said the house has betrayed me. >> so this will be here for 200 years. >> paul myer has a tree farm next to the bender's property. >> i remember ann very well from the first meeting. beautiful woman, hair up in a ponytail, white tank top, tanned, two-way radio on the hip. okay, i'm living next to lara croft tomb raider and investing legend. >> myers remembers his last get-together with the benders in 2009, six months before a bullet would end john's life. >> ann did not look good. she looked pale, like she had lost weight. both of them seemed sad or depressed. >> the last six to eight weeks i was not eating, i was not drinking, i wasn't bathing, i wasn't doing anything to take care of myself. >> john began talking suicide. ann says she had to repeatedly take part in what she calls dress rehearsals.