@celebrity.death.s: Susan Lucille Wright (born April 24, 1976) is an American convicted murderer from Houston, Texas, who made headlines in 2003 for stabbing her husband, Jeff Wright, 193 times in an act of mariticide and then burying his body in their backyard At the age of 17, she worked as a topless dancer at Gold Cup for two months. In 1997, while working as a restaurant waitress in Galveston, Texas, she met Jeff Wright and they married in 1998 while she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their first child. In 2002, a daughter was born. Mrs. Wright claims that her husband began to abuse her during the first few years of their marriage. January 13, 2003, Susan Wright, 26, tied her husband, Jeff Wright, 34, to their bed and stabbed him 193 times with two different knives. She buried his body in their Houston backyard. She attempted to cover up the crime scene by painting the bedroom. The next day, Wright filed a false domestic abuse report in order to get a restraining order against her husband. On January 18, Wright asked her attorney, Neal Davis, to come to her home and admitted to stabbing her husband. Davis contacted the Harris County's district attorney's office to inform it that a body was buried under Susan Wright's house and that she had confessed to the killing. Wright turned herself in to authorities at the Harris County Courthouse on January 24 and was arraigned on murder charges the following Monday. On March 3, 2004, after more than five hours of deliberations, the jury convicted Wright of murder. Wright showed little reaction to the guilty verdict Wright was sentenced on the following day. Prosecutors were hoping for at least a 55-year sentence, and Wright's attorneys argued for probation for their client. The jury sentenced Wright to 25 years in prison. She was imprisoned at the Crain Unit, under SID Number: 04835513 In 2009, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted Wright a new sentencing hearing, after determining that Wright's "counsel rendered ineffective assistance during the punishment phase of trial" in 2004. On November 20, 2010, Wright had her sentence reduced to 20 years in prison, five years less than her original sentence. Wright was first eligible for parole on February 28, 2014, at the age of 38. She was denied parole on June 12, 2014, and again on July 24, 2017. Wright was approved for parole on July 2, 2020. On Wednesday, December 30, 2020, Wright was released on parole at the age of 44.

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