This is exactly right.

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Listener discretion is advised.

Events happen in my hometown that enabled a serial killer.

I think a lot of people I know are caught up in it.

I spoke to one of the good old boy detectives.

I said, did you ever occur to you that you might have a serial killer?

He said, Mr. This was 1987.

I'm not sure I'd even heard the term serial killer.

Our minds just didn't work that way.

I'm Kate Winkler-Doson, a nonfiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the host of the Historical Trude Crime Podcast, Tenfold War Wicked, on exactly

right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom.

And they are all excellent writers.

They've had so many great true crime stories.

And now we want to tell you those stories with details that have never been published.

Tenfold War Wicked presents Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make, good

and bad.

It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

Maggie and I, my partner and I looked at each other.

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