Snapped Susan Wright

Status: Incarcerated

In Oxygen's Snapped, Season 1, episode 10 the story of Her husband, Jeff Wright and Susan Wright is shown. This happens in the state of Texas. Oxygen describes this show as: Susan Wright, a middle class housewife, claims self-defense after tying her husband Jeff Wright to their bed, stabbing her husband 193 times, and burying his body in their backyard in January 2003.

Susan Wright is Convicted of murder, 25 years in prison

Her appeal includes:

A jury found appellant guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her husband, and assessed her punishment at twenty-five years' confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division.   Appellant's primary issue on appeal is that the trial court erred in permitting the prosecution to stage an in-court demonstration of its theory of how Jeff Wright died, because it caused the jurors to confuse high drama with reality.

Appellant claimed her husband raped her and then threatened to kill her with a knife.   Hearing the threat, appellant struggled with Jeff Wright for the knife and, during the struggle, stabbed him.   Thus, appellant claims she began acting in self-defense.   The State, on the other hand, claimed appellant seduced her husband, tied his arms and legs to the bed as part of the seduction, and then murdered him.   The in-court demonstration showed where and with what appellant tied her husband and the location of the knife wounds.

You can write to Susan Wright at:

Susan Wright 1220418

Murray Unit
1916 North Highway 36 Bypass
Gatesville, TX 76596

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