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Houston, Texas, to Sue Wella (née Tschoepe) and Jimmy Lawrence Wyche. At the age of 17, she worked as a topless dancer at Gold Cup for two months. In 1997, while working as a restaurant waitress in Galveston, Texas, she met Jeff Wright and they married in 1998 while she
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During closing arguments, Siegler brought up to the jury how Wright had been a topless dancer and said she believed Wright's emotions were insincere. She contended that Susan Wright was a "card-carrying, obvious, no-doubt-about-it, caught-red handed, confirmed, documented liar" whose frequent shows
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Siegler depicted Wright as a scheming wife who seduced her husband into bed, tied him up, repeatedly stabbed him, and then buried his body in their backyard in hopes of collecting a $ 200,000 life insurance policy. Wright's defense attorney Neal Davis claimed that
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January 13, 2003, Susan Wright, 26, tied her husband, Jeff Wright, 34, to their bed and stabbed him 193 times with two different knives. She buried his body in their Houston backyard. She attempted to cover up the crime scene by painting the
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the night of the murder, Jeff Wright was on a cocaine binge and was violent, having allegedly beaten her. Wright again insisted that she stabbed her husband in self-defense. Susan Wright's mother testified for the defense, claiming they witnessed Wright's bruises.
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was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their first child. In 2002, a daughter was born. Mrs. Wright claims that her husband began to abuse her during the first few years of their marriage.
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and ex-fiancée of Jeff Wright, came forward to tell her story of how she endured abuse and violence during her four-year relationship with Jeff Wright.
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