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Listener discretion is advised. She apparently developed from a very early age this drive to acquire material possessions. Was she interested in acquiring these possessions through hard work or did she have an eye out for a wealthy husband?

She was definitely keeping an eye out for a husband who would earn a good living.

Bell was a hard worker.

I mean, even when she became a homicidal maniac,

that was kind of hard work.

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, as well as the co-host of the new show, Buried

Bones, both 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.

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

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

Author Harold Schechter has written a book about the famous female serial killer

Bell Gunnis and it's called Health's Princess. The subtitle is

Butcher of Men and boy is that an accurate description. Bell was a mystery more

than a century ago and she still is.

But Harold's deep research has provided us with a portrait of a woman

who preyed on lonely men.

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