This is exactly right.

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

Listener discretion is advised.

This is a deeply,

deeply religious group of girls who ultimately, regardless of the decision they made

marry, not marry, believed with their faith that they would make it home.

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.

Aisha Sase is a journalist and author who wrote a book called Beneath the Tamaran Tree about the mass

kidnapping of more than 200 teenage girls in northern Nigeria in 2014.

That started the international movement called Bring Back Our Girls.

The terrorist group Boca Haram is responsible and almost half of the young women are

still unaccounted for.

Aisha spoke to some of those who escaped.

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