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When I think of the story of the lynching of Timothy Coggins, I think of the story of segregation and race in America that this is a murder that happens

because a black man was talking to a white woman.

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. is I'm Wesley Lowry W-E-S-L-E-Y, Lowry is L-O-W-E-R-Y.

Yeah, and I'm just a journalist.

Wesley Lowry is more than just a journalist.

He's a fantastic storyteller and a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter.

And Lowry has written a painfully intimate portrait about a family searching for justice in rural Georgia

decades after a young man was murdered.

When I think of the Timothy Coggins story, I think of the failure of the government to procure

justice for Timothy Coggins, a black man who's been victimized.

And I think of a story of generational trauma that you had family members who now decades later were still harmed by this crime

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