This is

this is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language.

Listener discretion is advised. It's one of the most brutal unsolved mysteries in Hollywood that particularly is intriguing to Elvis Presley fans

that nobody really realizes was actually solved 40 years ago and the truth has been

sitting in a police file in the Los Angeles police headquarters ever since then.

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.

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.

My name is Buddy Morehouse and I am a journalist documentary filmmaker and author.

When you're telling somebody what this book is about what are the themes what would you say?

One of the victims Jenny Maxwell was my mom's first cousin and the reason I decided to look into it was my mom was in really poor health a couple years ago

and I was kind of looking for some sort of closure for her benefit because she had gone her whole life

not knowing what had happened to her cousin who was responsible for the murder and when I first looked into it I had no clue that the police had actually solved it. I was kind of hoping to maybe get enough information that would convince the police to reopen the case.

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