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She overdosed someone on accident

and tried to cover it up with atropine and did it and she said oh now I can really do it.

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, 10. is a 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.

My name is Mary Kaye McBrayer.

Mary Kay has written a book about one of America's most infamous female serial killers. a who was born with the name Anora Kelly before the woman she worked for changed it to

Jane Toppin.

And soon Toppin would be synonymous with murder and grief.

We're in Lowell, Massachusetts,

which is outside of Boston, by I think about 40 minutes

contemporary transportation.

And Anora Kelly is born in Lowell in 1854.

Lowell is very conservative town, very waspy also,

so lots of Protestants, zero Catholics,

which is important in the context because her parents are Irish immigrants.

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