CORONA — Susan Polk, who was convicted in a widely publicized case of fatally stabbing her estranged therapist husband in the pool house on their Orinda mansion property 13 years ago, will not ...

Susan Polk is accused in the 2002 stabbing death of her husband after a heated argument at the pool house at the couple s home in Orinda, Calif. (Courtesy The Polk Family via The New York Times ...

They were broken on that awful night at the pool house, when Susan Polk saw with that sickening clarity that life as she knew it was over. Not just for her husband, but for her.

In Polk’s case, the county placed a lien on her house in August 2005 to collect reimbursement at the end of the trial if the county considered it appropriate. That lien is now $219,373.13.

Susan Polk walks into court on the first day of her murder trial Tuesday morning, Oct. 11, 2005, in Martinez, Calif. Polk is accused of murder in the death of her 70-year-old husband.

Susan Polk was charged with murdering her husband. ... Was that going on in your house? Eli Polk: I think my dad definitely tried to break my mom. I really do. He did try to break my mom.

Two of Susan Polk’s three sons testified against her in court, one after finding Dr. Frank “Felix” Polk’s dead body in the pool house. But although Susan argued self-defense, prosecutors and police ...

CORONA — Susan Polk, who was convicted in a widely publicized case of fatally stabbing her estranged therapist husband in the pool house on their Orinda mansion property 13 years ago, will not ...

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Susan Polk, the 51-year-old ... Gabriel, found his father's bloody body in the family's pool house and called police. Polk claimed she stabbed her husband in self defense after years of abuse.

EVEN BEFORE the wife of Susan Polk's lawyer turned up dead, her murder case had all the makings of a Hollywood drama, complete with sex, drugs and physical abuse against the backdrop of one of the ...