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Many serial killers stalked their victims.

Cream's victims came to him and to add a level of cruelty they came to him because they

thought they could totally trust him because he was a doctor.

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.

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

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

Dean Job is an author who lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, and he's written a biography about one of the

most complicated serial killers I've ever read about Dr Thomas Neil Cream.

Cream was a physician who lived in two different London's first the one in Canada and then he was in the one in England.

He killed women in both.

Job spent years researching Cream's life in his murders and his controversial legacy as one of the many men suspected of being Jack the Ripper.

The story of Thomas Cream, where does it naturally start for you?

What we have with Cream is a young man of promise.

This is how he's described by people who knew him growing up.

Was born in Scotland, but as a child came to Quebec City,

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