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Listener discretion is advised. This seems so anomalous and the house had seemed so anomalous and the house had seemed so well secured with the great wall around it and it seemed like the safest

place to have a child and to protect a child. 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.

The brutal murder of a three-year-old shocked Victorian England,

not only because of how it happened,

but because of who the police suspected.

Could one of Britain's most famous detectives solve the case?

Author Kate Somerscale tells us the story

at the center of her book, The Suspicions of Mr.

Witcher.

Let's start with where we are in time.

What year are we talking about and where does the central action take place in your story?

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