"Somehow or another, he got behind the car. She backed up over him and ran him over. Then pulled forward and back over him again," described Harris County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Curtis Brown.
When police arrived, they found the wife still in the car and the husband underneath it.
The case is eerily similar to another one in Houston eight years ago when Clara Harris ran over and killed her husband after finding out he was having an affair.
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