Media
Crime author Kathryn Casey covered the Celeste Beard case in her mass-market paperback, She Wanted it All: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and a Texas Millionaire. Also, author Suzy Spencer wrote a book, The Fortune Hunter, about the case.
The case has been covered in a one-hour show of Dominick Dunne's investigative programme, Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice, and the crime series American Justice aired an episode on the case, titled "For Love Or Money." The case was also profiled on the Oxygen Network's series Snapped The CI network also covered the case in an hour-long show. Law & Order had an episode, "Obsession," during season 15, taking a headline from news coverage of the case, and on two Investigation Discovery Network's series On the Case with Paula Zahn and Deadly Women.
This case is covered in Evil Wives, Deadly women whose crimes knew no limits, John Marlowe, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84837-367-9
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