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Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy
What drove Bathsheba Spooner, a woman from elite eighteenth-century New England society, to conspire with American and British soldiers to murder her husband during the American Revolution? Join historian Andrew Noone to explore the sensational true-crime story of a cold husband, a lovestruck teenager, British prisoners of war, and a beautiful, possibly unstable woman caught amid the upheaval of wartime New England. For centuries, the case has fascinated and baffled residents of central Massachusetts—and remains one of the most notorious true crimes of the 1700s.