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Susan Lucille Wright
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Susan Lucille Wright (born April 24 1976) is currently serving a 25-year jail term for murder for tying her husband, Jeff, to their marital bed and stabbing him 192 times. Early Life Wright was born as Susan Lucille Wyche in Houston, Texas. At the age of 18, she was a topless dancer for two months. She married Jeffrey Wright in 1998 after meeting him in Galveston. Soon there after, she was a stay-at-home mother of two. The Crime and Trial On January 13 2003, Jeff Wright — 98 lbs. heavier and 12 inches taller than Susan — was found dead, buried in a hole he created, attached to a dolly. Susan went into a shelter and gave reports of a black eye and filed a protection order against Jeff, a few days after he was dead. Finally, Susan went to her mother and just hung her head when the mother asked if she killed her husband. However, prosecutors — more specifically lead district attorney Kelly Siegler — said that Susan sweet-talked her husband into a what should have been a night of romance on the night of the murder. The couple disrobed. Then the lights were out and the candles were burning. Then, according to prosecutors, Susan ties Jeff up to the bed using neckties and a terry cloth on one leg. Susan would then proceed to make superficial cuts to Jeff's penis before stabbing him to death. His body would be found almost a week later. In early 2004, at the trial which was covered by CourtTV, Seigler re-created the infamous scene with her male assistant prosecutor by getting on top of him and straddling him in the way in which she said Susan did to her husband before killing him. The medical examiner also said at the trial that all 193 stab wounds were on the front of Jeff's body, saying that he was tied down, completely defenseless, before the stabs. In her defense, Susan said that she was a victim of domestic violence, saying that she stabbed her husband "in the penis for all the times that he made me have sex, and I didn't want to and I couldn't stop." Some wondered in the nationally televised trial if she was really a victim or was testifying in order to gain sympathy. Conviction In March 2004, the jury pondered Susan's fate. The jury seemed to be having trouble — until they came across the now-infamous bed. Then, after eight days of deliberation, the jury found her guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her husband. She was sentenced to 25 years in prison and will not be eligible for parole until she serves almost 13 years of the sentence. Jeff Wright's family, in the meantime, is working to terminate Susan's parental rights. Susan Wright maintains a profile on WriteAPrisoner.com.
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