Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt and the story I have for you today is full of mystery hence the name.

This is the story of John Bender. Oh, So,

the, the It's the early hours of January 8th, 2010, just past 12 a.m. to be exact,

and a Guard supervisor named Osvaldo is on the job

manning this very large very expensive and very controversial estate belonging to

John and Anne Bender in Costa Rica. Now things are

relatively calm until a single gunshot rings out in the Costa Rican jungle just

moments before Anne Bender comes through his radio crying for help.

So Osvaldo, in one of his guards, immediately head over to where Ann is at, but when they arrive,

they have a little problem. The only way to get to Anne, she's on the fourth floor,

is to go through the private elevator, and that's been locked down for the night,

presumably to keep people out, but now they have to find a way in, and it takes a couple of minutes

and they have to go back and forth with Anne on the walkie-talkie, but eventually they get the elevator

unlocked and they get up to where she is in her bedroom.

But Osvaldo's not prepared for the grisly scene that he's about to walk into.

When he gets up to the fourth floor, he sees Anne kneeling on the side of the bed covered in blood spatter.

She's holding the hand of her husband John who is laying in a pool of blood on the bed.

And I don't know if Anne is talking to them or if she's just in shock and she's like mumbling stuff out loud trying to make sense of it, but according to an outside magazine article, she's saying, quote, I tried to stop it, but I couldn't.

Now as Osvaldo tastes a closer look,

he clocks a semi-automatic 9mm ruger

on the ground next to the bed, which he knows to be one of John's guns.

And he's got no clue what's happened here, but John's gun is on the floor and is in shock,

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