Suzanne Basso
| Suzanne Basso | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Suzanne Margaret Burns May 15, 1954 Schenectady, New York, U.S. |
| Died | February 5, 2014 (aged 59) Huntsville, Texas, U.S. |
| Other names | Suzanne Margaret Anne Cassandra Lynne Theresa Marie Veronica Sue Burns-Standlinslowski, Sue Peek, Suzanne O'Malley |
| Occupation | Apartment complex security guard, seamstress |
| Criminal penalty | Death sentence |
| Criminal status | Executed at the Huntsville Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
| Spouse(s) | James O'Malley (born James David Peek) Carmine Basso (common law) |
| Children | Christianna Hardy (born 1973 as Mary Anne Margaret Peek) James David "J.D." O'Malley, Jr. (born 1974 as Harold John Peek) |
| Motive | Life insurance proceeds |
| Conviction(s) | Capital murder |
Suzanne Margaret "Sue" Basso (née Burns; May 15, 1954 – February 5, 2014) was an American woman who was one of six co-defendants convicted in the August 1998 murder of Louis "Buddy" Musso, a mentally disabled man, who was tortured and murdered for his life insurance money. She was sentenced to death in October 1999. Basso was executed by lethal injection on February 5, 2014. Prior to her execution, Basso had been held at the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where all of Texas's female death row inmates are incarcerated. At the time of this crime, Basso lived in Jacinto City, Texas, a Houston suburb.
Buddy Musso had been married previously and had a son with his wife. She died of cancer in 1980. In 1997 Musso was living in an assisted living house in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, near New York City, and he worked as a bagger at a ShopRite. In 1997, at age 58, he met Suzanne Basso, who was 43 at the time, at a church bazaar near his house. They started a long-distance relationship and he planned to move to Texas with Basso. He moved to the Houston area on June 14, 1998.
Basso was born on May 15, 1954 to a family from Schenectady, New York. She was one of eight children born to Florence (née Garrow) and John Richard Burns. Florence was the elder sister of spree killer Robert Garrow. Of the three girls in the family, Suzanne was the youngest.
She married a Marine named James Peek in the early 1970s. Her name became "Sue Peek" as a result of her marriage. Her daughter was born in 1973 and her son was born in 1974. Peek was arrested in 1982 for molesting the daughter and convicted of taking indecent liberties with a child. In the early 1990s Sue, James, and the children moved into one residence in Houston. The family changed its surname to O'Malley and adopted an Irish American identity. While in Houston she sometimes worked as a security guard in an apartment complex.
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