It was some wedding anniversary.
Exactly 11 years after the happy Valentine’s Day on which Clara and David Harris wed at a tony Houston hotel, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison for slaying her hubby when she caught him in a love tryst at the very same spot.
Set on scenic Clear Lake and overlooking the Johnson Space Center, the Nassau Bay Hilton resort hotel is a popular hangout for the ritzy suburb set – of which the Harrises were members.
Now it will be remembered as the place where the successful dentist and her philandering orthodontist husband got married – and then destroyed their lives.
Both on their second marriage, and successful business partners pulling in up as much as $60,000 a month, the Harrises’ wedding was the envy of other Houston suburbanites.
But a week before his death, David, 44, confessed to Clara, 45, that he had been having an affair with his receptionist, Gail Bridges.
That day the couple pledged to patch up their marriage.
Clara took notes on a cocktail napkin while David told her she was an overweight alcoholic who talked too much.
Seven days later, on July 24, Harris went to the Nassau Bay Hilton with a private detective after becoming suspicious that her husband was still cheating.
There she spotted him with Bridges.
The enraged dentist first confronted Bridges the hotel lobby, where she ripped the woman’s shirt off before hotel guests and workers could intervene.
Hotel workers finally made Harris leave, but as her husband walked to his car, she plowed her silver Mercedes into him while his 17-year-old daughter sat in the passenger seat.
It was 17-year-old Lindsey Harris’s emotional retelling of those events that swayed a Houston jury to decide that Clara Harris should serve a 20-year sentence in jail.