1994
Archives - April/Heather Stevens Special Report
The Battered Beauty
September 3, 2007
by Brent Kellogg
In May, 1994,
Christine 'Bug' Blair had no problem getting Katherine Sterling to put up
$50,000 in bail money for a woman charged with murder she did not know,
April Stevens. "You're a godsend," the critter squealed, as the judge
ordered April's release so long as she became gainfully employed.
Assuring the judge that April would be working for him, Paul 'Clueless'
Williams not once required her to spend a minute at his office working,
although she was often seen there bawling about her case.
Washing the smell of jail and snot off, April moved in with Clueless where
they spent hours talking about their daughter. Heather Stevens was the one
in "turmoil" and they didn't know what would become of her, or them.
Living with Mary Williams, Heather was treated to a home-cooked Swedish
meatballs prepared by the Bug in-between hands of poker with Clueless.
Taking a break from the game, they welcomed Katherine who played a round
of Twenty Questions with Heather in a failed attempt to get the child to
support Katherine's theory that April and Clueless were having an affair
so soon after April's release from jail.
Saying she wanted to play a "lawyer's trick" on Heather, the Bug said by
using "deductive reasoning" she could make Heather see that her
step-daddy, Robert Lynch, was a bad man who had deserved to die and that
Heather had no reason to blame her mother for killing him. Heather hadn't
cracked by the time Mary came home from the store with Heather's "favorite
drink" cherry cola. Later, observing Heather reading a book, Mary said,
"It's nice to see someone reading a book" and then suggested they order a
pizza and rent a movie!
Still determined to bring Heather around to her way of thinking, it just
so happened that a few days later was April's birthday. To celebrate, the
Bug gave Heather the sob story about how she, the Bug, had once hated her
mother. That did it! Heather snapped out of her funk, but refused to sit
next to April at the birthday bash. Since the party was held at a public
eatery, and word that April was a killer had spread far and wide, patrons
in the establishment pointed their fingers at her. When Heather lashed out
at them, it was an encouraging sign that she was changing her attitude
toward April.
Meanwhile, Katherine was bewildered. How could a man like Robert come to
Genoa City and find out where April was staying? "This is a good-sized
city. How did he know where to find her?" Katherine actually said. And
still convinced April and Clueless were having an affair, Katherine said,
"There's no way they can say she [April] didn't do it. [Kill Robert]."
Katherine, who had posted April's bail, hadn't been paying attention
because all along April, the Bug and Clueless had been saying she did do
it. The question was: how best to defend her. It was then that for the
first time in history, Katherine said she had gone to law school with
all-purpose attorney John Silva.
Then one day out of the blue, April kissed Clueless right in front of the
Bug. April said afterward it was a "mistake" and that she didn't know what
had come over her. As she had since her arrival, April started bawling
again and wiping snot all over her face. Those who remember recall how
skin-crawling it was watching snot pour out her nose, over her lips and
into her mouth and rarely was she offered tissue.
Not knowing what to make of the kiss, the Bug ran to Nina Webster.
Preparing for a college entrance test, the ninny as she was known as then,
told the Bug she was studying capitols of the world. As for Clueless and
April kissing, Nina reminded the Bug that Clueless had always been her
"lifeline" and not to worry.
When a befuddled about the kiss Clueless ran to Mary, she knew before he
opened his mouth what was up. "Something is troubling you. A mother knows
her own child," Mary said, adding when Clueless told her of the kiss, that
he had always been the Bug's "lifeline."
With April's trial expected to begin any day, someone remembered there
hadn't been a preliminary hearing. And so it was. Indictment #94CR950 was
read and trial was set to start May 6. "I can't believe it," April
whimpered, as the Bug said that if convicted of first degree murder, she'd
go to prison for "life" and wouldn't be eligible for parole for twenty
years."
Deeply concerned, and keep in mind this is a true story, the Bug told
Clueless, "We need every minute to build her defense." Immediately
following that statement they went to a local disco where Clueless got
falling down drunk.
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