Posted 2/29/2004 01:41:00 PM by Douglas

I think at some point the blog is going to get a spin-off. There's obviously a need for a website that chronicles the crazy women in Houston that kill their husbands. Meet Susan Wright. She the latest Houstonian vying for the 2003 Clara Harris award.

Prosecutors, however, portrayed the 27-year-old mother as the one who inflicted terror. They say she tied her husband to the couple's bed and stabbed him 193 times before partially burying his body in the back yard and trying to hide the evidence.

Why did she stab him 193 times? Because 204 would have been ridiculous.

Prosecutors say Wright lured her 34-year-old husband to his death, seducing him with a candlelit bedroom, stripping him naked and tying his wrists and ankles to bedposts with neckties and bathrobe sashes.

This is what happens when Lifetime keeps running the edited version of Basic Instinct too often.

The mother wanted a new life but had religious qualms about divorce, Siegler said. Intent on walking away with a $200,000 life-insurance payout, she killed her husband and dumped his body in a shallow hole that he had been digging in their back yard to install a fountain, the prosecutor said.

First off, any spouse should be a little concerned when the other starts digging a hole in the back yard, but since he dug his own grave, we can just write that off as ironic. But she had "religious qualms about divorce?" Are you freakin' kidding? She's a stripper? She didn't have any "religious qualms" against grinding strange men's crotches for money, but drew the line at divorce? What about murder? That didn't ring any bells on her "religious qualm" meter? So on her moral compass, stripping and murder; OK. Divorce, not OK.

Davis said his client was suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome after enduring physical and emotional abuse from her husband and being raped by him just before she killed him.

As an accused murderer, she has the right to present any defense her lawyer sees fit. But I think it's awfully hard for her husband to rape her if he was tied to the bed.