In January 2003, 26-year-old Texas mother of two, Susan Wright, lured her husband, Jeffrey Wright, into their room with a promise of sex, tied him up before stabbing him 193 times.
Jeffrey had been abusive to Susan and her two children, and the day she decided to end his life, he had come back from a boxing class drunk, and high on cocaine. She killed him and buried his body in a shallow grave in the family backyard.
Image: The prosecutor can be seen on the family bed in court
When prosecutor Kelly Siegler took up the case, she brought the family’s bed into the courtroom to demonstrate how Susan had tied up her husband before stabbing him multiple times to get his $200,000 life insurance policy.
Susan maintained her innocence and declared she acted in self-defense. But the jury didn’t believe her story. Susan was subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison and was released on Parole in December 2020.