Suzanne Basso was born on May 15, 1954. She grew up in a household with eight other children, and two parents who turned to alcohol quite often. Suzanne and her siblings were subjected to both physical and mental abuse growing up. This abuse led her to become a teenage delinquent, and she often ran into problems with sex and theft. She got married in the early 1970's and had two children. She would often have sex with other men while her husband and children were in the house and aware of what she was doing.
             Basso and her husband sexually and physically abused their two children constantly, and her husband was even arrested for molesting their daughter. She began a relationship with Carmine Basso in 1993, and her former husband moved out of the way. She took Carmine's last name and began to introduce him as her husband even though they never married.
             In 1997, she took a trip to New Jersey, reportedly to meet Carmine's family. Carmine Basso was found dead in the office of his security firm in Houston during this trip, apparently from natural causes. With Carmine dead, Basso had no source of income. While in New Jersey, she met Buddy Musso at a church bazaar. Musso was a mentally handicapped 59-year-old man. It was easy for Basso to trick him into thinking they were in love. Musso got on a bus in 1998 and left New Jersey to live with Basso in Texas. For the next ten weeks, Basso and her associates horrendously tortured Musso. Basso, her son James, her friend Bernice Miller, Miller's children Craig and Hope Ahrens, and Hope Ahrens' fiancé Terence Singleton were all charged with murder when Buddy Musso's body was found in a ditch near Galena Park in Houston. Basso's son James immediately confessed to the killing, but made sure the police knew his mother was the mastermind. Police figured out that the motive was money. Basso had just created a life insurance policy for Musso, and she was to make ...