Housewife who claims psychic powers convicted of killing therapist husband

AP ^ | 6/16/06

[GI-Frog]

MARTINEZ, Calif. A strange trial in a San Francisco suburb has ended with a suburban housewife convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her therapist husband.

Defendant Susan Polk acted as her own attorney. Two of her sons testified against her, and she testified she had psychic powers.

Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction, arguing that Polk plotted to kill her husband in 2002 for his multi-(m) million-dollar estate.

Polk testified her husband died as she fought back in self-defense following years of abuse.

She'd met him when she was a teenager and he was her therapist. Polk also told the jury her psychic powers had warned her of the Nine-Eleven attacks but her husband kept her from telling authorities.

Susan Polk faces a mandatory sentence of 15 years to life.

[day10]

Psychic powers?

[Sam's Army]

I'm psychic as well. For instance, I knew that you would post this article.

[synbad600]

I knew you were going to say that.

[Yo-Yo]

I wonder if she saw this coming?

[BJClinton]

You clearly aren't a psychic because this is already posted here.

[Sam's Army]

I knew that you knew it.

[GI-Frog]

According to my psychic powers, Lifetime Channel will turn this into a movie of the week...

[Dumpster Baby]

You NEVER see help wanted ads for psychics in the papers - they just KNOW where the 24-hour psychic hotline jobs are and just go there. Each psychic hotline company needs 3 complete shifts of psychics a day to man the phones, and that adds up to a LOT of psychics, but you never see any ads for them in the papers. 8^)

[Auntie Mame]

ping

LOL

[gov_bean_ counter]

Dang, now

psych_ _ic

Can I buy a vowel?

"o"!!

Yes, I'd like to solve the puzzle

psychotic

[SmithL]

Her son testified that she was Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, during the trial, but the technical term is "Psycho-Ceramic*".

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*crackpot

[BenLurkin]

I'm reminded of this famous corollary to Murphy's Law: "Never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself."

[gov_bean_ counter]

Maybe...

Never sleep with your patient. He had to know what he was dealing with.

[dighton]

Susan Polk faces a mandatory sentence of 15 years to life.

“You will soon depart for a long journey.”

[NonValueAdded]

She should have seen that one coming ...

[builder]

I knew that I would read this post.

[romanesq]

I see another funny thread where we will meet again. I see a small 6 x 9 room. You will sleep there often.