Amanda and Sarah meet at the intersection of sex and crime with two very different stories. Amanda celebrates Women's History Month with the story of Jane Toppan, a nurse/serial killer believed to derive pleasure from drugging her patients to death. Sarah investigates the historical connections between execution by hanging, the mandrake root, and erotic asphyxiation. Other subjects covered include the masculine urge to send bad gifs, chore preferences, and bunny decor. 

Recommendations:

Amanda recommends the films Remember My Name and Cruising. Sarah recommends the book How to Keep House While Drowning.

Sources:

• “Autoerotic Deaths,” Practical Forensic and Investigative Perspectives
• Wikipedia/Erotic asphyxiation
• Wikipedia/Death erection
• BBC News (The plant that can kill and cure)
• "Myths and mandrakes" by Anthony John Carter
• Botanical.com (Mandrake)
• Wikipedia/Jane Toppan
• New England Historical Society (JOLLY JANE TOPPAN, THE KILLER NURSE OBSESSED WITH DEATH)
• NY Daily News (Killer Boston nurse finally went too far when she poisoned entire family in 1901)
• Find A Grave (Jane Toppan)
• Radford University (Jane Toppan “Jolly Jane”)

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