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

Eugene Burt is a family man, the father of two little girls and the husband of a lovely woman, Anna Powers. But Burt has a past peppered with violence, some that he caused, some that he witnessed when, as a teen, his father took him to crime scenes. Would his past affect his future actions?   Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producers Jason Wehling, Alexis Amorosi, and Natali...

The seventh season of Tenfold More Wicked is called “The Annihilator.” It’s a historical true crime story that takes place in late 1800s Austin, Texas. This is a case about a man with a troubled past, someone who witnessed the aftermath left by a notorious serial killer. But did seeing that crime scene cause him to kill in virtually the same way, twelve years later?   Support this podcast by shopp...

Author Mark Pinsky details the complicated story of a double murder...the killing of a philanthropic couple in Montgomery, Alabama. Their son was the main suspect, but was he being controlled by someone else?   Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink   Support this podcast by shopping our latest spo...

Father and daughter writers Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester investigated the unsolved murders of women in the early 1970s in the nation’s capital. Who was the main suspect? Blaine and Victoria have someone in mind...  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink  Support this podcast by shopping our la...

The Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers in the 1800s that murdered people who visited their home in rural Kansas. Author Susan Jonusas offers us a compelling profile of four mysterious killers who terrified America in the 19th century.   Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink  Support th...

Award-winning journalist Vivian Ho exposes a shattering true-crime story, shedding light on America's new lost generation and investigating two murders that are connected to a troubled trio.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink   Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and prom...

Author Patricia Pearson reunited with her high school boyfriend to investigate the murder of his sister, Theresa Allore, in Canada thirty years earlier. And what they discovered about her likely killer was disturbing.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink  Support this podcast by shopping our lat...

Author Mike Vance makes his second appearance on our show, this time to talk about notorious defense attorney James Brockman and his most controversial cases...including Brockman’s own murder.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink   Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and pr...

What if you realized as an adult that your beloved childhood babysitter was a serial killer? Liza Rodman and her co-writer Jennifer Jordan unveil Liza’s harrowing story of her time with murderer Tony Costa.   Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink  Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponso...

Author Yudhijit Bhattacharjee unravels the story of a would-be spy who was (fortunately) tripped up by something he couldn’t control. Find out how the FBI derailed his plans to sell America’s military secrets.   Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink   Support this podcast by shopping our latest sp...

Author David Crow’s father Thurston Crow was a suspected killer who claimed to be a Native American while he raised his children on various reservations. This is a story survival story. But The Pale-Faced Lie turned out to be a controversial book because David admits to committing crimes, including covering up a murder.    Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amor...

For centuries, killers have used poison to cover up murders…but chemicals are complicated, and poisonings are easy to botch. Find out about some of the world’s most famous cases with author Neil Bradbury.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink   Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor...

Author Kevin Birmingham transports us to 1800s Paris, where a charming robber became a killer; the public’s response appalled a Russian writer so much that he penned a novel about it. It became one of history’s most important literary works.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink   Support this po...

Author Kendare Blake tells us about the true crime story that inspired one of her fiction books. In 1958, Caril Ann Fugate was blamed for the murders committed by her boyfriend, Charlie Starkweather. Was Fugate a cold-blooded killer, or a terrified teenager?  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink ...

In the mid-1970s a serial killer preyed on women and girls in South Florida, leaving their bodies in canals across the area. Author Michael Burns describes the suspects, including one very well-known predator. Was Ted Bundy responsible?  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink  Support this podcast...

You might have heard of Belle Gunness, one of America’s most famous female serial killers. But author Harold Schechter explains that her murderous motives were more complicated than we might think. How did she die?  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink   Support this podcast by shopp...

Are there myths about the FBI? Yes...says retired agent Jerri Williams. In this episode, she helps break down the Polly Klaas case from the FBI’s point of view.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink   Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this li...

A 20-year-old dancer dreams of becoming a star in 1920s Hollywood; when she finally becomes famous it’s because of her death, not her life. Author James Stewart tells why there is still so much mystery around her life...and why she died.   Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ils...

Tenfold More Wicked presents the premiere episode of Buried Bones, Exactly Right's newest historical true crime podcast. Buried Bones dissects some of history’s most dramatic true crime cases from centuries ago. Together, journalist Kate Winkler Dawson and retired investigator Paul Holes explore these very old cases through a 21st century lens.  Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts. Su...

Prolific true crime author Diane Fanning recalls the story from her youth that inspired her first book about her time with a serial killer who admitted to a murder to her...and no one else. Find out why.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink  Support this podcast by sh...

Dr. Ann Burgess helped shape criminal profiling at the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit in the 1970s; Dr. Burgess has long been recognized as one of the leaders in the field of victimology. In their book, Dr. Ann Burgess and Steven Constantine focused on the victims, but also profiled the killers.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/sound des...

Vanity Fair writer Joe Pompeo uncovers unpublished details about one of the most fascinating cases found in the annals of true crime, the Hall/Mills murders. Pompeo investigates a story that fuses religion, betrayal, greed, and adoration, which offers us a complex and tragic portrait of a love story that seemed almost doomed from start.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/produ...

A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sierra Crane Murdoch’s book details a Native American woman’s fight to uncover the killer of a White man on the reservation where she grew up in North Dakota.   Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink  Support this podcast by shopping our latest...

The tale of Lizzie Borden is one of America’s great true crime mysteries and no one has researched the case more deeply than author Cara Robertson. Find out new details about the suspected killer who might have gotten away with murder.    Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa...

Author Stephen Davis details for us a harrowing story about hundreds of passengers who are held for months in Kuwait as they sit right in the middle of a war.  Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink   Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotio...