This is exactly right.

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Listener discretion is advised.

All along the way some things have happened that they were out of desperation.

It's better to let one bad person go

than to ruin four people's lives

by accusing them something they didn't do.

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

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold War Wicked on Exactly Right.

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

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom.

And they are all excellent writers.

They've had so many great true crime stories

and now we want to tell you those stories

with details that have never been published.

Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

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

Beverly Lowry is an author in Austin, Texas, and a good friend.

She's written a heartbreaking book called Who Killed These Girls.

It's about the yogurt shop murders, which happened here when I was in high school, just a few miles from my

house. It's a story about the wrongful conviction of four men and the devastated families

of the victims, and no one feels like they've gotten justice.

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