This is exactly right.

People who didn't do what John of God wanted them to do, they usually disappeared.

John of God was once Brazil's most famous spiritual healer.

But in this limited series podcast, we uncover the darker truth behind his global empire of faith and fear.

From exactly right and Adonde Media, this is Two-Faced, John of God.

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This story contains adult content and language. Listener discretion is advised.

Be very cautious about your reputation because everybody gets one and your reputation, and your reputation by and large, which precedes you, is, in my experience, generally accurate.

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

I'm also the co-host 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and it's a deep dive into the unpublished details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. Randy Barnett is a law professor at Georgetown University, but decades

ago, he was a young prosecutor in Cook County's state's attorney's office. In Chicago,

Randy dealt with gritty crime, of course, but some of his

biggest challenges were battling police corruption, crooked co-workers, and judges on the take.

Randy tells me about his book, Felony Review, tales of true crime and corruption in Chicago.

Was criminal law your first, you know, when you came out of law school, was that your first

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