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HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Front page Feb. 10, 2003, 12:01PM David Harris' mom says marriage 'made in heaven' By ALAN TURNER Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle EXTRA Clara Harris is accused of running over her husband after catching him with his former receptionist at a hotel. • From the arrest to the trial Video: Private investigator catches incident on tape(Video courtesy of KHOU, Ch. 11. Video requires Real Player) The trial:• The indictment• What we know about them• The experts: Why they're split over jurors Preparing for the trial: Video report from Jan. 19. The testimony:• Day 1: Hotel employees tell what...

Fueled by anger over her husband's affair, Clara Harris was trying to smash his lover's luxury sport-utility vehicle when she inadvertently ran over him, she testified Friday. Clara Harris, a dentist who took the stand Wednesday in her murder trial, was emotional but composed as she recounted the evening of July 24, when she and her stepdaughter caught orthodontist David Harris and lover Gail Bridges at a suburban hotel where they had met for a tryst. "I was in so much pain, it was a physical pain that I was feeling. I wasn't thinking anything," Harris said, describing how she...

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Local & State Feb. 7, 2003, 2:22PM Harris says she was trying to hit Bridges' car By ALLAN TURNER Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle EXTRA Clara Harris is accused of running over her husband after catching him with his former receptionist at a hotel. • From the arrest to the trial Video: Private investigator catches incident on tape(Video courtesy of KHOU, Ch. 11. Video requires Real Player) The trial:• The indictment• What we know about them• The experts: Why they're split over jurors Preparing for the trial: Video report from Jan. 19. The testimony:• Day 1: Hotel employees...

Accused dentist testifies in her murder trial 02/05/2003 By MARK BABINECK / The Associated PressHOUSTON — The dentist accused of running down her orthodontist husband after confronting him with his lover last summer took the stand in her own defense Wednesday, describing how their marriage crumbled under the weight of his infidelity."We were best friends. We were very much in love," Clara Harris said of her 10-year marriage to David Harris, which ended July 24 in the parking lot of a suburban Houston hotel parking lot when she ran over him with her Mercedes-Benz after catching him with his...

Feb. 4, 2003, 6:11PM Mistress: David Harris said he had open marriageBy ALLAN TURNERCopyright 2003 Houston Chronicle EXTRA Clara Harris is accused of running over her husband after catching him with his former receptionist at a hotel. • From the arrest to the trial Video: Private investigator catches incident on tape(Video courtesy of KHOU, Ch. 11. Video requires Real Player) The trial:• The indictment• What we know about them• The experts: Why they're split over jurors Preparing for the trial: Video report from Jan. 19. The testimony:• Day 1: Hotel employees tell what they saw• Day 2: Grainy videotape reveals...

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Local & State Feb. 4, 2003, 12:35AM Co-workers recall how affair began Clara Harris 'was no longer No. 1' to dentist By ALLAN TURNER Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle EXTRA Clara Harris is accused of running over her husband after catching him with his former receptionist at a hotel. • From the arrest to the trial Video: Private investigator catches incident on tape(Video courtesy of KHOU, Ch. 11. Video requires Real Player) The trial:• The indictment• What we know about them• The experts: Why they're split over jurors Preparing for the trial: Video report from Jan. 19. The...

Prosecution rests in Houston murder trial 01/31/2003 Associated Press HOUSTON - Prosecutors rested their case Friday in the murder trial of Clara Harris, who is accused of fatally running over her husband last summer in a Houston-area hotel parking lot. Testimony resumed Friday after jurors got a daylong break Thursday while attorneys debated whether Dallas collision reconstructionist Steve Irwin was qualified to testify as an expert. "The work that I have done would indicate he was hit at least twice," Irwin told attorneys Thursday during a hearing to qualify him as an expert witness. AP Steve Irwin shrugs his...

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Top Story Jan. 29, 2003, 4:46PM Associated Press / Pat Lopez illustration In this drawing, Lindsey Harris, 17, testifies in the murder trial of her stepmother, Clara Harris, today in Houston as Judge Carol Davies looks on. Teen says 'it wasn't an accident' when stepmom ran over dad By ALLAN TURNERCopyright 2003 Houston Chronicle EXTRA Clara Harris is accused of running over her husband after catching him with his former receptionist at a hotel. • From the arrest to the trial Video: Clara Harris collapses into sobs in courtroom - Jan. 28 Private investigator catches incident on...

Woman accused of running over husband with car breaks down twice in courtroom 01/28/2003 By PAM EASTON / The Associated PressHOUSTON — A pathologist with the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office testified Tuesday that a Houston orthodontist suffered a broken back, ribs, pelvis and jaw after he was run over at least twice by a Mercedes-Benz, which was driven by the man's wife last summer.The gruesome testimony prompted the woman, Clara Harris, on trial for her husband's murder, to shake and weep audibly, at one point collapsing onto the table in front of her.It was the second time during testimony...

Witness says dentist still loved husband Private eye testifies woman blamed herself for spouse's affair 01/28/2003 Associated Press HOUSTON - A private investigator hired by Clara Harris the day before she fatally ran over her orthodontist husband with her Mercedes-Benz testified Monday that she still appeared to be in love with the man despite his suspected philandering. "You could tell she really loved her husband," private investigator Claudine Phillips said as the second week of Dr. Harris' murder trial began. Dr. Harris, a dentist, is accused of intentionally running down David Harris in the parking lot of the Houston-area...

Witness: Wife blamed dentist after car struck him Defense says video may suggest husband wasn't hit multiple times 01/25/2003 Associated Press HOUSTON - A woman who rushed to aid an orthodontist after he was run over outside a Houston hotel last year testified Friday that she heard the man's wife blame him for the attack. " 'David, look what you made me do,' " Julie Creger said Dr. Clara Harris told her husband after running him down with her Mercedes-Benz. Ms. Creger was one of several witnesses to describe the scene July 24 where David Harris, 44, died. His...

Woman on trial for running over husband 01/21/2003 Associated Press HOUSTON - Jury selection began Tuesday in the murder trial of a Houston dentist accused of running down her orthodontist husband with her Mercedes-Benz after catching him with another woman. Clara Harris, 44, is accused of killing her husband, David Harris, on July 24 in the parking lot of a Houston area hotel following a physical confrontation with him and his alleged mistress in the building's lobby. Defense attorneys for Clara Harris contend she did not mean to run over her husband. Prosecutors say she intentionally hit and killed...