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Pagan Kennedy: The Secret History of the Rape Kit
Episode 44
This week on Wicked Words, years ago author Pagan Kennedy wondered about the history of the rape kit, a crucial tool for investigators today. Who designed it? She found out that it was Martha Goddard…
Published on 5 months ago
Brendan Koerner: The Skies Belong to Us
Episode 43
Plane hijackings aren’t very common anymore. But in the late 1960s and early 1970s, armed criminals were forcing commercial airliners to divert their flights, oftentimes demanding ransom. Author Bren…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Hallie Lieberman: The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Episode 42
For years, a predator preyed on gay men in Atlanta. He was known as the Handcuff Man. He attacked male sex workers, disfigured them, and then left them for dead. Journalist Hallie Lieberman wrote a f…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Joseph Cox: Dark Wire
Episode 41
In 2018, the FBI discovered that high level criminals around the world were using encrypted devices to plot intricate crimes. When a powerful, secure new app began courting these syndicates, members …
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Avril Speaks: Uprooted
Episode 40
In 1986, 17-year-old Keith Warren was found hanging from a tree in Silver Spring, Maryland. His sister wanted answers—how did he die? It was ruled a suicide, but there were so many suspicious things …
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Lana Hall: The Incel Terrorist
Episode 39
This is a story about a landmark case in Canada from just a few years ago. A teenager attacked two women in a massage parlor in Toronto in 2020. He killed one and seriously injured the other. When he…
Published on 6 months ago
Lise Olsen: The Scientist and the Serial Killer
Episode 38
Dean Corll was a serial killer in Houston in the early 1970s. He kidnapped and murdered more than two dozen missing teenage boys before he was murdered by one of his accomplices. Decades later, a for…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Marcia Clark: Trial by Ambush
Episode 37
It’s been 30 years since the infamous OJ Simpson trial, and the lead prosecutor Marcia Clark has had quite a career since then. She writes fiction and nonfiction books, including the one we’ll talk a…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Elyse Graham: Book and Dagger
Episode 36
Did you know that some of the most effective American spies during World War II were librarians and archivists and history professors? Some were locked in the basement of the Library of Congress, ana…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Craig A. Monson: The Black Widows of the Eternal City
Episode 35
We don’t talk a lot on this show about female killers, but author Craig Monson has brought me a fascinating story right out of a Hollywood film. His book, The Black Widows of the Eternal City, center…
Published on 7 months ago