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

Wicked Words - Dr. Ann Burgess + Steven Constantine: The Real Mindhunter

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Ann Burgess helped shape criminal profiling at the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit in the 1970s; Dr. Burgess has long been recognized as one of the leaders in the field of victimology. In their book, Dr. Ann Burgess and Steven Constantine focused on the victims, but also profiled the killers. 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.

0:04.0

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

0:12.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:14.0

Henry Wallace is a good example

0:21.0

because when you have a serial killer you've got multiple victims and you don't want to blur them all together.

0:27.0

So I would have Henry talk about them and draw and the other good thing about a drawing is you can then use that in a kind of third

0:36.7

distant way to say, gee now what was going on over here? What is this all about? And you can use it to get more of the detail so you're not just

0:44.4

sitting there talking with them.

0:48.6

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

0:56.8

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.

1:06.4

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

1:09.4

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom.

1:13.8

And they are all excellent writers.

1:16.0

They've had so many great true crime stories.

1:18.6

And now we want to tell you those stories

1:20.8

with details that have never been published.

1:23.3

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

1:29.5

It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories. Anne Burgess is a legend in the history of crime and forensics in America.

1:39.3

She's the nurse who helped shaped the FBI's behavioral science unit. Now she's a researcher and a

1:44.8

professor. Dr. Burgess and her co-writer Stephen Constantine wrote a book

1:49.0

called A Killer by Design, Murderers, Mine Hunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind.

1:55.4

And in that book, they tried to answer the question, what drives someone to kill and

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