The Truro Murders

By: Ryan Green

Narrated by: Steve White

Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

The Truro Murders presents the shocking true story of Christopher Worrell and his accomplice, James Miller. The events in this audiobook unveil one of the worst serial killing sprees in Australian history. Over the course of two months 1976-1977, seven young women were brutally raped and murdered.

Worrell and Miller met in prison and upon release developed a dominant and submissive relationship that centered around feeding Worrell's sadistic urges towards women. Miller would deny any involvement in the murders, claiming his love for Worrell was the basis for his cooperation and silence.

In the space of 12 months between 1978 and 1979, remains of two of the victims were found within one kilometer of one another. Police linked the two bodies with another five young females reported missing in the area. The police uncovered two more skeletons within the Truro region and now faced the difficult task of piecing together the evidence and finding the countries biggest serial killers.

The Truro Murders portrays the sex-fueled killing spree from the perspective of James Miller, the accomplice. Contained within this shocking true crime story are love, loss, manipulation, and extreme violence. If you are especially sensitive to accounts of suffering young females, it might be advisable not to listen to this audiobook. If, however, you seek to understand the darker side of human nature by coming face to face with it, then The Truro Murders is for you.

©2017 Ryan Green (P)2017 Ryan Green

Insight into the minds of madmen

At my request, I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

True Crime is my thing, so when I came across this title I couldn't wait to read it. I've always found it interesting; the mind of a killer. This book really delves deep in the details. I also really enjoyed the narrator. I'm picky when it comes to narration, but this was good. Very well done. You can really feel the emotion. As I listened, I could picture it all clearly, as if I were riding up front alongside James, watching it all go down in the backseat.
I think people, especially women, need to read more books like this to raise awareness of all the very real possibilities. People really are crazy, just read this book to clear up any doubts. I loved it and highly recommend it!

The crazy things we do for what we consider love.

It always amazes me the things we consider OK as long as we are excepted and feel like I needs arebeing met. In this book one man’s love for another man drives him to help his lover become a serial killer. There is an anything he won’t do for his lover and that includes serving his time. This is a great book Ryan Green really fun‘s great stories to tell and I enjoy them all. And of course Stephen White did a marvelous job I love him exclamation

Slow start, but interesting story

Knowing this was a true crime book made the story more interesting. If this was a work of fiction, I would have rated it lower because of the lack of action. It was slow to start, but I understand that it was important to really develop the main characters so that we could understand James' POV.
The narrator's voice reminded me of a southern preacher, which seemed an odd fit for an Australian crime book. But he did a good job with narration.

Fascinating Story

Fascinating to me that someone would get and stay involved with a person who did these horrible crimes!
I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audio book by the author, narrator, or publisher.

Gripping from beginning to end

I received this audiobook free at my request and am leaving this review voluntarily.

Let me start off by saying that I have read a lot of books and listened to a lot of audiobooks, and The Truro Murders by Ryan Green has one of the best openings of any book that I have ever read in any genre. I knew right then that if the rest of the book was anything like that opening, I wouldn’t be able to stop listening. Thankfully, it was.

I wasn’t familiar with this case, or Christopher Worrell and James Miller prior to listening, but Green’s book has certainly made me want to research it more. I think that The Truro Murders should definitely be a must read/listen for any true crime junkie.

Kudos also to Steve White for his wonderful narration of this book. My only complaint was that this ended too quickly!

The Truro Murders

I was given this free review copy audio book by the author at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

The Truro Murders is told from the perspective of Murderer’s accomplice. James thinks because he didn’t actually kill anyone, he isn’t guilty of anything. He blindly follows along with whatever Chris says. At first he is disgusted, but he quickly just goes along with all of the brutal rapes and killings of so many women. He loved Chris and wanted to be with him more that anything. The whole story was sad and disturbing. I did feel sympathy of James, but that doesn’t excuse his behavior.

Things We Do For Love . . .

Once again, a serial killers accomplice (who's point of view this is written from) seems to believe that because HE did not personally murder anyone, that HIS hands are clean. Yet despite his claims of innocence, James certainly did his fair share of enabling and helping the object of his desire, Chris. As if on a silent cue, he would walk away at the right moment, then return to help with the aftermath cleanup.

And thats okay to do if you really love someone, right? So James thinks.

James hopes that by doing this (time and time again!), Chris will *come around* and be his young lover. You ALMOST feel a drop of sympathy for him, as he willingly acts as a meek man-servant and driver for the bold and overly confident sadistic Chris...while he makes nightly trolls for women and deadly sex.

One murder after another, it seems as though they will NEVER get caught - until a sudden and VERY unexpected turn of events! I didnt see THAT coming at all!

I thought the narration was well suited to the story, and easy to listen to :)

I was provided this audiobook at no cost in exchange for an honest review.

Chilling True Story of an Unlikely Pair of Killers

I really like the way this author tells a true crime story, and this unique tale of a handsome, charming young Aussie rapist/killer and the older man who is so in love with him that he finds himself acting as his willing accomplice is no exception. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. With that said, this is my 5th True Crime book by Ryan Green, most of which I gladly bought on Audible. He's quickly risen to the top of my "Gotta Have" list.

The author tells the "what" part of the story very well, giving the reader just enough detail of the crimes to feel their ugly weight but not so much that the ugliness overpowers everything else. He de-emphasizes the goriest details and step-by-step crime-scene-log chronology in favor of painting a word picture of the "who" and "why." As a result, with each progressive chapter and page we learn more about the characters and personalities who are involved in --- and affected by --- these terrible crimes. In other words, the author is writing a book about complex, unusually motivated people instead of a compendium of dozens of awful crimes, and he does a good job of showing how committing these crimes affects both the criminals and the lives they touch. He does this in part by telling the story from the vantage point of the accomplice instead of the killer, and that unique twist in perspective made this even more interesting. The narration was perfectly suited to the material --- I was so immersed in the story he was telling that I literally forgot it was being read to me, and that's the greatest compliment I can give a narrator or an author.

Chilling

A great book about two serial killers that worked together in Australia in the 70's. I had never heard of this one so it was a new story for me, a self-confessed true crime fan.

This book basically tells the tale from one of the killers, the least proactive one, the submissive of the two. Based on that, you have to take some of the "facts" with a grain of salt. At the end of the day the only ones who know the whole truth are the two killers and the victims.

One point that I wanted to clarify from the book is that psychopaths don't know right from wrong. According to US cases (I know this whole thing happened in Australia so may be different), if you try to cover up your crime by burying the body and doing other things to evade detection, that proves you DO know right from wrong. In this case, they both tried hard to cover their crimes so they KNEW right from wrong. The thing about psychopaths is they try to get away with it and ultimately they don't care. They only care about themselves (selfishness) so they evade detection to preserve their own interests but they DO know their acts are legally and morally wrong.

The narration was appropriate for the subject matter even though many times his thick, US southern accent came out when quoting the Australian people in the book. Otherwise, he did a great job.

(I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.)

Excellent

I’m a big fan of Ryan green And his writing style
A great story of one mans infatuation with a brutal rapist serial killer
Steve’s narration is consistently professional
You can’t go wrong with any of Ryan’s books highly recommended
I received a free review audiobook and voluntarily left this review