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Speaker 1: Welcome to the tenth season of tenfold More Wicked on

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Speaker 1: exactly right. This time, I head to Williamsburg, Virginia to

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Speaker 1: explore a case from my favorite era in history, the

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Speaker 1: mid eighteenth century, ten years before the American Revolution. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Kate Winkler Dawson, a true crime historian and author.

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Speaker 1: During my travels, I meet experts and local historians to

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Speaker 1: learn about the deaths of three men in colonial Williamsburg.

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Speaker 2: It's the most interesting true crime case that you've never

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Speaker 2: heard of, that is extraordinarily well documented for what it is.

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Speaker 1: Two of the men are members of the wealthy gentry

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Speaker 1: class and one is a common merchant.

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Speaker 3: Just as people today feel pressure, they actually take some

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Speaker 3: desperate measures to.

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Speaker 2: Protect their family, protect their reputation.

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Speaker 1: Each death in some way changes history. Their stories illustrate

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Speaker 1: how desperate times lead to desperate actions.

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Speaker 4: We're not talking about a switch flade. We're talking about

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Speaker 4: something that might be a foot two feet long, right,

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Speaker 4: it's meant to do damage.

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Speaker 1: This season of tenfold More Wicked is about protecting the

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Speaker 1: wealthy and the powerful.

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Speaker 3: All of these people know each other and are inter married.

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Speaker 3: And what do we love more than rich people behaving badly, and.

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Speaker 1: A group of frustrated colonists rising up against power and privilege.

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Speaker 1: This is season ten of Tenfold More Wicked. Season ten

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Speaker 1: premieres February twelfth on Exactly Right. New episodes every Monday.

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