David Lynn Harris was an American orthodontist who owned a chain of offices along with his wife, Clara Suarez Harris. Gail Bridges describes the night she and her lover, David Harris, were confronted by his wife, Clara Harris, in a hotel lobby -- the last night she would ever see him alive. Two of them cried as state District Judge Carol Davies read it in court. Here's how. They were more concerned, from what we can tell, about the embarrassing situation that was going on in the lobby of their hotel," Davis said. Claras goal was to get paroled so she could be reunited with her sons, Emily Detoto, one of her original defense attorneys, told me. 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The hotel's attorney, Ervin Apffel Jr., confirmed that the lawsuit had been settled but declined to comment further. I was yelling, Stop, youre killing him!. According to the medical examiner's office, they could only be certain there was one tire mark on the body, but Lindsey and eyewitnesses assert Clara ran over David three times. "The lawsuit against us is baseless. I was yelling, 'Stop, don't do that. After the car came to a stop, Lindsey said she got out and began hitting Clara Harris, who was knelt next to her husband saying, "I'm sorry. If you're going to hire an investigator and you call for a report, and Clara called us twice for a report, legally, we have to give our client a report," said Bobbi Bacha, with Blue Moon. Clara Suarez, a Colombian immigrant, was named "Mrs Colombia Houston" and worked as a dentist. According to bar napkin notes kept by Clara Harris, David Harris thought his wife was overweight, dominated conversations and was a workaholic, all in contrast to Bridges. Clara Harris had just shouted at her philandering husband and wrestled his mistress to the floor of a hotel lobby, but now appeared to be calm. #inline-recirc-item--id-92ae5a70-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-92ae5a70-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { "Suddenly, I thought about smashing my car against her car and then I (picked) up speed.". Yes, she made a horrible fifteen-minute mistake. Nevertheless, Claras attorneys persuaded the jurors that Clara had acted under sudden passion rather than with intent to kill, and they gave her a twenty-year sentence. Lindsey Harris filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her In 2005, Oprah arrived at the prison in the town of Gatesville (near Waco), where Clara was incarcerated, to interview her for her talk show. She testified anyway, and Parnham subsequently passed out from tremendous stress in the courthouse hallway and had to be hospitalized. Only part of the interview was played; the jury heard Clara state that she "wanted to hurt" her husband, but not the portion where she said later in the interview, "I didn't want to kill him." "What did your dad do?" Lindsey testified Clara "peeled out" and headed around to another part of the parking lot where her father and his alleged mistress were getting into a Lincoln Navigator. Lindsey Harris, 17, David Harris's daughter by his first marriage, was in the passenger seat of the car that killed her father. The daughter, Lindsey Harris, was a passenger in a Mercedes-Benz driven by her mother, Clara Harris, when the car was used to run down Harris' dentist husband, Her friends have told me she is worried that people she meets will realize who she is and back away. display: block; In 2003 Harris was again involved in court action over the custody Jurors deliberated for eight hours over two days before reaching the verdict. They said they had come to the prison every month for the last fifteen years, without fail, to visit their mother. She told jurors she wanted to save her 10-year marriage after learning of the affair. She said she quit her job, had sex with her husband three times a night, cooked his favorite meals and hired a personal trainer. By the time they tracked him down at a hotel, Harris was livid. She said her stepmother made the remark just after finding him with Bridges. Performance meets portability with Apple's 2023 MacBook Pro. "She ought not get credit for making herself a single parent," the prosecutor told jurors before deliberations began. In the darkened cabin of her stepmothers Mercedes-Benz, Lindsey Harris thought the drama was over for the night.