It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.

For many, it's their biggest fear.

Amarissa Jones, host of The Vanished.

A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons' cases

in an effort to uncover the truth.

Follow The Vanished on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

This story contains adult content and language,

along with references to sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

It's about class and privilege, morality, love and betrayal, power,

all these things and how they collide.

The story about ambition and the way that that could sometimes lead you to triumph.

It could also sometimes lead you to dark places and it can be deadly or your downfall as well.

I'm Kate Winkler-Dawson, an on-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast,

Tenfold More 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 More Wicked Presents Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

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