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Was emotionally and physically frail. >> pizzaro just said to me you need to go to the hospital. and i argued with him. i said, no, i want to go home. he said, you need to go to the hospital. >> ann would spend the next six months at the hospital in san jose. coming up -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: the cause of death was homicide. >> prosecutors dont buy anns story. >> translator: ann intended or had planned to kill john bender that night of january 8th, 2010. when heartburn co...

The hospital because, he says, she was emotionally and physically frail. >> pizarro said to me, you need to go to the hospital. and i argued with him. i said no, i want to go home. he said you need to go to the hospital. >> ann would spend the next six months at the hospital in san jose. coming up -- >> translator: the cause of death was homicide. >> prosecutors dont buy anns story. >> translator: ann intended or had planned to kill john bender that night of january 8th, 2010. [male vo] inside t...

Ann says she took action, almost instinctively. >> i reared up on my knees, lunged towards him. and in the process of putting my hands around his, we fell towards each other. and he had the gun loaded and cocked i know the way we felt towards each other. >> a single gunshot entered the back of johns head. ann would watch as her husband drifted away. >> i heard that sound. ill never forget it. >> that rattling breath that i had read about, heard about.

Take part in what she calls dress rehearsals. >> we would gather all the pills in the house and put them on the table. and he would ask me what do i do with these? i had tried to commit suicide before myself. and so i would tell him this is what you do, but i could tell that doing these things would calm him down. and he would feel better. >> practicing suicide to calm him down. it seems an absurd notion. almost unbelievable. what about another extraordinary claim? that to get john through anoth...

>> on cross-examination, ann told the prosecutor that she had lost her grip on johns hands, started falling back and the gun went off. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> on the fifth day of trial, testimony ended and closing arguments began. the prosecutor demonstrated how easy it was to shoot the gun. [ speaking in foreign language ]

[ bleep ] die, i feel so utterly bad, i havent felt this bad in years. >> i could read in the intensity of his words and in the conversation we had over the phone that he had passed over a certain line. that -- he had never passed it before. and i was terrified. >> two months later she sent an e-mail to johns parents telling them for the first time in 11 years we find ourselves in the unfortunate position of both being depressed at the same time. two days later, john was dead. coming up, was it ...

>> ann said she walked around the side of the bed, held his hand and stroked his arm. >> as i was kneeling next to him all the blood started to fall through the mattress and was pooling at my feet. >> ann grabbed a radio and called for help. the head of the security was one of the first to respond. >> when you first arrived here at the house what did you see? >> john was in his bed. he was lying there lifeless. he was dead. i gave all of my attention to ann, who was very upset. she hugged me say...

Future. if you are again acquitted at the retrial and it ends there -- >> yes. >> -- what do you want to do with the rest of your life? where do you go from here? >> i know what john wanted me to do with the refuge and a lot of that will depend on the resources that are left. he wanted me to start helping people and create the refuge and retreats for people with mental illnesses. >> what do you want for you? >> i want peace for john. because i know hes not at peace now. >> john benders ashes are...

The house by the suitcase load. >> we actually met. >> ann says the gem business was not a source of contention. >> it was a collection we had always wanted to make. we both loved gems since we were young. to him it was a sound investment. >> not only was it a sound financial investment but ann says john bought her the stones also as a way to cope with their mental illnesses. >> whenever i was acutely ill, john always wanted to buy me stuff. so he started buying me at first, beads, a particular ...

Instinctively. >> i reared up on my knees, lunged towards him. and in the process of putting my hands around his, we fell towards each other. and he had the gun loaded and cocked ch cocked i know the way we felt towards each other. >> a single gunshot entered the back of johns head. ann would watch as her husband drifted away. >> i heard that sound. ill never forget it. >> that rattling breath that i had read about, heard about.