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Susan and Valerie discuss how to mistakenly think you’ve murdered someone and get away with it.
Show notes:
- Pumpkin and Bean is a rejected podcast name. My Mom used to call me ‘Pumpkin’, I used to call Valerie ‘Bean’. We’ve often wondered about, “Why vegetables?”
- The Witch Elm
- The taxonomy of crime
- Burglary: Breaks into a house to steal — no one’s home.
- Aggravated Burglary: Breaks into a house, someone is home — they’re carrying a weapon.
- Robbery: Someone is home, and the burglar threatens them with violence to get valuables.
- Aggravated Assault (or Aggravated Robbery): Burglar stabs or shoots the resident while escaping.
- The novel draws inspiration from a real-life news article about four boys who discovered a skeleton in a Wych Elm in 1943, leading to the graffiti “Who put Bella in the Witch Elm?” -so you can indeed, fit a whole body in a Witch Elm, however, the 1943 body in the witch elm was a 5 foot lady.
- The Invisible Man
- Autoerotic Asphyxiation – asphyxia that results from intentionally strangling oneself while masturbating, in an attempt to heighten sexual pleasure by limiting the oxygen supply to the brain.
- Kill the Next One