Susan Polk was just 15 years old when she began seeing 40-year-old therapist Felix Polk. Within a year, their relationship allegedly became sexual. At 24, she married him. At 44, she stabbed him 27 times.
But this story is far more complicated than a wife murdering her husband. Susan claimed Felix had groomed, controlled, and abused her for decades, while prosecutors argued she killed him during a vicious divorce and custody battle. Then came one of the strangest murder trials in American history, where Susan represented herself, cross-examined her own sons, and made extraordinary claims about hypnosis, psychic powers, and government experiments.
This is the disturbing story of how a teenage patient became her therapist’s wife, his enemy, and ultimately, his killer.