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The courtroom isn't just about justice. It's about power and money and some truly bizarre loopholes.

I'm Michael Foote. And I'm Melissa Malbranche, and we've got a brand new show called Brief Recess, Illegal Podcast.

Every week, we talk about wild tales from court, trials gone wrong, and cases and rulings that shape our world.

Today we're going to be talking about stolen antiquities, all the weird things Melissa found at in a state sale, the crazy conversations I had with the bouncer and J.K. Rowling. We make the complicated clear and the serious, surprisingly fun. From the exactly right network, new episodes of Brief Recess drop every Thursday. Watch Brief Recess on YouTube. Listen to Brief Recess on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Arthur Conan Doyle, world famous as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories,

played real-life detective himself and freed a man wrongly convicted of murder.

Why on earth wasn't this story better known?

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

I'm also the host of the historical true crime podcast, Tenfold More Wicked,

and the co-host of the podcast, Buried Bones on Exactly Right.

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

One of the most incredible stories in true crime is the tale of Arthur Conan Doyle

and how he helped free a man who was innocent of murder.

Author Marguerite Fox offers us a deep dive into the characters in her book, Conan Doyle for the defense.

Tell me where it makes the most sense to start with this story, which we're going to unravel like a Sherlock Holmes mystery.

Who do we want to start with? The victim or the would-be killer?

The victim, and it really does start on the proverbial dark and stormy night. This is Glasgow,

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