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

Wicked Words - Katherine Corcoran: In the Mouth of the Wolf

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In some parts of the world, one of the most dangerous jobs you can have is being a journalist. Author Katherine Corcoran writes about a ground-breaking reporter who risked her life to expose corruption in Mexico… and then she was murdered. 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) 2023 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is

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adult content and language.

0:07.0

This story contains adult content and language.

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Listener discretion is

0:25.9

what was strange is first of all there was no forced entry like if it were a street robbery or something, you'd see the door broken down. They didn't take anything except some cash that she had in a drawer, and so she called a

0:31.8

locksmith to get her locks changed and the locksmith said when he looked at how the whole thing had happened he said this was definitely a professional job. I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin,

0:49.8

Texas.

0:50.8

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, and the co-host of the

0:55.8

podcast Buried Bones on Exactly Right.

0:58.9

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show, and they are all excellent writers.

1:04.6

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

1:09.4

details that have never been published.

1:11.8

Tenfold War Wicked presents wicked words is about the choices

1:15.3

that writers make good and bad. It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

1:28.0

One of the most dangerous jobs you can have in some parts of the world is being a journalist. Author Catherine Corcoran pinned the book in the mouth of the Wolf about a groundbreaking reporter who

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risked her life to expose corruption in Mexico and then she was murdered.

1:41.6

This story is important to you and it's a personal story to you. You and I spoke on the same panel at the Texas Book Festival and it was really great hearing the story from your point of view.

1:54.1

I usually ask people at the very end,

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how does the story impact you,

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but how the story impacted you

2:00.0

is actually why you began reporting the story to begin with.

2:03.2

So just kind of tell us a little bit about the process of what happened,

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