Susan Polk Tells Jury: 'I'm A Mutation'

Susan Polk took the witness stand in her trial for the murder of her husband and told the jury that she believed her husband was an Israeli secret agent who used her in a secret government experiment, because she was a "mutation" with psychic powers and the ability to tell the future.

Polk, speaking in a narrative form from the witness stand, told a standing-room-only packed courtroom that she had a vision that the Twin Towers in New York would be hit by airplanes, but her husband, Felix Polk, refused to let her warn authorities before September 11, 2001.

Unfortunately for Polk, who is acting as her own attorney, she is using self-defense strategy, rather than an insanity defense. She told the jury that she often feared that she would be killed by her psychologist husband, who she said possibly hyponotized her while she was his teenage patient to get her to marry him.

See Also:
Woman Gives Bizarre Testimony at Trial
Accused Killer Susan Polk Takes the Stand in Her Own Defense
Polk Says She Wanted Out of Marriage

Background:
The Trial of Susan Polk
Susan Polk: Murder or Self-Defense?
Wife of Attorney Daniel Horowitz Found Dead

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