This is exactly right.

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Listener discretion is advised.

For... discretion is advised. For a hundred plus years nobody had thought about this case

at all but at the time it was probably the most sensational murder case that had ever happened in the city.

People were, as you can imagine, mesmerized by the details of all of this and then to have

it not resolve itself?

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

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.

Mike Vance is an author in Houston, Texas, and he's written a book called Murder and Mayhem in Houston.

It's a compilation of true crime stories

in one of the state's most historically fascinating cities.

And Mike tells me about a case from 1910, the brutal murder of an entire family that has many unexpected twists.

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