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

Wicked Words - Patricia Pearson: Wish You Were Here

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

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Author Patricia Pearson reunited with her high school boyfriend to investigate the murder of his sister, Theresa Allore, in Canada thirty years earlier. And what they discovered about her likely killer was disturbing. 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.

0:12.2

Listener discretion is advised. I think he really really was driven by the need to restore the dignity of first just

0:28.2

Teresa but then increasingly all of these women to the point where he's now become the lead expert in Quebec on if

0:35.3

you want to know whether a woman is missing and murdered you call John Allure.

0:48.0

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, as well as the co-host of the new show, Buried

0:55.2

Bones, both on exactly right.

0:57.6

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

1:00.6

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom and they are all excellent writers.

1:07.0

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.

1:14.5

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

1:20.7

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

1:24.0

Author Patricia Pearson wrote,

1:29.0

Wish you were here, which is part investigative journalism and part memoir because she wrote this book with her high school boyfriend 40 years after they broke up.

1:39.0

In 1978, Teresa Allure Wittmensing in Quebec Canada, and decades later, her brother John enlisted

1:46.2

the help of Pearson to discover who killed her and if her murderer was a serial killer.

1:58.0

Let's talk about how you came to this book because this is a very personal book for you. So where we start is in the 1970s with me with a high school boyfriend and me entering into the realm of his sort of shattered

2:08.4

family a year after his sister went missing for six months and then was found dead in a river.

2:14.4

And I had a three-year relationship with him and had a complete in Susian,

2:19.7

teenage lack of empathy and understanding for what his family was going through.

2:25.0

I sort of understood the facts, but the facts weren't that clear.

2:28.6

It seemed that she perhaps had died of a drug overdose.

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