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a story contains adult content and language.

Listener discretion is advised. When I would read Charlotte's journal entries, her letters, her emails, she suffered so much saying, is this the time for

tough love? Should we cut them off financially now? She did every possible thing to

save her son.

And he was manipulated beyond belief.

Yeah.

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, as well as the

co-host of the new show show Buried Bones, both on exactly right.

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

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom,

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 More 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.

Author Mark Pinsky wrote a book called Drifting into Darkness. It's a harrowing story about the murder of a couple in 2004 in Montgomery, Alabama.

Their estranged son was the killer,

so this isn't a who-done it, but why?

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