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grand cayman, for example. an allegation of tax evasion, that john and ann smuggled jewels into costa rica. how do you feel about the allegations that you were that you and john were involved in some type of illegal activities? it is an absolute fabrication. we were doing nothing wrong. prosecutor ramirez and ann seemed to agree on one thing. both believe mental illness led to john s death, but for different reasons. ramirez suspects ann had a psychotic break. translator: both of them were bipolar and obviously had personality disorders. but in ann s case, she knew what she was doing and planned to kill him that night. ann blames john s death on his severe depression. three months before he died he was talking about killing himself every day. every day.
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 says 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 15 feet of the corner of our house. ann says the security team scared off the intruders. she and john felt targeted. it was all quite unsettling for two people trying to cope with
about 2:00 in the morning, eastern time. i called him and i don t remember what i said. the first thing she said to me was, he finally did it. the police arrived and began processing the scene. eventually, ann was taken to a police station. when i got there, the first thing they did was test my hands for gun powder residue. and i remember they unbagged my hands and they were commenting about stuff that was underneath my fingernails. what did you tell police that night? what i remembered. did you ever tell them, i didn t shoot him, i didn t kill him? yes. i said i didn t. i said i lunged for the gun and the gun went off. after being questioned, ann was released. pizzaro then urged her to go to the hospital because he said she
outgoing and popular, but something wasn t quite right. when i was in my pre-teens, 10, 12, i knew something was weird. something was different. weird and different turned out to be early signs of what would later become serious mental illness. i didn t have any suicide attempts or anything like that until my 20s, that is when it really hit. ann would be diagnosed as bipolar. a condition characterized by episodes of severe mood swings. she says that might explain her making sometimes rather impulsive decisions, like moving to virginia. one morning i woke up and i said, i m done with cities. i want to move to the country, i want to live in a log cabin. virginia is where she would meet john, the man she would one day be accused of killing. and so when you first met him, what was your first