A Leading Case
Description
The tensions of a clandestine affair explode into tragedy, as a San Francisco woman poisons the wife of her lover. Cordelia Botkin, the rich but neurotic woman at the center of the case, is tried for murder in the courtroom drama that gripped the nation in 1920. The play is a dramatization of Frances Newbold's book on the case.
Sears Radio Theater was a radio drama anthology series which ran weeknights on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each evening's broadcast.
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