This is exactly right.

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By the time I was 10 I had defined myself in such a manner that I thought I had no possibility to ever be happy, no possibility of ever having a normal life.

And I thought all the things that happened to me were things I deserve, that I came from bad people,

I was bad people, I would do bad things and my life would end bad.

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, as well as the co-host of the new show,

Buried Bones, both 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 David Crow wrote a memoir called The Pale Face Lie about his father.

Thurston Crow was a suspected killer who claimed to be a Native American while he raised his children on various reservations.

David's story is a survival story,

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