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

Susan Jonusas: Hell’s Half-Acre

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

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True Crime

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Bloody Blenders were a family of serial killers in the 1800s that murdered people who visited their home in rural Kansas. Author Susan Jonusas offers us a compelling profile of four mysterious killers who terrified America in the 19th century.  

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

Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com  

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

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0:00.0

We at Wundry live, breathe, and downright obsess over True Crime.

0:04.0

And now we're launching the ultimate True Crime fan experience, Exhibit C.

0:09.2

Join now by following Wundry Exhibit C on Facebook and listen to True Crime on Wundry and Amazon Music.

0:16.1

Exhibit C. It's truly criminal.

0:20.0

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

0:25.2

Listener discretion is advised.

0:35.2

They are both murdered by the benders, but why kill an 18-month-old?

0:39.2

Did that surprise you that they did that?

0:41.2

I think for a lot of people it's really what just tips them over into truly monstrous territory

0:47.2

that crimes are obviously extremely awful anyway.

0:50.8

Mary is too young to be able to offer any kind of testimony or anything like that,

0:56.8

so there really is no reason to kill her.

1:00.8

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

1:08.8

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, as well as the

1:14.0

co-host of the new show, Bairied Bones, both on exactly right.

1:18.8

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

1:21.6

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom,

1:25.6

and they are all excellent writers.

1:28.0

They've had so many great True Crime stories, and now we want to tell you those stories

1:32.8

with details that have never been published.

1:35.6

Tenfold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

1:41.6

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

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