The Popularity of True Crime with Kate Winkler Dawson

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Sharon sits down with author and podcast host, Kate Winkler Dawson, to discuss the ways in which we talk about and consume true crime. Kate and Sharon ruminate on why the true crime genre is especially appealing to women, and how Kate feels a responsibility to the women in true crime; they are often the victims we leave behind in order to follow the movements of men who make up the majority of the perpetrators and the investigators. Join the conversation to learn more about The Bender Family, Kate’s research process, and what evidence collecting may look like in an all-digital future. Parental discretion advised due to the overall theme of crime and violence.

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0:00.0	Quick heads up on this episode we discuss some elements of true crime. It's not
0:05.6	graphic but it might not be appropriate for young kids.
0:10.0	Hello friends, happy you are here today. I have a very interesting conversation with author and
0:17.2	podcaster Kate Winkler Dawson today. We have read one of her books in my book club and she has a wildly popular podcast called
0:25.8	Tenfold More Wicked and it is absolutely right up your alley if you love true crime and history and so we're going to talk more about what it takes to make a podcast
0:37.7	Her research process all kinds of good stuff. So let's dive into this episode. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:50.0	Oh, I'm so excited to have my friend Kate here today. We have so much to talk about. We could probably feel three hours of chatting about all the things we have to say, but why don't you start Kate by telling everybody who you are in what you do?
1:04.3	Thank you. I am Kate Winkler Dawson. I am first and foremost a journalism professor at the University of Texas,
1:10.9	and I'm also a narrative non-fiction author. I have two books out and a third will be coming out next year. And I also have two podcasts that are on the exactly right network which is the home of my favorite murderer.
1:23.7	So that's Tenfold More Wicked and Wicked Words.
1:26.5	And I'm just a creative storytellers in multiple genres, which is very exciting.
1:33.0	I love it.
1:35.0	There's so much to unpack there.
1:37.0	Well, first of all, let me just say this,
1:39.0	if you are not in my book club,
1:41.0	maybe you missed that we've read one of Kate's books over the summer as our book club pick and we had an absolutely delightful time dissecting that and also hearing from Kate as she joined us for a book club meeting people were extremely curious about your research process all that kind of stuff and it was so nice of you to spend time with us fill us in give us all the details of how it works to research,
2:05.3	narrative non-fiction book.
2:07.7	So all that to say, I would love to hear more about how you became interested in this sort of genre of true crime and
2:16.3	narrative nonfiction storytelling.
2:18.7	First of all, your book club was fabulous.
2:20.7	If anybody, if he's interested in joining, I think you guys were more engaging than almost
2:26.3	any book club I've ever been involved with. And I think that it's helpful when you write about
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