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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 john's strategy was to have competitors on the trading floor underestimate him. >> he wore scrubs on the floor because he wanted people to think he was you know, a goof ball and didn't know wh...

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 bender's 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 in bed next to him, and he said something like, knowing how it feels to wake up with your spouse de...

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 can't believe i'm 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 by armed men. >> and how far did they get onto the property? how close to you? >> they got within ...

Prosecutors continue to investigate. eventually they concluded she was responsible for john's death. >> i was officially charged august 3rd of 2011. >> so that is almost two years or 20 months later. >> 20 months after john's 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 important role in the benders realizing their dream, helping th...