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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Wicked Words - Karen K. Ho: Jennifer Pan’s Revenge

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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True Crime

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Karen K. Ho covers the case of Jennifer Pan, a woman now in prison for ordering the hit on her parents, which ended with the death of one of them. But this story was personal for Ho because she went to high school with Jennifer in Canada. Was it difficult to report on someone who was in her social circle? Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink/additional research Ella Middleton Subscribe to my newsletter: tenfoldmorewicked.com Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: [email protected] Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2021 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:04.0

This story contains adult content and language along with references to sexual assault.

0:12.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:14.0

I remember hearing the 911 call about this

0:20.0

and I am not a crime reporter.

0:22.0

So the thing that happens next is really, really horrible

0:24.2

and simple at the same time.

0:26.4

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author

0:29.8

and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

0:32.0

I'm also the host of the historical

0:33.7

True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked on Exactly Right. I've traveled around

0:38.0

the world interviewing people for the show. I've interviewed some people in

0:41.3

person and some from my home studio over Zoom and they are all excellent writers.

0:46.6

They've had so many great true crime stories and now we want to tell you those stories

0:51.5

with details that have never been published.

0:54.1

Tenfold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

1:00.2

It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

1:06.0

Karen Kaho is an award-winning reporter who wrote an article in 2015 called Jennifer Pan's Revenge.

1:13.6

Karen went to high school with Jennifer Pan in the early 2000s in a suburb of Toronto called

1:18.8

Markham.

1:19.8

They both came from families that immigrated from East Asia, and they both felt cultural pressures to succeed.

1:25.6

But Karen and Jennifer would take very different paths, and now Jennifer Pan is in prison for

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