United States of True Crime: Vol. 1

60 Chilling True Crime Cases from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, and California

By: Ashley Hudson

Narrated by: Ashley Hudson

Five book collection: first five states in the United States of True Crime series.

Sixty chilling true crime cases of murders, kidnappings, and serial killers from across the United States!

Some of the shocking cases included in these volumes:

Amy Bishop: Harvard educated professor who made national headlines after her shooting spree at a university in Alabama. However most people never realized this was not the first time she shot someone to death.

Steven Harris Downs: The brutal murder of a young indigenous Alaska woman haunted the state for decades until DNA technology revealed the identity of her murderer.

Winnie Ruth Judd: Shocked the nation in the 1930s when she confessed to killing her roommate and traveling with the dismembered body in her luggage.

Ronald Gene Simmons: Father who murdered 14 members of his family in cold blood before going into town and shooting others on his hit list.

Gerald and Charlene Gallego: Husband and wife duo who held girls and young women as sex slaves before murdering them. Despite her heinous crimes, the wife is currently free after testifying for the prosecution.

Mardiros Iskenderian: Millionaire restauranteur who shot his mother and sister in a murder/suicide dispute over the family business.

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Excellent compilation

Many recent well-told cases, most stories were new-to-me beyond all my other true-crime compilations. The author / narrator's beautiful voice makes each tale sound like a campfire or bedtime story. Crystal-clear annunciation; I could listen to her for days.

Good

This is a really interesting read. It’s like reading true crime stories. I usually watch all the true crime series. Very interesting keeps captivated for hours.

I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Good collection of stories

I enjoyed the state-by-state true crime stories. Good way to get familiar with them and pursue further reading on individual stories if desired.

A great collection of true crime stories

A great collection of true crime stories, this collection of five books covers true crime stories from 5 different states, and is the start of a series intended to cover all the states.

Each crime is succintly presented in about 10 or so minutes, giving you the essential facts of the case, and the outcome, in a clear, consice manner without fluff. You also get the essential hostorical context for the setting of the crime. For each of the first five states there are 10 crimes presented, for California 20 crimes. A lot of these cases were unknown to me beforehand, so you do not only get the famous ones already covered extensively elsewhere.

This audiobook is narrated by the author herself, and she does a admirable job. The narration is clear and easy to follow even on a higher playback speed.

I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Short Clips of Known and Unknown Crimes

Most stories are about 30 minutes in length which I liked. It’s a good mixture of stories that I knew and some I didn’t. I was irritated with the author/narrator. I can’t stress this enough when I say just because you wrote the book doesn’t mean you should narrate the book.