This is exactly right.

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

Listener discretion is advised.

It's the story of four men who were murdered in New York over three year period.

They were picked up at or near gay bars in Manhattan,

and they were or were presumed to be gay.

And it's about the resulting police investigations all

set against the backdrop of the height of the AIDS epidemic and just tremendous violence that was roiling the city.

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.

Elon Green's book is called Last Call,

a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York,

and it came out earlier this year.

It is an outstanding piece of investigative journalism,

and this story is the perfect way to end our first season of Wicked Words.

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