Gun. He had it pointed at his head. I immediately reared up on my knees and lunged for the gun. I touched his hands. And i dont know exactly what happened. But what i do know is, i did not shoot my husband. Costa rica, the ultimate tropical destination. Paradise, but within its mountainous landscape and beautiful beaches, an american ann bender has fought for her dreamed. Fought the charge that she killed her husband john, on january 8th, 2010. Her passport taken, unable to leave the country. Trapped. She spoke with me while waiting to stand trial for a second time. Was it murder . Or suicide . Prosecutors claimed ann is a coldblooded killer. Ann is adamant she did not murder her husband. You will be tried twice on the same charge. If there were any merit to this, i could respect it. And i could have some sense of peace. Peace ann bender has been seeking since she first moved to costa rica with john. They hoped to escape in the clouds of the jungle. The isolation, instead, would lead t
Communications, those sort of things, to realize what inmarsat has done. Inmarsat is doing this for reasons of transparency. When i got exclusive access to the inmarsat control room, to the scientists, to the engineers last week i met the man who was responsible for leading the team and coming up with the whole concept of the plane flying south. I asked Mark Dickinson, at the end of the day why was he so con kri vinced, what did this show . Would it be possible to say where the plane went . To be clear, youre letting people make judgments on your work. Youre not inviting them to redo your work. No. As i say, redo the work require experts in many different fields. We gathered those victims within the Investigation Team to allow that to happen. But this is providing some transparency in what data came back and forth between the plane and ground station and how that data has been subsequently used. It allows people to see what techniques, what things have been accounted for. But certainly
Eagle Archives, Nov. 25, 1961: The John Bender family of Lenox is featured in a special report in Newsweek magazine titled "Are We Trapped in a Child-Centered World?"