Dead and Buried

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Two young, attractive women. Both savagely attacked, brutalized, raped, and murdered.

Rachel Newhouse disappeared on the night of November 12, 1998, in San Luis Obispo, California. Only months later, in the same town, Aundria Crawford lost her life in an act of unimaginable violence.

As authorities worked to find clues to the killer's identity, parole officer David Zaragoza paid a routine visit to one of his charges - Rex Allan Krebs, a violent serial rapist who'd served only 10 years of a 20-year sentence. After sending Krebs back to jail for violating his parole, Zaragoza found a key chain belonging to one of the victims.

An intensive search led to the gruesome discovery of buried remains near Krebs' secluded cabin. In his confession, Krebs asked, "If I am not a monster, then what am I?" A jury responded by sentencing him to death by lethal injection.

©2003 Corey Mitchell (P)2018 Tantor

3.5 Stars

This is the true crime story of Rex Krebs. The narrator speaks too slowly. He just drones on and on in a very slow dictation. It takes some getting used it. The story is very interesting and the first 2/3 of the book were well worth my time. The last part of the book is excessive minutiae giving word for word testimonies rather than summarizing and noting key testimony.

Interesting story

It was an interesting story, but hard to follow along. Honestly, I wasn’t sure if it was about more than one killer or not at one point. The end of the book became so bogged down with the trial, I skipped the 3 chapters and went to the last chapter. It is heartbreaking to hear what the girls went through. Also heartbreaking what Rex Krebs endured as a child. He still made choices that were devastating for the victims family, his family, and friends.

Best narration ever, good story too

As a fan of true crime, this one checks all the boxes. It really gets in to the mind of the killer and his methods and motivations. It’s not really a whodunnit, but rather it walks you through the crime, the investigation and the trial. Because the narration was so good, I finished it. But as others have said, it’s very thorough and detailed. I wish I hadn’t heard quite so much about the crimes themselves though. If you had been a victim of a rape, I would NEVER listen to this.

Well Written!

This author has become my favorite! Very detailed and engages the reader. A very gruesome story, but I like the way the writer explores the depth of the killer as well as the young women and ultimately shows all were victims of some kind. I definitely recommend!

A three hour book told in ten hours

I love that Audible has a plus catalog, and I have listened to some fantastic books. This is not one of them. It reminds me of a high school student just adding stuff to reach a certain word number. Including chapter upon chapter of court transcript and police interrogation is lazy. Chapter upon chapter of the story of the killer's challenged childhood is same. I think I now know more about his family than I do my own. I also really resent when a book author feels s/he can tell you what a homicide victim was thinking/feeling in the final moments before the criminal laid hands on him/her.