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

Wicked Words - Gregg Olsen: American Mother

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In the mid-1980s Stella Nickell was suspected of murdering her husband using headache pills laced with poison. Author Gregg Olsen describes the panic that ensued when someone else also died from taking pills. But were the two deaths connected? 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) 2023 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is

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this is exactly right.

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This story contains adult content and language

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along with references to sexual assault.

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Listener discretion is advised. along with references to sexual assault.

0:13.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:15.0

I do feel of all of the stories I've written this could be the most chilling in that it's the first

0:27.0

incidents that I've ever uncovered in which anybody could have been the victim.

0:31.4

You me, anybody who had a headache.

0:34.0

I'm Kate Wienk.

0:36.0

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

0:44.6

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, and the co-host of the

0:49.9

podcast Buried Bones on Exactly Right. I've traveled around the world

0:54.4

interviewing people for the show and they are all excellent writers. They've had so

0:59.2

many great true crime stories and now we want to tell you those stories with details that have never been published.

1:05.7

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

1:11.8

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

1:17.2

You might remember the case of Stella Nickel.

1:19.9

What a story.

1:21.1

In the mid-1980s, she was suspected of murdering her husband using headache

1:26.0

pills laced with poison, but then it got so much worse because those pills were

1:31.5

being sold to the public and someone else died.

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