This is exactly right.

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along with references to sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

They are both murdered by the vendors, but why kill an 18-month-old?

Did that surprise you that they did that?

I think for a lot of people, it's really what just tips them over into truly monstrous territory.

Their crimes are obviously extremely awful anyway.

Mary is too young to be able to offer any kind of testimony or anything like that.

So there really is no reason to kill her.

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 Bones, both 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.

Authors. behind the stories.

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