Wicked Words - Vicki Erwin: The Mysterious Murder of Mrs. Mortimer

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Author Vicki Erwin introduces us to 1930s Depression-era Missouri where a prominent woman in a small town is assaulted and murdered. Did her husband, the wealthy attorney, do it? Or was it another suspect? This was a case that sparked allegations of racism and privilege during the Great Depression. Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink/additional research Ella Middleton Subscribe to my newsletter: tenfoldmorewicked.com Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: [email protected] Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2021 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:04.0	This story contains adult content and language along with references to sexual assault.
0:12.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.5	Her family had no closure on this.
0:18.5	You think it's somebody that she knew.
0:20.0	I do.
0:20.6	Maybe she had no fear.
0:21.8	And the person, for some reason reason wanted to cover that up.
0:28.1	I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.
0:33.0	I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast,
0:35.9	Tenfold More Wicked on Exactly Right.
0:38.2	I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.
0:41.1	I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home
0:43.9	studio over Zoom and they are all excellent writers. They've had so many great
0:49.1	true crime stories and now we want to tell you those stories with details that have never been published.
0:55.0	Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.
0:59.0	It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.
1:05.5	Vicky Irwin is an author in St Louis and she loves a good historical true crime story.
1:11.4	There has been a ton of crime in Missouri.
1:14.6	It seems like a very innocent state to me for some reason.
1:17.6	I would say, no, it is not.
1:20.1	One of the reasons that people talk about, there's so much crime in Missouri,
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