This story contains adult content and language along with references to sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised. Yes, your parents have told you not to go with strangers, but really if you have someone who comes to you who's around the same age and who tells you that he has a bag of candy and one who should go with him to the circus, you never expect the devil to be another child.

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

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, and the co-host of the podcast Buried

Bones on Exactly Right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show, 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 War Wicked presents, wicked words, is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

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

I've been fascinated with the story of Jesse Pomeroy in 1870s Boston for years.

He's the boy who murdered kids for quite a while before he was caught.

What does this story tell us about crime today?

Author Roseanne Monteo talks about her book, The Wilderness of Ruin,

a tale of madness, fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer.

I think our audience, most of us have heard of Jesse Pomeroy.

It's an infamous story.

I know very little about it. I know the broad strokes and that's it. So let's start with what do you think the themes are that you pulled out of this story that would resonate with an audience today. What's important about it?

Well, you know, I actually hadn't heard about him

when I first ran across him,

even though I lived pretty close by,

just a few miles down the road from where he lived and I think what really

resonated with me even though the story took place in the

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