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

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dorothy Symons was a small-town girl from Aransas Pass on the Texas Coast. By 1931, America was deep into the Great Depression and Prohibition, yet the 18-year-old still had fun with girlfriends in towns…and boyfriends. Then one night, she disappeared. What happened to Dorothy Symons? Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4dsqzI1 Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: [email protected] Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2022 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is

0:05.0

a story contains adult content and language.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised. I'm very interested in helping you have a conversation with my mom.

0:19.0

I'm not sure what kind of questions you're looking forward. I'll be with her when we do this.

0:25.6

Okay. I'll put it on my my cell phone. My mom does not have a cell phone. She refuses.

0:31.0

Okay, so she is on a landline only right?

0:34.0

Well, I'll tell you the background on how I found this story to begin with.

0:38.0

Yeah, that's my second question.

0:40.0

Because nobody knows about this story, which is amazing.

0:43.0

So, you know, when Dorothy died,

0:45.0

she had been babysitting a little boy who lived pretty close to her,

0:48.0

named Bill Strain.

0:50.0

And when she died, it made a really big impression on him.

0:53.4

He was four or five at the time, and he grew up hearing these stories.

0:58.1

And he remembered Dorothea's just being very beautiful and kind. He grew up and became a law enforcement officer later in life.

1:07.5

He became an artist. And when he retired at age 70, he became obsessed with this case.

1:14.3

He just really dug into the case.

1:16.6

I have a binder full of information that he found,

1:20.5

and he and his son took a couple of trips

1:22.2

down to a Ransis Pass to try to get more information and he died so he died last year.

1:29.0

I ran across his website. He had a very long blog about Dorothy and the reason I wanted to talk to your

1:36.0

mom and you and anybody else in the family who wants to talk about it is not to glean any sort of new details or new research, you know, what I like to do is, you know, really

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