Clara Harris, a Houston dentist, hired a private investigator to find out whether her orthodontist husband David Harris was having an affair. When the private eye called and told her to come to the Nassau Bay Hilton to see for herself, she drove there with the husband's 16-year-old daughter, and found her husband with a bisexual woman named Gail Bridges. She screamed "You bitch! He's my husband!" and attacked the other woman, ripping her shirt off. According to a witness, the husband tried to separate the two women, and when other people tried to help, the enraged wife said, "This is Doctor Harris, and we're here today because he's ------- this woman." A wild argument ensued, with bystanders holding the wife back as she constantly tried to get in additional blows on Bridges, and with the teenage daughter hitting her dad with her purse and screaming "I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!" Hotel workers finally prevailed on the husband to leave, but as he walked to his car, witnesses heard squealing tires and watched as the wife's silver Mercedes- Benz plowed into him and knocked him 25 feet. She then ran him over three more times while bystanders banged on her window, begging her to stop. Instead she put the car into reverse, backed up onto his battered body, and parked the car on top of him. He died a short time later. The wife's explanation: "It was an accident." Dental-care professionals are just excitable.
August 9, 2002 12:26 PM
