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🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the second part of a two-part episode. |
0:04.0 | If you haven't watched her listen to the first part, you should go back and check it out. |
0:08.5 | There's a link in the description. |
0:11.9 | Celeste Beard was on her fourth husband, a wealthy retired television executive named Stephen Beard. |
0:18.5 | It was clear that her goal was to marry him, expecting him to die sooner |
0:22.8 | than later, and leave her a rich woman. Of course, she couldn't wait to spend his money, and after a |
0:28.8 | number of spending indiscretions, Steve started talking to his lawyer about divorce. Now, the way |
0:35.3 | their marriage had been set up, if the couple divorced, Celeste would walk away with |
0:39.5 | nothing. So, as an immediate distraction from divorce, Celeste held a gun to her own head and threatened |
0:46.1 | suicide. The plan worked, and soon Steve was more concerned with getting his wife the help |
0:52.1 | she so clearly needed than kicking her to the curb. |
0:55.5 | The part of Stephen that cared about Celeste more than he cared about money was what would |
1:00.0 | ultimately get him killed. This is Monsters. After Celeste held a gun to her head, authorities had taken her for treatment at St. David's Pavilion. |
1:35.7 | After experiencing auditory hallucinations after having been abused as a child, Tracy Tarleton was also admitted to the same facility. |
1:46.5 | There was a noticeable contrast between the two patients, though. Tracy needed the help she was receiving and was actively trying to get better. |
1:53.4 | Celeste didn't seem interested in using the hospital's services as they were intended. In the hospital, |
2:00.0 | Celeste treated the facility more like a vacation getaway |
2:03.0 | than a place where she could get mental health treatment. She ordered the staff around and broke the |
2:08.4 | rules. She refused to eat the hospital food and her family had to bring her every meal. |
2:14.9 | She was one of the only patients who was paying out of pocket for her stay instead |
2:19.0 | of it coming from insurance, so she viewed the hospital stay as something she had purchased. |
2:25.0 | St. David's wasn't a long-term treatment facility, though. It was an emergency hospital where the |
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