside the Laci Peterson Murder
- By: Michael Fleeman
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4 out of 5 stars 111
Praying for a happy ending, friends and family stood by Laci's grieving husband Scott. Four months later, Laci's decomposed body was found in the murky waters of San Francisco Bay. The body of her child had washed ashore about a mile away, after a possible "coffin birth." It was a sad closure to an exhaustive search, and a grim end to a marriage that by all accounts had appeared to be perfect.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By deborah on 01-21-18
By: Michael Fleeman
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Almost Paradise
- The East Hampton Murder of Ted Ammon
- By: Kieran Crowley
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
On October 22, 2001, handsome multimillionaire financier Ted Ammon was found bludgeoned to death in the magnificent East Hampton mansion he'd built with his beautiful - and volatile - wife, Generosa. She stood to make millions, but it wasn't the money that made Ted's friends suspicious: Generosa Ammon had a history of violent outbursts and bizarre obsessions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! This was a fascinating story!
- By Lolly on 01-04-18
By: Kieran Crowley
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 246
In the summer of 2003, the Houston suburb of Clear Lake, Texas, was devastated when four young residents were viciously slain. The two female victims, Tiffany Rowell and Rachael Koloroutis, were just 18 years old - popular and beloved. But when a killer came knocking, it turned out to be someone they knew all too well. Seventeen-year-old Christine Paolilla was an awkward outsider until the girls befriended her. In this gripping true story, M. William Phelps delves into the heart of a baffling mystery to get to the truth of an act so brutal it could not be understood - until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb Coverage of Why 4 Youths were Heartlessly Murdered
- By Mary Burnight on 01-15-18
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The Shadow of Death
- The Hunt for the Connecticut River Valley Killer
- By: Philip E. Ginsburg
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
In the mid-1980s, someone stabbed six women to death in the Connecticut River Valley on the border between New Hampshire and Vermont. The murderer remains at large and the total number of his victims is unknown. In this brilliant work of true crime reportage, New York Times-bestselling author Philip E. Ginsburg provides fascinating insights into the groundbreaking forensic methods used to track the killer and paints indelible portraits of the lives he cut so tragically short.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ending..
- By BillnTay on 09-13-23
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The Doomsday Mother
- Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
- By: John Glatt
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 171
At first, the residents of Kauai Beach Resort took little notice of their new neighbors. The glamorous blonde and her tall husband fit the image of the ritzy gated community. The couple seemed to keep to themselves - until the police knocked on their door with a search warrant. Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had fled to Hawaii in the midst of being investigated for the disappearance of Lori's children back in Idaho - Tylee and JJ - who hadn't been seen alive in five months.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Miserable narration
- By Lildixie on 02-01-22
By: John Glatt
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Killing Women
- The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller’s Reign of Terror
- By: Rod Sadler
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 362
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Story4 out of 5 stars 322
Don Miller was quiet and reserved. As a former youth pastor, he seemed a devout Christian. No one would have ever suspected that the recent graduate of the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice was a serial killer. However, when Miller was arrested for the attempted murder of two teenagers in 1978, police quickly realized he was probably responsible for the disappearances of four women. Offered a still-controversial plea bargain, he led police to the bodies of the missing women. Now, after 40 years in prison, Miller has served his time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh.
- By Paula on 05-09-21
By: Rod Sadler
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Careless Whispers
- The Award-Winning True Account of the Horrific Lake Waco Murders
- By: Carlton Stowers
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 426
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 392
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 389
When the bodies of three teenagers were found on the shores of Lake Waco, Texas, in July 1982, even seasoned lawmen were taken aback by the savage mutilation and degradation to which they had been subjected. Yet only 52 days after the gruesome triple-murder was discovered, frustrated authorities suspended the case indefinitely. Patrol Sergeant Truman Simons, who had been called to the scene that night, saw the carnage firsthand - and vowed to find the ferocious killer or killers. He soon became a man with a mission, risking his career and his family's safety in search of evidence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Seriously? The narrator is not that bad!
- By Chercoo on 05-05-19
By: Carlton Stowers
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Without a Trace
- The Disappearance of Amy Billig -- A Mother's Search for Justice
- By: Greg Aunapu, Susan Billig
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
"This book will blow you away!" - Edna Buchanan, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter & bestselling mystery author. As featured on ABC's 20/20,Dateline NBC, Unsolved Mysteries, Time Magazine, People Magazine, The New York Times and many others: the riveting inside story of a mother's fearless search for her missing daughter, Without a Trace -- A Mother's Search for Justice went through four sold out printings and spent 12 weeks as the #2 True-Crime book on Amazon! On March 5, 1974 -- the same day that rival motorcycle clubs roared through suburban Miami in celebration of their annual "Bike Week"...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible use of computer generated voice. Sounds very unnatural and hard to listen to.
- By Rich on 11-07-24
By: Greg Aunapu, and others
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The Perfect Father
- The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
- By: John Glatt
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 637
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 569
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 570
In the early morning hours of August 13, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at her Frederick, Colorado, home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been reported missing, and her husband, Chris Watts, was appearing on the local news, pleading for his family's safe return. But Chris Watts already knew that he would never see his family again. Less than 24 hours after his desperate plea, Watts made a shocking confession to police.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By jill greeson on 07-23-20
By: John Glatt
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Don't Tell a Soul
- By: M. William Phelps
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 294
Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor's little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn't lie if her life depended on it - and it did. Cherry's body was found on the side of a Texas road, after being doused with lighter fluid and set aflame. Attractive, manipulative, and violent, mother of four Kim Cargill had a wealth of dirty secrets she'd do anything to keep hidden.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Some narration issues
- By Karen on 03-10-17
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- C. Duggan
- 08-07-24
Always Love Glatt - Always a Horrible Narrator
Glatt has a trusted, golden approach to executing raw, macabre facts into a wonderfully woven story. I will never understand why he mars and diminishes his beautiful talent by using the same disinterested, emotionless ogre as his narrator.
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- Sunshine
- 07-03-24
true story, it really tells the story
love the narrator. he is very good. I've listen to other books that he has narrated and always enjoyed.
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- William L. Graul III
- 10-10-23
Did not like
This was insufferable, and I don’t know if I’ve ever used that description to equate to such a waste of time. Is there a way to return the book for a credit? If there is, I have a couple of others that stunk too.
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- joshua k margwarth
- 06-25-24
Not my favorite by Glatt
I wasn’t fond of the organization of this story, but have loved many other stories by this author. Narration was quite flat.
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- Laurie Brotheron
- 07-24-24
I do not recommend at all
The biggest thing about this audio book that I really disliked is it takes place in the United States. The narrator is I believe from Australia. His voice does not match the characters in the book at all. In fact all of the characters were born and raised in places like Kansas and Chicago. I got about half way through the story and just couldn't listen to it anymore. I definitely do not recommend. what a waste of credits.
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