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Rachel Newhouse disappeared on the night of November 12, 1998. Only months later, in the same town, Aundria Crawford lost her life in an act of unimaginable violence. As authorities worked to find clues, 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.
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- By txammug on 09-10-18
By: Corey Mitchell
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The Onion Field
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
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Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath.
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- By Avalon on 03-03-13
By: Joseph Wambaugh
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The Quiet Game
- By: Greg Iles
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
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When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret - and the small town's violent past.
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Complex and Good Courtroom Drama!
- By R. Pontiflet on 02-09-15
By: Greg Iles
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- By: Kieran Crowley
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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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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Wow! This was a fascinating story!
- By Lolly on 01-04-18
By: Kieran Crowley
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Wasted
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- By: Linda Wolfe
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
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On an August night in 1986, Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park. Linda Wolfe goes beyond the headlines and media hype to recreate a story of a teenager whose immigrant mother was determined to make a better life for her son, a petty thief and drug user who'd been expelled from the best schools. Wasted powerfully depicts the freewheeling 1980s society that spawned a generation steeped in violence and the fatal impulses that drove Robert Chambers to kill.
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A very thorough reporting for the time
- By Amazon Customer on 12-28-16
By: Linda Wolfe
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Wilde Lake
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- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Nicole Poole
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Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected - and first female - state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn't see many homicides.
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In a word saccharine and boring
- By Rena on 05-12-16
By: Laura Lippman
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Burned Alive
- A Shocking True Story of Betrayal, Kidnapping, and Murder
- By: Kieran Crowley
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
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Beautiful, bubbly, 20-year-old Kim Antonakos was returning to her New York City apartment after a night of clubbing with a friend. A business major with wild black hair, long polished fingernails, and a new Honda her loving father had bought her, Kim took good care of herself and looked forward to a bright future. But on her way home in the early morning darkness of that Ash Wednesday, Kim was abducted - and her mysterious kidnappers would be the last people to see her alive. Kim's father, wealthy computer executive Tommy Antonakos, launched a widespread search for his daughter.
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Well written..Great narrator...Sad, sad story
- By JBT3 on 02-01-19
By: Kieran Crowley
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The Other Side of the River
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- By: Alex Kotlowitz
- Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
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In The Other Side of the River, his eagerly awaited new book, Kotlowitz takes us to southern Michigan. Here, separated by the St. Joseph River, are two towns, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Geographically close, they are worlds apart, a living metaphor for America's racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and 95 percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and 92 percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns' populations surface as well.
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Thought Provoking Book
- By Patrick on 02-03-18
By: Alex Kotlowitz
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After the Eclipse
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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her ultimate mission to know the woman who gave her life.
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True crime memoir
- By Julie on 11-03-17
By: Sarah Perry
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- Mel
- 08-02-15
Impact Beyond the Crime: the girl that died twice
In some ways, I wish I wouldn't have read this book, like I *kind of* wish I wouldn't have read In Cold Blood, Helter Skelter, and other nightmare inducing true crime novels. While listening to TDN, I'd pass a mirror and see a face contorted in repulsion and agony looking back at me, wearing my headphones.
How author/journalist Franscell even delivers this story on a tolerable level is by hitting you with the facts at the beginning (like a sledge hammer to the head); while you are still slightly numbed and can take the atrociousness, he backs into the story. It's a little like a dentist numbing you up before he drills into your nerves. An adult, living in Texas, far removed from Casper, Franscell tells the story that has haunted him since the night he came home from H.S. football practice. His mother announced "Amy's dead." He had just waved to her that morning, pulling out of her drive-way next door. "What happened?" "A couple of guys picked them up from the store and took them out to some bridge and raped them and threw them off." The impact of the crime on the author still is evidenced by the passion with which he tells the story, poetically at times.
Two factors give this book a *readability* cushion, in my opinion, and that is no easy accomplishment when you are writing about any murders, especially children. Franscell was an adolescent living in Casper at the time of the murder; he went on to become a journalist. His familiarity with the town's social structures and geography are insightful. [Do you know the origin of the term "the wrong side of the tracks"?]
Secondly; the last portion of the book is a jaw-dropping look into the mind of a psychopath, at least this one. (I think in this case we can clearly pass on the DSM-5's politically correct Antisocial Personality Disorders [ASPD] and distinguish sociopathy from psychopathy without any confusion.) Franscell reads Kennedy's memoir (one of the murderers), which reads like a fantastical fairy tale where he is the omnipotent, yet always victimized, hero. The author refrains from giving his own perspective on the obvious, and allows research and facts to debunk the outrageous aggrandizements.
It is a sad ending, and a sad statement on the political/judicial system that handled this case. I still kind of wish I wouldn't have read this. There is some degree of gruesome fascination we have with human predators; society elevates some to almost celebrity status (Dexter, Hannibal, Aquarius). I think next I'll read author/PhD Scott Bonn's book "Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers" and find out why. I'm as fascinated as a moth is of a lit candle (and my smoke detector).
At your own risk--well written, well told, graphic violence and sex, and not a happy moment in 320 pgs., but how else are you going to tell a violent story. I found value here in reminding myself that these kind of monsters are real and walk amongst us.
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- Douglas
- 06-10-15
An Amazing Rendering Of A True Crime Story...
I was instantly stunned and delighted with the level of writing attained by Franscell in this book: half reporter, half poet, he brings every event of this tragic crime to life. It is like nothing I have ever encountered in a true crime book before, as it attains a literary quality rarely seen in the genre. I first encountered this story on 48 Hours Live To Tell and went looking for the book. What a delight that I did! Highly recommended!
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- I'm Chris Frey
- 06-13-15
Horrific Story
And some horrific writing as well. The author, in parts of the book, just drones on and on with big words and unnecessary explanations, adding personal paragraphs that have nothing to do with the book's main idea. I'm not sure I care to purchase any additional books from this author.
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- C S Sinc
- 12-13-19
Why?
The first two thirds of the book told a heart wrenching true story of rape and murder in the Wyoming town of Casper. It also covered the trial and punishment the two perpetrators received for the crime. And then about two thirds of the way through the author suddenly turns to an autobiography one of the criminals wrote while in prison.
The autobiography maligns the reputation of the sheriff of Natrona County, Mr. Louis Cooper, who served the county honorably from 1947 to 1966. But the murderer/rapist claimed as a 7th grader he assaulted the sheriff after the sheriff assaulted his sister and as a result the sheriff was forced to resign in the summer of 1960.
But the lies do not stop there. The convict also alleges that as a 7th grader he was seduced by an 18 year old nurse, wonder how she got her nursing certificate at such a young age, who worked in the Casper hospital. That seduction was followed by sex with 10 other nurses at the hospital around the same time. So any nurses working in the hospital at that time are now branded as pedophiles. In addition, he alleged he delivered cocaine to judges, prosecutors, police, prominent businessmen and politicians residing in Casper during the summer of 1960. Wonder how they may feel about that declaration.
Why would the author provide this liar, murderer, and rapist a forum for spewing his phantasmagoric and self serving writings. Maybe he figured the number of pages he filled for the first two thirds of the book would not warrant a label of novel. Whatever the reason he certainly aided and abetted the smearing of reputations of many individuals who resided in the city of Casper, WY. back in the late 1950's and early 1960's. And I am sorry I ever spent one minute listening beyond the 2/3 mark.
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- Jacklyn Ackmann
- 06-06-15
Great read/listen.
I love that the author didn't go into a lengthy family history of less prominent characters like most true crime authors tend to do. It was direct and focused. The story coming from someone living with the ghosts of this tragedy added a unique personal emotion to the story. I really enjoyed this!
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- Aurora Campbell
- 06-29-15
Heartbreakingly good
This book is heartbreaking but I couldn't stop listening to it. The ripple effect that one night can have is astounding.
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- Terry Lane
- 07-08-15
If you like true crime, you'll love this book
As a person who reads, studies, and writes true crime, this book will rest among the greats of our time. The author brilliantly and fairly tells the story of four individuals whose unfortunate paths cross one faithful night. I loved the narrative, the narration, the pace and the attention to detail. I highly recommend this book.
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- Patty Stull
- 02-12-17
Absolutely a good read!
If you could sum up The Darkest Night in three words, what would they be?
Keeps your attention and desire to continue reading.
What did you like best about this story?
Many things. The characters were described in such a way you feel a part of the book.
What about Rob Shapiro’s performance did you like?
Great reader!!!!!
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes.
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- inov8v
- 08-16-15
sad story...
enjoyed the book and narration...quite a sad story but told very well with solid narration...
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- Irene
- 07-20-15
True crime story with literary writing
An astonishing book that reads like a beautifully written novel. Pitch perfect narration. One of my favorite true crime audiobooks and I've listened to many.
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