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Speaker 1: This feud is part of our local law here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: people know about it.

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Speaker 2: I think they were hot heads, and I think they

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Speaker 2: were willing to engage in a feud.

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Speaker 1: At the drop of the hat and somebody's honor had

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Speaker 1: been impugned.

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Speaker 3: These are two powerful families, two big families, and if

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Speaker 3: there was an affront against one of them, then that's

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Speaker 3: against all of them. And so here we go.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a true crime author and the

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Speaker 2: host of tenfold More Wicked On exactly right, And this

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Speaker 2: season is called blood Feud because it's about a deadly

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Speaker 2: feud between two very angry families in eighteen sixties Virginia.

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Speaker 2: The Clements were wealthy, but the Witchers were powerful.

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Speaker 3: Witchers are wild. These young men, they were wild. I

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Speaker 3: don't know what it is in the DNA, but we

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Speaker 3: don't behave well.

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Speaker 1: Clements were not in substantial people. They were well to

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Speaker 1: do people. I think the Witcheres in this instance may

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Speaker 1: have had more influence and more of an intimidation factor.

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Speaker 2: This season is about a poison marriage.

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Speaker 4: Maybe Victoria did dance with other men. They described her

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Speaker 4: as frivolous and fun loving, and why did she marry

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Speaker 4: him to begin with, he.

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Speaker 1: Sort of began to treat her like, you'll do what

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Speaker 1: I say, you don't need the house without me looking

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Speaker 1: at you, and all that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: It's about how the relationship between the families turned from

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Speaker 2: admiration to resentment to violence. Only one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: years ago, people just killed each other over public insults.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's basically Twitter, and it's about finding out

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Speaker 2: the truth about your family, even if it's not good.

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Speaker 4: I have lived this, and I have never heard any

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Speaker 4: of this. I never heard anything about abuse. I never

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Speaker 4: heard anyone say one unkind word about James Clemmer.

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Speaker 2: And after more than a year of threats, the feud

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Speaker 2: ends in a vicious massacre that would change both families forever.

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Speaker 4: I don't think anything good came out of it for anybody.

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Speaker 3: And why would it.

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Speaker 4: I think that's the way my parents felt about it,

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Speaker 4: and the way my grandmother and my great grandmother felt

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Speaker 4: about it.

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Speaker 1: A bad marriage and with the specific allegations of that divorce,

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Speaker 1: it was just a pot waiting to boil over and

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Speaker 1: it did.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kate Winkler Dawson and this is season five of

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Speaker 2: tenfold More Wicked. Season five of Tenfold More Wicked premieres

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Speaker 2: on Monday, March seventh on Exactly Right. Subscribe now on Stitcher,

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Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen.