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

Most of us have heard about Jesse James and Butch Cassidy—those are two of the most famous outlaws in the American West. But a band of brothers called the Reno gang ruled an area of Indiana in the 1860s. They were robbers, safecrackers and counterfeiters. And while they committed crimes, they were also trying to dodge the famous Pinkerton detectives. Author Rachel Dickinson tells me about her book, The Notorious Reno Gang.
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A 24-year-old woman went on a Tinder date in Nebraska and never came back home. Days later, her dismembered body was found and investigators homed in on a couple who had a long history of crime. The discoveries that the police made about them are disturbing. Author Chet Hardin tells me about his book, The Vampire’s Cult.
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Arthur Conan Doyle created one of literature's great characters, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was analytical, methodical, and brilliant. Doyle modeled Holmes not after a real detective but after a surgeon he admired: Joseph Bell. In her new book, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes, New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris tells me about the cases Bell solved.
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This is a fascinating case. In 1969, police found the body of a young woman, tossed over the edge of Mulholland Drive in LA. She went unidentified for decades and her murderer was on the loose. Author Catherine Fogarty launched her own investigation and uncovered some secrets and some people that might help crack the case. She tells me about her book The Girl with No Name.
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Rene Denfeld is not only a novelist; she’s also an investigator who works on wrongful conviction cases. In her thriller, The Talking Bone, Denfeld uses her background and some of her cases to tell the story of a female investigator looking into the case of a man on death row in Georgia. And boy, did I learn a lot about what investigators can and can’t do.
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