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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

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1910 New Orleans, Annie Crawford is the modest sister of three very vibrant young women. While they stroll the cobblestone streets wearing fashionable clothing, Annie is demurer. She might have been jealous; she might have been insecure…or perhaps she didn’t care. But when one of her sisters becomes gravely ill, Annie doesn’t seem concerned. Why? Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producers Jason Wehling, Alexis Amorosi and Natalie Rinns/sound designer Eric Friend/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink 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) 2023 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:06.0

This story contains adult content and language.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised. Okay, will you, you mean, spelling your first and last name, and maybe, well, we'll start with that and how you pronounce your name.

0:33.6

Cecile, C-I-L-E, Leo, L-E-O.

0:42.2

You know, I think that everybody's got family secrets. We just don't know if this was actually a family secret.

0:48.0

This...

0:49.0

Just a lack of information.

0:51.0

Yes, I guess it was just something that they'd rather not talk about. You know, it would be like a family secret.

1:01.6

Cecile Leo is a lovely woman.

1:04.0

She had lived in Port Arthur, Texas, her whole life before she moved closer to Austin to be with her family.

1:10.0

She's 90 years old, and her husband Patrick Leo passed away almost 30 years ago.

1:16.0

Patrick's mother Emma was a Crawford and the Crawfords originally came from New Orleans.

1:21.0

Cecile didn't know much about her in-laws.

1:24.0

She knows a lot more now.

1:27.0

Cecile didn't understand why her husband never wanted to visit New Orleans,

1:32.0

and she had no idea that four members of the Crawford family

1:36.0

died under suspicious circumstances.

1:39.3

And she certainly didn't know that she had spent two years living with their suspected killer.

1:45.9

What happened to the Crawford family in the early 1900s was a secret that didn't come

1:50.8

out until just a few years ago, decades after Cecile's husband died.

1:59.0

So if you, looking back for what you've learned, if you were going to describe kind of the Crawford family, what would that be?

2:08.0

If I had to make a decision, I'd say they were a good family, you know. I had nothing that I could say ugly about any of them.

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