00:00:03
Speaker 1: Two rich, young Americans moved to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder three times. From the start. The omens are bad.
00:00:19
Speaker 2: Their place is the darkest sjungle you've ever seen in your life. You have no clue.
00:00:24
Speaker 1: John and Anne Bender are young, rich and attractive. He's a Wall Street.
00:00:29
Speaker 2: Wiz kid, just handsome. We'll be star handsome.
00:00:32
Speaker 1: And they're devoted to each other.
00:00:34
Speaker 2: There's a lot of just like warmth and care.
00:00:38
Speaker 1: They set up a nature reserve and build a strange new home. It's like a spaceship's landed on the top of a hill in the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica. But slowly their dreams starts to crumble.
00:00:51
Speaker 2: It was just doomed, just doomed.
00:00:55
Speaker 1: I'm Becky Milligan and this is Hell in Heaven, a new podcast from Exactly Right Media and iHeart Podcasts, produced by Blanchard House. I'm a seasoned investigative journalist and I've reported on some pretty weird stories over the years. But believe me, stories don't get much weirder than this, Because even out here in the jungle, you can run, but you can't hide. All of a sudden, there's guys with guns, lots of men with guns. They were saying, help, help, the they're kidnapping us. As their past catches up with them. Our couple retreat from reality.
00:01:34
Speaker 2: They lose it. They actually lose it.
00:01:36
Speaker 1: They sort of like nuts until one night everything spins out of control.
00:01:44
Speaker 2: In the Yamami, he says, Colonel, we heard a shot inside the boss's house.
00:01:50
Speaker 1: And I could see the gun on the floor and the trail of blood, and one of them will end up being tried for murder.
00:01:58
Speaker 2: Not once, people, yes, not twice stunned, but three times. We were all looking at each other just in total disbelief.
00:02:13
Speaker 1: Helen Heaven premieres on October ninth. New episodes Thursdays. Listen to Helen Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1: Two rich, young Americans moved to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder three times. From the start. The omens are bad.
00:00:19
Speaker 2: Their place is the darkest sjungle you've ever seen in your life. You have no clue.
00:00:24
Speaker 1: John and Anne Bender are young, rich and attractive. He's a Wall Street.
00:00:29
Speaker 2: Wiz kid, just handsome. We'll be star handsome.
00:00:32
Speaker 1: And they're devoted to each other.
00:00:34
Speaker 2: There's a lot of just like warmth and care.
00:00:38
Speaker 1: They set up a nature reserve and build a strange new home. It's like a spaceship's landed on the top of a hill in the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica. But slowly their dreams starts to crumble.
00:00:51
Speaker 2: It was just doomed, just doomed.
00:00:55
Speaker 1: I'm Becky Milligan and this is Hell in Heaven, a new podcast from Exactly Right Media and iHeart Podcasts, produced by Blanchard House. I'm a seasoned investigative journalist and I've reported on some pretty weird stories over the years. But believe me, stories don't get much weirder than this, Because even out here in the jungle, you can run, but you can't hide. All of a sudden, there's guys with guns, lots of men with guns. They were saying, help, help, the they're kidnapping us. As their past catches up with them. Our couple retreat from reality.
00:01:34
Speaker 2: They lose it. They actually lose it.
00:01:36
Speaker 1: They sort of like nuts until one night everything spins out of control.
00:01:44
Speaker 2: In the Yamami, he says, Colonel, we heard a shot inside the boss's house.
00:01:50
Speaker 1: And I could see the gun on the floor and the trail of blood, and one of them will end up being tried for murder.
00:01:58
Speaker 2: Not once, people, yes, not twice stunned, but three times. We were all looking at each other just in total disbelief.
00:02:13
Speaker 1: Helen Heaven premieres on October ninth. New episodes Thursdays. Listen to Helen Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
