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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson
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Today: #160 in True Crime on our combined chart.
Today: #194 in True Crime, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #114 in True Crime, Philippines on our combined chart.
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Ranking history · United States
Latest daily rankings: Oct 27. New rankings will appear after the next update.
Position on the True Crime combined chart over the last 14 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.
Episode releases
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | #160 | #140 |
| Oct 23 | — | #194 |
| Oct 21 | #159 | #137 |
| Oct 20 | #147 | #124 |
| Oct 15 | — | #199 |
| Oct 14 | #180 | #162 |
Latest episodes
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Lindsey Fitzharris: Sleuth-Hound
October 26, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minArthur 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…
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Catherine Fogarty: The Girl with No Name
October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minThis 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…
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Rene Denfeld: The Talking Bone
October 12, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minRene 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…
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Jack El-Hai: The Case of the Autographed Corpse
October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 5 minIn the 1930s, a Indigenous man was targeted by prosecutors in the murder of his wife. He claimed he was innocent. And a high-profile author who created an iconic detective series believed him. Jack El-Hai tells me the story at the center…
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Ashan Singh: What Happened to the McStays?
September 28, 2026 · 55 minIn 2010, Joseph and Summer McStay were living in California with their two young sons when they vanished from their California home. They were missing for three years before their skeletal remains were found in an unmarked grave in the…
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James T. Bartlett: True Crime Burbank
September 21, 2026 · 60 minJames T. Bartlett has been with us before. He wrote a book called The Alaskan Blonde, about a woman who was accused of murdering her husband in 1953. Now James and I are traveling from Alaska down to Burbank, California with his new…
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Maria DiLorenzo: Confessions of the Green River Killer
September 14, 2026 · 58 minWhen crime journalist Maria DiLorenzo began writing to Gary Ridgway, she had no idea where it would go. He began calling her—hundreds of times. Their conversations were supposed to lead to big revelations and to clues about women who might…
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Steve Meyers + Shawn Johnson: How to Rob a Bank
September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 5 minIn the 1990s, a bank robber known as “Hollywood” robbed at least 19 banks in the northwest. He was pursued for years until one final robbery ended in violence. My guests are an interesting duo: one is the FBI agent who chased him and his…
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Kimberly Sheeter: Air-Minded
August 31, 2026 · 57 minMy next guest is an author who began writing a biography and then turned it into a novel. And I don’t blame her. The story of Earnest Pletch may be largely unknown now, but in 1939, he became famous. He took a flying lesson, he brought a…
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Dawson Fearnow: Incognito Inc.
August 24, 2026 · 56 minThis is the third time I’ve had Dawson Fearnow on the show—he writes about Arizona and some of the bad things that happened there. He’s talking to me about a piece he wrote for Phoenix Magazine called "Incognito, Inc.: Arizona’s Secret…
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Tori Telfer: Criminal Broads
August 17, 2026 · 54 minAlright, I have a great podcast for you. It’s called Criminal Broads and it’s hosted by Tori Telfer. The stories focus on women as criminals. She tells me about a bank robber and a dirty doctor, as well as some others. Join my Patreon!…
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Maurice Chammah: The Last Twelve Weeks
August 10, 2026 · 57 minI’ve had my buddy, Maurice Chammah, on the show before. He’s a journalist with the Marshall Project, and a leading authority on the death penalty. He has a podcast out called: The Last Twelve Weeks. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the…
About the show
Welcome to Tenfold More Wicked Presents: Wicked Words, Kate Winkler Dawson's true crime talk show. On each new episode of Wicked Words, Kate interviews journalists, podcasters and authors about their fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from their investigations in the world of true crime, many of which have never been shared before.
Kate interviews Patricia Cornwell, the prolific true crime author about her book Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper – Case Closed, she heads to Texas with veteran journalist Rena Pederson to discuss her coverage of an uncatchable jewel thief during the swinging sixties, chats with podcaster and journalist Mandy Matney from the Murdaugh Murders Podcast and so much more. These are the stories behind the stories.
Also in this feed is host Kate Winkler Dawson’s true crime limited series, Tenfold More Wicked.
Season 12 - A Blessing and a Curse
Season 11 - Fire and Brimstone
Season 10 - Entitled
Season 9 - The Wolf Among Us
Season 8 - The Morphine Murderess
Season 7 - The Annihilator
Season 6 - The Echo of Murder
Season 5 - Blood Feud
Season 4 - Tiger Woman
Season 3 - Murder in the Court
Season 2 - The Body Snatcher
Season 1 - All That is Wicked
Wicked Words is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.