This is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language

along with references to sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

It's about class and privilege, morality, love and betrayal, power, all these things and how they collide.

It's a story about ambition and the way that that could sometimes lead you to triumph,

but it could also sometimes lead you to dark places and it can be deadly or your downfall as well.

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 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.

Joe Pompeo is a senior media correspondent for Vanity Fair and an author.

He's written a book called Blood and Ink, an Aris, a tabloid war, and the unsolved double

murder that hooked a nation on true crime.

Joe's tackled a very well-known case, but he's added a depth to it that I haven't read before.

Let's dig into the Hall Mill story.

What are the themes that we have to look forward to with the story?

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