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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, he would exploit that as big as he could. >> part of johns strategy was to have competitors on the trading floor underestimate him. >> he wore sc...

I did not shoot my husband. you can tell me right here and right now, you did not kill him? >> i did not shoot my husband. i tried to stop him. >> on january 14th, 2013, three years after john benders death, in a courtroom in san ysidro, costa rica, ann bender went on trial, charged with murdering her husband. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> her lawyer asked about her claim that she saw john holding a gun to his head. [ speaking in foreign language ]

Quite as watchful as i had been before. >> so did you finish the video game and both come upstairs together? >> that night i was not able to walk so he would carry me to the elevator. >> ann says they followed their nightly routine. john turned out the lights and they got into bed. ann says she began to doze off. >> i was lying on my belly. face down. my head facing towards him. and i opened my eyes because i heard him talking. >> so what was he saying? >> he referred to my side where i had been...

We went to canada. >> three months later they returned to their home in the rain forest. >> to come back, we had to be safe. so that is when we hired the private security. >> she and john also armed themselves. >> we both got gun permits. i never in a million years would have thought, and john said the same thing i cant believe im learning how to shoot a gun. both of us were very anti-gun. >> she said soon, their safety was threatened again. when their mountain top sanctuary was invaded in 2002 ...

Prosecutors continue to investigate. 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 ...

Accounts in tax havens like grand caymans, for example. >> an allegation of taxes, that they smuggled jewels. >> how do you feel about the allegations that you were involved in illegal activities? >> it is an absolute fabrication. we were doing nothing wrong. >> the prosecutor and ann seemed to agree on one thing. both believe mental illness led to johns death, but for different reasons. ramirez suspects ann had a psychotic break. >> both of them were bipolar and obviously had personality disord...

It was john and ann benders unique refuge in the costa rican rain forest. their dream at first. >> i had never seen a place as beautiful as this. >> it is remote, with their one-of-a-kind 80,000 foot circular house. nicknamed the bender dome, which ann and john designed and built from scratch. >> we built it to take advantage of the incredible views. >> their goals? for themselves, a life of quiet isolation and purpose. a balm, to calm their inner demons. for the refuge? help native wildlife and...

But with its tropical beauty and beaches, an american has fought for her freedom. fought the charge that she killed her husband john, on january 8th, 2010. her passport taken, unable to leave the country. 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...

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...

>> when i was in my pre-teen, ten or 12. i knew something was weird. something was different. >> weird and different turned out to be early signs of what would later become serious mental illness. >> i didnt have any suicide attempts or anything like that until my 20s, that is when it really hit. >> ann would be diagnosed as bipolar. a condition characterized by episodes of severe mood swings. she says that might explain her making sometimes rather impulsive decisions like moving to virginia. >>...