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Another day. >> dr. vincent is anns psychiatrist. >> i thought that they must have been both psychotic. >> and in that case they feed off each others manic moments? >> yes. >> shared craziness. >> shared craziness, yeah. >> i know that there is definitely something to the concept of the two of us having gone mad together. >> ann was also physically deteriorating. she says at times she was too weak to walk. during this time, ann flew to the u.s. on a trip for their gems business. she says they ha...

Whiz. and decided to use his math skill his in casinos. >> he started going to atlantic city. and card counting. and he did it until they kicked him out. it was a challenge. it was not for the money. it was the idea of being able to use your mind to create profitably. >> eventually, john would become a trader at the philadelphia stock exchange and work with and mentor pete delici. >> john did everything to an extreme. so if he believed in something or he felt that mathematically he had an edge, ...

Devastated. >> he told me the day after, he said the house has betrayed me. >> paul myer has a tree farm next to the benders property. >> i remember ann very well, beautiful woman, hair up in a pony tail, white tank top, tanned, okay, im living next to lara croft, tomb raider. >> myers remembers his last get-together in 2009. six months before a bullet would end johns life. >> ann didnt look good. she looked pale, like she had lost weight. both of them seemed sad or depressed. >> the last six to...

Dress rehearsarehearsals. >> 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 another day she would do ...

Trapped. she spoke with me while waiting to stand trial for a second time. was it murder? or suicide? prosecutors claimed ann is a cold blooded killer. ann is adamant she did not murder her husband. >> will be tried twice on the same charge. >> if there were any merit to this i could respect it. and i could have some sense of peace. >> peace ann bender has been seeking since she first moved to costa rica here with john. they hoped to escape to this magic, but instead it would lead to a descend i...

Is it hard to come in here? >> it is still little hard. >> although she finds it hard to come here, ann takes me step by step to the final hours she and john spent here. how did you spend your last day? what did you and john do? >> i recall it as being a relatively peaceful day. he was much calmer. i was not feeling so much of the angst coming from him. we watched the sunset and did all the positive things that we always did. that evening we had dinner and then we played the video game we usuall...

>> 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...

Multi-millionaire. but wealth didnt necessarily bring happiness. >> i think he was a tortured genius. there were times when his depression would last for periods of weeks. >> john used his profits to move here at the farm. was he looking to escape people? >> i think he would. >> ann would move in with him two weeks after they met. he soon proposed. >> our wedding was the two of us, our families. >> it was the feeling they were at the same place with exactly the same goals and values. >> all they...

Crime. and thats what prosecutor edgar ramirez did. >> why did your office appeal the decision and on what basis? >> the decision took us by surprise and after analyzing it, we did not agree with the courts assessment of the evidence. >> prosecutors won their appeal and a new trial got under way this month. >> it was devastating to know that i have to go through this again. this is a travesty in terms of the use of the justice system. >> friends and family, including johns parents, do not believ...

Eventually they concluded she was responsible for johns death. >> i was officially charged august 3rd of 2011. >> so that is almost two years or 20 months later. >> 20 months after johns death. ann then hired the attorney to take over her defense. >> she was not satisfied with the attorneys that were representing her during that year and a half. >> ann had begun to question the honesty of the man who had hired the attorneys. >> something was wrong, but i did not what. >> alvarez had played an im...