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This story contains adult content and language.

listener discretion is advised. Jane Stanford, she embarrasses the university a great deal,

because the university is trying to be a respectable new research university and at the same time

the founder of the university and the person for all practical purposes in charge of his finances

is consulting with mediums.

She attracted a lot of mediums.

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,

and the co-host of the podcast Buried Bones on exactly right. I've traveled

around the world interviewing people for the show 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.

Tenfold War Wicked presents, wicked words, is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

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

Stanford University's co-founder Jane Stanford was a mess.

Her husband and beloved son were dead.

Stanford's officials despised her.

Jane abused her servants, and then she was murdered.

Author and Stanford professor Dr. Richard White

tells us about the wealthy eccentric's troubled legacy

and her mysterious death.

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