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

Wicked Words - Michael Burns: The Flat Tire Murders

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the mid-1970s a serial killer preyed on women and girls in South Florida, leaving their bodies in canals across the area. Author Michael Burns describes the suspects, including one very well-known predator. Was Ted Bundy responsible? 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.

0:03.2

This story contains adult content and language along with references to sexual assault.

0:11.6

Listener discretion is advised.

0:17.4

We've got somebody abducting women.

0:19.5

Same victim type.

0:21.0

Same location.

0:22.0

Same location, same MO, and at that point the police

0:24.8

really knew we've got a problem. They were simply tricked. The car tires were

0:28.6

deflated and police said as an alert to women do not go with anyone if your car tire is deflated.

0:34.5

When you get in, check your car, make sure there's no one in the back seat.

0:37.6

Really terrifying sort of things to think about, but that was what happened after these murders occurred.

0:49.8

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

0:50.4

I'm also the host of the historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, as well as the co-host of the new show,

0:57.4

Buried Bones, both on exactly right.

1:00.1

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.

1:09.5

They've had so many great true crime stories and now we want to tell you those stories

1:14.3

with details that have never been published. Tenfold More Wicked Presents

1:18.6

Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

1:23.2

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

1:28.5

South Florida in the 1970s was one of the most dangerous areas of America and in the mid

1:34.2

1970s more than a dozen young women were killed and found in canals.

1:39.6

These murder

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