Woman "accidently" runs over cheating husband and kills him

Accident???

According to the Chronicle, she ran over him once then, with her step daughter attempting to get out of the car, she spun around the lot and ran over him TWICE MORE!!!

Yeah, that's some accident.

 

Here's the Chron story:

<i>Dentist who ran over her husband charged with murder
By S.K. BARDWELL and RUTH RENDON
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle

A Friendswood dentist was charged with murder this morning, accused of killing her orthodontist husband by repeatedly running over him in the parking lot of an upscale Clear Lake hotel as his teen-age daughter struggled to get out of the car.

Dr. David Harris, a 44-year-old orthodontist with offices in Clear Lake, was rushed to St. John's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Dr. Clara Harris, a 44-year-old dentist with offices in Lake Jackson, was in the custody of Nassau Bay police this morning. Bond has been set at $30,000.

Nassau Bay police said the incident began just before 9 p.m. Wednesday, when the couple got into a heated argument in the lobby of the Nassau Bay Hilton along the shores of Clear Lake on NASA Road 1. One of the pair evidently was followed to the hotel by a private investigator hired by the other, police said.

The hotel management called police and asked the couple to leave, police said.

When the husband went out to his car in the parking lot, witnesses said his wife followed, got into her Mercedes, where her 16-year-old stepdaughter was waiting, and struck her husband as he was getting into his own car.

Police said witnesses told them that while the teenager tried to get out of the car, the woman circled around and ran over her husband twice more.

Police said that when they arrived, Clara Harris seemed calm, like she was in shock. She was questioned but did not explain her motives.

The couple, who lived in a half-million-dollar house in Friendswood's Polly Ranch Estates, have 3-year-old twin boys, who were at home with their nanny at the time. </i>

 

I can't believe her bail was so low. She'll be driving around again in hours. Her daughter (and the other kids) will be scarred for life. What a sick, sick, b!tch.

 

guys, there's a lesson in this:

DO NOT cheat on your wife.

 

and...

DO NOT marry a PSYCHOPATH!

 

Yep...in fact, she's going to be hard-pressed to use a "temporary-insanity" defense at all because of that.

No manslaughter case here (low bail aside), this woman will be tried for murder...

 

I don't know, though. I could see her getting manslaughter or murder but with a light sentence. I'm sure her defense will hinge on the shock of finding her husband at the hotel, apparently with another woman. She'll claim she snapped.

It's actually a similar case to the one in Fort Worth a couple of years ago where Jimmy Watkins went to his estranged wife's house and shot her. He then drove away only to come back a little later to shoot her five more times as she was on the phone to 911, that time killing her (in front of their child, according to news reports). A jury voted to give probation (after convicting him of murder), though the Judge in the case overruled them and gave Watkins 120 days in prison. The jury decided that Watkins' "sudden passion" was a large mitigating factor.

Could happen here, too.

 

Crime of Passion has been a defense FOREVER

She should rot

Like the man says lesson of the day

DO NOT MARRY A PSYCHOPATH!!

Rocket River

 

I smell a TV movie......

be sure to read the latest from the Chronicle.

 

She hired Dave and Maddie from Moonlighting?

 

Or perhaps:

DO NOT give you wife the keys to your car!

 

yea and after the woman gets 50 years in prison, the lesson will be DO NOT kill someone because you are mad at them...

 

I have to agree with Paige. Texas is more lenient on those who murder for infidelity than any other state. There are quite a few examples of murderers getting a slap on the wrist because they killed upon the sudden realization they were cuckolded. I think maybe Texan juries have an unusual empathy for the victims of infidelity.

However, I think she may not fully profit from this tendency because:

(1) She's a woman. This is just a guess, but I just can't see as much empathy extended to a woman as to a man in the case of infidelity. Maybe because there is a sexist perception that 'men do that sort of thing.' I don't know; maybe that's baseless, but that's my guess.

(2) It's unclear, but she may well have just then had proof positive that he was cheating on her. However, she suspected enough to hire a PI, which suggests some premeditation.

(3) She had the man's daughter in her car to watch and implicitly participate in his death. Very uncool. I think I'd feel completely different about the whole thing if it wasn't for this.

(4) Last and least: a car is a particularly barbaric murder weapon. Something cleaner like a gun or a knife would have been more acceptable.

 

Give AI credit for not taking it this far.