Kidnapping History

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    • The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control, and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA
    • By: Brad Schreiber
    • Narrated by: Brad Schreiber
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Revolution's End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history....

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    • By: David I. Kertzer
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • A riveting story that has been ignored by modern historians, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will prompt intense interest and discussion as it lays bare attitudes of the Catholic Church....

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    • A Vic and Samantha Paranormal Mystery
    • By: Linda Wisely
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-25
    • Language: English
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    • Vic Chicowski's heart lies more in surfing than solving mysteries. Yet, despite his skepticism of the supernatural, the young PI keeps finding ...

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    • The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
    • By: Jeffrey Toobin
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,191 ratings
    • On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army....

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    • By: Gabriel García Márquez
    • Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Returning to his days as a reporter for El Espectador, Gabriel García Márquez chronicles, with consummate skill, the period in late 1990 when Colombian security forces mounted a nationwide manhunt for Pablo Escobar, the ruthless and elusive head of the Medellin cartel....

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    • The History of One of 20th Century America's Most Notorious Crimes
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Amelia Earhart once noted, "In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble"....

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    • Crime, Memory, and Violence
    • By: Alessandra Montalbano
    • Narrated by: Kelly Burke
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-24
    • Language: English
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    • Ransom Kidnapping in Italy traces how and at what price Italians became aware of living in a country that was being blackmailed by criminal organizations that arguably jeopardized the nation even more than terrorism.

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    • Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
    • By: Jonathan Daniel Wells
    • Narrated by: Devante Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting for freedom....

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    • The Incredible True Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History
    • By: Paul Fischer
    • Narrated by: Stephen Park
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer, read by Stephen Park....

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    • 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder, Deception, and Mayhem
    • By: Jason Neal
    • Narrated by: Simon de Deney
    • Series: True Crime Case Histories, Book 11
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • True crime is not for everyone. However, there is a small subset of us that, for some reason or another, finds themselves drawn to true crime stories. Perhaps it’s a desire for truth and justice, an obsession with understanding the criminal mind, or just curiosity about how the cases were solved....

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    • 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder, Deception, and Mayhem
    • By: Jason Neal
    • Narrated by: Simon de Deney
    • Series: True Crime Case Histories, Book 9
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • If you’re a fan of true crime, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the big-name cases: Ted Bundy, BTK, David Berkowitz, Christopher Watts, Diane Downs, Casey Anthony. The list of well-known, notorious cases throughout history is seemingly endless....

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    • The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America
    • By: David Stout
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Kidnap Years is a gritty, visceral, thoughtfully reported pause-resister that chronicles the sweep of abductions that afflicted all corners of the country as desperate people were pushed to do the unthinkable....

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    • The True Story of Kidnapping, Captivity, and a Dramatic Rescue (NelsonFree)
    • By: Roy Hallums
    • Narrated by: Milton Bagby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
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    • Contractor Roy Hallums recounts the harrowing 10 months he was held captive by Iraqi insurgents, the heroic rescue by American troops, and the faith that helped him survive it all....

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    • The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire
    • By: Tom Sancton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean “Wado” Empain, intertwined with the story of his famous grandfather, the first baron and builder of the Paris Métro....

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    • By: Chanel Smith
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • After a devastating injury, Petra is rescued by a woman and her family deep in the bayous of Southern Louisiana...not far from her home. If only ...

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    • By: Carolyn Cox
    • Narrated by: Jacob Pinter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Although the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby was a worldwide sensation, it was only one of an estimated 3,000 ransom kidnappings that occurred in the United States that year. The epidemic hit America during the Great Depression and the last days of Prohibition....

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    • By: Ayla Jones
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Dragons, vampires, and traitors lurk in the shadows. Brianna's next move will determine the fate of her friends and the dragons! When a traitor ...

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    • Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case (Horses in History)
    • By: Milton C. Toby
    • Narrated by: Robert Ferraro
    • Series: Horses in History, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • It was a cold and foggy February night in 1983 when a group of armed thieves crept onto Ballymany Stud, near The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland, to steal Shergar, one of the thoroughbred industry's most renowned stallions....

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    • My Journey into the Labyrinth of Political Kidnapping
    • By: Jere Van Dyk
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Trade, Jere Van Dyk uses the sinuous path of his own 2008 kidnapping to explain the recent rise in the taking of Western hostages across the greater Middle East....

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