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.
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hand, and stroked his arm. as i was kneeling next to him all the blood started to fall through the mattress and was pooling at my feet. ann grabbed a radio and called for help. the head of bora kion security, jose fabio pizzaro, was one of the first to respond. when you first arrived here at the house what did you see? translator: john was in his bed. he was lying there lifeless, he was dead. i gave all of my attention to ann, who was very upset. she hugged me, saying, i tried to stop it. i tried to stop it, but i could not. ann says she called her older brother ken to deliver the news. phone rang, i think it was
the defense attorney fabio believes this john bender e-mail was key to ann s acquittal. translator: in an e-mail john sent ann months before he passed away, he said that he wanted to kill himself and everyone around him after discovering issues with his finances. issues like getting money from the man who managed the benders financial trust. john wrote, i am such a total [ bleep ] loser for ever getting involved with the total scum bags. for ann, the verdict was relief and vindication. you must have thought it was over. yeah, i thought it was over. but it wasn t. in costa rica, such a verdict can be appealed so a defendant can be tried twice for the same crime. and that s what prosecutor edgar ramirez did. why did your office appeal