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Kathryn Casey's She Wanted It All (2005) is an extraordinarily researched, incredibly detailed and amazingly well-organized story that is even better than any of that fine trio, and for once the Texas judicial system, despite some initial stupidities, gets the job done right, thanks mainly to prosecutor Allison Wetzel who bested famed defense attorney Dick DeGuerin in a case that could easily have been lost. The villain is blond, blue-eyed, sexy Celeste (née Johnson) Beard, a woman who found that life was always a case of "too much is never enough." She was actually raised in California, the adopted daughter of Edwin and Nancy Johnson. She claims to have been sexually abused by her adoptive father, but one can clearly see in Casey's mesmerizing narrative that it was the adoptive mother who was not only a psychological abuser, but something of negative role model for the kind of controlling, selfish, neurotic, abusive, sociopathic murderess that Celeste would become. The primary victim of the story is Steven Beard, a self-made Texas millionaire who in his seventies had recently lost his beloved wife of over forty years. (Of course, there were many victims of Celeste. As with most so

Who reads She Wanted It All: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and a Texas Millionaire (Avon True Crime)?

Author

Kathryn Casey

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062063243

Category

true crime

Subjects

Social Science, Crime, Biography

Rating

4.5 / 5 (1,380 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14