The trial of Susan Polk has caught my interest. She is accused of murdering her husband 4 years ago. They met when she became his patient in her mid-teens. He was a very successful psychologist. He was 50 and she was 25 when they married. She is currently serving as her own defense after her previous attorney's wife was found murdered at his home last year.
She claims her husband was stabbed during a struggle for a paring knife. She also claims he had been emotionally and physically abusive to her and her 3 sons for years.
Out of her 3 sons, ages 19-23, only the middle son, aged 20, is standing beside her. The other 2 sons recently settled a wrongful death suit against their mother. During their time on the stand, both of these sons have expressed that their mother was delusional and often spoke of killing their father. At one point in the trial, one of her sons told her she was "the embodiment of evil" and later stated she was "cuckoo for cocoa puffs".
The one son that is standing beside her, Eli, is constantly in trouble. He's spent time in a juvenile detention center for beating another boy with a flashlight. Also, the day his father was killed, he led police on a high-speed chase. He goes on trial again soon for being accused of battering a girlfriend. He does, however, maintain his mother's innocence, and claims that his father instigated many family troubles.
This is quite a story. You can go to courttv.com to follow the trial.
Anyway, I have a gazillion things running through my head, and it's time I start getting it out :)
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