Susan Polk
True Crime All The Time
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4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Susan Polk was convicted of murdering her husband of 20 years, respected psychologist, Felix Polk in 2002. Susan claimed that the killing was self-defense but the prosecution argued that she killed Felix for money and custody of her children because of a contentious divorce. The two were married for 20 years and had 3 children together at the time of the murder.
Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the life and crimes of Susan Polk. Everything about this case is the stuff that tabloids thrive off. The pair met when Susan was just a teenager and a patient of Dr. Polk. He later divorced his wife to marry Susan. She would later claim that Felix drugged and raped her as a teenager while she was under his care. Susan's trial was sensationalized by the media as she defended herself and made some outrageous claims, leading many to question her mental health.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirete and we are the hosts of a Red Handed a weekly true crime podcast |
| 0:05.7 | Every week on Red Handed we get stuck into the most talked about cases from the Idaho student killings the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga |
| 0:14.7 | Last year we also started a second weekly show |
| 0:17.6 | Shorthand which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like |
| 0:22.6 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana and unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood |
| 0:26.8 | The gruesome history of European witch hunting and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction |
| 0:32.8 | Whatever the case we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior |
| 0:37.8 | Like can someone give consent to be cannibalized what drives a child to kill and what's the psychology of a terrorist |
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| 1:27.5 | You |
| 1:29.5 | Hello everyone and welcome depth so 195 of the true crime all the time podcast |
| 1:34.8 | I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in true crime might Gibson. Give me how are you? |
| 1:39.7 | Hey, man. I'm doing good about you. I'm doing really well, man |
| 1:42.6 | You know, I'm getting caught up from |
| 1:45.9 | Being in the hospital with my daughter |
| 1:47.9 | and actually we just went today to get |
| 1:50.6 | To do like the follow up right and all the test results came back great the genetic testing |
| 1:56.9 | We walked out of that feeling like you know 10 million dollars. That's great |
| 2:01.4 | So I just want to throw that out there because I know a lot of people have been worried and they've |
| 2:05.9 | passed on their their their messages |
| 2:08.4 | So just want to tell everybody things are really looking up good good |
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