This week on Menopause is Murder, Marguerite takes us back to Revolutionary War-era Massachusetts for the scandalous and tragic story of Bathsheba Spooner—the woman who became the first woman executed in the newly independent United States.Born into privilege as the daughter of a prominent Loyalist politician, Bathsheba seemed destined for a comfortable life. Instead, she found herself trapped in an unhappy marriage, caught in the chaos of the American Revolution, and carrying on a forbidden affair with a teenage soldier. When her husband, Joshua Spooner, turned up beaten to death and dumped in a well, investigators uncovered a conspiracy involving Bathsheba, her young lover, and two British deserters.But this case is about far more than murder. Was Bathsheba a cold-blooded mastermind? A desperate woman trying to escape an abusive marriage?

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