Is it a sin? Is it a crime? Love, and you do like I do.

If it's a crime, then I'm guilty.

Guilty of love in you.

Hello, and welcome to Criminal Brods, a podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.

I'm Tori Telfer, your host, author of two books called Lady Killers and Confident Women.

And before we get into today's story, which I have branded already on Instagram as a spooky vintage one,

I have a couple of news items for you, newsy-ish things.

Thank you so much for listening to last week's episode, the story of Sister Eli and the dark side of plea deals.

If you listened all the way to the end, you might have heard me bragging about a certain tote bag I have

from the Women's Prison Association and smugly saying that I didn't think there were any left.

But the jokes on me, folks, there are still some tote bags left.

And they are being held for Criminal Brods listeners.

So if you got all fired up by the episode and want to help,

if you become a recurring donor to the Women's Prison Association

and that can be $5 a month, you know, it doesn't have to be a lot of money,

although if you give a lot of money, that's amazing.

If you do that and you put Criminal Brods in your donation somewhere,

like in the box where it asks you if you want to leave any notes,

you will get a free tote bag.

So do it. I'll put the link in the show notes.

I'm going to put another link in the show notes that I'm about to tell you about.

But I've also had some people ask me what the show notes are.

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