This is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language.

Listener discretion is advised. His grandchildren, even great-grandchildren, they all just said to me, no one ever talked about it.

We never knew what happened, it was never sold, no one ever talked about it we never what happened it was never sold no one ever discussed it it was just a

family secret I don't know what happened I can't help you please tell me if you find

out anything. 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,

and the co-host of the podcast Buried Bones on exactly right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show 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 War 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.

When a powerful businessman in Alaska is murdered in his bed in 1953,

the police believe it might have been a break-in gone wrong, but as details about his personal life make headlines, investigators turned to several new suspects. Author James T. Bartlett tells us the story at the center of his book,

The Alaskan Blond.

Set the scene for me.

Where are we?

What is this time period like?

This is 1950s, Alaska, 1953, 1954 specifically. And the first

thing that I found out that I didn't know was that Alaska was a territory then.

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