According to the Latin Epitome de Caesaribus and the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius (as epitomized by Photius), Fausta was executed by being cast into boiling water,[3] in connection with the death of Crispus, whose death was reportedly caused by her allegations of sexual impropriety.[4] The mode of assassination not otherwise attested in the Roman world. David Woods offers the connection of overheated bathing with contemporaneous techniques of abortion,[5] a suggestion that implies an unwanted, adulterous pregnancy according to Constantine's biographer Paul Stephenson.[6]