Webthe next blip out of steven lucas came in 2004, when the 5th state court of appeals in dallas rejected his bid for a third trial. He exited prison in 2014 and moved. Lucas's first trial in 1991 ended with the jury deadlocked. 1988, steven, age 43, and his daughter stefani stopped by bette’s house ostensibly to return a videocassette recorder. But the vcr ended up damaged. Webbette met her untimely death at the hands of her only son, steven lucas. Webafter searching high and low, handfuls of county employees say they can't find the papers. and the stakes are high. In 1994, baker steven lucas was convicted. Weba man who said his wealthy socialite mother fell over a bannister as they grappled over a videocassette recorder has been convicted of beating her to death to. Webbelow is my column in the hill on a controversial criminal case involving a conservative journalist who was arrested after the january 6th riot. Webthe jury convicted baker steven lucas iii of murder.