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

Wicked Words - Kendare Blake: Stranger Than Fiction

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Author Kendare Blake tells us about the true crime story that inspired one of her fiction books. In 1958, Caril Ann Fugate was blamed for the murders committed by her boyfriend, Charlie Starkweather. Was Fugate a cold-blooded killer, or a terrified teenager? Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink 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) 2022 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:06.0

This story contains adult content and language.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:18.0

I mean, I think he's a creep. The impression that I get of Charlie is a young man who has a huge chip on his shoulder, thinks the world is out to get him,

0:25.6

thinks that everyone is judging him, judging themselves against him and finding themselves better. I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin,

0:41.0

Texas.

0:42.0

I'm also the host of the historical True Crime Podcast,

0:44.8

Tenfold More Wicked, as well as the co-host

0:47.4

of the new show, Buried Bones,

0:49.5

both on exactly right.

0:51.2

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show. I've

0:54.3

interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom and they are

0:58.9

all excellent writers. They've had so many great true crime stories and now we want to tell you

1:04.7

those stories with details that have never been published. Tenfold More Wicked

1:09.1

presents wicked words is about the choices that writers make, good and bad.

1:14.4

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

1:19.9

This episode is a little different for us.

1:22.0

Kendar Blake is a writer, but she's a fiction writer,

1:25.4

a New York Times best-selling fiction writer.

1:27.9

So why is she on Wicked Words when we normally only feature non-fiction storytellers because Kindar has done a tremendous

1:35.2

amount of research to write her book all these bodies and that research was on a real

1:40.7

spree killer who murdered 11 people in the Midwest.

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