So, tonight, since I was home alone, I decided the best thing I could do was watch a creepy Dateline about a girl in East Texas disappearing. Thankfully, my parental units arrived home shortly after I finished the program. But, all in all, the program got me thinking. There must be something in the water here. Here are five examples of crazy Texas cases that have gained national attention inthe last two years. And yes, four of these were in Houston?
Clara Harris: Texas dentist was sentenced to 20 years in prison in for killing her husband, David Harris, an orthodontist. In July 2002, Clara ran over David with her Mercedes-Benz after she discovered he was continuing an affair with his receptionist despite his promises to end it. She then parked the car on his chest as she got out and begged for him to ?keep breathing?. (Might have been a little easier without a Mercedes Benz parked on his chest.)
Andrea Pia Yates: Texas mother, was convicted in March of capital murder in the 2001 deaths of three of her five children, Noah, 7, John, 5, and Mary, 6 months. (She was not on trial for the deaths of Luke, 3, and Paul, 2). Yates reportedly suffered from postpartum depression. She was convicted of methodically drowning the children in the family's bathtub, and sentenced to life in prison.
Chante Mallard: Texas nurse, convicted of murder for hitting a man with her car and leaving him impaled in her windshield to die. (She drove with him in the windshield.) Mallard then, had sex with her boyfriend before they decided that should dispose of the body. She buried him in a park and?got caught.
Susan Wright: Texas woman, former topless dancer, who killed husband, Jeffrey Wright, 34, in self-defense after suffering years of spousal abuse. Wright stabbed her tied-up husband 193 times. She seductively tied his ankles and wrists to their bed before stabbing him, burying his body in a shallow hole he had dug to install a fountain in their back yard, and cleaning and painting the bedroom to cover up the crime.
Waynetta Nolan: Houston woman who ran down a McDonald?s restaurant manager in a hit-and-run because her request for mayo on her cheeseburger was initially refused. Nolan received 10 years in prison for the crime. Nolan, 37, has said she didn't mean to run over Sherry Jenkins, who was dragged across the burger chain's parking lot during the incident and broke her pelvis. After ordering at the drive-thru April 23, Nolan became angry when she was told the restaurant's cheeseburgers didn't come with mayonnaise. Witnesses said she threw the burger back through the drive-thru window. She also testified she thought she'd just rolled over "a bump."
Well, that's all I have off the top of my head. No wonder Mike and Kristen are moving!