WIFE BUSTED IN '87 TEXAS COLD CASE MURDER

NOT VERY NICE

FOR 20 years cops in Texas had a suspect in the cold blooded slaying of Edmund Clark in 1987: his wife. And now Harris County Sheriff's detectives say a blood stain on the Norma Jean Clark's clothes was the missing piece of the puzzle.
The couple had lived in a rural area known for it's quiet when that peace was shattered by two bullet's fired into the back of Edmund's head and back. His body was discovered in the master bedroom.
Norma, now 62, claimed she was asleep in the other room.

"She heard some gunshots," said Sgt. Dean Holtke . "She waited until everything was quiet, she left the residence and went to a neighbor's house where they called the police."

She might have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for modern technology that detected the microscopic bloodstain cops had missed the first time round.

 "It puts her in proximity to the victim when he was shot and not in another part of the house, upstairs as she originally told the police," Holtke said.

Clark was arrested Feb. 16 at her home in rural Belvedere, Tennessee. Her motive in the murder? Cops say Edmund wanted to divorce his wife and planned to kick her out of the house the night he was slain.

"She had told a neighbor a week prior, a friend of hers, that in her first divorce she didn't get anything out of it and she was going to be dammed if she'd let that happened to her again,"  Holke added.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS: The extradition process could take a couple of weeks because Clark is fighting it. She has been living in Tennessee all this time. She never remarried and has two children. One lives not far from her in Georgia. Her son, however, lives just outside of Centerville, Texas. Investigators say Clark would often come back to Texas to visit him.