Celeste Beard
Appearances
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True Crime Vault: Tainted Love
I was very depressed and I felt like I was losing everything and I just wanted to die.
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We would go outside and smoke. I found out about her trauma. That kind of drew me to her.
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True Crime Vault: Tainted Love
When I got him home, he couldn't walk. He was still in the wheelchair. It took a long time to get him into the house and into bed. I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what. So I told him, I'm having you admitted back in the hospital. On our way to the hospital, I just knew. I said, honey, this is not going to work. You're not well. Something is wrong.
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True Crime Vault: Tainted Love
And he was crying all the way to the hospital, and it just broke my heart because he was saying, you know, please. He died on the third day. I was unconsolable. I was beside myself because I did not see that coming. My whole world just ended right there. And then the betrayals started.
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True Crime Vault: Tainted Love
I was unconsolable. They had to shoot me up with Haladol right through my jeans. I was beside myself. I did not see that coming.
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Steve was very gregarious and he just made me feel safe and he liked that he made me feel safe.
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I didn't want to be alone. He was a good guy. He was honest and he was my friend.
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She said she wasn't going to rot in prison while I'm married to somebody else.
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She said she loved Craig, and she wanted her children to have a father. The twins were three months early, and back then you couldn't touch them. So I feel like we never really bonded.
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I never changed his bandages. I never did anything like they're saying that's a lie.
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I went from one man to another because I was always looking for somebody to bring me happiness.
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Because it went to me first, and then after I died, was incapacitated or found guilty, then it would go to them.
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Christina testified, I don't know, 298 times when Dick questioned her.
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True Crime Vault: Tainted Love
When I did find a good man, I would leave them because I just figured I would ruin everything.
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We had Dallas Sound Labs. He had 30 years of experience. He proved that those tapes were altered and edited.
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Because Dick didn't want me to. I was bawling at the end because I wanted to testify.
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Yes, I did. He didn't think we needed it. He really thought it was a slam dunk.
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True Crime Vault: Tainted Love
The first 10 years was really hard and took a long time for me to forgive all the people that lied about me. Everybody betrayed me, my daughters. I thought they were my best friends. I just wish I would have raised them with discipline and showed them more love, nurturing love, instead of teaching them to lie. When they lied about me in court, I only have myself to blame for that.
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True Crime Vault: Tainted Love
I just want to die. I mean, I just want to die because I could not believe what they did. I wish they would have given me the death penalty because this is the death penalty, what I got. But it's the long, excruciatingly painful death penalty.
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Well, it's not fair, but she's mentally ill. I can at least have compassion for that.
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I was wild, I was spoiled, and I was immature. But I'm not that same person now. But I certainly didn't deserve this sentence. And I should at least be free after doing more time than Tracy.
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I would tell them that I always loved them. And I'm sorry that I wasn't the mother that you needed me to be. And I would do anything just to have a conversation.
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We were supposed to live on $35,000 a month. but it never worked out that way.
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True Crime Vault: Tainted Love
I was very depressed, and I felt like I was losing everything, and I just wanted to die.