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.
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ann says she took action, almost instinctively. i reared up on my knees, lunged towards him. and in the process of putting my hands around his, we fell towards each other. and he had the gun loaded and cocked i know the way we felt towards each other. a single gunshot entered the back of john s head. ann would watch as her husband drifted away. i heard that sound. i ll never forget it. that rattling breath that i had read about, heard about.
take part in what she calls dress rehearsals. we would gather all the pills in the house and put them on the table. and he would ask me what do i do with these? i had tried to commit suicide before myself. and so i would tell him this is what you do, but i could tell that doing these things would calm him down. and he would feel better. practicing suicide to calm him down. it seems an absurd notion. almost unbelievable. what about another extraordinary claim? that to get john through another day she would do anything, anything. including let him think he could cure her by injecting her with water gathered from a stream on their property. he was absolutely psychotic. he really believed this could help you? yes, absolutely. i knew that it was something that was allowing him to survive
on cross-examination, ann told the prosecutor that she had lost her grip on john s hands, started falling back and the gun went off. [ speaking in foreign language ] on the fifth day of trial, testimony ended and closing arguments began. the prosecutor demonstrated how easy it was to shoot the gun. [ speaking in foreign language ]