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Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

The Lipstick Killer PT 1

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.826K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Kate and Paul head to 1946 Chicago where a woman is found dead in her home along with a note from the killer. After a child goes missing on the same road, investigators try to connect the two cases in this first episode of a two-parter. 

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:09.4

I'm Kate Winkler-Dawson. I'm a journalist who's spent the last 25 years writing about true crime.

0:16.1

And I'm Paul Holes, a retired cold case investigator whose work some of America's most complicated cases

0:21.4

and solve them.

0:22.7

Each week, I present Paul with one of history's most compelling true crimes.

0:27.6

And I weigh in using modern forensic techniques to bring new insights to old mysteries.

0:32.6

Together, using our individual expertise, we're examining historical true crime cases through a 21st century lens.

0:40.9

Some are solved and some are cold, very cold. This is buried bones.

0:46.1

Music Hey, Paul.

1:08.9

Hey, Kate. How are you?

1:10.3

I'm doing great. We are dipping back into listener slash viewer questions for us. So get ready, because this is targeted at you specifically.

1:20.7

Oh, no.

1:21.4

But I can chime in. No, it's good. So someone says, can I shadow Paul Holes for a week, L.O.L. to which I say, me first, and then it's

1:31.4

open field after that. What is a day like or a week like for you? Well, you know, it just depends on

1:38.7

what I'm involved with. I would say my average week, you know, every day I try to make it to the gym first thing

1:46.2

in the morning. So I wake up, I eat breakfast, I get to the gym. Right now, my workouts are

1:52.3

probably over the top. You know, they're hour and a half to two hours long. Paul, you know,

1:57.5

your hip and your shoulder, your hip in your shoulder.

2:01.6

Yeah.

2:02.6

But you know, as you get older, you got to keep moving, right?

2:06.6

Yeah, I got you.

2:07.6

So then I'll come home.

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