This is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language,

along with references to sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

All these drugs foster violence.

That's, I think, one of the biggest themes was just this beautiful heartland

ravished by meth. 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.

This next story centers on a terrible crime in rural Oklahoma in 1999.

Two parents were murdered and two teenage girls in the same trailer went missing.

Author Jacks Miller details this very twisty turny story

that has a surprise ending in her book,

Hell in the Heartland.

What do you think this story is about at its heart?

I think it's about grief.

I think it's about trauma.

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