Seduced by Madness

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.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Pogash
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.08.2008
• EAN: 9780061535673
• ISBN: 978-0-06-153567-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, TRUE CRIME: Murder / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Criminals & Outlaws, TRUE CRIME: Historical, TRUE CRIME: Murder / Serial Killers, LAW: Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Criminology, TRUE CRIME: Murder / Mass Murder