ann says the gem business was not a source of contention. it was a collection we had wanted to make. we both loved gems and minerals since we were young. to him it was a sound investment. not only was it a sound financial investment but ann says john bought her the stones also as a way to cope with their mental illnesses. whenever i was acutely ill, john always wanted to buy me stuff. and so he started buying at first, small things like beads. these are sapphire, a particular type of sapphire that changes color based on the light. john did more than surround ann with precious jewels, he also bought her hundreds of beautiful replicas of stained glass tiffany lamps. we both loved art glass. the tiffany lamps are something that we just both fell in love with them.
walk in with their guns with their weapons, to make sure i was still there, that was not necessary to do every day for two weeks. ann had plenty to be concerned about. lead prosecutor edgar ramirez said the forensic evidence was pointing to murder. and ann s guilt. there was the single shot to the back of john s head, a spot, he says, makes ann s story impossible. the only wound mr. bender had had was located in the right occipital region, shot like this. experience tells us, when a person is going to commit suicide, they will shoot themselves in a central location, specifically here, here, and here. or directly to the heart. what about the position of john s body? translator: the position of john bender s body when found shows that he was in a fetal position, asleep, when shot. no gun powder residue found on john s hands.
was emotionally and physically frail. pizzaro just said to me you need to go to the hospital. and i argued with him. i said, no, i want to go home. he said, you need to go to the hospital. ann would spend the next six months at the hospital in san jose. coming up [ speaking foreign language ] translator: the cause of death was homicide. prosecutors don t buy ann s story. translator: ann intended or had planned to kill john bender that night of january 8th, 2010. when heartburn comes creeping up on you. fight back with relief so smooth. .it s fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue .and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. tum, tum tum tum. smoothies! only from tums. they lived.
so did you finish the video game and both come upstairs together? that night, i wasn t able to walk, so he would carry me to the elevator. ann says they followed their nightly routine. john turned out the lights and they got into bed. ann says she began to doze off. i was lying on my belly. face down. my head facing towards him. and i opened my eyes because i heard him talking. so what was he saying? he referred to my suicide attempts where i had been in bed next to him, and he said something to the effect of knowing how it feels to wake up with your spouse dead. though it was dark, ann says she could see that john had a gun pointed at his head. ann says she took action, almost instinctively.
willing to take me step by step through the final hours she and john spent here. how did you spend your last day? what did you and john do? i recall it as being a relatively peaceful day. he was much calmer. i wasn t feeling so much of the angst coming from him. we watched the sunset and did all the positive things that we always did. that evening we had dinner and then we played the video game that we usually played. ann and john played the post-apocalyptic game fall-out 3, killing super mutated creatures as a way to relax. i was feeling that he was more at peace, so i was more present in the moment for those few hours that evening. and i wasn t quite as watchful as i had been before.