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Sitting through 14 grueling weeks of a family tragedy played out in the courtroom-like theater, the six women and six men on the jury were finally getting the case. >> there was trouble for some of the jurors to get their feelings out of it. there was. >> reporter: the case for some took an emotional toll. for others, it was surreal. >> i mean, every time i would go into the jury room, i couldnt believe that this was real, because the whole situation was so wild. >> reporter: as the jury sifted ...

Susan turned to her trial assistant and said, "my life is over." >> i dont think susan polk is a violent, vicious person. but she murdered her husband. shes got to pay the price for it. >> reporter: but was she delusional? was she, as her eldest son called her, cuckoo for cocoa puffs? >> she has been telling us for 3 1/2 months that she is not delusional, and there was certainly no evidence that shes delusional. >> reporter: susans three boys, once as close as brothers could be, now estranged op...

The jury had reached a verdict. susan was brought to the courtroom. and very much alone. >> there was no family member there for her. her sons adam and gabe were there in the front row. but they werent there to support her. they were there to see her convicted of murder. susans mother and brother left before the verdict. she really wanted them there. she begged them to stay. but they left. >> reporter: the clerk read the verdict. first degree murder, not guilty. >> and i heard it, and my heart k...

Time, seemed to come from somewhere deep in their mutual past. >> bonkers, cuckoo for coco puffs. >> cuckoo for cocoa puffs. that was one of the most amazing lines of the trial. >> how would she react? >> she would shake her head and go, adam, when did you learn to lie so well? >> but there was another son, remember, there was eli. the war of the polks was about to resume in court. over in the jury box that group of people seeing their civic duty thought they had taken about as much as they coul...

Susan sat through it all. and then came what may have been the most wrenching moment of all. susan was about to cross-examine her own sons. >> and she very carefully got up from her seat, walked over with her podium to question him, and she started to weep. and she took a moment, and then she asked the judge, can i call him gabriel? >> reporter: she questioned gabriel for four excruciating days, and he sat there and accused her repeatedly of murder. and then her eldest took the stand, adam. it w...

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