-
Torture Mom
- A Chilling True Story of Confinement, Mutilation and Murder (True Crime)
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Buy for $14.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Publisher's summary
In July 1965, teenagers Sylvia and Jenny Likens were left in the temporary care of Gertrude Baniszewski, a middle-aged single mother, and her seven children.
The Baniszewski household was overrun with children. There were few rules and ample freedom. Sadly, the environment created a dangerous hierarchy of social Darwinism where the strong preyed on the weak.
What transpired in the following three months was both riveting and chilling.
In October 1965, the body of Sylvia Likens was found in the basement of the Baniszewski home, where she had been imprisoned. She was starved, beaten, burned, and had the words "I am a prostitute and proud of it" carved into her stomach.
Gertrude Baniszewski oversaw and facilitated the torture and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens. While she played an active role in Sylvia's death, the majority of the abuse was carried out by her children and other neighborhood youths.
The case shocked the entire nation and would later be described as "The single worst crime perpetuated against an individual in Indiana's history".
Caution: This audiobook contains descriptive accounts of abuse and violence. If you are especially sensitive to this material, it might be advisable not to listen any further.
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Broken
- The Most Shocking Childhood Story Ever Told. An Inspirational Author Who Survived It.
- By: Shy Keenan
- Narrated by: Judy Mason
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert from ‘thinks it’s love’ to ‘show it hurts’. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed, ignored and orphaned. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim—that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix—a work in progress. This is my story....
-
-
Unbelievable Story
- By Amazon Customer on 09-07-23
By: Shy Keenan
-
Twelve from Hell
- The Ultimate True Crime Case Collection
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Ernie Sprance, Steve White
- Length: 37 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This Ultimate True Crime Case Collection contains disturbing accounts of some of the most brutal and bizarre true crime stories in history. Often told from the killer’s perspective, Green’s riveting narratives draw the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a classic thriller. This collection includes the stories of Harold Shipman, Fred and Rose West, the Kurim case, the Mockingbird Hill massacre, the Truro Murders, Herb Baumeister, Katherine Knight, Henry Lee Lucas, and Nannie Doss.
-
-
HeLLa GooD Listening!
- By SisterSeven on 10-22-22
By: Ryan Green
-
Sins of Our Mothers: Skeletons in Our Closets
- By: Shana K. Dines
- Narrated by: Dani George
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
My mother was bipolar, mentally ill, a sociopath that not only got pregnant by my 15-year-old father but went on to abuse me in every way imaginable. This is my story. People have a hard time believing that women, especially mothers who are supposed to protect their children, can be molesters and pedophiles, but my mother was one. I am not only telling my story for my own recovery, exposing the sins of the mothers in our family, but to help others to see that if this happened to them, they are not alone, and they can recover and have healthy, reasonably happy lives.
-
-
Hard story to tell
- By NanaD on 04-10-22
By: Shana K. Dines
-
Dirty Little Dog
- A Horrifying True Story of Child Abuse, and the Little Girl Who Couldn't Tell a Soul (Skylark Child Abuse True Stories, Volume 1)
- By: Kate Skylark, Sophie Jenkins
- Narrated by: Jill Myers
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sophie Jenkins is living a happy life in the idyllic Dorset countryside when she meets Martin Brett, the man who will go on to abuse her and haunt her dreams for years to come. A momentary act of neglect leads to a horrible series of events that leaves her changed forever. Badly let down by the adults entrusted to care for her, Sophie’s life begins to spiral downward. However, Sophie’s message is ultimately one of hope and empowerment. She is in the process of rebuilding her life when fate leads her to encounter her childhood attacker once again.
-
-
Narrator choice ruined it for me.
- By P. Stein on 09-10-20
By: Kate Skylark, and others
-
A Family Secret
- My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell
- By: Maureen Wood
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant suffering. But Maureen’s world crumbled when her own mother started to abuse her too. A Family Secret is the harrowing true story of how one little girl survived sickening abuse by the people who should have loved her most and how an innocent baby finally saved her.
-
-
Bravery in Spades
- By Mama of Roses on 03-22-21
By: Maureen Wood
-
If You Tell
- A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined.
-
-
Horribly Depressing, Detailed Description of Abuse
- By Andrea on 12-20-19
By: Gregg Olsen
-
Broken
- The Most Shocking Childhood Story Ever Told. An Inspirational Author Who Survived It.
- By: Shy Keenan
- Narrated by: Judy Mason
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert from ‘thinks it’s love’ to ‘show it hurts’. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed, ignored and orphaned. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim—that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix—a work in progress. This is my story....
-
-
Unbelievable Story
- By Amazon Customer on 09-07-23
By: Shy Keenan
-
Twelve from Hell
- The Ultimate True Crime Case Collection
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Ernie Sprance, Steve White
- Length: 37 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This Ultimate True Crime Case Collection contains disturbing accounts of some of the most brutal and bizarre true crime stories in history. Often told from the killer’s perspective, Green’s riveting narratives draw the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a classic thriller. This collection includes the stories of Harold Shipman, Fred and Rose West, the Kurim case, the Mockingbird Hill massacre, the Truro Murders, Herb Baumeister, Katherine Knight, Henry Lee Lucas, and Nannie Doss.
-
-
HeLLa GooD Listening!
- By SisterSeven on 10-22-22
By: Ryan Green
-
Sins of Our Mothers: Skeletons in Our Closets
- By: Shana K. Dines
- Narrated by: Dani George
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
My mother was bipolar, mentally ill, a sociopath that not only got pregnant by my 15-year-old father but went on to abuse me in every way imaginable. This is my story. People have a hard time believing that women, especially mothers who are supposed to protect their children, can be molesters and pedophiles, but my mother was one. I am not only telling my story for my own recovery, exposing the sins of the mothers in our family, but to help others to see that if this happened to them, they are not alone, and they can recover and have healthy, reasonably happy lives.
-
-
Hard story to tell
- By NanaD on 04-10-22
By: Shana K. Dines
-
Dirty Little Dog
- A Horrifying True Story of Child Abuse, and the Little Girl Who Couldn't Tell a Soul (Skylark Child Abuse True Stories, Volume 1)
- By: Kate Skylark, Sophie Jenkins
- Narrated by: Jill Myers
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sophie Jenkins is living a happy life in the idyllic Dorset countryside when she meets Martin Brett, the man who will go on to abuse her and haunt her dreams for years to come. A momentary act of neglect leads to a horrible series of events that leaves her changed forever. Badly let down by the adults entrusted to care for her, Sophie’s life begins to spiral downward. However, Sophie’s message is ultimately one of hope and empowerment. She is in the process of rebuilding her life when fate leads her to encounter her childhood attacker once again.
-
-
Narrator choice ruined it for me.
- By P. Stein on 09-10-20
By: Kate Skylark, and others
-
A Family Secret
- My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell
- By: Maureen Wood
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant suffering. But Maureen’s world crumbled when her own mother started to abuse her too. A Family Secret is the harrowing true story of how one little girl survived sickening abuse by the people who should have loved her most and how an innocent baby finally saved her.
-
-
Bravery in Spades
- By Mama of Roses on 03-22-21
By: Maureen Wood
-
If You Tell
- A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined.
-
-
Horribly Depressing, Detailed Description of Abuse
- By Andrea on 12-20-19
By: Gregg Olsen
-
The Convent
- The Shocking True Story of Surviving and Evil Nun's Care Home from Hell
- By: Marie Hargreaves
- Narrated by: Dorothy Lawrence
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in 1959, her dad tells her she is going on holiday. But little does she know she will not see her home again for four long years. Her family cannot afford to keep her at home. Marie tells the story of how she was taken away from a poor but happy and loving home life to live in a convent - away from everyone and everything she holds dear. Her hair is bluntly chopped, her clothes are taken away and her name is changed. Then a horrific ritual of physical, sexual and mental abuse begins.
-
-
Stunning Book
- By madameEmily on 10-09-21
By: Marie Hargreaves
-
Man-Eater
- The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On February 29, 2000, John Price took out a restraining order against his girlfriend, Katherine Knight. Later that day, he told his coworkers she had stabbed him and that if he were ever to go missing, it was because Knight had killed him. The next day, Price didn’t show up for work. A coworker was sent to check on him. They found a bloody handprint by the front door, and they immediately contacted the police. The local police force was not prepared for the chilling scene they were about to encounter.
-
-
Very interesting
- By timj26 on 02-26-19
By: Ryan Green
-
Cupboard Boy: A Shockingly True Story of Horrific Child Abuse
- The PT Saunders Story, Book 1
- By: P.T. Saunders
- Narrated by: Paul Winter
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Under the cover of anonymity, Paul Saunders courageously tells his shockingly true story of how he and his stepsiblings were repeatedly abused by their mother and stepfather. It doesn’t make “easy” listening, but living through it wasn’t fun, either.
-
-
Torture By Human Hands
- By Ceci on 06-30-20
By: P.T. Saunders
-
You Think You Know Me
- The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the fall of 1994, Erich Baumeister (13), was playing in a wooded area of his family’s estate, when he stumbled across a partially buried human skeleton. He presented the disturbing finding to his mother, Julie, who inquired about the skull to her husband, Herb. He told her that the skeleton belonged to his late father, an anesthesiologist. Astonishingly, Julie believed him. In You Think You Know Me, best-selling author Ryan Green assumes the role of Herb Baumeister and attempts to fill in the blanks on one of Indiana’s most mysterious serial killers.
-
-
Erotic Asphyxiation Will Kill You
- By Spooky Mike on 05-24-18
By: Ryan Green
-
My Daddy the Pedophile
- A Memoir
- By: Lily Palazzi
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After years of suffering multiple forms of abuse, a vulnerable young girl flees her home only to land straight into the arms of her biological father - a sexual predator. My Daddy the Pedophile tells the harrowing true story of a teenage girl’s affair with her manipulative sociopathic father. After a terrible dark secret comes to light, the real story unfolds and her courageous journey of healing begins.
-
-
Tragic and healing
- By Terri on 10-22-21
By: Lily Palazzi
-
The Boy in the Cellar
- By: Stephen Smith
- Narrated by: Oliver J. Hembrough
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist. Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents - both devout Catholics - had felt so 'shamed' by their son's illegitimate birth that they hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for 13 years. Apart from a few admissions to hospital as a result of his 'imprisonment', Steve remained in the coal cellar of the family home where he was deprived of daylight, his childhood, school and human contact until he'd reached his teenage years.
-
-
At first I thought this was horror fiction
- By Ruth Malan on 04-11-20
By: Stephen Smith
-
The Truro Murders
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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.
-
-
Excellent
- By timj26 on 06-16-19
By: Ryan Green
-
Violated: A shocking and harrowing survival story from the notorious Rotherham abuse scandal
- By: Sarah Wilson
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that since the 1990s, up to 1,400 young girls in the town had been regularly abused by sex gangs, predominantly comprised of Pakistani men.
-
-
Horror Story and shocking to think this happened in modern day Britain.
- By Darkangel on 08-13-15
By: Sarah Wilson
-
Sinclair: The World's End Murders through the Eyes of a Killer
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On October 15 1977, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott left the World's End pub after a fun-filled night with two men in their arms. They had their whole lives ahead of them. They had nothing to fear and everything to look forward to. Their naked bodies were discovered the following day. They were found six miles apart from each other. No attempt had been made to conceal their bodies, and both girls had been beaten, gagged, tied, raped and strangled. The case attracted widespread media attention and despite the Police's best efforts, they were unable to identify a culprit.
-
-
Excellent
- By timj26 on 07-17-19
By: Ryan Green
-
Obeying Evil
- The Mockingbird Hill Massacre Through the Eyes of a Killer
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
> Obeying Evil presents the shocking true story of Ronald Gene Simmons and the most disturbing family killing spree in the United States. Over the course of a week in 1987, he murdered 14 members of his own family, a former co-worker, and a stranger.
-
-
Excellent
- By timj26 on 06-03-19
By: Ryan Green
-
My Prison Without Bars
- The Journey of a Damaged Woman to Someplace Normal
- By: Taylor Evan Fulks
- Narrated by: Em Eldridge
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
My Prison without Bars is a courageous and harrowing journey through the catacombs of hell, from the mind and voice of a little girl, living with her own monster underneath her bed. Written in first person, this novel is not a memoir, but more a psychological thriller based on true events; chronicling one woman's attempt to claw her way out of the darkness of Child Sexual Abuse, while struggling to find normal, in a not-so-normal world. It is poignant, dark and graphic; not for the faint of heart.
-
-
My life
- By PMOUSAABR on 03-08-16
-
Please, Let Me Go
- The Horrific True Story of a Girl's Life in the Hands of Sex Traffickers
- By: Caitlin Spencer
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on to new gangs over and over again. The majority of her abusers were Pakistani men, who were blatant in their attacks upon her, often collecting her from school or home, to be taken to flats they owned, family homes, or hotels booked for the day, to be horrifically and systematically abused.
-
-
So Brave!!!
- By Jela Vaught on 12-12-20
By: Caitlin Spencer
Related to this topic
-
Dark Screams
- Volume One
- By: Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Ramsey Campbell, and others
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Weeds by Stephen King: When a meteorite lands on his property, Jordy Verrill envisions an easy payday. Unfortunately for Jordy, this is no ordinary rock - and the uncompromising force inside has found its first target.
-
-
WISH IN ONE HAND, SPIT IN THE OTHER
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 03-14-16
By: Kelley Armstrong, and others
-
The Truro Murders
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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.
-
-
Excellent
- By timj26 on 06-16-19
By: Ryan Green
-
The Funhouse
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate - and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands.… Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children - Joey loves monster movies, and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer.
-
-
Early, not so good, Koontz
- By Michael on 02-15-15
By: Dean Koontz
-
Gypsy Boy
- By: Mikey Walsh
- Narrated by: Mikey Walsh
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mikey's family were Gypsies. They live in a closed community and little is known about their way of life. As he didn't go to school, the caravan became his world. But although Mikey inherited a vibrant culture, his family had a dark hidden history. Eventually Mikey was forced to make a decision – to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere to belong.
-
-
Beaten up
- By Bel on 06-10-21
By: Mikey Walsh
-
One Summer
- By: Karen Robards
- Narrated by: Kate Fleming
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
hnny Harris is home again, his too-tight jeans and damn-your-eyes belligerence honed to perfection by a ten-year stretch in federal prison for murder. Now he’s out on parole and ready for the job Rachel Grant has promised him to help him begin a new life. Unlike the rest of the town, Rachel has always believed in her former student’s innocence. But one thing has changed. The sullenly handsome boy she remembers is still sullen, still handsome - but no longer a boy.
-
-
A Classic Robards! A must buy
- By Empress Karen on 02-10-14
By: Karen Robards
-
One Amazing Thing
- By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Purva Bedi, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
-
-
An ok way to kill some time
- By R.Reader on 11-07-12
-
Dark Screams
- Volume One
- By: Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Ramsey Campbell, and others
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Weeds by Stephen King: When a meteorite lands on his property, Jordy Verrill envisions an easy payday. Unfortunately for Jordy, this is no ordinary rock - and the uncompromising force inside has found its first target.
-
-
WISH IN ONE HAND, SPIT IN THE OTHER
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 03-14-16
By: Kelley Armstrong, and others
-
The Truro Murders
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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.
-
-
Excellent
- By timj26 on 06-16-19
By: Ryan Green
-
The Funhouse
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate - and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands.… Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children - Joey loves monster movies, and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer.
-
-
Early, not so good, Koontz
- By Michael on 02-15-15
By: Dean Koontz
-
Gypsy Boy
- By: Mikey Walsh
- Narrated by: Mikey Walsh
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mikey's family were Gypsies. They live in a closed community and little is known about their way of life. As he didn't go to school, the caravan became his world. But although Mikey inherited a vibrant culture, his family had a dark hidden history. Eventually Mikey was forced to make a decision – to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere to belong.
-
-
Beaten up
- By Bel on 06-10-21
By: Mikey Walsh
-
One Summer
- By: Karen Robards
- Narrated by: Kate Fleming
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
hnny Harris is home again, his too-tight jeans and damn-your-eyes belligerence honed to perfection by a ten-year stretch in federal prison for murder. Now he’s out on parole and ready for the job Rachel Grant has promised him to help him begin a new life. Unlike the rest of the town, Rachel has always believed in her former student’s innocence. But one thing has changed. The sullenly handsome boy she remembers is still sullen, still handsome - but no longer a boy.
-
-
A Classic Robards! A must buy
- By Empress Karen on 02-10-14
By: Karen Robards
-
One Amazing Thing
- By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Purva Bedi, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
-
-
An ok way to kill some time
- By R.Reader on 11-07-12
-
The Other Sister
- By: Leanne Davis
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
General Travis Bains has two daughters, one who is good and one who is bad. Everyone knows Lindsey is the good one, and Jessie is the bad one. Jessie Bains is the other sister, the bad sister, which she has proven more often than not until the day she gets kidnapped and brutally raped. Will Hendricks, one of her father's soldiers, rescues her and brings her home but fears she may be nearly destroyed by what has been done to her. The most important thing, however, is that no one can know.
-
-
Jessie & Will
- By whatcha.listening.to on 04-29-19
By: Leanne Davis
-
The Ice Cream Girls
- By: Dorothy Koomson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Charlotte Parry, Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Best-selling author Dorothy Koomson's novels have been translated into 28 languages. In The Ice Cream Girls, 18-year-old Serena Gorringe and 16-year-old Poppy Carlisle were tried for the murder of their teacher - but only Poppy was convicted of the crime. Twenty years later, Poppy is released from prison - and she's determined to force Serena to admit her part in the killing.
-
-
Great Book - Hard Content
- By Sherry L. Wright on 06-01-14
By: Dorothy Koomson
-
The Space Between Us
- By: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrated by: Purva Bedi
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Best-selling author Thrity Umrigar won the Nieman Fellowship and earned a finalist spot for the PEN/Beyond Margins award with The Space Between Us. Set in modern-day India, this evocative novel follows upper-middle-class Parsi housewife Sera Dubash and 65-year-old illiterate household worker Bhima as they make their way through life. Though separated by their stations in life, the two women share bonds of womanhood that prove far stronger than the divisions of class or culture.
-
-
A Story that stays with you
- By gardener97 on 04-25-15
By: Thrity Umrigar
-
Goddess of Filth
- By: V. Castro
- Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One hot summer night, Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. Their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors. Over the next few weeks, Fernanda starts acting strangely—smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty. The local priest is convinced it's a demon, but Lourdes suspects it's something else—something far more ancient and powerful.
-
-
Great
- By Elise on 09-25-23
By: V. Castro
-
The Fifth Child
- By: Doris Lessing
- Narrated by: Sue Pitkin
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside - until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him.
-
-
60's, English Family Drama
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-26-17
By: Doris Lessing
-
Yasmeena's Choice
- A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival
- By: Jean Sasson
- Narrated by: Parisa Johnston
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Yasmeena's shocking journey is a tale of the madness of war, of the sexual brutality unleashed by chaos, and of one woman’s courage to stand in danger’s way to aid her fellow sufferers.
-
-
Not what I expected.
- By Kelleefornia on 03-13-15
By: Jean Sasson
-
Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
- By: Christopher Golden - editor, Joe R. Lansdale, Scott Smith, and others
- Narrated by: Charles Constant, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. The hideous children - Want and Ignorance - beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts. Best-selling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.
-
-
Some good, some clunkers. Some fun, none scary.
- By Max Trivial on 12-24-18
By: Christopher Golden - editor, and others
-
Honor
- By: Elif Shafak
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marno, Piter Marik
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London. Internationally best-selling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in.
-
-
Complex but Compelling
- By Cariola on 04-14-13
By: Elif Shafak
-
Let It Shine
- By: Alyssa Cole
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women don’t court trouble by upending the status quo, but it’s 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is in full swing. Sofie’s spent half her life being prim, proper, and reserved - as if that could bring her mother back - but the nonviolent protests happening across the South bring out her inner agitator. Ivan Friedman has devoted his life to boxing. His family escaped from Europe before the horrors of WWII, and Ivan decides to help fight injustice in their new country, even if it goes against all his instincts as a fighter.
-
-
History & romance
- By Babyckz on 03-31-19
By: Alyssa Cole
-
In My Skin
- A Memoir of Addiction
- By: Kate Holden
- Narrated by: Christy Lynn
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A shy, bookish college graduate from a solid middle-class home, Kate Holden was uncertain of her way in life. When she decided to try her first hit of heroin, she did not anticipate that the drug would take over. Desperation drove her first to offer her body on the streets and then in high-class brothels, where she discovered hidden strengths as well as parts of herself that frightened her. With the acceptance and unyielding love of a family that never abandoned her, Kate Holden ultimately defeated the drug and left her netherworld behind.
-
-
NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING...
- By Margaret on 10-02-13
By: Kate Holden
-
Hum If You Don't Know the Words
- By: Bianca Marais
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a 10-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred...until the Soweto Uprising.
-
-
Completely wrong accents
- By Debbie on 02-12-22
By: Bianca Marais
-
A Fraction of the Whole
- By: Steve Toltz
- Narrated by: Colin McPhillamy, Craig Baldwin
- Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Stewing in an Australian prison, Jasper Dean reflects on his relationship with his dead father and recounts the many zany adventures they shared together.
-
-
A Funny and Thought-provoking Tale of Human Nature
- By Asha Ember on 01-27-10
By: Steve Toltz
People who viewed this also viewed...
-
House of Evil
- The Indiana Torture Slaying
- By: John Dean
- Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid-1960s, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a 37-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come. When police found Sylvia's emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death.
-
-
Horrific
- By Karri on 05-29-18
By: John Dean
-
The Vampire of Sacramento: The True Story of Richard Chase The Blood-Thirsty Cannibal
- True Crime Explicit, Book 1
- By: Genoveva Ortiz, True Crime Seven
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Richard Trenton Chase started life without a hitch. Popular and well-liked, his future looked bright as the Cali sun...but those around knew nothing of the dark truths that he fostered. His parents’ marriage was rapidly falling apart, and soon he began to suffer from strange health problems. Rapidly declining, he decided there was only one solution….
-
-
Narrator
- By Ronnie B on 10-09-24
By: Genoveva Ortiz, and others
-
A Family Secret
- My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell
- By: Maureen Wood
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant suffering. But Maureen’s world crumbled when her own mother started to abuse her too. A Family Secret is the harrowing true story of how one little girl survived sickening abuse by the people who should have loved her most and how an innocent baby finally saved her.
-
-
Bravery in Spades
- By Mama of Roses on 03-22-21
By: Maureen Wood
-
Twelve from Hell
- The Ultimate True Crime Case Collection
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Ernie Sprance, Steve White
- Length: 37 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This Ultimate True Crime Case Collection contains disturbing accounts of some of the most brutal and bizarre true crime stories in history. Often told from the killer’s perspective, Green’s riveting narratives draw the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a classic thriller. This collection includes the stories of Harold Shipman, Fred and Rose West, the Kurim case, the Mockingbird Hill massacre, the Truro Murders, Herb Baumeister, Katherine Knight, Henry Lee Lucas, and Nannie Doss.
-
-
HeLLa GooD Listening!
- By SisterSeven on 10-22-22
By: Ryan Green
-
Sins of Our Mothers: Skeletons in Our Closets
- By: Shana K. Dines
- Narrated by: Dani George
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
My mother was bipolar, mentally ill, a sociopath that not only got pregnant by my 15-year-old father but went on to abuse me in every way imaginable. This is my story. People have a hard time believing that women, especially mothers who are supposed to protect their children, can be molesters and pedophiles, but my mother was one. I am not only telling my story for my own recovery, exposing the sins of the mothers in our family, but to help others to see that if this happened to them, they are not alone, and they can recover and have healthy, reasonably happy lives.
-
-
Hard story to tell
- By NanaD on 04-10-22
By: Shana K. Dines
-
Girl Hidden: A Memoir
- By: Jesse Rene Gibbs
- Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Echoing among the Blue Ridge Mountains were the cries of newborn babies that disappeared into the night. The screams of children nearly drowned out by the sound of crickets. A girl, hidden and waiting to be found, terrified, and confused. The fireflies sparkling in the woods, bringing light to darkled places.
-
-
Beautiful Story
- By JMAR001 on 04-13-22
By: Jesse Rene Gibbs
-
House of Evil
- The Indiana Torture Slaying
- By: John Dean
- Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid-1960s, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a 37-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come. When police found Sylvia's emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death.
-
-
Horrific
- By Karri on 05-29-18
By: John Dean
-
The Vampire of Sacramento: The True Story of Richard Chase The Blood-Thirsty Cannibal
- True Crime Explicit, Book 1
- By: Genoveva Ortiz, True Crime Seven
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Richard Trenton Chase started life without a hitch. Popular and well-liked, his future looked bright as the Cali sun...but those around knew nothing of the dark truths that he fostered. His parents’ marriage was rapidly falling apart, and soon he began to suffer from strange health problems. Rapidly declining, he decided there was only one solution….
-
-
Narrator
- By Ronnie B on 10-09-24
By: Genoveva Ortiz, and others
-
A Family Secret
- My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell
- By: Maureen Wood
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant suffering. But Maureen’s world crumbled when her own mother started to abuse her too. A Family Secret is the harrowing true story of how one little girl survived sickening abuse by the people who should have loved her most and how an innocent baby finally saved her.
-
-
Bravery in Spades
- By Mama of Roses on 03-22-21
By: Maureen Wood
-
Twelve from Hell
- The Ultimate True Crime Case Collection
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Ernie Sprance, Steve White
- Length: 37 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This Ultimate True Crime Case Collection contains disturbing accounts of some of the most brutal and bizarre true crime stories in history. Often told from the killer’s perspective, Green’s riveting narratives draw the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a classic thriller. This collection includes the stories of Harold Shipman, Fred and Rose West, the Kurim case, the Mockingbird Hill massacre, the Truro Murders, Herb Baumeister, Katherine Knight, Henry Lee Lucas, and Nannie Doss.
-
-
HeLLa GooD Listening!
- By SisterSeven on 10-22-22
By: Ryan Green
-
Sins of Our Mothers: Skeletons in Our Closets
- By: Shana K. Dines
- Narrated by: Dani George
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
My mother was bipolar, mentally ill, a sociopath that not only got pregnant by my 15-year-old father but went on to abuse me in every way imaginable. This is my story. People have a hard time believing that women, especially mothers who are supposed to protect their children, can be molesters and pedophiles, but my mother was one. I am not only telling my story for my own recovery, exposing the sins of the mothers in our family, but to help others to see that if this happened to them, they are not alone, and they can recover and have healthy, reasonably happy lives.
-
-
Hard story to tell
- By NanaD on 04-10-22
By: Shana K. Dines
-
Girl Hidden: A Memoir
- By: Jesse Rene Gibbs
- Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Echoing among the Blue Ridge Mountains were the cries of newborn babies that disappeared into the night. The screams of children nearly drowned out by the sound of crickets. A girl, hidden and waiting to be found, terrified, and confused. The fireflies sparkling in the woods, bringing light to darkled places.
-
-
Beautiful Story
- By JMAR001 on 04-13-22
By: Jesse Rene Gibbs
-
Kill 'Em All
- A True Story of Abuse, Revenge and the Making of a Monster (True Crime)
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 1902, at the age of 11, Carl Panzram broke into a neighbour’s home and stole some apples, a pie, and a revolver...During his two-year detention, Carl was repeatedly beaten, humiliated, and raped by the school staff...Kill 'Em All is a chilling and gripping account of one of the most brutal and gruesome true crime stories in American history. Ryan Green’s riveting narrative draws the listener into the real-live horror experienced by the victims and has all the elements of a classic thriller.
-
-
A chilling predator
- By R. MCRACKAN on 08-06-19
By: Ryan Green
-
Spilled Milk
- Based on a True Story
- By: K.L. Randis
- Narrated by: K.L. Randis
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit of safety and justice, Brooke battles a broken court system that pushes to keep her father in the home.
-
-
thank you for telling a lot of my story
- By Kae Larsen on 10-29-24
By: K.L. Randis
-
The Boy in the Cellar
- By: Stephen Smith
- Narrated by: Oliver J. Hembrough
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist. Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents - both devout Catholics - had felt so 'shamed' by their son's illegitimate birth that they hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for 13 years. Apart from a few admissions to hospital as a result of his 'imprisonment', Steve remained in the coal cellar of the family home where he was deprived of daylight, his childhood, school and human contact until he'd reached his teenage years.
-
-
At first I thought this was horror fiction
- By Ruth Malan on 04-11-20
By: Stephen Smith
-
Starvation Heights
- Dangerous Women: True Crime Stories
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 1911 two British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, read a brochure about a revolutionary fasting treatment that promised a lifetime of good health. The sanatorium in the village of Olalla, west of Seattle, was surrounded by a beautiful forest, sparkling waters and fresh air. The sisters agreed it sounded perfect and exactly the restorative holiday they needed. But within a month of arriving, under the supervision of Doctor Linda Burfield Hazzard, Claire and Dora began to realise the frightening truth – they were not patients but prisoners at the isolated sanitorium.
-
-
Excellent true crime story!
- By Colleen T. Mizeres on 01-26-23
By: Gregg Olsen
-
The Monster Within
- A True Story of Bloodthirst, Brutality and Barbaric Evil (True Crime)
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Prostitutes and animals could no longer satisfy Peter Kürten’s sexual deviancy. During a burglary of a local tavern, he stumbled upon a nine-year-old girl asleep in her bed. He strangled her, slashed her throat with a pocket knife, and orgasmed upon hearing her blood drip to the floor. His crimes were halted by World War I and an eight-year prison sentence but he unleashed his urges with a spate of brutal murders in 1929 earning him the nickname "The Düsseldorf Monster."
-
-
The Monster Within - A sadist/Muder Story
- By Eirik Salas on 04-01-24
By: Ryan Green
-
Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass. At the Social Services office, Cathy (an experienced foster carer) is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months. Despite her reservations, Cathy decides to take on Jodie to protect her from being placed in an institution.
-
-
Fabulously written but not for the faint of heart
- By Alaina Johnson on 05-15-18
By: Cathy Glass
-
Mother's Day
- By: Dennis McDougal
- Narrated by: Tara Ochs
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In June of I985, while her teenage sons held their half sister down, Theresa Cross beat her I9-year-old daughter, Sheila, unconscious and then stuffed her into a 2' x 2' storage locker. After three days, the knocking, kicking, and cries stopped. Theresa and her sons dumped the girl's body in the desolate High Sierras....
-
-
Shocking true story
- By Very upset customer! on 07-10-15
By: Dennis McDougal
-
Dirty Little Dog
- A Horrifying True Story of Child Abuse, and the Little Girl Who Couldn't Tell a Soul (Skylark Child Abuse True Stories, Volume 1)
- By: Kate Skylark, Sophie Jenkins
- Narrated by: Jill Myers
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sophie Jenkins is living a happy life in the idyllic Dorset countryside when she meets Martin Brett, the man who will go on to abuse her and haunt her dreams for years to come. A momentary act of neglect leads to a horrible series of events that leaves her changed forever. Badly let down by the adults entrusted to care for her, Sophie’s life begins to spiral downward. However, Sophie’s message is ultimately one of hope and empowerment. She is in the process of rebuilding her life when fate leads her to encounter her childhood attacker once again.
-
-
Narrator choice ruined it for me.
- By P. Stein on 09-10-20
By: Kate Skylark, and others
-
The Darkest Night
- Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
- By: Ron Franscell
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Casper, Wyoming: 1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her 18-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky's car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. Yet they were anything but good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable crimes at the hands of these men before being thrown from a bridge into the North Platte River. One miraculously survived; the other did not.
-
-
Impact Beyond the Crime: the girl that died twice
- By Mel on 08-02-15
By: Ron Franscell
-
The Baby Farm Murders
- The Terrifying Case of the Angel-Maker, Amelia Dyer
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Baby Farm Murders is a chilling account of Amelia Dyer, who was responsible for the deaths of up to 400 children, making her one of the most prolific serial killers in True Crime history. Ryan Green provides a suspenseful narrative that draws the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a captivating thriller.
-
-
Don't waste your money
- By D on 04-19-24
By: Ryan Green
-
Call Me Tuesday
- Based on a True Story
- By: Leigh Byrne
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
At eight years old, Tuesday Storm's childhood is forever lost when the death of her older sister Audrey sends her family spiraling out of control into the darkest of dysfunction. In the wake of the tragedy, Tuesday's mother, distraught and looking for a scapegoat, singles Tuesday out from her siblings to take on the blame for Audrey's death, and then targets her for unspeakable abuse.
-
-
loved it, so glad she shared her story.
- By Olivia Telles on 05-01-16
By: Leigh Byrne
-
Cruel Deception
- The True Story of Multiple Murder and Two Devastated Families (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be sudden infant death syndrome. Morgan's Texas-born mother, Tanya, a nurse and devoted wife, pulled up stakes with her grieving husband, Jim, and moved on. It was the best way to put the past behind them. Until their son, Michael, a boy who by all accounts was terrified of his mother, began showing signs of the same affliction that stole the life of his baby sister....
-
-
Deadly Mystery
- By Judy on 06-07-22
By: Gregg Olsen
What listeners say about Torture Mom
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- jstep
- 08-13-18
Simply unbelievable how beyond cruel people can be
Torture Mom by Ryan Green left me pretty speechless. The fact that it's a true story is just...wow. I know the book has a warning that if you're sensitive to descriptive account of abuse and violence then you may not want to listen to this story is a well placed warning. I love true crime, horror, suspense, etc. and this was just over the top. Gertrude Baniszewski is pure evil, plain and simple. What she did, and allowed and encouraged others to do to poor Sylvia and Jenny Likens is just reprehensible beyond anything I can even describe. While listening, I was thinking of the psychological affect that she had on her children and the other kids that she allowed and encouraged to torture Sylvia and I'm just speechless. It's difficult to listen to, but if you want a true crime story that will really get under your skin, this is the book you want to listen to.
Steve White did a good job narrating this audiobook. I simply don't have a complaint. Did his narration blow me away? No, but this wasn't a book where the narration allowed the reader to really show off narration skills. He did a good job and I had no problem following along and enjoying the listen, as well as one can "enjoy" this type of story. I'd listen to narrations of his in the future. I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher for an honest review.
Did you find this review helpful? If so, would you please take a moment and select the 'helpful' button below? Thanks so much!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
6 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Lynn
- 02-25-19
Narration was off-should have been female.
The story itself was sad and horrifying but they should have discussed more about the sisters life after. Her parents reactions and others who let Sylvia down.
Narrator was telling a story about 2 sisters and a decrepit woman. Should have selected a female voice. Regret purchasing.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- dom_a_j
- 12-31-18
That woman should have never left jail.
It is hard to comprehend how anyone could inflict such horrors on another human being. And work up a small mob to actively participate in what was going on. Some of them got very light sentences, I thought. As for Gertrude, she should have been locked up, never to be freed. Ever. Then again, the fault also lies on all the other persons that saw something and said nothing, the parents that were only too happy to find a place to dump their two daughters, to really check where they were leaving them. And the list goes on. Sad sad story.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- TonyP
- 03-12-19
lost for words, eyes full of tears.
amazing book/narrator! hard to stop reading / read the torture Sylvia went through. This book is well written and put together describing the horrendous acts being done . even explaining why "mom" may have done what she did. Although reading this book broke my heart and turned my gut it also told the tremedous strength of Sylvia and how she remained a pure sweet innocent girl while going through what can only be described as a living hell !
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Jeff and Sabrena
- 08-09-18
Simply an unbelievable true crime
It amazes me that this abuse and torture went on for so long and resulted in murder before it was discovered. This book reads like a fiction thriller. In fact, I read just such a thriller: The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum.
Ryan Green has covered most of the important details of this case in a highly readable, albeit quite disturbing, narrative, starting with Gertrude's background and culminating with recent updates on the perpetrators. And Steve White's superb performance complements Green's writing. This is simply an unbelievable true crime.
NOTE: I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Christa
- 04-20-19
Unbelievable story of cruelty against a young girl
This is the worst story of abuse I have ever read. At times I did cry. Not one person acting so inhumane, but a group!! I can not believe that woman did NOT get the death penalty, more so I can not believe she was paroled. What a cruel cruel human being, of you can call her that 😞
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Chrissy
- 05-10-19
WOW!
Another great book to read and experience! I am a huge fan of Ryan Green's now and the way Steve White brings the books to life is INCREDIBLE! I was told I should read this book and I'm so thankful I did because what a read and I felt pulled in like I was watching it happen and when the book ended I had to take a minute to catch my breath, look around, and realize my surroundings again. I learned things I never knew about this case in ways that weren't known before.... RECOMMENDED highly for anyone who enjoys true crime reads and if you don't know which way to go I say Ryan Green is the Author to choose and if able to let Steve White narrative of the book help bring it to life if you only wanna hear the book while you do other things, but be careful with that because you don't wanna miss a thing because I sure didn't and this Author and Narrative combo will pull you in deep so you pay attention to just the book! WAY TO GO STEVE AND RYAN ON ANOTHER BOOK HOME RUN AND KNOCKING IT OVER THE FENCES!!!!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Victoria Haugen
- 10-01-18
Sad, Angry... Lot of Emotions
Wow, I can't even fathom doing to ANY LIVING CREATURE what Gertrude Baniszewski did to young Sylvia Likens. It's gripping, horrific, and makes me really mad. But, sad thing is, it's not so uncommon, it happens a lot - did then and still does now. That's the really scary part.
This woman and those who are responsible for this unspeakable act deserve a place in Hell, and I'm glad they're there.
Very well written and well narrated book - I've read, listened to or watched stories about many horrific things, and this one is one that will haunt you. It's hard to hear, but needs to be told. I long for a world where this crap doesn't happen.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Please take a moment to click the "YES" ("Helpful") button below if you found this review helpful :) Thank you!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
52 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 03-11-19
Sad and unbelievable!
This is almost one of the saddest story's I've ever heard. This poor child is at the hands on a woman who should have been locked away. How could a person do this to another living being. This reason alone makes you ? God. the father I bet died of shame and sadness along with pity, embarrassment,and everything else. I hope the sister lived as best she could without being tormented by her sister's murdered soul. I hope that she may rest in peace and that ppl see that they might have it hard but it's always some one out there who is worse off then you could ever imagine.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Lisa J. Olson
- 10-12-20
Caution
This book is true, graphic and upsetting at times. I had to turn it off twice to take a break from the expletive nature. Justice was not done here. Leaves you unsettled.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!