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And when he said, why did you do it, she would cross her legs and smoke a cigarette and just sort of smile.

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unpublished details behind their stories.

I'm really thrilled to have my buddy Skip Hollinsworth on the show this week.

He wrote a book called She Kills, and it's a collection of updated stories from Texas Monthly focusing on fascinating and often shocking female murderers, and some of these cases I've never

heard of. Skip is one of the

best storytellers around. So let's talk about the book first. Is this the first book that you've had out

since the Midnight Assassin? It is the first book I've had out since the Midnight Assassin.

And it wasn't even my idea.

There was an editor at Texas Monthly, Megan Cricht.

We had this deal in place with Harper Collins.

Texas Monthly did.

There's a certain number of books, and she said to me, do you know how much you write about women?

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