outside on the street police say their cameras blanketing the city picked up no sign of fleeing intruders. but there s something else about ted s story we thought didn t quite add up. remember that weight he says he used to fight off the intruders? you ve been working out. i had done some things with my arms, yeah. because it s the middle of the night and you re, it s easy to fall asleep. right. but i don t understand, because you know that that particular night something may happen. something huge is going to happen. the valance is open. i mean that s not a typical night. you re not going to have any trouble falling asleep that night. you re going to be on pins and needles. yes, you re right, i was, but after 36 hours without any sleep at all, by 4:30 a.m., i was exhausted. ted maher hailed as a hero and then cast as the villain says he s really been just a victim all along. is there one other
disease worsened and he prepared to cash out his business, some observers say the family affairs were increasingly controlled by his wife lily. it is fair to say that all the people around them knew not to step on the wrong side of lily. once widowed and twice divorced, lily didn t exactly fit in with the conservative safra clan. but the late 90s there was a well known rift among the safra brothers. one of the reasons why the family relation was so bad is lily the wife of mr. safra, that she drove him out of the family. whatever family turmoil was brewing behind the scenes, ted says he enjoyed taking care of mr. safra. the job was much less hectic than the hospital work he was used to. in fact, some nights it was a challenge to stay awake. i had heard of people being fired because they had fallen asleep. it was a different type of stress with that. this was the stress of working for a billionaire? correct. far from home, ted says he
worked up the nerve to speak with someone. heidi who works out of her home would often see lily when she went to pick up the mail. once in a while, she would be there and she would see me standing there getting my mail. she would fly over and start talking to me. and she had this beaming expression on her face as if she was so happy to be talking to another human being. even though lily didn t initially convey any distress, heidi slowly began to have concerns about the welfare of the harried young woman. it was always clear to me she did not have much time to chat. she would say i have to go now, i must go. so she would run back, almost like she was afraid someone would see her. meanwhile, lily began to confide in heidi, one brief conversation at a time. heidi gradually pieced together the ugly and unrelenting reality of lily s daily life. she had to work from morning till night, midnight till 1:00 in the morning, 2:00 in the
morning, 18 hours of work, seven days a week. no holiday, no days off, no ability to go anywhere, visit her parents, nothing. and then after a while, she told me she was never paid. and i thought what a strange thing. for many, it s hard to understand why lily didn t just run away. but cindy liou says it s important to see the situation from lily s perspective. in the beginning, it doesn t register it s necessarily really fishy. they think oh, this is normal, this is what s expected. in fact, she had a good experience working as an international nanny. at 15, she left indonesia to live and work with a diplomat in saudi arabia. the family treated her well, paying for her vacation time, taking her with them to europe and teaching her arabic and french. so when she received an offer to work for another diplomat, she leaped at the chance. i m so happy i heard
california, lily had lost all hope, working up to 22 hours a day for a demanding diplomat and his family. lily said they made her work when she had debilitating fevers. penny less she lived a life of growing isolation and depression. she s my everything. back in indonesia, lily s husband andy had heard nothing from his wife for three long years. he feared that she was dead. because she don t have phone number, didn t give me a number. it s really hard. no communication with her. finally in 2006, lily reached a breaking point. the diplomat s wife who insisted lily wash the car, even in the rain, accused the obedient lily of shirking her duties. i cleaned the car inside and outside. everything.