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Listener discretion is advised. How do you know you're not being poisoned? Your friends and family are all smiling kindly at you.

How do you know one of them isn't trying to murder you?

And of course you didn't know, you didn't know. 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.

A wealthy man is poisoned in 1830s England and there are many suspects including several heirs. Will Coffey Grounds proved to be crucial evidence in a murder case that helped change forensics?

Sandra Hemphill in her book, The Inheritor's Powder, tells us the story of a determined chemist who shifted the outcome of a historic case.

Will you just set the scene for me of where you want to start the story?

Where are we? What's the time period like politics all of that for context right the

time context is as you said it's a really fascinating time it's just before the beginning of the Victorian era

Victoria came to the throne in 1837 so the king on the throne at the time was William the fourth, her uncle, who is largely unknown.

We go normally from the Georgians to the Victorians and everyone forgets about poor old

William stuck in the middle.

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