Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson
Episodes
Tenfold More Wicked - A Blessing and a Curse: Panic
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lizzie Borden is acquitted but that section of Fall River isn’t free from its murderous past. Less than a century later, the nearby Catholic church ...
Tenfold More Wicked - A Blessing and a Curse: Family Ties
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bertha Manchester and another familiar name are whispered throughout Fall River in connection to Lizzie Borden’s upcoming trial. Eliza Borden and he...
Tenfold More Wicked - A Blessing and a Curse: …Took an Ax
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Decades after the death of Eliza Borden, someone is murdered with an ax. Not Lizzie Borden’s parents, but an innocent farm girl. How is she connecte...
Tenfold More Wicked - A Blessing and a Curse: Drowning
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1848 Fall River, Eliza Borden clearly needs help. She is struggling with depression and her husband, Lawdwick appears to be of little help. This wi...
Tenfold More Wicked - A Blessing and a Curse: A Hellscape
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On July 2, 1843, a deadly fire ripped through that section of Fall River, nearly destroying a large portion of the city, including the house next door...
Tenfold More Wicked - A Blessing and a Curse: Cursed
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is a section of Fall River, Massachusetts spanning just two blocks, where several media-grabbing tragedies occurred over a century. These were n...
Introducing: Tenfold More Wicked, Season Twelve
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is “A Blessing and a Curse,” the twelfth season of Tenfold More Wicked on Exactly Right. This season is very different from what we’ve done...
Tenfold More Wicked - Fire and Brimstone: Innocent
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Cornell Junior is arrested and put on trial for his mother’s murder. Rebecca’s spirit, which visited her brother, was a central witness. Wo...
Tenfold More Wicked - Fire and Brimstone: Wronged
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As investigators interview more witnesses, someone comes forward and recalls a disturbing conversation with Rebecca Briggs Cornell. She feared her son...
Tenfold More Wicked - Fire and Brimstone: A Wounded Family
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Briggs Cornell’s body is reexamined and something odd is found. Her son, Thomas, is interrogated for her murder if there was one. Was there ...
Tenfold More Wicked - Fire and Brimstone: Burned
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas and his family make a terrible discovery in his mother’s room one night in February of 1673. Rebecca Briggs Cornell led a respectable life on...
Tenfold More Wicked - Fire and Brimstone: A Cold Winter
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Briggs Cornell really dislikes her son’s new wife Sarah Earle. Rebecca is concerned that his daughter-in-law is violent. Her son, Thomas, ne...
Tenfold More Wicked - Fire and Brimstone: Pioneers and Puritans
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1673 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Rebecca Briggs Cornell and her husband Thomas are the town’s founders and have already survived a raft of t...
Introducing: Tenfold More Wicked, Season Eleven
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is “Fire and Brimstone,” the eleventh season of TENFOLD MORE WICKED, our oldest story yet. This time we’re traveling to colonial Rhode Isla...
Tenfold More Wicked - Entitled: Consecrated Ground
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Chiswell is found dead in his home. Was it suicide, murder, or even an accident? The middle and lower classes of Williamsburg don’t believe he’...
Tenfold More Wicked - Entitled: …Or Give Me Death
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Chiswell’s well-connected friends have saved him from a public jail, but they might not be able to save him from the noose. As his murder trial...
Tenfold More Wicked - Entitled: The Secret Court
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Chiswell holds a bloody sword, a blade he pulled from the body of Robert Routledge, a man he once considered his friend. But was it murder or sel...
Tenfold More Wicked - Entitled: The Mosby Tavern
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One morning in June, John Chiswell visits a favorite tavern, only to be confronted by a drunk, abusive merchant. At least that was Chiswell’s versio...
Tenfold More Wicked - Entitled: Treason
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Chiswell’s powerful son-in-law, John Robinson is gravely sick. Robinson is Chiswell’s most important business partners. They’re both keepin...
Tenfold More Wicked - Entitled: The Virginia Elite
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Colonel John Chiswell is one of Colonial Williamsburg’s most respected men. He married into a famous family and his daughter married one of the most...
Introducing: Tenfold More Wicked, Season Ten
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Entitled” is the tenth season of Tenfold More Wicked. It’s a historical true crime story that meets a political scandal in the colony of Virgi...
Wicked Words - Michael Finkel: The Art Thief
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode isn’t about a typical true crime story. There’s no murder, but there doesn’t need to be to make it a wild story. This is abou...
Wicked Words - Robert Wilhelm: So Far From Home
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of my most favorite blogs is one called Murder by Gaslight. It focuses on historical true crime. The writer behind it is Robert Wilhelm and he’s...
Wicked Words - Lisa Belkin: Genealogy of a Murder
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A writer’s stepfather is a researcher in a prison when he meets a prisoner---and they’ll change each other’s lives forever. This is a tragic tru...
Wicked Words - Casey Sherman: Helltown
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late ‘60s, a serial killer stalked women in New England. His name was Tony Costa. He was unusual because he spent a lot of time drawing in hi...
Wicked Words - Roseanne Montillo: The Wilderness of Ruin
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been fascinated with the story of Jesse Pomeroy in 1870s Boston. He’s the boy who murdered kids for quite a while before he was caught. What ...
Wicked Words - Nic Edwards: The Delphi Murders
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By now, most of you know the story of the Delphi murders. Actually, this wasn’t a case that I had kept up with. So that’s why this episode is inte...
Wicked Words - William J. Mann: Tinseltown
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I love 1920s Hollywood…it was full of glitz, glamour, controversy and murder. William J. Mann’s wonderful book: Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, a...
Wicked Words - Jennifer Wright: She Kills Me
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us know this, but women are just as capable of killing as men are. Yet most true crime stories cover men killing women, which makes sense, con...
Wicked Words - David Nelson: Boys Enter the House
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us know the story about serial killer John Wayne Gacy. I frankly don’t want to know more about Gacy. But I do want to hear about his victims...
Wicked Words - Mikita Brottman: Couple Found Slain
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In February of 1992, a 22 year old walked into a police station in Florida and confessed that he’d shot and killed his parents. He claimed that he h...
Wicked Words - Jillian Lauren: Behold the Monster
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would it be like to interview a serial killer? New York Times best-selling author Jillian Lauren knows. Her haunting account of confronting Samue...
Wicked Words - Bryan Burrough: Stephenville
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Best-selling author Bryan Burrough returns to his small-town Texas roots in the podcast, by Texas Monthly, called “Stephenville.” This season he ...
Wicked Words - Alex Mar: Seventy Times Seven
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of one of America’s youngest death row inmates is tragic and complicated. How did a young woman in 1980s Indiana end up in prison? Alex M...
Wicked Words - Maurice Chammah: Just Say You’re Sorry
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maurice Chammah hosts a podcast called “Smoke Screen: Just Say You’re Sorry.” It tells the story of a brutal murder of a woman who was disparag...
Wicked Words - Margalit Fox: Conan Doyle for the Defense
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most incredible stories in true crime is the tale of Arthur Conan Doyle and how he helped free a man…who was innocent of murder. Author M...
Wicked Words - David Grann: The Wager
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You can’t beat a story about an eighteenth-century mutiny and survival and then conflicting accounts. Author David Grann has written about the epic,...
Wicked Words - Roxanna Asgarian: We Were Once a Family
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most of you have probably heard the story of the Hart family, the couple that drove a car off a cliff with all of their adopted children inside. Our g...
Wicked Words - Tiddy Smith: Death by Talons
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most studied murder trials in recent history is the case of Kathleen Peterson, which was featured in the TV series, The Staircase. Author T...
Wicked Words - Sandra Hempel: The Inheritor’s Powder
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A wealthy man is poisoned in 1830s England, and there are many suspects, including several heirs. Would coffee grounds prove to be crucial evidence in...
Wicked Words - Nathan Masters: Crooked
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A man is found dead from a gunshot wound in Washington DC in 1923. He’s an aide and a confidante to a powerful politician, the attorney general of t...
Wicked Words - June Hur: The Red Palace
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever heard of the Rice Chest Prince? It’s a real story from Korean history, and it’s a fascinating look at the dynamic between a king and...
Wicked Words - Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The brutal murder of a 3-year-old shocked Victorian England not only because of how it happened, but because of who the police suspected. Could one of...
Wicked Words - Benjamin Gilmer: The Other Dr. Gilmer
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Dr. Benjamin Gilmer takes over a small clinic in North Carolina, he was told that he is actually the second Dr. Gilmer to practice there. The fi...
Wicked Words - Jax Miller: Hell in the Heartland
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This story centers on a terrible crime in 1999 rural Oklahoma. Two parents were murdered and two teenaged girls in the same trailer went missing. Auth...
Wicked Words - Amit Katwala: Tremors in the Blood
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most controversial tools used by investigators is the lie detector. It’s used often to intimidate suspects and sometimes it’s responsib...
Wicked Words - Katherine Corcoran: In the Mouth of the Wolf
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In some parts of the world, one of the most dangerous jobs you can have is being a journalist. Author Katherine Corcoran writes about a ground-breakin...
Wicked Words - Richard White: Who Killed Jane Stanford?
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1905, many people seemed to have a reason to kill one of the richest women in America and Stanford University’s co-founder, Jane Stanford. Author...
Wicked Words - James T. Bartlett: The Alaskan Blonde
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a powerful businessman in Alaska is murdered in his bed in 1953, the police believe that it might have been a break-in gone wrong. But as details...
Wicked Words - Cristina Rivera Garza: Liliana’s Invincible Summer
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liliana Rivera Garza lived in Mexico and journaled everything about her life until she was murdered. Her sister, author Cristina Rivera Garza, looked ...
Wicked Words - John Little: The Donnellys
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1840s, an Irish family lived in constant turmoil after starting a feud with their entire town in Canada. When tensions rose in the town, the fa...
Wicked Words - Jamie Gehring: Madman in the Woods
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How well do you know your neighbor? Author Jamie Gehring discusses how for decades she and her family had no idea they were living right next-door to ...
Wicked Words - Gregg Olsen: American Mother
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid-1980s Stella Nickell was suspected of murdering her husband using headache pills laced with poison. Author Gregg Olsen describes the panic ...
Introducing Tenfold More Wicked Presents: Wicked Words, Season 3
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Winkler Dawson's true crime talk show Tenfold More Wicked Presents: Wicked Words is back for its third season. On each new episode of Wicked Wo...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Wolf Among Us: The Trial
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On our final episode, John Tawell is facing the noose for murder. His wife, Sarah Appleby, seems to be standing by his side. Will he die on the gallow...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Wolf Among Us: The Escape
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Tawell, dressed as a Quaker, rushed to the train station in London after leaving Sarah Hart, dying, on the floor of her cottage. As he sits on th...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Wolf Among Us: Prussic Acid
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1845, John Tawell is frantic because the mother of two of his children is demanding more child support. He leaves London on New Year’s Day with a...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Wolf Among Us: Two Sarahs
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A lot has happened to John Tawell over the past twenty years. His wife has died and her nurse is now his mistress. Sarah Hart wants more from John Taw...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Wolf Among Us: Down Under
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Tawell is caught as a forger, but the Quakers convince the Crown to send him to a penal colony in Australia. He seems like a dedicated family man...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Wolf Among Us: The Quaker
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1814, John Tawell seems to have a wonderful life. He’s a husband, a businessman and a devout Quaker in England. But Tawell can’t seem to stay o...
Introducing: Tenfold More Wicked, Season Nine
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The ninth season of Tenfold More Wicked is called “The Wolf Among Us.”It’s a historical true crime story about a man who used his religion to cl...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Morphine Murderess: Deceived
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Crawford goes on trial for murdering her sister, Elise. The police hope to find more evidence by exhuming the bodies of the other family members...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Morphine Murderess: In Mourning
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elise Crawford is dying in her aunt and uncle’s home in New Orleans. Aunt Mary is alarmed by Annie’s calmness. Elise and Annie are both keeping se...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Morphine Murderess: In the Swamp
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Agnes Crawford and her parents Emma and Walter are now dead. Annie and her surviving sisters move in with their Aunt Mary; unfortunately, Annie a...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Morphine Murderess: Toxic
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Agnes Crawford and her father Walter are dead within weeks of each other; still, doctors offer diagnoses that aren't unusual for the time. How co...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Morphine Murderess: Poisonous
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Agnes Crawford lays dying in her family’s home on Chestnut Street in New Orleans. The doctor who treats her is puzzled and offers a surprising ...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Morphine Murderess: Nanny
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1910 New Orleans, Annie Crawford is the modest sister of three very vibrant young women. While they stroll the cobblestone streets wearing fashiona...
Introducing: Tenfold More Wicked, Season Eight
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The eighth season of Tenfold More Wicked is called “The Morphine Murderess.” It’s a historical true crime story about a quiet, meek woman who w...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Annihilator: Three Victims
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the last episode of this season, Eugene Burt faces a trial for murdering his family. His loyal brothers might be able to save him, but does Burt wa...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Annihilator: On the Run
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eugene Burt’s brothers try to sort out why he would kill his wife and, especially, why he would kill his two little girls. While investigators searc...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Annihilator: The Murders
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Investigators in 1896 Austin, Texas make a horrific discovery in Eugene Burt’s basement. It’s a sad ending for a once happy family. But now Burt’...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Annihilator: Falling Apart
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eugene Burt’s life seems to be falling apart in the summer of 1896. He’s under stress because his beloved brothers—his financial backers—begin...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Annihilator: The Midnight Assassin
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1884 and 1885, a series of terrible murders all points to one serial killer, dubbed the Servant Girl Annihilator. Eugene Burt, then a teenager, acc...
Tenfold More Wicked - The Annihilator: The Burts
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Introducing: Tenfold More Wicked, Season Seven
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Wicked Words - Mark Pinsky: Drifting into Darkness
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Mark Pinsky details the complicated story of a double murder...the killing of a philanthropic couple in Montgomery, Alabama. Their son was the ...
Wicked Words - Blaine Pardoe + Victoria Hester: Tantamount
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Father and daughter writers Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester investigated the unsolved murders of women in the early 1970s in the nation’s capital....
Wicked Words - Susan Jonusas: Hell’s Half-Acre
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 offe...
Wicked Words - Vivian Ho: Those Who Wander
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning journalist Vivian Ho exposes a shattering true-crime story, shedding light on America's new lost generation and investigating two murder...
Wicked Words - Patricia Pearson: Wish You Were Here
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author Patricia Pearson reunited with her high school boyfriend to investigate the murder of his sister, Theresa Allore, in Canada thirty years earlie...
Wicked Words - Mike Vance: The Most Dangerous Attorney in America
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author Mike Vance makes his second appearance on our show, this time to talk about notorious defense attorney James Brockman and his most controversia...
Wicked Words - Liza Rodman + Jennifer Jordan: The Babysitter
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Wicked Words - Yudhijit Bhattacharjee: The Spy Who Couldn't Spell
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Wicked Words - David Crow: The Pale-Faced Lie
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 reservat...
Wicked Words - Neil Bradbury: A Taste for Poison
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Wicked Words - Kevin Birmingham: The Sinner and the Saint
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author Kevin Birmingham transports us to 1800s Paris, where a charming robber became a killer; the public’s response appalled a Russian writer so mu...
Wicked Words - Kendare Blake: Stranger Than Fiction
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Wicked Words - Michael Burns: The Flat Tire Murders
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 desc...
Wicked Words - Harold Schechter: Hell’s Princess
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You might have heard of Belle Gunness, one of America’s most famous female serial killers. But author Harold Schechter explains that her murderous m...
Wicked Words - Jerri Williams: FBI Myths and Misconceptions
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 po...
Wicked Words - James Stewart: The Blue Sea Cottage
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 J...
Presenting: Buried Bones - "The Valet Did It?"
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tenfold More Wicked presents the premiere episode of Buried Bones, Exactly Right's newest historical true crime podcast. Buried Bones dissects some of...
Wicked Words - Diane Fanning: The Serial Killer and the Author
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 admitte...
Wicked Words - Dr. Ann Burgess + Steven Constantine: The Real Mindhunter
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Wicked Words - Joe Pompeo: Reverend Hall and Ms. Mills
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Wicked Words - Sierra Crane Murdoch: True Crime in Indian Country
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 reserva...
Wicked Words - Cara Robertson: Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Wicked Words - Stephen Davis: A Hostage Crisis
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Wicked Words - Nate Eaton: The Vallows and the Daybells
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Idaho journalist Nate Eaton moved to Idaho from Virginia to relax with his family. Little did he know that he would be drawn into one of the biggest t...
Wicked Words - Sarah Weinman: Quite a Scoundrel
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve met author Sarah Weinman before when she unraveled the real story of the novel Lolita. Now Weinman tells us about killer Edgar Smith, who mani...