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Susan Mae POLK |
Polk testified that Felix punched her three times in the face,
rubbed pepper spray in her eyes
and dragged
her to the ground before
unsuccessfully stabbing at her with the knife.
Prosecutors suggest
that her minor
physical injuries — red discolorations around her
eyes,
a welt on her shoulder and bite marks to her hand — disprove her claim
that
her husband was the aggressor.
"I have the knife! I have the knife!" Polk told jurors she warned her
husband after she grabbed the 4-inch
paring knife from his grib and
before she stabbed him. The kitchen utensil, she said, was "everyone's
favorite." And so she washed it, dried it and put it back in the
kitchen drawer after stabbing her husband
27 times with it, she said,
in an attempt to bring return to normalcy after a traumatic
experience.
She turned it over to her former attorney who gave it to
investigators in April 2005
while Polk was briefly out on bail.
Polk claims Contra Costa County authorities doctored the crime
scene to try to make
an act of self defense
look like an act of
cold-blooded murder. She has also accused
detectives of pouring water
on her
husband's body to make the dried blood appear
wet. Prosecutors
say the accusations are baseless.
Detectives say they found Susan's footprints and hair at the crime
scene. Strands of her hair were also
found in Felix's hands. A
forensic pathologist testified that Polk had defensive wounds on his
arms,
hands, and feet; numerous stab wounds to his chest, including a
5 1/2-inch wound that punctured
his lung; and a laceration to his head
that appeared to be the result of blunt-force trauma.
Susan Polk
Susan Polk
Susan Polk in the courtroom of Judge David Flinn.
Susan Polk in the prisoner holding area in the courtroom of Judge
David Flinn speaking
to Contra Costa
Sheriff Deputy Mike Dowdle.
Susan Polk
Susan Polk
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