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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.
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Foley’s football-playing boys, Tim and Dan, would be watching the games without him. He was needed in the town of Wellesley, the dispatcher told him; the local police were requesting he respond to Morses Pond. Foley jotted down some directions, and with an entrance to the Massachusetts Turnpike right down the street from the ME’s office, he was quickly rolling west toward Wellesley. A seasoned trooper, Foley had investigated white-collar crime for eight years while assigned to the Massachusetts Attorney General, but he had been in Norfolk County for less than a year and had never worked with the Wellesley Police Department.
When he got closer, he observed a wound on her forehead. ” Foley asked. “The first time I touched her, I checked her carotid artery on the right side. That was closest to me,” he told the detective, demonstrating with his right index and middle fingers pressed together on his neck. ” Foley said. “I tried to pick her up,” the husband answered. “I couldn’t pick her up. She was like dead weight. She weighs a hundred and twenty pounds. I used to be able to lift two hundred and fifty pounds. Now, I couldn’t lift her.
Waiting for someone to respond that morning, she had mentally gone through the list, hoping it would not be this one or that one. Her experience level had grown significantly, but some of the veteran State Police detectives she knew would probably send her for coffee or assign her to a menial role in this, her first murder case. During the five-minute ride to the police station, Foley observed that Dr. ” In the second-floor detective office, Foley sat down with the doctor to explain the need for his clothing and sneakers, suggesting his daughter Britt could bring a change of clothing.
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