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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Mark Pinsky: Drifting into Darkness

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Author Mark Pinsky details the complicated story of a double murder...the killing of a philanthropic couple in Montgomery, Alabama. Their son was the main suspect, but was he being controlled by someone else?  

Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink    

Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com    

If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: [email protected]    

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:03.6

This story contains adult content and language.

0:09.5

Listener discretion is advised.

0:11.5

When I would be Charlotte's journal entries, her letters, her emails, she suffered so much

0:24.4

saying, is this the time for tough love?

0:26.8

She'll be cut them off financially now.

0:29.2

She did every possible thing to save her son.

0:33.2

And he was manipulated beyond belief.

0:41.4

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

0:46.1

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, as well as

0:51.1

the co-host of the new show, Bairied Bones, both on exactly right.

0:55.7

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

0:58.7

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

1:03.2

And they are all excellent writers.

1:05.4

They've had so many great true crime stories.

1:08.0

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

1:12.8

Tenfold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make, good

1:17.9

and bad.

1:18.9

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

1:24.8

Another Mart Pinsky wrote a book called Drifting Into Darkness.

1:28.5

It's a harrowing story about the murder of a couple in 2004 in Montgomery, Alabama.

1:34.3

Their estranged son was the killer.

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