A frantic 911 call… a husband on the ground… and a wife screaming that she “did not mean to run over him.”

Just after 7:30 p.m. in Lavaca, Arkansas, Clayton Masterson was found crushed beneath a van while his estranged wife, Dara Masterson, begged dispatchers to help him. What started as a routine pickup ended in a scene investigators are still trying to untangle.

Was this a reckless, intoxicated act during a heated argument, or a panicked reaction from a woman who said she felt threatened?

This is the case of Dara and Clayton Masterson.

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