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 40 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 Shocking True Crime Story
    • By: Rod Kackley
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • November 2, 1945: On her way to a high school football game with friends, a fourteen-year-old girl vanishes after driving away with a man who says ...

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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 1,188 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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    • The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
    • By: Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate
    • Narrated by: Emily Rankin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,715 ratings
    • The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s best-selling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach....

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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 14 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 the Controversial Abduction, Crimes, and Trial That Shocked America
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 1974, Hearst was a 19 year old college student at Berkeley when she was kidnapped by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)....

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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 True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
    • By: Richard Lloyd Parry
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,985 ratings
    • Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared....

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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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    • Oranges and Sunshine
    • By: Margaret Humphreys
    • Narrated by: Emily Watson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Now a major film, the book that exposed the scandal of Britain's forgotten and abused child migrants....

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    • La historia que el gobierno trató de ocultar [The Story That the Government Tried to Hide]
    • By: Anabel Hernandez
    • Narrated by: Karina Castillo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-21
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • El oyente recorrerá el laberinto del los acontecimientos en la noche del 26 de septiembre, sus trampas, su oscuridad y la luz. Entrará en la Normal Rural "Raúl Isidro Burgos", escuchará las intensas voces de sus estudiantes....

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    • The War Trail of Big Bear
    • By: William Bleasdell Cameron
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • "I was present at the Frog Lake Massacre and escaped by the slim margin of one hundred paces the fate that overtook my hapless fellows. For months ...

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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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    • The Backstory of Finding Elizabeth Smart and Growing Up in the Culture of an American Religion
    • By: Chris Thomas
    • Narrated by: Chris Thomas, Elizabeth Smart
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Chris Thomas is not yet 30 years old when he finds himself managing the immense pressure, eccentric personalities, and extenuating circumstances of an international story, where one small misstep could adversely impact the search for a missing teenager....

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    • The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
    • By: Mona Gable
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant highlights the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction.

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    • How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It
    • By: John Wigger
    • Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • John Wigger explores the wave of hijackings that swept over commercial flights between 1961 and 1972....

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    • By: Thomas R. Hargrove
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom is a record of his 11 months as a hostage of Colombian guerillas....

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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 34 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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    • 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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