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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Wicked Words - Diane Fanning: The Serial Killer and the Author

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Prolific true crime author Diane Fanning recalls the story from her youth that inspired her first book about her time with a serial killer who admitted to a murder to her...and no one else. Find out why. Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: [email protected] Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2022 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:03.2

This story contains adult content and language along with references to sexual assault.

0:11.2

Listener discretion is advised.

0:14.0

I got in contact with the in rural and I said,

0:20.0

yeah, well, they thought you were going to do a book about this story.

0:23.4

And she said, well, I was, but it was just too hard to do.

0:29.5

I wasn't going to spend all that time going over 20 years of murders. I went, okay well I guess

0:35.8

ignorance is bliss I didn't know what I was getting into until I stepped in it. the host of the historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold War Wicked, as well as the co-host of the new

0:55.8

show Buried Bones, both on exactly right.

0:59.1

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

1:02.1

I've interviewed some people in person and

1:04.0

some from my home studio over Zoom and they are all excellent writers. They've had so many great

1:10.0

true crime stories and now we want to tell you those stories with details that have

1:14.7

never been published.

1:16.2

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

1:21.6

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

1:27.0

Diane Fanning is a best-selling true crime author with true crime underlined several times.

1:33.0

Her first book is called Through the Window.

1:35.1

She talked to me about how that book came to be and about her time with the serial killer

1:39.7

at the center of it.

1:42.0

I have 15 True crime books and 11 mystery novels. How long have you

1:46.9

been doing this? Since 2001 is when I got my first contract. Okay, 20 years.

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