Susan Wright was a victim...who admitted to killing her husband Jeffrey in their Harris County home in 2003, by stabbing him to death in self-defense. She recounted a harrowing tale of domestic abuse-one that the raging mother of two finally brought to an end-her way.
But prosecutors had a story of their own...
Susan Wright was a seductress...who set the mood for kinky sex with her unsuspecting husband. After tying Jeffrey to the bed, Susan straddled him, stabbed him 193 times with a butcher knife, then buried his body in a makeshift grave in their backyard.
Justice would not come easy. The fury was just beginning.
The bloodstained theatrics that unfolded in the Houston courtroom would stun jurors, make national headlines, and brand Susan Wright as both a desperate martyr on the edge and
a brutal killer who would be brought to justice.
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Taking the writer's style aside that many readers did not enjoyed, I am going to focus in why this case is interesting and in 2003-2004 people were captivated by this case.
According to the evidence, on Monday, January 13, 2003, Susan Wright, 26, tied her husband Jeff Wright, 34, to their bed and stabbed him at least 193 times with two different knives. Following the incident, she dragged his body to the backyard of their home and buried him. In an attempt to clean up the crime, she tried painting the walls of the bedroom. She also went to the police station the following day to report a domestic abuse incident and obtained a restraining order against Jeff, in order to explain his disappearance.
Just five days later, on January 18, Susan Wright called her attorney, Neal Davis, to come to her home, where she admitted to stabbing her husband and burying him in the backyard. Davis informed the Harris County district attorney's office of the body and that she had confessed to the crime. On January 24, Wright turned herself in at the Harris County Courthouse and was arraigned for murder charges a few days following.
The trial itself was unique. They brought the bed where Jeff died and the assistant district attorney re-enacted in a very visual manner how the prosecution thought the murder happened. The book ends without the reader knowing what happened to Susan.
In 2005, the 14th court of Appeals of Texas upheld Susan's conviction. There was a new appeal in 2008, when a new witness, Jeff's ex-fiancee came forward to tell her story of the four years of abuse and violence she endured with Jeff Wright.
There was a new trial in 2010 that focused on the medical examiner's finding in Jeff's body included the high level so of cocaine and defense wounds.
In 2010, Susan Wright's sentenced was reduced to 20 years in prison which is five years less than her original sentence. Susan was denied parole in 2014 and again in 2019. Finally, Susan was released on December 30, 2020 at the age of 44.
There is footage of her coming home with her mother from prison and she is asking the press for privacy foe her and her family. She is not in contact with her now grown children.
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