By Kathryn Casey
ISBN-10: 0060567643
ISBN-13: 9780060567644
Trophy spouse Celeste Beard wasn't happy with a sumptuous way of life and her wealthy Austin media multi-millionaire husband's devotion -- so she took his lifestyles! The spouse: She sought after every thing, yet her husband stood within the manner. The lesbian lover: A love-struck, middle-aged lady with a background of psychological affliction, she could do something to set Celeste loose. the sweetness salon receptionist: Celeste employed her to tie up the unfastened ends ... in a moment conspiracy to dedicate homicide.
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And when Kristina suffered unexplained seizures, Celeste rarely visited her in the hospital. In the evenings, Kris called the apartment, but it was her sister, Jen, home alone, who answered. Those nights, Kris fell asleep watching the Cosby Show and wishing for a mother like Claire Huxtable, one who loved her children. In 1990, Celeste reported the yellow Taurus stolen. When the insurance money came in, she purchased a brand new Thunderbird. That summer, Celeste’s landlord called Lue complaining about unsanitary conditions in the apartment.
Afterward, Nancy briefly went to a psychiatric hospital. “I’d suffered a breakdown,” she says. “I’d been taking diet pills, and I was under a lot of stress and had insomnia. ’ But I never hurt my children. ” After treatment, Nancy returned home to care for her brood. Edwin was gone much of the day at the shop. “We had four kids. It was a full-time commitment to keep beans on the table,” he says. ” Following their parents’ religious bent, the children attended West Valley Christian Academy. From the beginning, Celeste was a precocious child and in the program for the gifted.
She was living with a woman with a bunch of kids on welfare. Celeste was on welfare, too, and working as a waitress at a pizza place. She asked if I wanted to live with her, and we got an apartment together. At first, it was fun. Then things got crazy. ” Years later Gail would remember Celeste being ill-equipped for motherhood. When Gail returned home from waitressing, Celeste was dressed and ready for work, leaving the babies with Gail, crying and dirty. Making their lives more chaotic, Craig often arrived at the apartment uninvited.