This audition dramatizes the Bathsheba Spooner murder case, the story of the first woman tried and executed for murder in the United States.

This Crime Classics broadcast aired on December 3, 1952. It is listed as episode 0 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Mary Jane Croft, William Johnstone, Tudor Owen, Georgia Ellis, and Herb Butterfield. Other credited names include Elliott Lewis as director, Elliott Lewis as producer, Morton Fine as writer, David Friedkin as writer, and Lou Merrill as host.

The surviving recording runs about 30 minutes.

This version is based on The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner.

Other versions or closely related recordings in the archive include The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner (June 15, 1953), another recording of the same script.

This surviving item is preserved as audition recording.