In a recorded interview, she admitted Nolan had asked her to say she saw me deliver Walter’s medication. She had been in the house, she claimed, but had not witnessed the act itself. Nolan told her he was protecting the company from a dangerous woman who intended to ruin him.
When Ortiz asked why she believed him, Celeste looked down. “He’s my son.”
“That isn’t an answer to why you lied under oath,” Ortiz said.
Celeste had no reply.
She also acknowledged helping Nolan remove boxes from the Kentucky farmhouse after Mara disappeared. She insisted she did not know what had happened to Mara, but she had concealed belongings because Nolan told her they could cause trouble. Investigators would decide what her admissions meant legally.
I heard the summary from Daniel and felt no satisfaction. Celeste had looked me in the eye during family dinners, accepted gifts from my father, and then helped condemn me. Now she was changing her story because the evidence had turned against her.
