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adult content and language.

This story contains adult content and language.

Listener discretion is advised. To me, it's a decididly human story with, you know, all of our vices.

And so,

to me, it's decidedly human story with, you know, all of our vices and some of our virtues as a species

how does a community essentially rise up against one family and wipe them out why

would they do that?

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, 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.

In the 1840s, an Irish family lived in constant turmoil

after starting a feud with their entire town in Canada, and then much of the family was murdered.

Author John Little tells us about the Black Donnelly tragedy.

Tell me the patriarch and the matriarch of the family, who brought the family from Ireland to Canada to begin with.

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