Right Or Wrong?

Was Susan Wright Pushed To The Edge When She Killed Her Husband?

(CBS)  “She was very believable to me, very believable. She had bruises on her arms that were consistent as to what she said happened,” says Deputy Scott Hall, who photographed cuts on her hands that Susan said she got when Jeff attacked her.

“I had thought she’d been assaulted and that she had a legitimate report she was making. I had no reason to suspect anything else.”

Five days after killing her husband, Susan says she had a horrible feeling that something was wrong, and talked to her mother about it.

“She asked if I killed him, and I just put my head down,” says Susan. “At this point, nothing was making sense to me.”

Susan’s mother knew her daughter needed a lot of help, so she contacted attorney Neal Davis. “She appeared to be completely out of touch with reality,” says Davis. “Because she appeared to think that her husband was still alive.”

Davis then checked Susan into a psychiatric ward, and contacted the district attorney’s office. “All I did was write down an address on the back of my business card,” says Davis. “I said, ‘There’s a dead body at this address, and I can’t say anything else.’”

The family of Jeff Wright says they never saw it coming. “I consider her some type of animal,” says Jeff’s father, Ron Wright.

Harris County Prosecutor Kelly Siegler says Susan Wright didn’t have to kill Jeff, and that there was a simpler solution: divorce.

“She plays the martyr very well,” says Siegler. “There’s nothing we could find that shows she’s telling the truth.”

As the trial begins, Siegler knows that the jury could easily sympathize with Susan. “Mitigating factor from Day One was she’s a pretty female,” says Siegler.

“You have to make them see it and feel it and relive what happened to the victim. That’s how you make a jury understand how horrible a crime it is.”

Siegler reassembled the blood-soaked bed on which Jeff was killed - in the middle of the courtroom, right in front of Susan, Jeff’s family and the jury. “The jury needed to appreciate how completely defenseless Jeffrey was when she did it,” says Siegler.

Siegler also demonstrated what police believe happened that night, and said it has nothing to do with self defense. Jeff’s body was found with neckties knotted around his wrists, and a terry cloth belt around one leg. Siegler told the jury they were used to lash Jeff to the bed: “So if the defendant were to get up on top of Jeffrey Wright - something like this - and straddle him.”

Siegler said Susan seduced Jeff into agreeing to be tied to the bed with the promise of unusual sex.

“She seduces him. She gets him nude. She gets herself nude," says Siegler. "She ties him up, like they had many times before, lights the candles to make him really think this is going to be a great romantic night.”

Siegler says Susan stabbed Jeff after she tied him to the bed. And she says that before Susan killed Jeff, she tortured him, making superficial slices to his penis. That’s a direct challenge to Susan’s claim that she killed her husband in self defense, when he came at her with a knife.

But Siegler thinks she can prove how the crime happened. Medical examiner Dwayne Wolf confirms that Jeff had used drugs before he was killed. But more importantly, he says that Jeff was tied down while he was stabbed.

“Out of his 193 stab wounds, almost all of them were on the front of the body," said Wolf. "And if a person is not restrained, they’d be moving. I’d be moving. I would have stab wounds predominantly on my back as I’m heading toward the door.”

[pamelann1]

What? Were you her cell mate in prison? I can tell you for a fact that her childhood was no picnic. In the end she murdered my friend Jeff and she will not see the light of day for at least 12 years. That''s half of her sentence. You know they don''t let out a murderess because of prison crowding. She is one of the most violent woman in history. 193 times.
I wish all of us could get online and talk together without a posting board. I respect your opinions but not one of you has accepted any of my personal insite. We all have things to learn or face in our life. I''ve been doing this a day or so and I''m wore out.

[cvalentini-2009]

awsome01, I''m glad to finally see someone on here that knows Susan.

[asome01]

That woman is a victim of violence at some point in her life. She sleeps in the fetal position! Ive seen it first hand and have worked with her for almost 4 years.

[cvalentini-2009]

Like I said earlier Pamela, you don''t know what went on behind closed doors and you even admitted that.

[cvalentini-2009]

BetsyRoss you need a reality check!

[pamelann1]

Susan Wright made up being abused. Ron Sr & Ron Jr, were both called to the stand. The defense lawyer could have tried to tear them apart and chose NOT to because both Jeff''s father & brother are exemplory people and are in good standing in their communities. Ron Sr''s comment about "We love our women" was a poor choice of words but I know him and he just meant the men in the family love their wives. The man is nearly 80 yrs old by now. This just about killed him. He is keeping Jeff''s memory alive for all of us in his actions & words. He raised his children right! Wright.

[pamelann1]

Susan Wright made up being abused. Ron Sr & Ron Jr, were both called to the stand. The defense lawyer could have tried to tear them apart and chose NOT to because both Jeff''s father & brother are exemplory people and are in good standing in their communities. Ron Sr''s comment about "We love our women" was a poor choice of words but I know him and he just meant the men in the family love their wives. The man is nearly 80 yrs old by now. This just about killed him. He is keeping Jeff''s memory alive for all of us in his actions & words. He raised his children right! Wright.

[myrtis21]

to Pam and Val. Quit the arguing. This woman was terribly abused and I can see how it drove her over the edge. What makes me mad is to read Ron Wright''s comment "We love our women." Really. Why didn''t the defense ever call Ron Wright to the stand and ask him if he had ever abused his wife and children. Something went wrong for Jeff to be so abusive. I hope and pray that Susan will get a second trial and a much stronger defense, that the judge will set her free, and that she will get her children back.

[betsyross4]

CVALENTI-I WATCHED 48HRS.YOU SEEM LIKE A MURDER GROUPIE.

[betsyross4]

JEFF FANS? HOW LUDICRIS...SHE KNOWS THINGS THAT 99% OF US DO NOT KNOW. LEAVE THE KIDS OUT OF IT PLEASE. SHE IS NOT A FAN BUT SHE''S APPEARS TO BE SAD AND ANGRY. DON''T ANTAGONIZE ONE ANOTHER, THIS IS TO SHARE NOT TEAR OTHER PEOPLE DOWN.

[cvalentini-2009]

To all of you Jeff fans, I guess this couldv''e been another O.J. Simpson case, Laci Peterson, etc. Maybe you would be satisfied then.

[cvalentini-2009]

I know what I do from what was brought forth with the case. Seems like your the one that didn''t know everyting.

[pamelann1]

I am best friends with that family and you do not know what they have been through. Bradley & Kailey are loved so much. The venom in which you write your "comments" is repugnant. Don''t talk about things you know nothing about. Shame on you. Those children have been at their permanant residence since Susan was denied bail. 5 years now.

[cvalentini-2009]

Sorry hun, I know who my Lord and Savior is. I''ll be with him when it''s my time.

[pamelann1]

Go straight to hell.

[cvalentini-2009]

So the story sounds even more bogus to me, he caught an assault charge for slamming his fist and cracking a table. It doesn''t matter how good looking he was, still doesn''t make it right what he did to her. As far as the Jury, they were caught up on the ties, I don''t recall any of them saying that they didn''t believe that he beat her. It''s a *** shame that His brother got those children. God Bless Them.

[pamelann1]

That''s exactly what happend. Jeff did not put his fist through anything. Jeff slammed his fist and cracked the glass. It seems to me that people would be interested in knowing more about Jeff. Lastly, 48hrs showed Jeff at his heaviest weight and bad angled pictures. He was a very good looking, good hearted man. If you choose not to believe me that''s fine but like BetsyRoss4 said "the jury didn''t believe her" Susan would have been acquitted if her defense lawyer could''ve proved that he wasn''t tied to the bed. And as a footnote, Her lawyer quit immediately after the trial. Since then she has had a public defender and has lost all her appeals. The children could finally be formally adopted by their Aunt & Uncle.

[cvalentini-2009]

Pamelann1,let me guess, Jeff told you that''s all that happened with the assault charge that he caught. Right? Of course.

[cvalentini-2009]

BestyRoss4, are you serious, lets start with the assault charge that he caught from his ex-girlfriend. That proves that he''s hit a woman before. What about the bruises that Susan''s sister, friends, etc. saw on her? What about the friend that would stay over in the next room so Jeff wouldn''t beat her that night? What about the bruises that she still had a week later when she went to the police. He must have given her a hell of a beating that time, Right? What about the person that lives in their house right now that said there was alot of sheet rock repair done to the walls. He must of through her into the walls quite a few times. What about when her sister got Susan, her kids, and Susan''s stuff and brought them to her house. Why do you think she did that? Did you even watch the show or read the story? Or are you another friend of Jeff''s?

[cvalentini-2009]

Pamelann1, so he got an assault charge for putting his fist through a table, thats very hard to believe. I come from a family of police officers.