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A warning about this episode. It contains descriptions of suicide and suicidal thoughts. Please take care when listening. It was 10 years since the Benders moved to the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica with a big dream and a reported $600 million. Author Carol Vaughan they wanted to live.
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In the clouds and not have to deal with anything.
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They built their extravagant four story mansion and created a nature reserve full of animals and birds. But their dream slowly and relentlessly crumbled around them.
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And it was just doomed. Just doomed. All that money and it was doomed. They couldn't make it happen.
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After the police arrested John and Anne on the roadside in 2001, they felt targeted. Then armed invaders came within 200ft of the house.
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They were confronted with violence. People trying to kill them. People trying to kidnap them. People trying to get their money out of them. So that made their neuroses and their paranoia even worse.
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The couple bought guns and learned how to shoot. They both felt compelled to defend themselves from outside forces despite previously being anti gun ownership. Locals were suspicious of them. Their staff were afraid. Armed guards patrolled 24 7. But their lives were falling apart on the inside too. By the time we get to 2010, they're living in extreme isolation. They have virtually cut off all contact with the outside world. Anne and John have disconnected from reality. On top of this, Anne can now barely walk. John had failed to find a natural cure. They remain together high on the hill inside their wall less mansion, losing their minds. Carol Vaughan wrote the book on these events and her eyes intensify as she leans in and tells me the two.
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Of them suffered from mental illness and in the isolation and loneliness of Costa Rica, their condition got worse and they.
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Sort of went nuts until in the early hours of January 8, 2010, events reached breaking point. From Exactly Right Media and iHeart podcasts produced by Blanchard House this this is hell in heaven. I'm Becky Milligan. Chapter 5 the Night of Thursday, January 7, 2010. It's been a warm, humid day. John has been creating a stone mineral garden, his latest project. Near the entrance of the house. Rocks as large as cars had been forklifted into place. He was planning to arrange them in a particular way. Osvaldo Rojas, head of maintenance, has seen box after box of stones arrive. Many remain unopened.
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John said that the stones were beautiful and conveyed a certain peace.
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Anne is now desperately thin. Walking is difficult. She has a cane to help her or is carried by John like a small child. As the day comes to a close, John and Anne complete their usual evening rituals. They watch the sunset from the balcony.
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And just stand there hugging each other and wait for the sun to go down.
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Listening to the Twilight Jungle chorus. Our sunset thing, Anne calls it.
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I think they were totally in love with each other.
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They play John's favorite video game, Fallout 3 for a couple of hours. An action series which is set in a post apocalyptic world. The main character, lone wanderer, searches for his lost father after dinner. John then carries Anne up to the fourth floor master bedroom. The elevator system is locked. Anne is in bed. John is arranging his pillows. He has a particular way he likes them to be placed.
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He slept on a stack of three pillows. He slept nude. He slept with ear buds in because he couldn't stand noise. And the jungle at night is hugely noisy.
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Remember those earplugs? They'll be important later.
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It was just the two of them in the bedroom. That highly secured only way to get there was through a locked elevator.
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It's nearing midnight. The Bender's bedroom is far from ordinary. It's huge, of course. And then there are the lamps. Hundreds of lamps stained Glass Tiffany lamps, all of them around 550, blazing. They're switched off, leaving only the darkness. The jungle vibrates with an incessant hum of insects, frogs, geckos and the rustles of nocturnal animals. Eerie sounds echo through the darkness. Inside the house it is still. One of the guards settles in for what he expects to be just another uneventful night. But at a quarter past midnight, he leaps up. That sounded like a gunshot. He frowns, but before he can call his supervisor, the walkie talkie crackles into life. It's Anne. She's frantic, crying and yelling for help. The guard alerts his supervisor, Aguila. It's the start of the nightmare. Aguila immediately calls his boss, Jose Pizarro. The Benders head of security is relaxing at home in San Jose. He's left Aguila in charge at the bender's house that evening when his phone rings after midnight. He's surprised. Who calls this late? He hears Aguila on the end of the line.
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He says, colonel, we heard a shot inside the boss's house in a casa.
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The urgency in Aguila's voice makes Jose instantly sit up. He's now fully awake and alert.
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It sounds very weird to me. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
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Then he hears Anne's distraught voice coming across on the walkie talkie, crying and pleading for someone to help. He tells Aguila to try and find out what is going on. Remember, the Benders locked the elevator before they went to bed. Aguila has never had to unlock it before, so he doesn't know how. It takes five minutes to work it out. He then rises up to the master bedroom where the sound of the gunshot came from. It's the first time he's ever been on the fourth floor. It's dark, but he can see Anne kneeling by the side of the bed. She's crying and shaking, stroking John's hand. Something horrific has happened. He looks at Anne more closely.
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She is just completely falling apart. She's covered in blood. She's beside herself. The guard immediately started trying to help Ann, saying, how can I help you? What do we need to do? Do you need to take something?
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Nearby the guard Aguila sees a gun. John's gun. A semi automatic 9 millimeter Ruger P45. Then he realizes John is motionless and there's a pool of blood around his head. Foreign.
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The Crying Wolf podcast is the story of two men bound by injustice, of a city haunted by its secrets and the quest for redemption, no matter the price.
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White victim, female. Pretty wealthy, black defendant.
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Chicago. A white woman's murder. A black man behind bars for a crime he didn't commit.
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I had 90 years for killing somebody I have never seen, he says.
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The police are his friends. And then that's it.
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They turn on him.
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A corrupt detective.
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How he was interrogated, the techniques.
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That's crazy.
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A snitch and a life stolen.
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They got the wrong guy.
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But on the inside, Lee Harris finds an ally in his celly, Robert, who swears to tell the truth about what happened to Lee and free his friend.
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If you're with me, your goal is.
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I'll take care of you.
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I'm gonna be with you.
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You stuck with me for life. Listen to the Crying Wolf podcast starting on October 22nd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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John is dead. Having taken in the scene, Aguila continues speaking to Jose on the phone. Jose remembers the call clearly.
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He told me Ann is crying. She's in total shock. I said, what's going on? And he told me that Anne is saying that John shot himself.
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Jose is shocked. He's trying to take it in. His employer, his friend John, has killed himself, shot himself with his gun. It doesn't make sense. Why? He orders Aguila to take Anne to the second floor as quickly as possible. Jose immediately calls the police and the Red Cross ambulance service. He will coordinate everything from now on. He rings John and Anne's lawyers as he prepares to drive to the Benders house. It's three to four hours away. Over and over in his head he asks the same question. How could this have happened? It will be an hour before the ambulance gets to the house, a little more before the police arrive. Ambulance driver Carlos Moroz is woken by the phone ringing. It's about 12:30 in the morning. It's from the Red Cross HQ. There's an emergency. In a remote area of the jungle.
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There was talk of a suicide, that a security guard had committed suicide.
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Carlos and a colleague pick up their medical equipment and set off into the darkness of the Costa Rican jungle. Half an hour later, at 1 in the morning, another phone is ringing, this time in the house of Osvaldo Rojas in Perez Zeledon, the nearest town to Bora Kayan. He's been the Bender's head of maintenance for 10 years. Up till now, he's had a regular day. He left Bora Kayan at three in the afternoon as usual, and spent the rest of the afternoon and evening at home with his wife. They went to bed and were fast asleep when the phone rang.
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About 1am they called me to say that John had apparently killed himself and that I should go there because Anna was desperate.
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Osvaldo, like everyone else, is shocked. So much is going through his mind as he rushes to Boracayan. Ambulance driver Carlos, the Benders head of security Jose and maintenance man Osvaldo are all now on the road heading to Boracayan. The police are also on their way at the house. Anne is now on the second floor in a Severe state of shock.
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She took something to ease the drama and stress.
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She emails her parents, then calls her brother Ken Patton in Michigan, waking him up in the middle of the night. Her first words to him will be significant in all. All that follows. He finally did it, she says. There are more calls to make, but first Aguila, at the request of Jose Pizarro, makes sure Anne has all her medications. The ambulance driver Carlos and his partner are on route. It's around 1 in the morning. They take a rough road on the left, deeper into the jungle.
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It was actually a very nice night. A bit dark because there was no lighting. We lowered the windows and heard the sound of the jungle and we were the only ones on the road.
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He knows the area a bit, but has never heard of Boracayan. Jose, head of security, is also on his way. He's going as fast as he can, pressing his foot down on the accelerator. He rings Aguila again to check up on the situation. His main concern now is Anne.
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Ask if she feels okay. If she does, she needs to stay in the house, but keep an eye on her. If she gets worse, take her to the hospital.
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At around 1:15 in the morning, Carlos pulls up at the gates of Bora Kayan. He can't believe what he sees.
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The first thing we saw were the big gates. I was impressed because there was a lot of security. Two guards were standing at the front gate and as we got closer, we saw this huge illuminated house. It looked like a flying saucer.
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He turns to one of the security guards at the gate and asks if the casualty is a colleague of his.
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It's the boss. The boss who shot himself. I asked where is he, he tells me.
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On the fourth floor, Carlos and his partner rush up the stairs to the front entrance. They pass John's precious orchids in the car. Jose makes more calls, first to the police. He knows some of them very well, since he used to be head of police in Costa Rica and was popular, known by his nickname El Toro the Bull.
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I kept in touch with everyone that night to advise of what was going on there.
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His head is still full of questions. Back in the house, ambulance driver Carlos and his partner are shown to the elevator which will take them to the fourth floor. He's taking in the large number of armed guards and the luxury Los Pisos.
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The interiors, the furnishing, the floors, the elevator.
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There's an odd atmosphere, he thinks.
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Everything was silent. Nobody cried. So Anne. They already told us that she was the boss's wife and seemed calm. I didn't see her crying at all.
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Carlos begins to wonder if the house could be owned by a big drug lord. That might explain the guns and the opulence.
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There's too much money in here. It seemed to me like we were walking into a Pablo Escobar soap opera. I don't know what has happened. Who else is inside the house, or what else could happen.
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He feels a deep sense of unease. Could someone have broken in? Could this person still be in the property? Like the house, the elevator has no walls. It is like a rising platform. Carlos can see each floor as he goes up. A kitchen. Beautiful wooden furniture. He sees all those lamps, the Tiffany lamps. Everything is so shiny, he says. Made from stainless steel, granite or marble. They reach the fourth floor.
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Then the elevator stops. There is a single huge bedroom. No walls, not even for the bathroom. There's a big bed and lots of gems on the shelves.
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His pulse quickens. He can almost hear his heart beating. Then he sees it. The body on the bed. The boss of the house.
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And I could see the gun on the floor. The trail of blood. El Drazo is angry.
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He switches on his flashlight and takes a closer look. The man is clearly dead. There's nothing they can do. They try not to touch anything and tell the guards not to let anyone else up here until the police arrive. Carlos whispers to his partner that he's scared. He has an overwhelming desire to leave, to get out of there as soon as possible. But he has to wait for the police. It doesn't take long. When the first police officers arrive, Carlos debriefs them. The man is dead and there's nothing they can do. It's now 2:15 in the morning. Maintenance man Osvaldo arrives.
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I went up to the second floor to see Anna. She was sitting on the couch and I walked to her. She clung to me, crying and said that John had killed himself.
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That's all she said. Anne has already told her family that John has died. She hasn't yet called John's parents. It's in the early hours of the morning when the call comes through to Paul and Margie Bender in Phoenix, Arizona. A horrific call for any parent. At first they find it hard to grapple with what has happened and make sense of what Anne is telling them. She said that this accident had happened and she tried to describe what happened. I did not understand why it happened, but she said he had died from this accident and that she was terribly upset about it and she wasn't quite sure why.
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But he was.
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He was under a lot of pressure.
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She did not think that he committed.
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Suicide or anything like that, but she said, it happened. And what are we going to do? It happened. Paul struggles to talk about his son's death. Anne would later tell reporters that a few months before his death, John had spiraled into a dark place. His favorite bird had been killed. That seems to have hit him particularly hard. Remember, he and Anne were both animal lovers, and that was a key reason they'd moved to Costa Rica. But there was something else. John had entrusted his money to a Costa Rican lawyer. In fact, he'd given him power of attorney, meaning the lawyer now controlled the bender's fortune. Not a smart move. John was starting to suspect that the lawyer was screwing him for millions of dollars. Anne showed the CBS series 48 Hours. An email from John read here by an actor.
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Such a total fucking loser for ever getting involved with those scumbags. Losing my fucking mind right now. First sick again and now this shit. Today is a total fucking nightmare and.
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Tomorrow will get worse. Just when I was feeling I could learn to be happy, now I get.
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This and I. I want to be dead.
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The emails terrified Anne. John also obsessed about Anne's health. Why couldn't he cure her? None of his homemade concoctions had worked. She only got worse. Anne could barely walk unaided. Lyme's disease had infected her spinal cord and brain. John couldn't bear it. Had he failed her and himself. This is what Ann would say later, voiced by an actor.
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We were dealing with so many things.
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At the same time.
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He was talking about suicide every day.
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Anne also said that for the first time in 11 years, they were suffering a dreadful depression at the same time. And the six weeks before John's death were harrowing. Every day we would sit down and he would take all the medications we had, she said, and put them in piles and say, ok, when am I going to start taking the pills? They were suicide dress rehearsals. Anne said she told CNN that there was definitely something to the concept of the two of them having gone mad together. This is Anne's account of what happened in the early hours of January 8, 2010. She has told and retold this story many times to reporters, the police, and to author Carol Vaughan.
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She went to bed first and was falling off to sleep and she was awakened by something. She says she thinks it was voices. She heard him say something she thinks it was. You'll now know what it's like to wake up next to your dead husband.
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You'll now know what it's like to wake up next to your dead husband. Anne opened her eyes. It was dark, but she could see that John had a gun pointed at his head. It was loaded and cocked, ready to fire. He was lying back on the pillows. At first she was stunned, and then.
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She jumped up onto her knees and. And lunged for it. And her hands enclosed his hands. She says she never touched the gun, but the gun went off and shot him in the back of the head and killed him instantly.
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The Crying Wolf podcast is the story of two men bound by injustice, of a city haunted by its secrets and the quest for redemption, no matter the price.
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White victim, female, pretty, wealthy, black defendant.
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Chicago, a white woman's murder. A black man behind bars for a crime he didn't commit.
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I had 90 years for killing somebody I have never seen.
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He says the police are his friends. And then that's it.
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They turn on him.
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A corrupt detective.
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How he was interrogated, the techniques, that's crazy.
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A snitch and a life stolen.
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They got the wrong guy.
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But on the inside, Lee Harris finds an ally in his celly, Robert, who swears to tell the truth about what happened to Lee and free his friend.
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If you're with me, you're golden.
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I'll take care of you.
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I'm gonna be with you.
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You stuck with me for life. Listen to the Crying Wolf podcast starting on October 22nd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I've never done a live recording before. Podcasts. I've just never done it this week.
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On the bright side, Chrissy Teigen like you've never heard of before.
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I think I showed the messiness of life, like even before kids. So like it was kind of a natural thing just to show every part of it.
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After kids too, from viral moments to real life motherhood. Chrissy opens up about what it means to live life out loud, even when it's hard.
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When Miles was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, I remember feeling like, okay, I want to get this right for everybody.
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That'S depending on us.
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Chrissy talks about turning fear into advocacy, building community and finding joy in a very full house.
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I had four kids for a reason. I love the chaos of it.
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The this live conversation is raw, funny and full of heart. Don't miss it. Listen to the bright side on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Anne picked up the walkie talkie and called for help. She would later tell reporters, at this point, I already knew he was dead because I had heard the death rattle. That last breath. In the master bedroom, Carlos and his partner are about to leave. There is nothing more they can do. They both feel anxious.
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I was afraid for my safety here. I mean, if someone had come into the house to kill this guy, he could still be around and start a shootout.
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They go down in the lift. They need to see Anne before they go to check her blood pressure and how she's doing.
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I've always said that when I saw her, she was fine. She wasn't crying, she wasn't. Everything was fine.
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The Benders head of security, Jose Pizarro, nicknamed the Colonel, finally arrives at the the house around 3am he rushes in to see Anne.
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She hugged me as she was saying, colonel, I tried, I tried. I tried to stop him, I tried. She kept saying this. It was very tough.
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Jose found it hard hearing her anguish. She was very ill, he tells me. Devastated by John's death and confused, Anne tells Jose what happened.
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She was there with John with a gun and she yelled, no, John, please don't. And tried to grab him by the arm.
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Osvaldo, the maintenance man, is still at the house. The police are in the master bedroom.
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We thought when the police arrived the process was going to be quick and simple. It would take perhaps three to four hours to remove the body because this was supposed to be a suicide.
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But the atmosphere suddenly changes. The police are taking longer than expected. After their initial inspection of the bedroom, the police now say that they think John may not have killed himself. The staff start to wonder what really happened. On the fourth floor. I found this.
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So that's where we all started to speculate. They asked everyone to leave the Scene and they stay up there carrying out all the investigations.
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The room is cleared. Forensics move in. Had someone broken in and killed John? Jose has already taken a look at the master bedroom. As a former police chief in Costa Rica, he has seen a lot of crime scenes. When he looks around the bedroom, he doesn't see any evidence of an intruder.
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John's body remained there on his side. There was nothing out of place except the sheets were a little messy. None of this made me think that someone could have broken in to kill him. If that had been the case, they would have killed Anne too. But the scene was simply John's body and the pool of blood. The police were already taking photos and doing their job.
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But the police have their own theory. The crime scene doesn't make sense. This is no longer a case of suicide. They now believe John was murdered and their main suspect is Anne.
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This is very mysterious. It doesn't look like a suicide because of the way that we found the gun in the wound. There's something really weird going on here.
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There are two things that don't add up, things that will be endlessly scrutinized later on. Number one, John had his earplugs still in. He couldn't sleep without them. But why would you wear earplugs if you were just about to kill yourself? And number two, the gunshot wound was on the right side of John's head. But John was left handed. And not only that, the wound was on the back of his head. Only two people were in the room. Only one person knows what really happened. Sitting in the ambulance outside the house, Carlos calls the Red Cross to notify them about John's death. When it's over, he turns to his partner and says.
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Hey, don't you think this is already weird? I said I'm afraid to be here. I want to leave quickly. I don't feel well. And he was. Yeah, man, I feel the same.
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He and his partner are relieved to leave the house. They are both still on edge. Carlos says to his partner.
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And I said, only narcos live this way. I don't want to be here. We don't know who killed this guy. What if there's a cartel waiting to ambush and kill them all with us.
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Here, engine on, seat belts fastened, they can't get away quickly enough. Early the next morning, Anne is taken to the police station. The first thing they do is test her hands for gunpowder residue. And it comes back positive John's didn't. How can she explain that? She tells them she didn't Shoot John. She tells them that she lunged for the gun and it had gone off. After being questioned, she's released. But it isn't over for Anne. This is just the beginning. The finger is being pointed at her. The police are questioning her story. They think it's a pack of lies and that John didn't kill himself. They think Anne murdered him. They're now gathering evidence to back up their story. Anne, under suspicion, is in a terrible state. The bender's head of security, Jose Pizarro, is worried about her. She needs medical help. She's already so weak. He thinks Anne's years of struggling with mental illness and Lyme's disease have ravaged her mind and body. She's in constant, agonizing pain. According to Jose, a few weeks before John's death, she'd stopped eating, drinking, and she wasn't washing. She wasn't doing anything to take care of herself at all. Jose tells us what he told Anne at the time.
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Listen, there's no way you can stay here. You're very ill. What just happened is very hard. You need to get medical attention right now.
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John and Anne's dream had come to a sudden and tragic end. Their heaven had turned to hell. In the months that followed, Anne would look back and think about the mansion on the hill with no walls and what she and John had tried to create. The nature reserve and their animals, and the restoration of the land to its former glory. She told cnn, seeing the clouds roll through your living room with the lamps lit up every day, it was a beautiful experience and ever changing. Jose was devastated too. He'd been John's chief of security for nearly 10 years. His death had been a terrible shock.
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The truth is, I was very sad. It was a terrible loss of a good friend, a great person.
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Jose remained loyal and practical. For Anne's sake, he had a grim task, collecting John's body from the morgue.
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I had to take him to be cremated and then take the ashes back to Anne.
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Meanwhile, he kept tabs on the police investigation as well. The day after John died, they made a discovery. And in the minds of detectives, it gave Anne a motive for murder.
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I remember the police found a small suitcase filled with jewelry. There are all kinds of little gems. From that moment on, they began to whisper among themselves how strange that was.
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In total, it was reported that over 3,000 gems were found in the house. They were collected by John and Anne over many years. Precious stones, rubies, opals, diamonds. A stunning array, all bright colors, like a pirate's booty or royal collection. And the police started to believe that they were connected to John's death. They strongly suspected that the gems had been brought into the country illegally. No taxes, no receipts, a way of hiding assets from the authorities. To detectives, Anne's motive was clear. She'd murdered her husband to pocket the gems. Anne would deny all, all the accusations. The intensely private couple in the big house on the hill were now public property. John was gone. Now a long shadow of suspicion fell on Anne. Was it murder, suicide, or an accident? All sorts of theories about what happened on the night of John's death begin to form. The police's suspicions are hardening. But things are about to get even worse for Anne. The next day, her health failing, she's rushed to hospital in San Jose. Next time on Hell in Heaven.
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She was sick, sick, sick. When she was admitted to the hospital after he died, she was barely alive. She was just hanging on by a thread.
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You've been listening to Hell in Heaven from Exactly Right Media and I Heart Podcasts Produced by Blanchard House. Hosted, written and produced by me, Becky Milligan. The producer and co writer is Poppy Damon. Music is by Daniel Lloyd Evans, Louis Nankmanel and Toby Matamol. The sound recordist and head of sound and music is Daniel Lloyd Evans. The lead sound designer is Volken Kizletug. The artwork is by Vanessa Lilac for Exactly Right Media. The executive producers are Karen Kilgarraff, Georgia Hardstark and Danielle Kramer, with consulting producer Lily ladawig and associate producer Jay Elias. The creative director of Blanchard House is Rosie Pye. The executive producer and head of content at Blanchard House is Lawrence Grizzel. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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