True Crime

Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar', Vol. 1

Read by Roy Schreiber


William Jackson


Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons ac…

The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

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George Macgregor


From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

Kriminalistisches Reisebuch

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Egon Erwin Kisch


"Kriminalistisches Reisebuch" ist der erste Teil der Reihe "Berichte aus der Wirklichkeit" im Verlag "Die Schmiede&…

Haarmann. Die Geschichte eines Werwolfs

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Theodor Lessing


"Warte, warte nur ein Weilchen, bald kommt Haarmann auch zu Dir. Mit dem kleinen Hackebeilchen macht er Schabefleisch aus Dir." So…

Holmes' Own Story

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Herman W. Mudgett


An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …

Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life

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Lyman Abbott, Thomas Byrnes, Helen S. Campbell and Thomas Wallace Knox


A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, ske…

Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade on the Congo

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Edmund Dene Morel


Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the a…

Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger

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Walter Bates


Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …

Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies: An Authentic R…

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John B. Lewis


A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. The present . …

The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes

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George Barton


Excerpt: "Raw truth often possesses greater human interest than the most polished fiction. Crime, in itself, is painful and sometimes r…

Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest

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Walter Noble Burns


First published in 1927, "Tombstone" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Nob…

A General History of the Pyrates (version 2)

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Captain Charles Johnson


A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…

The Story of the Outlaw

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Emerson Hough


With historical narratives of famous outlaws; the stories of noted border wars; vigilante movements and armed conflicts on the frontier.

You Can't Win

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Jack Black


'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…

Joaquin, the Claude Duval of California; or, The Marauder of the Mines: a Roman…

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Henry L. Williams


Joaquin Murrieta was a famous Californio bandit, known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado".Joaquin Murrieta was the son of worthy par…

On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime

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Hugo Münsterberg


Eight sketches by one of the pioneers of applied psychology, which highlight the mind of the witness on the witness stand, and how one can b…

Chicago May: Her Story

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May Churchill Sharpe


This is a cold-blooded recital of fact, a plain, unvarnished statement from a client to a lawyer. It is the history of the life of a notorio…

The Beggars of Paris

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Louis Paulian


Here, as in France, begging is made a profession. And it is very important that the public should realize the fact, that ' thoughtless almsg…

Tragedy in Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Francis Russell


The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was one of the most divisive events of 1920's America. As Russell writes, " If one was middle class and Re…

The Powers That Prey

Read by Chris Pyle


Josiah Flynt


True stories of criminals (the powers that prey) and the system (the powers that rule) by journalists who went among the criminal classes to…

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