Dead and Buried

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Two young, attractive women. Both savagely attacked, brutalized, raped, and murdered.

Rachel Newhouse disappeared on the night of November 12, 1998, in San Luis Obispo, California. Only months later, in the same town, Aundria Crawford lost her life in an act of unimaginable violence.

As authorities worked to find clues to the killer's identity, parole officer David Zaragoza paid a routine visit to one of his charges - Rex Allan Krebs, a violent serial rapist who'd served only 10 years of a 20-year sentence. After sending Krebs back to jail for violating his parole, Zaragoza found a key chain belonging to one of the victims.

An intensive search led to the gruesome discovery of buried remains near Krebs' secluded cabin. In his confession, Krebs asked, "If I am not a monster, then what am I?" A jury responded by sentencing him to death by lethal injection.

©2003 Corey Mitchell (P)2018 Tantor

Interesting story

It was an interesting story, but hard to follow along. Honestly, I wasn’t sure if it was about more than one killer or not at one point. The end of the book became so bogged down with the trial, I skipped the 3 chapters and went to the last chapter. It is heartbreaking to hear what the girls went through. Also heartbreaking what Rex Krebs endured as a child. He still made choices that were devastating for the victims family, his family, and friends.

Unreal Story

I listened to this book twice because I was struggling with my feelings and toward the last few chapters of my last listen...It hit me..there's not 2 victims in this story...there's THREE!!! Its one of the saddest situations I've ever read thru. I researched my feelings and spoke with Mr. Krebs...after doing so, my feelings didn't change. He never had a life.. from the moment he was born til present.. there's always been someone controlling and running his life,and sadly it was always a horrible outside source. If California kills Mr. Krebs...it will be yet another murder in the state and it will change nothing. it serves no meaning to this end and he will just die as he was forced to live...under another's control!!!!!

Story pretty gruesome

Story was factually gruesome and hard to listen to some of the things this being did to his victims. The story-teller was pretty bad as he sounded like he was raspy and sometimes hard to understand because of it. Had to fast forward through another book of too-long back and forth with the trial rhetoric.

Interesting

The first thing I would suggest is to have your listing speed at 1.5. That’s the only way to get through the narration.

Yes, it was graphic but it’s a true crime book so it’s going to be a little graphic. I suggest, if these things bother you that you shouldn’t read true crime books about serial rapists, and murderers.

It’s very detailed and is more about how this person became what he was. Although the victims were discussed it was not in great detail.

Best narration ever, good story too

As a fan of true crime, this one checks all the boxes. It really gets in to the mind of the killer and his methods and motivations. It’s not really a whodunnit, but rather it walks you through the crime, the investigation and the trial. Because the narration was so good, I finished it. But as others have said, it’s very thorough and detailed. I wish I hadn’t heard quite so much about the crimes themselves though. If you had been a victim of a rape, I would NEVER listen to this.

Well Written!

This author has become my favorite! Very detailed and engages the reader. A very gruesome story, but I like the way the writer explores the depth of the killer as well as the young women and ultimately shows all were victims of some kind. I definitely recommend!

A three hour book told in ten hours

I love that Audible has a plus catalog, and I have listened to some fantastic books. This is not one of them. It reminds me of a high school student just adding stuff to reach a certain word number. Including chapter upon chapter of court transcript and police interrogation is lazy. Chapter upon chapter of the story of the killer's challenged childhood is same. I think I now know more about his family than I do my own. I also really resent when a book author feels s/he can tell you what a homicide victim was thinking/feeling in the final moments before the criminal laid hands on him/her.

For anyone who’s been a victim

The book describes in detail the feelings and emotions that a rape survivor or a person with PTSD experience. I have suffered with PTSD and Sandra’s story put into words what I’ve never been able to express.

Informative

I want to be able to suggest this book, but I can't give it any higher than 4 stars. I chose 4 instead of 3 because I might be nitpicking a bit. *NO/minimal spoilers 1. The narrator has a nice voice though a bit hesitant in tenor. But he kind of sounds like he's reading out of a phone book. Bored to tears. A few voice lessons in assertive control would fix this in the future. However, he is not a chore to listen to. --If you require the author to be bright and upbeat or energetic to keep your attention then this is not the narrator for you. 2. The author of the book itself made a few 'interesting' choices in narrative. --First, the majority of the book is background on the killer. If you're looking for a book that teases you through 2/3 of the book with stories about the cops finding clues and eliminating suspects you will be sorely disappointed. The first 2 hours (app) is the story of 3 girls and the killer's uneventful capture. The rest..... is background on the killer and, oddly, his father. --The killer and his father have very very similar names. You have to keep their first names straight to follow the story and even then, with some prior knowledge of the case, I got so confused. The author constantly refers to both the father and the kill by their last names which, of course, are the same. It's rather annoying actually.

captivating

very good story. it's crafty the way it's written but it also keeps you focused.