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

William J. Mann: Tinseltown

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

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

I love 1920s Hollywood…it was full of glitz, glamour, controversy and murder. William J. Mann’s wonderful book: Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood details the story of a mysterious, unsolved murder of film director William Desmond Taylor. Did Mann solve Taylor’s murder, 100 years later? Maybe. 

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0:26.4

This story contains adult content and language.

0:30.1

Listener discretion is advised. This is one of those cases that will always interest people. You want to be able to keep looking for new clues and

0:45.4

new windows into these stories. I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin,

0:59.2

Texas. I'm also the host of the historical True Crime podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, and the co-host of the

1:05.1

podcast Buried Bones on Exactly Right.

1:08.3

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show, and they are all excellent writers.

1:13.8

They've had so many great true crime stories and now we want to tell you those stories with

1:18.8

details that have never been published.

1:21.1

Tenfold War Wicked presents wicked Words is about the choices that

1:24.9

writers make good and bad. It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

1:32.6

I love 1920s Hollywood.

1:35.0

It was full of glitz, glamour, controversy, and murder.

1:39.0

William Mann's wonderful book, Tinsultown,

1:41.8

murder, morphing and madness at the dawn of Hollywood details the story of the mysterious unsolved murder of film director William Desmond Taylor.

1:51.0

Did Mann solve Taylor's murder 100 years later? Maybe.

1:58.4

So this is 1922 Los Angeles. Set the scene for me, crime, politics, mobsters, what's happening between

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