This week we look at Tenfold More Wicked: Wicked Words.

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Historical crime is a hard thing to cover. With monotone hosts or lack of research it can too easily be made to seem like a story so far away in time and place that it never existed. That’s why what host Kate Winkler Dawson has done with the Exactly Right network is all the more impressive. Dawson is professor, crime historian, author and has reported for the likes of The New York Times, WCBS News and many more. On the level of Crimes of the Centuries this podcast has everything expected of a grade A show (gripping narrative, well researched, voices from those close to the cases) and so much more. For those who find older cases to be boring or unrelatable this podcast will change that. In all honesty I do love a period piece but Dawson transports listeners through history without sounding like she’s reading from a script. Instead every episode has the tone of a chilling true campfire story. Originally the show released case specific seasons that were 6 episodes long each but after the third season the podcast started a new series in the same feed made up of episodes that covered individual cases. These individual case episodes are now produced in between the main seasons and involve Dawson interviewing an expert in the case (usually an author). I’ve mentioned before how I generally am not a fan of interview podcasts but this is one of the good ones. Host and guest work together to tell very interesting stories. So far there are six main seasons and 58 standalone. On average, episodes are about 40 minutes long. It’s difficult to tell the most popular episodes/season because of this uniquerelease schedule and Owltail’s faulty algorithm. Moving forward I’m not sure Owltail can be trusted to reliable report the most popular episodes. My favorites are hard to choose because they are all so good. If you haven’t heard the pod before I would start with the first season’s first episode “All That is Wicked: The Schutts” or if you’re looking for an individual case episode, try “Bryan Burrough: The Demon Next Door.” Music is perfect.

Similar pods: Accused, Buried Bones, and Ye Olde Crime. 

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