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At the very least it was an unusual posture to find a drowning victim and she was dressed only in a pink silk teddy stockings and pumps,

and that was it.

Also, very unusual for a drowning victim.

So the police couldn't tell what they were looking at.

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 James Stewart wrote a book about a mysterious murder in Jazz Age San Diego where

gangsters mingled with flappers who had drinks with sailors and speak-eases during

prohibition. What a scene. His book is called Mystery at the Blue Sea Cottage.

So let's talk a little bit about the book and set the scene for me. Where are we?

Well, we're in San Diego in 1923, January,

1993. San Diego was a kind of a unique place at the time.

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