Wicked Words - Melissa del Bosque: Bloodlines

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this episode author Melissa del Bosque takes us through her investigation into one of Mexico’s deadliest drug cartels and how it infiltrated American horseracing, leaving so many victims dead. Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink/additional research Ella Middleton Subscribe to my newsletter: tenfoldmorewicked.com 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) 2021 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is
0:02.0	this is exactly right.
0:06.0	This story contains adult content and language.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.3	I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.
0:20.0	I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked on Exactly Right.
0:25.2	I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.
0:28.2	I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom, and they are all excellent writers.
0:34.6	They've had so many great true crime stories and now we want to tell you those stories
0:39.4	with details that have never been published.
0:42.0	Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.
0:46.8	It's a deep dive into the stories, behind the stories.
0:52.1	You know, tell me your name and kind of the title you like to go by.
0:54.8	Sure, Melissa Del Bosque and I'm a freelance investigative reporter.
1:00.1	Melissa Del Bosque is an author who wrote a recent book called Blood Lines, the true story of a drug
1:06.1	cartel, the FBI, and the battle for a horse racing dynasty.
1:10.3	Melissa spent time in Mexico reporting on how one cartel run by three brothers
1:15.0	created an unprecedented amount of violence and how they were finally caught in
1:20.0	part thanks to two FBI agents.
1:23.4	I think the major themes are the drug war in Mexico and how it changed for the worse in 2010
1:29.7	with the Zetas rising up through the ranks and becoming their own cartel. It's also about
1:36.2	political corruption, money laundering, and horse racing.
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