Housewife who claims psychic powers convicted of killing therapist husband

[Carol]

MARTINEZ, Calif. A strange trial in a San Francisco suburb has ended with a suburban housewife convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her therapist husband.

Defendant Susan Polk acted as her own attorney. Two of her sons testified against her, and she testified she had psychic powers.

Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction, arguing that Polk plotted to kill her husband in 2002 for his multi-(m) million-dollar estate.

Polk testified her husband died as she fought back in self-defense following years of abuse.

She'd met him when she was a teenager and he was her therapist. Polk also told the jury her psychic powers had warned her of the Nine-Eleven attacks but her husband kept her from telling authorities.

Susan Polk faces a mandatory sentence of 15 years to life.

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