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Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes by Harold Schechter

Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes audiobook runs 10.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner (about 7.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.7listening hrs
True Crimestore shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.7 hours of listening.

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30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 10.7 hours, it runs longer than 71% of the 2,718 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner

Malcolm Hillgartner narrates 285 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,361 hours in all.

All Malcolm Hillgartner audiobooks, measured

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes is an audiobook by Harold Schechter: a 10.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Malcolm Hillgartner, released July 7, 2020, on the True Crime shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.7 hrs
Narrated by
Malcolm Hillgartner
Released
July 7, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
True Crime
ISBN
9781799750697

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes audiobook?

Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes runs 10.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.1 hours.

Is the Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes?

Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes is narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner.

Is Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.1 hours, saving 3.6 hours.