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Events happen in my hometown that enabled a serial killer.

I think a lot of people I know are caught up in it. I spoke to one of the good old boy detectives. I said did it ever occur to you that you might have a serial killer? He's like,

Mr. this was 1987. I'm not sure I'd even heard the term

serial killer. Our minds just didn't work that way.

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.

Maggie and I, my partner and I looked at each other and said, do you remember a Danny Corwin?

You know, by his age, he should be like two years ahead of us.

Brian Burrow is a New York Times best-selling author and a reporter for Vanity Fair.

This is a story about a man who murdered three women in the 1970s and 80s in Texas.

But it's also about the women, those who died and those who survived, and it all started when

someone told Brian about a serial killer at his old high school.

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