United States of True Crime: California

The Most Chilling Cases in All 50 States

By: Ashley Hudson

Narrated by: Ashley Hudson

Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This audiobook focuses on 20 of the most chilling crimes in California history.

True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but I’ve made sure to include lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes.

Cases included in this book:

• Joseph James DeAngelo: serial killer who only got caught through DNA evidence almost four decades after his first murder.
• Lonnie David Franklin, Jr: serial killer on the LA Southside who inexplicably took a two decade hiatus from his crimes.
• Samuel Little: most prolific serial killer in the United States. The FBI believes he’s responsible for 93 murders.
• Gerald and Charlene Gallego: killer husband and wife duo who abducted young girls to use as sex slaves.
• Kidnapping of Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn: a young couple was kidnapped and then accused by law enforcement of faking the horrific ordeal.
• The Unsolved Doodler Murders: serial murderer who targeted homosexual men in the 1970s.
• Zebra Killers: racially motivated murders of white citizens in San Francisco.
• Brenda Ann Spencer: the original school shooter.
• Juan Corona: convicted of the murders of 25 migrant workers.
• Mardiros Iskenderian: murdered his mother and sister in a dispute over the family fortune.
• Patrick Kearney: serial killer who murdered at least 21 boys and disposed of their bodies in trash bags across Southern California.
• The Chinese Massacre of 1871: dispute that resulted in the murder of 18 Chinese immigrants; believed to be the most lethal example of racial violence ever recorded in Los Angeles.
• Leonard Lake & Charles Ng: murderous partners who abducted couples, murdering the males and holding females in their dungeon.
• Gordon Stewart Northcott: serial murderer who targeted boys in the 1920s.
• Kevin James Woodward: tech CEO who allegedly killed his roommate’s girlfriend out of jealousy.
• Timothy Joseph McGhee: ruthless gang leader responsible for at least 12 murders.
• The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood: Hollywood starlet who drown while vacationing with her husband on his yacht under mysterious circumstances.
• The Murder of Tushar Atre: tech millionaire murdered by his employees.
• Omaima Nelson: woman who murdered her husband and admitted to eating his body.
• Rodney Halbower: another woman spent almost 30 years in jail for one of his grisly murders until the real murderer was finally convicted through DNA found at the scene.

If you’re a true crime enthusiast who enjoys learning about some of the most depraved monsters in our country, you will love United States of True Crime: California.

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True crime cases in California

The author goes through some well-known true crime cases in California on audio. If you have triggers please be aware. the author does emphasize that and I agree. This not for children, adults content.

Now that being said, each story is read with all the details possible about the case, while not being gory. It does give an accurate description of the events that occurred. Also what was the atmosphere at that time in the surrounding areas. How were people acting during the time of the crimes.

If you enjoy true crime cases, you will enjoy this.

I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Love how Ashley tells these stories

These stories are told respectfully towards the victims and with just the facts. I love how she doesn’t waste time speculating or with too much conjecture.

The author’s voice is perfect for this genre. She sounds like she should be on Dateline.

Each story isn’t too long, but it’s like a high level overview. Love that I hadn’t heard of the majority of these cases.

Great Read.

Loved it! There are many stories to make a few volumes of this series. The author narrator does well enough getting the summary of the story across succinctly and never takes a long time on any one case.

This series could be great…

The stories presented in this book are informative and a must for any true crime buff; however, the narrator reads in such a dry and clinical manner that it’s difficult to listen to and comes off like a college essay being read in front of a large group by a nervous student. No a fan of the narrator.

Lesser known cases read engagingly

Loved hearing about cases I wasn’t familiar with. Really interesting crimes in California.

The author did a great job narrating.

I’ve read multiple books in this series and can’t wait to read them all!

I received a free copy from the author to review.

Yet again…Great job!!!

Quickly made it to my top authors. I love the hard work Ashley puts into these books. The delivery is amazing too.

Leaves you wanting more

I love how these books touch the surface of each crime/criminal. They’re well done, just enough to pique your interest. Doesn’t get bogged down in armchair detective work and speculation. Sticks to the facts and is respectful of the victims

Sad, heart wrenching yet eye opening

Very interesting to hear about these murder cases from other states. Sad and heartbreaking, but also eye opening to see what kind of perverts and psychopaths are really living in our world.

Intriguing

This was intriguing, all of the different crimes. It was informative and mind blowing. The author tells the story amazingly, I enjoyed listening to it.

Interesting

This was an interesting collection of true crime stories that kept my attention from start to finish. Some of these crimes I knew of and some were new to me. I think the author did a good job writing and narrating. There were some areas that read a little dry.

I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.