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

Sarah Weinman: Quite a Scoundrel

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We’ve met author Sarah Weinman before when she unraveled the real story of the novel Lolita. Now Weinman tells us about killer Edgar Smith, who manipulated powerful men and women to help him get out of prison...and then he killed again.  

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

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

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Bridger Weinegger and I host I said no gifts on exactly right.

0:04.2

Each week I invite my favorite people in comedy over for conversation and I tell them no

0:08.2

gifts, but every time they bring me a gift and then we have to talk about the gift.

0:12.6

It's infuriating.

0:13.6

You'll love it.

0:15.2

Listen to I said no gifts on Amazon Music Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:20.1

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

0:24.4

For many, it's their biggest fear.

0:26.4

I'm Marissa Jones, host of The Vanished.

0:28.9

A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons cases in an effort

0:34.2

to uncover the truth.

0:35.7

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

0:40.1

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

0:45.4

Listener discretion is advised.

0:53.7

He did the crimes that he was accused of committing and was convicted of committing,

0:57.5

but there was a lot greater harm of the people who were in his orbit, especially the women

1:02.6

he was married to, those that he had romantic relationships, be they physical or emotional

1:07.9

or epistolary, and for sure the girl that he killed and the woman that he almost murdered.

1:17.3

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

1:22.1

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked on Exactly

1:26.6

Right.

1:27.4

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

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