Nathan Masters: Crooked

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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A man is found dead from a gunshot wound in Washington DC in 1923. He’s an aide and a confidante to a powerful politician, the attorney general of the United States. Was his death a murder or a suicide? Author Nathan Masters tells us the story at the center of his book: Crooked.

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1:33.8	I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a nonfiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.
1:38.8	I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, and the co-host of the podcast, Barried Bones, on exactly right.
1:47.8	I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show, and they are all excellent writers.
1:53.8	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.
2:00.8	Tenfold More Wicked Presents, Wicked Words, is about the choices that writers make good and bad.
2:06.8	It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.
2:11.8	A man is found dead from a gunshot wound in Washington DC in 1923.
2:16.8	He's an aide and a confidant to a powerful politician.
2:20.8	The Attorney General of the United States was his death a murder or a suicide.
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