Susan Wright (murderer)

[3] Susan Lucille Wright was born on April 24, 1976, in Houston, Texas, to Sue Wella (née Tschoepe) and Jimmy Lawrence Wyche.

In 1997, while working as a restaurant waitress in Galveston, Texas, she met Jeff Wright and they married in 1998 while she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their first child.

[4] The crime occurred at the Wright family house in the White Oak Bend subdivision[5][6] in an unincorporated area of northwest Harris County, Texas.

On January 18, Wright asked her attorney, Neal Davis, to come to her home and admitted to stabbing her husband.

Davis contacted the Harris County's district attorney's office to inform it that a body was buried under Susan Wright's house and that she had confessed to the killing.

Assistant district attorney Kelly 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 his client had suffered years of physical and emotional abuse by her husband and killed him to protect herself and her two young children.

She testified that on the night of the murder, Jeff Wright was on a cocaine binge and was violent, having allegedly beaten her.

She contended that Susan Wright was a "card-carrying, obvious, no-doubt-about-it, caught-red handed, confirmed, documented liar" whose frequent shows of emotion during the trial were deliberate efforts to influence the jury.

In 2014, Canadian director Chloe Bellande released a 17-minute short film titled Will of Fortune, which was inspired by the murder trials of Wright and Guy Turcotte, a man who had stabbed his two children to death in Canada.