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Well folks what can I say? She is at it again! About the same time as my last update she was already in trouble again. And yes you guessed it, she is still out. This makes her 8th bond since she killed James Stevens in cold blood. Please read the article by clicking here If you live in Arkansas then
you must do something about this for your own sake.
Update March 17th 2000 On Jan 20th 2000 after a firm conversation between my husband the news reporter the Sentinel-Record decided to go ahead a print a report from the police about Clara Stevens/Ward being arrested on drug charges and driving on a suspended driver’s license and possession of an instrument of crime. She also was cited for speeding, no proof of insurance and having fictitious tags.After she had just been convicted of 2nd degree murder. For the past two years Clara has been charged with many things including terroristic threats. Were she went after a woman, not once but twice on different dates with a knife. Yet the local newspaper didn’t see that as news worthy. She has had 4 bonds since and not including the murder! Yet they thought it was not news worthy. During the trial the local newspaper seem to report everything that Clara and her lawyer was saying in the court room and next to nothing of what the prosecutor and the evidence was saying. For instance the newspaper never reported that Jim hand a broken neck and back. They never reported that after Clara wrecked the car with Jim’s body in it a young man approached her and asks if anyone else was in the car and she replied “NO”! They never reported that she was not taking the road that lead straight to the hospital. They never reported that Clara kept falling asleep during the trial. The Sentinel-Record was in our minds reporting her sides of the story one that she had rehearse for two years. She is now out on an appeal bond. Yes that’s right!
She has yet to spend one night in jail and that makes 5 bonds since the
murder.
Jan 7th 2000 She was convicted of 2nd degree murder and the
jury had sentenced her to 6 years in prison. (6YEARS!)
Update: Aug. 19,1999
On 7/13/1999 Clara A Stevens was charged with terroristic threats. The statement of the victim was that Clara came out of her residence when the victim arrived and started by saying "I'll beat your ___" and went on to get a knife out of the residence and told the victim " I'll kill you!" Clara was charged and released on bond. On 7/16/1999 Clara A Stevens was charged with Criminal mischief / Disorderly
On 8/16/1999 a hearing was held for revoction of Clara A Stevens bond's ( from the murder charge and the two recent charges. ) Revoction of bond was denied. While inside the court room Clara smirk and grin at the family of Jimmy Dale. Out side the court house Clara tried to provolt family members by taunting them with whistles and stares. It is my own judgment that tells me that this woman is a danger to society and the court system keeps letting her off. It is also my own prediction that she will hurt or kill someone again. The trial for the murder of James Stevens has been pushed up once again
to Nov. 16, 1999 I only pray that she does not kill again while the judge'
and prosecutor sit on their hands.
Trial postpone The trial has been pushed back to Aug. 3, 1999 by her lawyer. We are not getting much help from the prosecutor. In fact I think we may have made her mad, she wanted to submit a plea bargain and we protested it. This has really been hard on all of us as I know some of you understand what I talking about. I mean she is going to be walking free for over a year after she killed my dad. Now my grandmother who is 76 years old and just got out of the hospital. She cries daily about her lost son and it rips my heart out. My children are always asking about their grandpa and if he can see them from heaven. I can not go into any details before the trial due to the fact it may jeopardize the case. Only those of us who have been victims to these types of crimes can understand the factors that go into the cases, and how the system is set up to protect the guilty parties. Therefore leaving the victims without a
02-17-99 Judge denies motion to throw out statements On Jan. 25th attorney for Clara Annette asked the court to throw out the conflicting statements that she had made to the police. We view this as a small victory. While in court it was that Clara's attorney mention that no one was there from James Stevens ( The murder victim ) family. Luckily my sister Trish was there and spoke up and said that she was there on the behalf of James Stevens. The trial is to begin on March 23rd of this year. The family is currently trying to raise money to be there at the trial. I have spoken with the Victims Awareness program in Hotsprings and although they have been helpful and supportive they tell me there are no funds available to bring in out of state family members. So we must do this on our own. If I have to sell everything I have to be there I will. I have lost my job due to the stress and strain all of this has put on me. There are other members of the family that would be putting their jobs on the line if they leave to come to the trial. I'm currently trying to raise money also to place an ad in the HotSprings news paper to draw attention to this site. There has also been new evidence that has come out against Clara that
I can not mention here on this page due to the fact it may harm our case
against her. I can tell you this, when it all comes out there will be no
doubt that this woman did this act with callousness and selfish reasons
and that she plain to cover up her crime by many of her actions that I
can not go into at this time. I will keep you all posted on the events
as they happen.
Her is the story from today's paper. She initially told Garland County sheriff's investigators her husband, James Stevens, 51, accidentally shot himself in the leg during a fight between the two inside their home. She said her husband was drunk and had assaulted her and was brandishing a gun. He tucked the gun into his pants at one point and fired it into his leg. The medical examiner in Little Rock determined the bullet had entered Stevens in his left buttocks and exited in a straight line out of his left thigh. The bullet severed his femoral artery causing Stevens to bleed to death. The path of the bullet indicated his leg was raised at the time as if running. Further ballistics evidence indicated the shot was fired from at least two feet away and was not consistent with a self-inflicted wound. Confronted with the new evidence, Clara Stevens reportedly admitted she had shot her husband, but said it was accidental and happened when he was attacking her. She was arrested three days after the shooting and charged with
murder. She could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. She
later was released on $5,000 bail and is scheduled to stand trial March
23.
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What this tells me is that her attorney is going to try and get
her first statement thrown out as being inadmissible.
She got caught and she came up with a crazy story, and once that was proven wrong she comes up with another crazy story. And now her attorney wants to throw that first statement out because he knows it shows her real motive. I guess it's not enough to kill the man, she has to slander him with lies. And to rub salt in the wounds of the family even further the judge lets her out on a $5,000 bail. And now her attorney is trying to get her first statement ( lie ) thrown out. Where is the justice??
July 18 1998 The Lies begin
She says :"Her husband had been drinking, she said, and had assaulted
her. When she ran out of
I say: If he shot himself by tucking the gun into his waistband
then why did the gun shot enter his
She says: She helped her husband to the car to drive him to a hospital more than 40 miles away. I say: Why does the evidence show that he was dragged to the
car? And why would he be
She says: she claims she was following her husband's instructions
when she tried to drive him to
I say: The evidence shows that he died before he was taken from the house. She says: She could not call 911 because their phone was ripped
from the wall. So she tried to
I say: Why did she not go to her neighbors homes ( who had already
heard the gun shot ) and
Now she starts to change her story After being arrested and finding out that her first story was not matching up with the medical examiners report she starts in with another version of the story. She say's: She was defending her self from him. I say: If that is true then why was he shot from behind in a
position in which his leg was lifted as if he was running away from the
gun?
Rumors & Leaks It has been said that Annette was not alone when she dragged the lifeless body of Jimmy Dale to their car. It has also been said that she had no intent on driving him to a hospital. But instead driving the body out somewhere to get rid of. Because the route she was taken was not the route to the hospital. Now there has been a leak that Jimmy Dale's body was wrapped up in a
tarp of some sort.
Quotes from the Prosecutor & Investigators Chief Deputy Prosecutor Terri Harris: "Her explanation of what
happened is inconsistent with the physical evidence and the forensic evidence,"
The angle of the bullet suggests Jim
UPDATES & MORE NEWS Question: Has she ever attack Jimmy Dale?
Update
She was allowed to go to the funeral in Ohio, and while she was there
I myself witness her running around the parking lot and greeting her friends
like it was a block party. She was wearing no wedding ring, and stayed
for about 1/2 hour. While there she reached into her purse to get an ink
pen and pulled out enough cash to choke a horse. Before getting in a car
with a friend and speeding off while smiling and waving.
More to come...
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