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She's lived on both sides of the law.

She's really law savvy. She knows what it means to be a criminal and she had worked in law enforcement. She'd studied law enforcement in college. So she has a sense for how these cases could work.

And she's also from Indian country,

so she understands that jurisdictional complexity

that very often is consequential for tribal members,

but in this case was becoming consequential for a non-tribal member too.

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.

Tenfold More 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.

Author Sierra Crane Murdoch has written a true crime book about a woman investigating a true crime herself.

It's called Yellowbird, oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice

in Indian country.

In this book, Sierra explores the story of an amateur detective in her

troubled history and how she manipulated people to help solve a case.

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