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🗓️ 9 June 2025
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Occasionally we interview fiction authors who use true crime stories as jumping off points for their novels. Virginia Feito wrote a book called “Victorian Psycho.” And it’s based on several cases you’ve likely heard of. There’s a lecherous head of house, a jealous wife…and a violent governess. Very violent. Feito uses gallows humor to take real stories and craft them into harrowing tales.
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0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
0:06.4 | This story contains adult content and language. |
0:09.9 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:19.5 | They were constantly punished and, you know, their hair was cut off. |
0:23.6 | They were like color epidemics because it was, you know, just awful and just another run-of-the-mill Victorian school, I guess. |
0:29.6 | I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a nonfiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas. |
0:41.3 | I'm also the co-host of the podcast Buried Bones on Exactly Right. |
0:45.4 | And throughout my career, research for my many audio and book projects has taken me around the world. |
0:52.2 | On Wicked Words, I sit down with the people I've met along the way, |
0:56.0 | amazing writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters who have investigated and reported on |
1:02.1 | notorious true crime cases. This is about the choices writers make, both good and bad, |
1:08.0 | and it's a deep dive into the unpublished details behind their stories. |
1:14.2 | Occasionally we interview fiction authors who use true crime stories as jumping off points for their novels. |
1:20.4 | Virginia Fato wrote a book called Victorian Psycho, and it's based on several cases you've likely heard of. |
1:27.2 | There's a lecherous head of house, |
1:29.3 | a jealous wife, and a violent governess, very violent. Fato uses Gallo's humor to take real |
1:36.0 | stories and craft them into harrowing tales. We've done this a couple of times where we have a novelist come on who has had, you know, an |
1:47.8 | inspiration from real stories, true crime stories. So, I mean, let's start with, you've got these two |
1:54.2 | novels. We really want to concentrate, I think, on the second one, which is Victorian Psycho. |
1:59.8 | One of the best book titles ever, I have to say. |
2:03.6 | Thank you, thank you. |
2:04.9 | And then the first one's Mrs. Marsh. |
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