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All of these schools had graveyards.

Like our schools now, you don't build a school and build a graveyard, but they did then.

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unpublished details behind their stories.

If you've ever dug deep into your family history, you know that there are sometimes surprises. Author Tanya Talaga discovered that the life of her great-great-grandmother, Annie

Carpenter, was mostly unknown because she was indigenous. It's a struggle that many indigenous people in Canada have.

How do you learn about your family's past without crucial records?

Talaga's incredible book, The Knowing, lays out Annie's story

and Tanya's journey to find the truth.

So where do we start? Your mom comes to you and says there's this piece of history that's missing,

which is something I deal with, you know, all the time I'm a historical true crime writer and

podcaster. And people ask me all the time, why does it matter? I mean, this person has been gone.

Generations and generations, so much has

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