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You have to sever the tie between the underworld and the overworld, and you need to expose the connection and sever it.

And so that was part of the strategy.

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

I'm also the co-hosts of the podcast Buried Bones on Exactly Right.

And throughout my career, research for my many audio and book projects has taken me around the world.

On Wicked Words, I sit down with the people I've met along the way,

amazing writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters

who have investigated and reported on notorious true crime cases.

This is about the choices writers make, both good and bad,

and it's a deep dive into the unpublished details behind their

stories. New York in the early 1900s was filled with people trying to make their lives better,

but for many, the rise of organized crime kept them in constant fear. On the Lower East Side,

Jewish criminals from Eastern Europe

formed crime syndicates. There were gangs of horse poisoners, casino owners, thieves, and thugs.

But then a group of Jewish uptowners stepped in and created a vice squad that worked in secrecy.

Author Dan Slater tells us the story from his book, The Incorruptibles.

Set the scene for me for where we are and what New York City is like during this time period.

Well, we are in the New York City of the late 1800s, and it is a time when there's a lot of

immigration from many parts of the world, but there's a lot of immigration from Eastern Europe.

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