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Early morning of december 3rd, 1999. >> look, no investigation was ever done by the monaco police. okay? monaco police, if you're listening, do your investigation and maybe you'll find out what really happened. >> what might a new investigation find? that assassins had, in fact, penetrated the safra apartment that night? or that ted maher's story falls apart before their eyes? coming up, what is the truth? so this is the question, really, ted, were you lying then or are you lying now? >> when the mystery of the billionaire banker continues. glad i could help you plan for your retirement.

Moved. but to ted maher and his lawyer that's just one of many unanswered questions from the early morning of december 3rd, 1999. >> look, no investigation was ever done by the monaco police. okay? monaco police, if you're listening, do your investigation and maybe you'll find out what really happened. >> what might a new investigation find? that assassins had in fact penetrated the safra apartment that night? or that ted maher's story falls apart before their eyes? coming up -- what is the truth? >> so this is the question, really, ted. were you lying then? or are you lying now? >> when the...

And self-inflicted. the fire set by ted. the motive? ted was afraid of losing his dream job and wanted to curry favor by staging false heroics. >> he wanted to impress his boss. he was on very bad terms with the main nurse. two reasons. >> the international thriller starring the billionaire banker had fizzled into a sad tale about a desperate, possibly unstable employee. >> there's a human story now, but it is about the nurse. >> ted's arrest was a devastating turn of events for his wife heidi. she first spoke to "dateline" just weeks after the deadly fire. did you think it was all going to be...

Castle that once belonged to a belgian monarch. his apartment in the center of monaco was a sprawling penthouse on the top two floors of this bank building. >> it was beyond any description. so lavish, so beautiful. >> around the time ted maher began working for edmond safra, the banker, who was 67 years old and suffered from parkinson's disease, was eyeing retirement and planning to make monaco his permanent home. he was selling his republic national bank to hsbc. it was a curious and controversial move since wall street analysts thought the sale price he negotiated was nearly 40% below what ...

>> ted maher had spent more than three years in jail when his case came to trial in 2002. in court, ted's lawyers didn't deny that he faked the attack and started the fire, but argued that he'd never meant to harm anyone. least of all edmond safra, whom he'd been desperately trying to impress. ted himself called the entire affair a terrible accident. in the end, the story that started out as an international whodunit concluded with a swift conviction -- ten years for deadly arson. but that decisive ending was actually just the beginning. ted maher says today. for him, the conviction was the st...