This is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language,

along with references to sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

It almost seemed like in the fall of 1989

there was some wignancy in the air.

Just strange things started to happen.

It was a weird time.

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.

My name is Russell Mainz. I go by Russ and I'm a lawyer in Ithaca, New York.

Russell Maines was a reporter for the Ithaca Journal in 1989,

and he was there during one of the most notorious murders in upstate New York.

If you've heard my first season of Tenfold More Wicked,

you might remember the village of Dryden.

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