This is exactly right.

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He terrified and confounded the FBI's top criminal profilers

and this case went on to be such a bombshell

that the FBI has concealed a good portion of it

and is also continually asking the public's help in locating and identifying other victims.

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 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. 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 Maureen Callahan.

I am a critic at large at the New York Post,

an investigative journalist and author.

The disappearance of this young girl

from a roadside coffee stand in Anchorage, Alaska

was so terrifying to Alaskans themselves, but the local police

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