Meet Celeste Beard-Johnson – the billionaire murderer from C4’s Women Who Kill Mon 1 April 2019 15:40 Updated Fri 12 April 2019 14:59 Eve Edwards
Channel 4’s Women Who Kill documentary mini-series returns for its second episode.
Episode 2 (Monday, April 1st) will have a particular focus on ‘black widow’ killers – women who murder for money.
The most notorious of these cases is that of Celeste Beard-Johnson.
Here’s everything you should know about Celeste’s crimes.
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Who is Celeste Beard-Johnson?
Celeste Beard-Johnson is a 56-year-old originally from Santa Barbara, California.
Celeste had a troubled childhood, after not knowing her birth parents and speaking of an abusive relationship with her adoptive parents.
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She had twin daughters at the age of just 17, with her first husband and then went on to marry a second time before her now infamous marriage to Steven Beard.
Who was her third husband, Steven Beard?
Steven Beard was a hotshot TV exec for Fox and a self-made millionaire.
They met at a country club in Texas where Celeste worked as a waitress and began a secret love affair – he was twice her age at the time!
On October 2, 1999, Steven was shot with a shotgun in the stomach while he was asleep at home.
Despite miraculously surviving the initial shot, he died of a blood clot in hospital on January 22nd, 2000.
