Many accounts of the Lynch-Newsom murders portray Susie Newsom Sharp Lynch as a victim of mental illness. They say she was a beauty queen, afraid of losing her children. They called her the golden girl. Her family called her Susie Q.
I call her killer.
In 1984, Delores and Janie Lynch, Susie Q's former mother and sister-in-law were found dead in their home. Both were shot at close range and bled to death on the floor. The police were left baffled as to who could have committed such a crime.
Later, in May of 1985, darling Susie's mother, father, and grandmother were shot in their home. None of them survived.
Investigators' attention turned to Susie after bloody murders. They learned that her parents were going to testify on her ex-husband's behalf in a child custody hearing. This meant that Susie would have probably lost custody of her two young sons. Police also learned that Susie had fallen in love with Fritz Klenmer, her first cousin. The two had been infatuated with each other since Susie's divorce from Tom Lynch in 1981. They had recently moved in together and had become heavily involved in collecting guns.
But that's not the craziest part of the story.
On June 3rd, 1985, police arrived at the Newsom-Klenmer residence. Susie and Fritz quickly loaded her two sons into the back of and SUV and began to shoot at police. After a sort car chase, Susie's SUV erupted into flames, killing Susie and Fritz. An autopsy report lasted showed that the two sons in the back of the car were not killed in the explosion. Instead, their mother had poisoned them and then slit their throats.
Susie Newsom-Lynch was not a mentally ill mother. She knew what she was doing. She wanted to hurt her husband as much as possible, so first she murdered his mother and sister. When her parents got in the way, she killed them. And finally, when it looked like she was going to be sent to prison, she decided to hurt her husband in the most horrific way possible; by destroying his children. Susie Q was not a victim of circumstance. She was not a victim of mental illness. She was a cold, calculated killer.
.........Stay Tuned..........
Sources and Further Readings:
Bitter Blood: A true story of southern family pride, madness, and multiple murder by Jerry Bledsoe
Southern Fried Homicide 2013 Season 1 Episode 1 "Kissing Cousins"
Behind Mansion Walls Season 2 Episode 13 "Family Ties"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Blood
http://www.journalnow.com/news/crime/surviving-bitter-blood/article_2511593e-09ec-11e5-8813-637dfc9b84d7.html
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