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What's interesting about these cases is it's people killed in pairs,

which is a very rare occurrence that you have a stereo killer who

focuses on killing two people at a time. It also is remarkable because it's unsolved.

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 More 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.

My name is Blaine Pardo.

He and his daughter wrote a book about the colonial parkway murders.

This is a serial killer who murdered four couples along a desolate stretch of road in the 1980s.

Blaine and I talked when I was on assignment for Tenfold

More Wicked in Gloucester, Virginia, which

is about 30 minutes away from where the murders took place.

I'm a kid from the 80s.

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