By Carol Pogash
ISBN-10: 0061467707
ISBN-13: 9780061467707
In October 2002, the quiet northern California city of Orinda was once rocked through homicide while Susan Polk, the mum of 3 teenage boys, was once arrested for stabbing her husband and previous therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, to demise. The arrest and next trial speedy turned essentially the most noted homicide circumstances within the kingdom, as spectators and journalists realized the unusual heritage in the back of this stunning killing.
Now in Seduced via insanity, Carol Pogash--the major journalist operating the case--has written the definitive account of the Polk family members saga, providing a wealthy and textured new version of this stressful and tragic American story. reading the decadent tradition of California within the Nineteen Seventies, Pogash appears at how, during this interval of gear and sexual exploration, a fifteen-year-old Susan discovered herself stuck within the seize of Felix, her therapist--who, like others within the psychological healthiness career, fell for each passing development in psychological future health remedy. Culled from years of cautious learn, Pogash reconstructs the imprecise beginnings of the couple's sexual dating within the therapist's workplace, exploring how Felix's cozy perspective towards remedy blinded him to the advanced nature of Susan's psychological nation, and the way their mutual obsession with one another sealed their fate.
With lyrical prose, Pogash skillfully strains the Polks' story--from their early yearnings for each other via their incorrect marriage, which produced 3 very smart yet emotionally divided sons. Weaving a fancy narrative of a kinfolk who lived in multimillion buck houses yet lingered within the shadow of disorder, Pogash reassembles their existence within the years and months sooner than Felix's demise, in detail describing what led this soft-spoken spouse to murder.
Three years after Felix's dying, Susan Polk used to be attempted for first measure homicide, and right here Pogash presents a first-hand account of the wild, media-circus trial during which Susan defended herself and cross-examined of her sons. Illustrating how the prosecution and the court docket answered to Susan's unstable habit, Pogash takes you contained in the deliberation room and uncovers how jurors reached their outstanding verdict.
Filled with the main entire case evidence and interviews on hand, Seduced by way of insanity bargains an remarkable examine essentially the most beautiful homicide instances in recent times.