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He was brilliant, phenomenally handsome. He was everything that to me symbolized a future with a capital
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F. And it just clicked. And from that first day, there was never any doubt that we were meant to
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[Music] meet. I saw the outline of the gun and he had it pointed at his head. He was going to die that night no
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matter what. This is a story about two people, John and Anne Bender, who from the outside
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world seemed perfect. John Bender was a Wall Street genius and very quickly made
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upwards of a half a billion dollars. By the time he was in his early 30s, their whole worlds were each other. And when
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they found each other, they really didn't need anything else. We built the house with the idea of it
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being our home to our taste. They said, "Let's retreat to Costa Rica to the deepest part of the
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rainforest and set up a nature preserve. Not many people are willing or want to live in a house that has no
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walls. Our architect said we were nuts. You were happy. I loved it. And John was
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happy. Yes. As happy as John could be. What you think is paradise isn't necessarily paradise. John and Ant had
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problems that money just couldn't fix. They were living a very inward life. They had cut off the world. He had
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decided that the world would be better off without it. There were no lights on. All I knew
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is he had a gun and I tried to get it away from him and I couldn't and it went off.
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It comes down to basically two people in a room with a gun. I tried to stop him and I've been accused of killing him.
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I never saw a motive explaining why she would have shot her husband. Only when you see the forensics
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and you see the photographs that you begin to think it's possible. It sure looked like this guy was shot in the
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back of his head while he was sleeping. I did not kill my husband.