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On the previous episode of Wicked Words.

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

and they were or were presumed to be gay, and it's about the resulting police investigations.

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 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.

During part one of my interview with author Elon Green, we learned that a serial killer was murdering men in New York City in the late

1980s and early 90s. Four men were killed. Two were affluent tourists. One was a sex worker,

and the last was a local who had a small inner circle.

A crime lab in Maine gets a hit on some fingerprints found on the bags containing the body

parts of the victims.

And the killer's prints are in the system because he's connected to a murder in 1973.

Investigators finally have a break.

But who do the prince belong to?

This killer might surprise you.

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