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

Wicked Words - Alex Mar: Seventy Times Seven

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The story of one of America’s youngest death row inmates is tragic and complicated. How did a young woman in 1980s Indiana end up in prison? Alex Mar unfolds her incredible book, Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy. It’s a journey about racism, anger, and forgiveness. 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 advised.

0:02.0

This is exactly right. in her discretion is advised. You have a 40-year-old white man, steel worker, Vietnam vet, who's writing very intimate,

0:26.0

personal, emotionally raw letters.

0:29.1

To the then 16 year old girl,

0:32.2

what connects them

0:33.6

is that she brutally murdered his grandmother.

0:42.3

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

0:47.5

I'm also the host of the historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked,

0:51.7

and the co-host of the podcast Buried Bones on Exactly Right.

0:56.0

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show,

0:59.0

and they are all excellent writers.

1:01.0

They've had so many great true crime stories and now we want to

1:04.7

tell you those stories with details that have never been published.

1:08.4

Tenfold War Wicked presents wicked words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

1:15.0

It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

1:20.1

The story of one of America's youngest death row inmates is tragic and complicated.

1:25.9

How did a young woman in 1980s Indiana end up in prison?

1:31.3

Alex Marr unfolds her incredible book 70 times 7 a true story of

1:36.7

murder and mercy. It's a journey about racism, anger, and forgiveness.

1:43.4

Let's start with the setting. We're talking about 1985, Gary Indiana, and I'll confess the only

1:49.5

thing I know about Gary Indiana is the Jackson family.

1:53.0

So in 85, what is this area like?

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