Austin, TX - Millionaire media mogul Steven Beard wakes up one night to find his belly had burst wide open, with no idea how it happened. The truth would involve a love triangle, a shotgun, and a whole helluva lot of money. **Bonus - conversation with a real-live lawyer about just what the hell "capital murder" is.

Celeste Beard: In 1997, 32-year-old Celeste Beard hit the jackpot. That year, the thrice-divorced Austin housekeeper married her 75-year-old millionaire employer, Steven Beard. Suddenly, Celeste had it all: a Texas mansion, plenty of money, and a stable life for her two daughters.

But on October 2, 1999, Celeste's picture-perfect life came crashing down with one blast from a 20-gauge shotgun. That night, an armed intruder slipped into Steven's bedroom and fired a point-blank shot directly into his chest.

Steven survived the initial shot, but five months later, died from complications related to his injury. By then, however, Texas authorities had a suspect in custody - Celeste's lesbian best friend, Tracey Tarlton. The former bookstore manager eventually implicated Celeste in the plot to kill her husband.

At the trial, defense attorneys alleged Tarlton was simply a jealous woman with a terrifying and deadly love interest in Celeste. Prosecutors, on the other hand, claimed that Celeste had manipulated her friend into perpetrating the shooting in order to inherit Steven's vast fortune.