This is exactly right.

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along with references to sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

At that moment they had no idea what was going to come out of that cellar. They were hoping

it would be Ruth who was fine, who was in captivity, and there were stories of that that

she was being held against her will.

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.

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

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

Author Brad Rica and I both love good mysteries and smart investigators.

He wrote a book called Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.

It's about an attorney slash detective

who advocated for victims

and then solved their cases

using some really clever techniques.

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