Death Certificate
Multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma are listed as Felix Polk's official cause of death.- Suicide Files
Felix Polk's apparent suicide attempt while in the military was documented by the U.S. Navy. - Autopsy Report
Felix Polk's fatal injuries and toxicology results were detailed in this report. - Felix's Letter to Gabe
Just months before he was stabbed to death by his estranged wife, Felix Polk wrote this letter to his son Gabriel in an apparent effort to improve their relationship. - Felix Polk's Resume
This resume was retrieved by investigators from Felix Polk's desk after he was stabbed to death by his estranged wife, Susan Polk. - Properties Letter
Before she fatally stabbed her husband Felix, Susan Polk wrote this letter as the couple was going through a divorce to discuss financial matters and various properties the Polks owned - Ottoman Analysis
Investigators sought to recover from an ottoman residue of pepper spray, which Polk claimed she used on her husband. - Saab Report
Criminalists also analyzed Felix Polk's 1999 Saab, on which they found blood stains. - Diary Excerpt
Polk describes her self-proclaimed psychic abilities, her theories about the Middle East and her husband's alleged ties to the Mossad in this journal entry. - Letter to Dr. Cooper
These excerpts from Susan Polk's letters to her defense expert, Dr. John Cooper, include a narrative of the killing and a map. - Crime Scene Report
Forensic evidence gathered from the crime scene is itemized in this official report. - Incident Report
This 7-page report from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Dept. details the night Felix Polk was killed. - Eli's Letter
The only child of three to support his mother, Eli Polk wrote this letter to Susan Polk behind bars. - Guardian's Letter
Dan Briner wrote this letter updating her about her son, Gabriel, while she was behind bars. - Cooper's Letter
Controversial defense witness Dr. John Cooper wrote this letter to the judge explaining why he would not return to conclude his testimony. - Son's Declaration
Eli Polk's divorce court declaration was full of praise for his mother, Susan Polk. - Secret Letter
In this two-page letter dated 2001, Susan Polk says her husband beat, drugged her. - Dispute Report
Police documented responding to a domestic dispute before Felix Polk was killed by his wife, Susan.
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Murder defendant Susan Polk once told jurors it was a miracle that she survived without a cut or scratch the night in October 2002 when she stabbed her husband in self-defense with a paring knife.
Polk's words were repeatedly used against her Monday morning during the prosecution's closing argument in the California housewife's first-degree murder trial.
"There's nothing wrong with believing in miracles," Assistant District Attorney Paul Sequeira told the panel. "There is something wrong with believing in someone who lies as much as she does."
Sequeira said the defendant brutally murdered her psychologist husband after learning she was on the losing end of their divorce and custody battle.
"Her relationship with her husband deteriorated to the point where she hated him," Sequeira said. "That didn't give her the right to kill him."
"She's lied to you folks," Sequeira said. "She's lied to you all along. And she's guilty of first-degree murder."
Polk, 48, who is representing herself at trial, told jurors Monday afternoon that 70-year-old Felix Polk was mentally and physically abusive during their entire 30-year relationship, beginning when she was his patient at age 14.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the D.A. has asked that you focus on what happened on the night of my husband's death and only that night," Polk said, her voice cracking into sobs as she began her closing argument. "If that were all we needed to talk about, then this trial would've been over several months ago."
"That's me at the age I met my husband," Polk gestured to a blown-up photo mounted on an easel, showing a pretty raven-haired teenager in a green-and-white gingham dress. "Whether we like it or not, that's when this story began."
Polk said her husband was "a batterer," "sadistic," and "acutely anxious."
"Even if you found me to be as crazy as a bedbug ... I would not have been precluded from defending myself when my husband attacked me," she said.
Polk spoke from a wooden podium for almost three hours Monday, rehashing testimony she gave during her nine days on the stand, saying she was drugged, hypnotized and raped by Felix when she was 14, beaten throughout their 20-year-marriage, and threatened with death if she ever left him or divulged the family's shocking secrets.
One of those secrets, according to Polk, is that she is psychic and that her husband was a Mossad agent who used her predictions about the 9/11 attacks and other premonitions about world events for Israel's political gain.
"Are dreamers delusional?" Polk hypothesized during a frequently rambling argument.
She was ordered by the judge to finish Tuesday morning, at which time the prosecution will get a final rebuttal before jurors receive the case.
Polk faces 25 years to life in prison if found guilty of first-degree murder.
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