By Kathryn Casey
Trophy spouse Celeste Beard wasn't happy with a sumptuous way of life and her wealthy Austin media wealthy person husband's devotion -- so she took his lifestyles! The spouse: She sought after every little thing, yet her husband stood within the means. The lesbian lover: A love-struck, middle-aged girl with a background of psychological disorder, she might do whatever to set Celeste loose. the sweetness salon receptionist: Celeste employed her to tie up the free ends ... in a moment conspiracy to dedicate homicide.
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The only disturbances were the static buzz of insects, the rustling of squirrels, and the sporadic churning of scattered air conditioners, on a still warm fall night. In another month the leaves would turn gold and brown, but on this night lush green foliage muffled the crack of a single gunshot. Inside her bedroom, at the back of the children’s wing, eighteen-year-old Kristina Beard woke, without knowing why. A sound sleeper, she rarely stirred before morning, and as her eyes adjusted, an uneasy feeling engulfed her.
When she said Harald didn’t want the girls, Lue and Gary, who’d often helped children in trouble, offered to take them weekdays. From the first, the Thompsons fell in love with Jen and Kris. At six, they were miniature versions of their mother, with dark blond hair and large blue eyes. Lue signed up the girls, natural athletes, for baseball, and she and Gary went to the games. Evenings, they gabbed as she cooked dinner. After the years with Celeste, it was a welcome break for the girls. Off and on, for nearly two years, the girls lived with the Thompsons, who grew to think of them as their own.
Doctors had hoped that on bed rest Celeste could have carried them longer, and now they feared the infants weren’t breathing well. An ambulance rushed them to a larger medical center, where they were put on respirators, but the girls were strong and recovered quickly. Months later the twins sat for a family portrait, the kind taken at department stores in front of a marbled blue background. In it, they wore matching yellow terry-cloth sleepers, their identical little faces flushed and red, eyes wide and intense, hands reaching toward the camera.