The Trial of Susan Polk

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Dateline NBC aired the story of Susan Polk on Friday night. Did you see it?

It was quite interesting because this case is in front of the jury right now as I write.

What is more fascinating is that MSNBC has an online poll asking viewers if they think Susan Polk murdered her husband or acted in self-defense.

Guess what?

69% of people believe Susan Polk acted in self-defense. Only 31% believe it was murder.

Quite surprising!!

I am certain Susan Polk acted out in murder. Count me in the minority.

I’ve only watched the first 1/2 of the show. I will be watching the 2nd half tonight on my DVR, but I have no doubt that my opinion will remain. I called out to my husband after seeing Susan speak for 30 seconds — “I don’t trust her. I don’t know why, but I don’t trust her.” And I haven’t swayed from that with all the information presented. In fact, the information has actually cemented my opinion even further.

Why am I so solid?? Because Susan was inconsistent in her speech. Her supposed actions didn’t match the character she is trying to portray.

According to Dateline, Susan Polk married Felix Polk — who was 25 years her senior when she was 25. They had three children. What Dateline hides from you early on is that Susan met Felix when she was in high school — when she was 15 and he was 40. She was introduced to Felix because he became her therapist. Susan was down, depressed and needed help — and according to Susan’s mother — Felix seemed to be the perfect antidote for her daughter — because she saw instant improvements in her daughter’s attitude and behavior after she visited with Dr. Polk. Susan’s mother firmly believed Dr. Polk was a great therapist.

Felix was married, but apparently made moves on Susan — and a relationship formed. When Susan was 25, TEN years after they met, he left his wife and family and married Susan.

Susan wants you to believe that she was “under Felix’s spell”, that she was unable to stand up to Felix — and hence she carried the burden around for years that she was molested and hence couldn’t handle it anymore. She says she wanted a divorce, but Felix refused. She says he wanted her forever and wouldn’t let her go — so he attacked her.

He attacked her — and hence she supposedly acted out in self-defense.

Susan wants you to believe that she was a mouse in their relationship, that she lived under the lies and control of Felix the entire marriage. And THAT is a lie.

Susan was once arrested for hitting her husband in front of police officers. Is that the behavior of a woman who “fears” her husband? Of a woman who lives under his control??

If Susan’s portrayal of herself was true and Felix controlled her as she says with a love-type potion, there wouldn’t have been the ‘War of the Polks’ as talked about by the children — a war that last years. It wouldn’t have been. When one partner is coerced, there isn’t war. Spats are small because the weak one always gives in, retreats and accepts things — maybe not happily — but there is NEVER A “WAR”.

Furthermore, others would have sensed that Susan was unhappy. Guess what? Her own mother didn’t have an INKLING that things were rough at home.

All of this is very inconsistent.

More than that, when Susan talks of the events, she is a blank slate emotionally. She doesn’t give the normal facial expressions, the reactions, the feelings that a “normal” and “honest” person would. She is devoid. She is devoid in this instance because she doesn’t feel the emotions behind her words. The words aren’t depicting her true emotions.

Susan also went away to college — she had plenty of time to “escape” Felix’s wrath — but instead she came back from college and went straight into his arms. It doesn’t add up no matter how you put it together.

One plus one should equal two and in this situation it never does. Susan is a patholigcal liar, and has been for years. She is warped, and mentally quite ill — if you ask me.

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Edited 4-16-2007:
Susan Polk was convicted of second-degree murder in June of 2006.

Pam Smart

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Pam Smart was interviewed recently and one of my readers, unknown to me (Susan), posted a link to an interview with Pam Smart online. You can see it here. I watched the video and will comment about it below.

Pam Smart is a sociopath. She lacks emotions, and doesn’t have the ability to feel sympathy or empathy for others.

In this interview, she flat out denies that she convinced her then boyfriend to murder her husband.

I believe she is flat out lying, but has tried to convince herself this is the truth (though I do think she still knows the real truth). Much of what Pam says in this interview is twisted. In the earliest part of the interview, she tries to be honest, but quickly gives in to lying.

Pam gives me the strong feeling that she is saying what she thinks she should say. Pam plays the part of what she believes “normal” is — because she knows her thoughts and beliefs aren’t normal.

What the real Pam Smart thinks would curl your hair!

Baby for Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes

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Many people wrote to me back in June, and were dying to know if Tom and Katie were genuinely affectionate for each other. Many of you were questioning if perhaps they were using each other for great movie advertising.

I posted about it here.

At that time, I said while their timing was perfect, I did believe they had genuine feelings (of perhaps lust?!) for each other. Their facial expressions were consistent with what they were saying and how they were acting.

If they were lying, there would have been physical clues and inconsistencies. I didn’t see any.

I did not believe they were putting on a fake show for advertising — though their timing, again, was perfect.

Now there is proof that these two did more than just mingle on the red carpet to sell their movies.

Did I score a point? 😉

You can vote here.

Liars’ brains ‘are not the same’

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“A University of Southern California team studied 49 people and found those known to be pathological liars had up to 26% more white matter than others, ” the study says.

Check it out here.

Are you game?

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As fall comes around the corner, and I am relegated inside again, I find myself asking myself what it is I would like to do — to keep me busy over the long winter months.

Do I want to go into coaching?

Do I want to continue to write my relationship book?

Should I focus on photography?

What do I want to do!

Over and over again, I find my fascination with lie detecting center and paramount on my mind.

Then I test myself again. I see a clip of someone on a show before they tell you the outcome. They say the person is suspected of murder — for 20 years — and within 20 seconds of seeing the accused talk about the situation with no exterior clues — I can tell my husband if they are honest with great accuracy.

And more surprising, and to my support, I am not consistently supporting the media’s call. Like in the last case, a guy was suspected of murdering his wife for 20 plus years. He was tried but not convicted. When I saw the guy talk in the first minute of the show (he talked for 10-20 seconds), I knew immediately the guy was innocent (without a DOUBT) — and that is what the story revealed. Thankfully, I missed the story lead for that story (my DVR cut it off) or I wouldn’t have been able to test myself! The true killer was revealed: BTK (48 Hours Saturday).

It’s been over a year now that I have tested myself. And I have hesitated to call only a handful of people during this year because I suspect they were pathological liars — the hardest to detect. They give me great pause — because either they lack normal emotional responses or they are just strangely honest. But 90% of the time, I hit them on the head. I call people long before anyone around me even has a clue.

It’s chilling at times.

My husband is always surprised — sometimes he freaks out a bit. He says he can’t see anything I see — and he is a bright man — a highly educated engineer. Even when I rewind and play things in slow motion – – if I don’t give him clues — he misses it. He only sees it when I give details explanations.

I have a unique gift, and I so want to bring it out and use it for the good. I just want to be able to do what I am the best at, to enjoy my life — and to help others. I always have fought against injustice. This would just be another way to do it.

Would you be interested to record video snippets of yourselves, upload them to the web — and test me for real?

If you would, I would write up some parameters that you would have to follow to make this a good test. I would make those public.

I’ll do anything right now to test myself without putting myself in a huge spotlight because a huge spotlight would get me all emotional, nervous — and then my lie-dar would fuzz over and freeze!

Are you game?