And a rather unique book review here. We've got "A Wife's Revenge" by Eric Francis. Coincidentally as I read this book this story of Susan Wright was featured on CBS' "48 Hours".
Thus we have video of this book's subject, a pretty woman who killed her husband in a most heartless and horrific manner.
Quote of the Day
”Celebrity Apprentice” 2008-Episode Aired 1/17/08-KISS Him Goodbye
In this episode of Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” we had rock band KISS member Gene Simmons acting so weird he finally got sent home. My bet is that Simmons’ exit was known ahead of time and that whole Kodak moment episode was staged and acted to send him on his way. Perhaps he had a prior commitment or some such but I really don’t think there was anything genuine about Simmons’ exit from this series. Simmons DID, I note, get a check for his favorite charity and I think the whole thing was meant to occur in the order it did.
Although hey, who knows, it could have been genuine. But if Gene Simmons is really as stupid as he was on that episode he surely deserved to go home.
The challenge of this episode was to introduce a new line of Kodak printers via a Streamline bus provided that would allow customers to enter the vehicle and discover the advantages of this new printer and the much ballyhooed cheaper ink of the Kodak printer.
The team that would attract the most interest and obtain the approval of Kodak would be the winner. The female team, Empresario, had a surprise leader, that of Gene Simmons. Trump had Simmons switch sides from the male Hydra team in order to help the women who lost the last two challenges.
Simmons provided this episode with much amusement more from his own oddball personality than from the magic and mystery of the task at hand.
Hydra’s team featured the slogan “Kodak Knocks Out the Competition”. Empresario, under the tutelage of Simmons, worked around the concept “It’s a Kodak World…Welcome”.
Simmons showed no keen interest in the Kodak product being touted. Indeed he didn’t even know the name of the Kodak printer being hyped. As scripted, Simmons had a larger concept, almost a celestial vision, and the team carried through the Simmons vision into a third loss for team Empresario.
Tito was Hydra’s project manager and to add some drama to the episode, Hydra’s team ran into some trouble after a cup of coffee spilled onto a critical laptap containing all the graphics prepared for Hydra’s presentation. Hydra recovered and after Tito and his team left the boardroom the celebrity females and Gene Simmons were left to face The Donald’s wrath.
Gene Simmons behaved so stupidly that, again, I can’t believe it wasn’t scripted. When he was charged with choosing two vulnerable team members to face the firing squad along with him, Simmons chose Omarosa and Jennie Finch. Neither of these two ladies had a damn thing to do with the Empresario team’s loss.
There was some charm, some smiles, some weird KISS behavior. Finally The Donald fired Gene Simmons that he may scoot on to his next appointment as planned.
It’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
"Celebrity Apprentice" 2008 Contenders
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Carol Alt-model/actress
Jennie Finch-olympic medalist softball
Gene Simmons from Kiss-sent home 1/17/08
Lennox Lewis-boxer
Marilu Henner-actress
Nadia Comaneci-olympic star gymnast-sent home 1/10/08
Nely Galen-Latina TV producer
Omaroasa-former apprentice
Piers Morgan-Americas Got Talent
Stephen Baldwin-actor of Baldwin family
Tiffany Fallon-playmate of year-SENT HOME PREMIERE NIGHT 1/3/08
Tito Ortez
Trace Adkins-country star
Vincent Pastore-star of sopranos
Prior Links to Posts for "Celebrity Apprentice" 2008
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Premiere Show
The Dog Challenge; Nadia Gets Fired
The Kodak Challenge...KISS Him Goodbye
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Focus on TV Posts of Fame
Those Wacky TV Chefs. Includes Rachel Ray and the sexiest chef of them all.
TV News Pundits including Russert, spitting Matthews and the one I adore.
"Dancing with the Stars" of 2007, reviews, pics and videos.
American Idol 2007 and The Bachelor. One night's review with links to all the others.
A Book Review Also Covered by “48 Hours”
Warning, if yon reader has not read this book please note I make no effort to hide the outcome in my book reviews.
In a bit of serendipity, I’d already checked out this book by Eric Francis when I chanced to read the upcoming synopsis of a “48 Hours” episode. It would seem that this crime show documentary would also be covering the death of Jeffrey Wright at the hand of his pretty wife, Susan.
Cool, I thought. I’ll read the book, then watch the show, and hey, I’ll make a Blog post about both.
In January of 2003, Susan Wright teased her husband Jeffrey into what he thought was a bit of playful sex. She tied Jeffrey’s arms and legs to the bedposts and then she proceeded to stab the helpless man, count ‘em, 193 TIMES.
Jeffrey Wright was not such a nice guy. He had a bit of a cocaine problem and according to others beyond Susan, he tended to get really rough with the couples’ two young boys. Jeff also regularly cheated on Susan, once gifting her with a sexually transmitted disease he’d caught during his regular trysts with Las Vegas prostitutes.
I can understand that Susan didn’t like her husband anymore and wanted him gone from her life. But I’ve always divorced those husbands I didn’t like and that’s the generally accepted protocol. We normally don’t get a free pass to murder inconvenient spouses.
Of course Wright’s defense team claimed self-defense. Susan was a sweet blond little thing. Jeffrey’s bad behavior was well-known by all those around Susan, indeed even Jeff’s own family. It was the best defense.
Except for that little matter of those 193 stab wounds that some, indeed most, would consider overkill, you think? Not to mention that the man was tied and helpless to his bed while sweet Susan extracted her revenge.
To add to Susan’s cruelty, she’d taken the tip of the knife and nicked Jeff’s penis a few times, nicks that were certainly not meant to kill the man but just a mean method of torture before Susan drove the knife home.
Only Susan claims that Jeff was not tied to the bed at all. She said those neckties still on Jeff’s hand when he was found, buried in a shallow hole beside the couple’s house of all places, were used to tie Jeff’s dead body to a dolly that she’d used to transport Jeff’s body to said shallow hole.
Oh yea. Susan didn’t deny killing Jeff and she admitted to burying his body in that hole and to living in the same house with his body for almost a week until she got her ducks in a row and admitted to the killing.
The trial went on and, according to the book:
"The prosecution was in no mood to cut Susan any slack on Jeff's killing. They took a look at the 193 stab wounds, a week spent telling fishy stories about how Jeff had taken off, and the clean-up efforts and they concluded they were not looking at an act of self-defense"
The thing is Susan got sentenced to 25 years in jail for Jeff’s death but that could be reduced to half for good behavior.
The author posits that the truth in the slaying of Jeffrey Wright lies somewhere in between cold-blooded murder and self defense. A position I might buy into. The whole scenario didn’t seem to be pre-planned and according to the book, Jeff had arrived home high on cocaine and had been tormenting the children for the better part of the evening. I suspect that something in Susan’s mind just snapped and she came up with that sex scenario either immediately or she’d had the notion in her head right along and that night was the time to do the deed.
The “48 Hours” episode fleshed out the book nicely in that, first, it was different to see the perp of the True Crime book in action while reading the novel and a few other details came out in the show that weren’t mentioned in the book. Plus Susan’s mother testified on her daughter’s behalf and she denied that she and Susan’s father had a violent marriage but admitted that Susan and her sister weren’t raised in an “Ozzie and Harriet” home.
The show revealed that in the week during which Jeff’s remains were buried in that shallow hole Susan had removed his name from the joint checking account as well as the couples’ phone mail message.
Odd behaviors indeed for a victim who claimed she was so frightened of Jeff that even though his hand still stuck out of that hole beside the house Susan said she was so mentally distraught she thought he was still alive.
Yeah, right.
It’s hard to believe that Susan Wright will probably be a free woman in ten more years. She killed a man in a most horrific manner and even with Jeffrey being a bit of an asshole, he sure didn’t deserve that.
Below a remix of scenes from the “48 Hours” episode.
ANN RULE BOOK REVIEWS
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Both women had beautiful children; Liysa had two precocious boys while Debora had a son and two daughters. Both women wanted their husbands dead. One succeeded, the other gave it a try. Debora Green's house burned down and two of her precious children perished in the flames.
Both of these women are crazy as loons.
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And Never Let Her Go" is the true crime story of Thomas Capano, scion of a wealthy Delaware family, lawyer and political insider. It wasn't that long ago that this case was splashed in all the newspapers in this area and I vowed that when someone wrote the book I would look into it immediately. I was delighted that Ann Rule wrote the book.
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