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The true story of the Susan Polk murder case.
Harper
September 2008
On Sale: September 1, 2008
432 pages
ISBN: 0061535672
EAN: 9780061535673
Mass Market Paperback
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She was fifteen when she visited the
therapist; still a teen when they first had sex. She was
twenty-five when she married him and forty-four when she
killed him. In October 2002, Susan
Polk, the soft-spoken mother of three teenage boys, was
arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr.
Felix Polk, to death. Three years later she was tried for
first degree murder, choosing to act as her own attorney in
a trial that rapidly devolved into one of the most
outrageous media circuses in modern history. To a crowded
courtroom, Susan Polk presented her defense—a bizarre story
of unethical therapies, abuse, repressed memories, and
satanic rituals—and, in doing so, exposed her madness. Carol
Pogash was there. Seduced by Madness is the
remarkably compelling, profoundly disturbing true story of
the severe dysfunction of an affluent American family, as
told by the leading journalist who worked the case. It is a
spellbinding re-creation of a troubled life, a marriage, a
murder, and a terrifying, inexorable descent into madness.
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