The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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Episode 1: epis 01 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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epis 01 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:02Ted and I hit it off right away.

00:06I had never really dated anybody like that.

00:09And then I found out about him cheating on me.

00:13He was videoing

00:14himself having sex with other women.

00:18He grabs me by the throat.

00:20He pushed me down the stairs.

00:22He did the one thing that he knew would hurt me.

00:25I remember blacking out.

00:27When I woke up,

00:28the car and my child were gone.

00:31He's definitely very intelligent.

00:33Seems almost like he's one step ahead.

00:35A year and a half in

00:36and I did not know that he was someone else.

00:38There's Ted.

00:41and two dead people.

00:42I remember thinking, oh God,

00:44I'm living with a murderer.

00:46A bizarre twist

00:47developed today in the mysterious death of billionaire banker Edmond Safra.

00:51A male nurse

00:52now has confessed to setting the fire that killed one of the world's wealthiest men.

00:56Maher, a former Green Beret

00:58once hailed as a hero, is now viewed as a villain.

02.33We've all been so horribly mistreated and abused by this man.

07.13And I don't want him to get away with it anymore.

10.59Ted had hired a hitman.

12.63Apparently,

13.53there was a plan to get rid of my body in Mexico.

16.83He hired me to kill his wife.

18.89If you're going to kill somebody, you do it yourself.

21.53But to hire somebody?

25.53He's a pussy.

Episode 2: epis 02 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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epis 02 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:01I have known Ted

00:04since 1983.

00:07We met in Las Vegas

00:09and I was actually set up

00:11with him on a date.

00:14He was really not someone that I was

00:18immediately attracted to.

00:20He was a little on the arrogant side,

00:22a little cocky.

00:23But he was good-looking

00:25and tall and funny.

00:28So that's how we just started dating.

00:32We were very happy.

00:33We were madly in love.

00:37I think it was several months

00:39before I moved in.

00:43And then, um,

00:44I had found out that he had

00:45cheated on me.

00:47We got into a huge fight

00:49the next morning when he came home

00:51and I decided to leave him.

00:54He was devastated.

00:57Right before I moved out,

00:58he actually pulled me into the bedroom

01.60and he had a gun in his hand.

04.50And he said that he was going

06.80to kill himself

08.50if I didn't stay with him.

11.80and he put the bullet in the gun.

14.40One bullet.

16.10And he held it to his head

18.70and he pulled the trigger.

Episode 3: epis 03 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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epis 03 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:00He pulled the trigger.

02.69and he kept doing it.

04.89and I was freaking out.

08.29and

09.19I finally agreed.

10.09I'll stay.

10.69I'll stay.

11.29I'll stay.

12.39Don't do this. I'll stay.

14.69So I stayed.

16.59Um,

17.69you know, things just

19.09never really seemed to get any better.

22.69It was 1985.

26.19we moved to New York.

28.49when we got into an argument,

31.39kind of like the same fight that we always had,

33.99you know, about

34.89him working too much and never being around.

37.79and saying things to me like,

39.89you know, you're stupid,

41.39you're fat.

42.49you're lazy.

44.19You know,

44.99I got that a lot.

46.39And that's when I was like,

48.89I'm out of here. I'm leaving.

51.49I started to walk out to leave,

53.49and that's when he came

55.49and

56.49I was at the top of the stairs

58.19and he shoved me.

59.79And I went down the flight of stairs.

03.59He came down to the bottom of the stairs

06.19and grabbed me and

07.89took my head and slammed it

09.09across the concrete area.

11.69and I finally got away from him.

14.39I had my keys right there.

17.39So I grabbed them real quick,

19.39and I got in my car.

21.29And he was yelling whatever at me,

23.59and he got in front of the car

26.49and he wouldn't let me move.

28.69It was really scary.

Episode 4: epis 04 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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epis 04 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:01He tried to come around

00:02the side of the car.

00:04So I backed up.

00:06That's when I took off

00:07into a little bit of a different direction

00:09and I got away from him.

00:11Scared, naive, young.

00:13I didn't go to the police,

00:16but I did find a house

00:18that would take battered women in.

00:20I stayed there for maybe two nights.

00:24It just kind of got worse after that.

00:26I was like, that's it.

00:27I'm done.

00:28I'm not doing this any longer.

00:30And I decided

00:31to go back to Las Vegas.

00:34And he and I had gotten to the point where

00:37he was not upset with me

00:39about leaving him anymore.

00:41So he was going to help me

00:42drive back out to Las Vegas.

00:45I said, I was going to drive first,

00:47so we got out on the highway

00:49and he said,

00:51Hey, I brought you something.

00:53I said, what?

00:54And he opened up his hand

00:56and he had a pill in his hand.

00:59And I was like, what's that?

01:00And he goes, it's speed.

01:02It'll help you stay awake.

01:03So, you know,

01:05I was in my 20s, I took it.

01:08I don't know what he gave me,

01:09but it certainly wasn't

01:11something that was going to help me stay awake.

01:16The next thing I knew,

01:18it was two and a half days later.

01:21I was in a bathtub in a hotel.

01:25The bathtub was full

01:28of water

01:30and I was completely naked

01:33and he was trying to revive me.

Episode 5: epis 05 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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epis 05 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:02I don't even know

00:03what state we were in,

00:05but we weren't in New York any longer.

00:08I was bleeding

00:11down there.

00:12And it wasn't my period.

00:18He said that I had gotten sick

00:21and he wasn't sure what it was,

00:23but he

00:25wanted to help me get better,

00:27so

00:28he helped me get out of the tub

00:30and I got into the bed

00:32and I think I slept

00:34that entire night also.

00:38The next night

00:39we got another hotel.

00:42We went to dinner.

00:44I had a little too much to drink.

00:46And

00:48we ended up sleeping together that night.

00:52He was someone that I cared about deeply

00:55for a very long time.

00:57And I thought, well,

00:58you know,

00:59I'll I'll never see him again.

01:02Now, I was on birth control

01:04at the time, so

01:07I thought that nothing

01:08was going to come of that.

01:12But

01:13when I got to Las Vegas,

01:14I found out I was pregnant.

01:17So I was freaking out.

Episode 6: epis 06 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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epis 06 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:01When we realized

00:03that I was pregnant,

00:04he came back to Las Vegas.

00:08And that's when we got married.

00:12He was very happy

00:13when the baby was born.

00:15He still worked

00:17and then he started to go to school

00:20for nursing.

00:21It was fun until

00:23Ted met Heidi.

00:26the girl that he cheated on me with.

00:29I needed to use the truck for something

00:32and I found a card from her

00:35and a love letter.

00:38That was like,

00:40all right, I'm now I'm done.

00:44Obviously,

00:45this man is nothing but a liar

00:47and a cheater.

00:49I took all my belongings

00:50and my son

00:51to where my mother was.

00:56So I was just kind of waiting

00:58for the paperwork for the divorce.

01:01It was Easter,

01:03so I had taken the baby

01:06to a Hallmark store.

01:09And I came out

01:11and I was putting the baby

01:14in the car seat.

01:17And I closed the door

01:19and someone came up behind me

01:22and shoved me down on the ground

01:25so hard that it knocked me out.

01:30When I woke up,

01:31just a couple minutes later,

01:33the car and my child were gone.

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epis 07 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:02So I ran back into the store

05.29and I said, my baby, my baby,

07.49he's been kidnapped

08.49and they called the police.

09.59The police came.

11.69I was blood everywhere.

13.29It was my arms, my

14.79my knees, everything was

16.29all scratched up and cut.

20.09Ted called me

21.89and said,

23.39I've got the kid.

25.19Your car is at

26.79and he told me where the car was.

31.89We're going back to New York.

33.39If you want a divorce,

34.19you're going to have to come to New York.

36.39So,

40.29When I got back there,

41.89Ted picked me up from the airport

43.79and all I wanted to do is see my son.

47.19And he wouldn't take me to him right away.

49.79He said he wanted to show me something

52.29and that's when he took me to

54.69the trailer.

58.99I kept saying, no,

01.29I want to go and see my son.

03.39I don't want to do this.

05.89But he held me down

08.69and I was crying and screaming

10.89and trying to fight him off.

14.09And he wasn't having any of it.

16.29He

18.59physically assaulted me and raped me.

23.29I'm so sorry, Marla.

24.99It's

27.09It's been a long time

28.29since I've thought of this stuff.

33.69But

34.89I want my side of the story

37.19to be told.

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epis 08 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:01He went outside.

00:03He got in the truck.

00:06I got up and

00:08went to the bathroom and

00:10wiped my tears away.

00:14I ended up staying

00:16there at that trailer.

00:19And for the most part,

00:21I got to keep the baby.

00:24He would show up every once in a while,

00:25give me some money.

00:27He would tell me,

00:29we're going to do the divorce thing

00:31and

00:32you're going to give me full custody.

00:35and

00:36you're just going to keep the baby.

00:38Just on paper,

00:39it looks good for me on paper.

00:41And

00:42when I said, no,

00:44he would just pick the baby up

00:46and say,

00:48well, if you don't sign these papers,

00:50you're not going to see him again.

00:51And he'd just leave.

00:53And I had no idea where he'd go.

00:55He'd be gone for two or three days.

00:58I went to the police a couple of times

01:00and they were like, oh, that's domestic.

01:03after the fourth or fifth time

01:05of him just picking him up

01:07and say, kiss him goodbye.

01:09You're never going to see him again.

01:11I think I just gave up.

01:12I just gave up

01:14and I signed the divorce papers.

01:17That was it.

01:18That gave him full custody.

01:25The only thing that he could do to hurt me the most

01:29was to take my son away from me.

01:32So he did.

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epis 09 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:01And then years later,

00:04a really good friend mentioned

00:06something about seeing Ted's name

00:08in the paper.

00:11And I was like, what?

00:12What's going on?

00:13I said, read it to me,

00:14read it to me.

00:15So he read it to me.

00:17And I was like, oh my gosh.

00:19We had a computer,

00:20so I looked it up on the computer.

00:22And sure enough,

00:25there's Ted

00:27and two dead people.

00:31which was horrible.

00:32But for a split second I was like,

00:35See?

00:37Karma gets you.

Episode 10: epis 10 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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epis 10 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:00There is a murder mystery

00:01to report to you tonight.

00:02The victim, an elusive billionaire banker.

00:04It is unfolding at the favorite playground of the rich and famous,

00:08Monaco.

00:11So much of what happened that morning

00:13is so unbelievable.

00:15It only begins to make sense when you drill down

00:18into the moment by moment.

00:21The first thing the police realize

00:23is they get a call from the concierge

00:25at a swanky building

00:27who says that the nurse to Edmond Safra,

00:30one of the continent's wealthiest men,

00:32has been attacked.

00:33He is in the lobby.

00:35He has collapsed.

00:36There is blood.

00:37He says he's been attacked

00:39by attackers

00:40who are probably still upstairs

00:42and so is Edmond Safra.

00:43Come quick.

00:45There's also, oddly, some type of smoke.

00:47A fire is going on.

00:49It's not quite clear what that is.

00:51But the police respond.

00:53They're there promptly.

00:55But they can't go up there

00:57until they know the building is clear

01:00of assassins, terrorists,

01:01whoever did this.

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epis 11 The Swindler and the Billionaire Murder

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00:02Edmond Safra and a nurse

00:03are in fact in the penthouse.

00:05They have locked themselves in a bedroom

00:07because of these assassins

00:09that are somewhere at large.

00:12They have the door closed,

00:14they have a cell phone.

00:15Some of the people who Edmond Safra's

00:17talking to on the phone

00:18are telling them,

00:18you should leave.

00:20And he was hesitant to do so.

00:22He was I think concerned

00:23that there were still intruders and attackers

00:25that were in the building.

00:27The police, it is clear,

00:28do not spend an awful lot of time

00:30worrying

00:31about these two people in the bathroom.

00:34In the meantime, the fire is spreading.

00:36The smoke gets carried up through the ducts

00:38and gets circulated through the apartment's

00:40air conditioning systems.

00:42It clearly took north of an hour

00:45for them to feel like it was safe

00:47for the firefighters to go in.

00:50And they waited too long.

00:51In that amount of time,

00:53the nurse and Edmond expired

00:54from smoke inhalation.

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00:00One of the world's richest bankers

00:1.died today

00:2.in a violent and mysterious attack

00:4.on his home in Monaco.

00:06Witnesses say two masked men

00:07armed with knives

00:09invaded the Riviera penthouse

00:11of Edmond Safra.

00:13Safra managed to hide,

00:14but the men then set a fire

00:15that killed him and one other person.

00:18The attackers escaped.

00:21The news of Edmond Safra's death

00:23came as a global shock.

00:25People to this day

00:27will recall where they were

00:28when they heard this news.

00:34By the 1990s, Edmond Safra

00:36becomes stricken with Parkinson's disease.

00:39He's only 60.

00:41So there was a team of several nurses

00:43who were there pretty much 24/7.

00:46Vivian Torrente and Ted Maher

00:48were among the crew of nurses

00:49who were looking after Mr. Safra.

00:52It was December 3rd.

00:54I woke up, it was a Friday morning,

00:56and I heard my father get a phone call

00:58and he was screaming.

01:00He didn't tell me

01:01what was happening,

01:03um, but that he said that something happened to mom

01:05and we would have to travel to France.

01:08I knew something bad happened.

01:10Um, to be honest, I really did

01:12feel that my mom did pass away.

01:17That was the morning.

01:25Once it's clear

01:26that they've got two people dead,

01:28this is a serious investigation they need to understand what happened.

01:31Well, guess what?

01:32There are only three people in that penthouse that night.

01:35Two of them are now dead.

01:37So all they've got

01:38is a nurse named Ted Maher,

01:41who is sitting in a Monaco hospital

01:44with stab wounds to the abdomen.

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02.39Ted Maher was a hero.

04.49He was the guy who fought off these assassins

07.39and who brought police and fire

10.39to the scene

11.22where unfortunately,

12.19they were unable to get to Edmund and the nurse

15.19in time.

16.49He's able to talk

17.52and they begin talking with him that first day

19.22within hours,

20.22trying to understand what happened.

22.62He was attacked

23.82by two masked men in black

26.32who knifed him.

27.52He sustained serious wounds

29.42and he fought them off.

31.48The man on the right had pulled out a knife.

33.24Knife went central into my abdomen.

36.84The world press that first day

39.48and for weeks afterwards

41.74was deluged with stories that this had been done

45.14by the Russian mafia,

46.94by Chechen terrorists,

48.44the PLO.

50.54Basically,

51.44if they existed in the world and did violence,

54.24somebody was speculating that they had something to do with this.

57.44And the twist is

59.04there is no evidence anywhere

02.44of armed attackers.

06.34Like, nothing.

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00:01At first,

00:01the story was that two masked men

00:03had broken into the penthouse,

00:05stabbed Safra's male nurse with a knife,

00:07then started the fire.

00:09But this weekend,

00:10investigators say they've found

00:12no signs of forced entry,

00:14no signs of any intruders,

00:16and no evidence of guns.

00:17So the only account of the intruders

00:19comes from the male nurse

00:20who claims he saw them.

00:22There's no obvious scene of a struggle.

00:25There's no evidence that anybody else was there.

00:28But the real moment

00:31that jolted the authorities is

00:33there's nothing on the cameras.

00:35Any of them.

00:37There's closed circuit cameras

00:38everywhere on that building.

00:41And you can tell that they're beginning

00:43to move the focus away from

00:45mysterious ninjas

00:46who have disappeared

00:48to let's focus a little bit more on Ted.

00:54Shortly thereafter, it turns out

00:56that the knife that he had been stabbed with

00.50was his own knife.

01.80He acknowledged it.

03.40And so the outlines

06.00of a new narrative

07.90begin to take shape.

09.50A bizarre twist developed today

11.30in the mysterious death

12.50of billionaire banker Edmond Safra.

14.60A male nurse now has confessed

16.40to setting the fire that killed

17.60one of the world's wealthiest men.

19.50Maher, a former Green Beret

21.50once hailed as a hero,

22.90is now viewed as a villain.

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00:01Ted Maher's story starts to fall apart.

00:05Finally on Monday, December 6th,

00:06he essentially confesses.

00:08Ted basically says,

00:10Screw it, I'll tell you the actual truth.

00:12There were no ninjas.

00:13I did all this myself.

00:16Ted Maher from the beginning seemed spectacularly out of place

00:20in the middle of a scandal involving a death,

00:23a billionaire banker,

00:24Monaco.

00:26This is a guy who's from

00:27a small town in rural New York.

00:31He's married, father of three,

00:33neonatal nurse.

00:35My mother was a school bus driver,

00:36my father was a telephone repairman,

00:38and uh, we didn't have a whole lot growing up.

00:40Anything that we wanted to get,

00:41we had to work for.

00:43Ted was overwhelmed

00:45by the display of Edmond Safra's wealth.

00:48And he came to believe

00:50that if he did something heroic,

00:53he would be rewarded.

00:55He says that he wounded himself,

00:58he set the fire,

00.00that he had done it as part of a desire

01.80to be seen more favorably in the household,

04.90that he would fend off these intruders

06.60and be greeted as a hero

08.00and thus secure his place going forward.

10.20An American man

11.40has been sentenced to 10 years in prison

13.00in what's being called Monaco's trial of the century.

15.60On Monday, Ted Maher

16.80was convicted of setting a fire

18.80that killed billionaire Edmond Safra

20.00and another person three years ago.

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00:00the conditions in the jail.

00:02It was better than a day's end.

00:04I mean, this was better than a Hilton Express.

00:08Full bed, refrigerator,

00:09food brought in on a tray,

00:12and a view of the Mediterranean.

00:15So, I mean, if you got to do 10 years,

00:17this is better than most places in the US,

00:19I suspect.

00:21And then in like a matter of months,

00:24there's this story that goes out

00:25out of the South of France.

00:27Ted Maher, killer of billionaire, escapes from prison.

00:31Ted Maher cut the bars

00:33on that window of his cell.

00:35And then using a rope made of trash bags,

00:38climbed out, scaled that wall

00:41and escaped.

00:43And then he does it in this way

00:45that's like straight out of a B movie.

00:48He and his thief cut through

00:49the bars of their cell.

00:52They tie together trash bags,

00:54which leads you to wonder how

00:56a French prisoner gets like 85 trash bags,

00:59but whatever, he did it.

01:01And then they used this to

01:03scale down the side of this prison

01:05in the dead of night

01:07in a driving rainstorm.

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00:01I'm in France and don't speak French.

00:04I don't have any money.

00:05I don't have any ID.

00:06And oh, by the way, I don't know a soul.

00:09You get the sense

00:10ever so slightly that Ted hadn't really thought this through.

00:13He goes to a hotel, he says, I'm sorry,

00:15I've been in a car accident.

00:16I don't have my credit card,

00:19but I'll call my sister in America, which he then does,

00:21and she'll give you a credit card number,

00:23which she does, and he's suddenly in a hotel room.

00:26The story was,

00:28Excuse me, sir, my car is broken down on the autoroute.

00:30Can you allow me to make a collect call

00:32to my family so that I can get get a room

00:34here for the night until I can, you know, get some identification?

00:37So he starts making calls.

00:39And one of his calls is to a priest

00:42who apparently has been holding money for him

00:45that he uses in prison.

00:47Father Ball, I'm free right now.

00:49I need to recover the money that my family has given you

00:52so I can make safe passage to US territory.

00:55Can you help me?

00:56So Ted reaches this priest and it's like 4:00 in the morning.

00:59And the priest says,

01:00Please call me back tomorrow.

01:01So, Ted calls back like after dawn.

01:05I said, Father Ball, this is Ted.

01:07He goes, the man you want is on the phone.

01:16I mean, I'm in shock.

01:17I can't believe he's passing the phone over to the police.

01:20I hung up.

01:26I didn't have enough time to get on my

01:28my jockeys and and put on my pants

01:30and go downstairs and I opened up the door

01:31and there was five French nationals waiting for me.

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00:08After the whole Monaco thing had happened,

11.70Ted was in prison over there.

14.60and I did not have my son in my life

17.10for 11 years.

20.90No phone calls,

22.90no birthdays,

24.20no Christmases,

25.70no Mother's Day.

29.10And Heidi was going through

31.00whatever she was going through.

33.50I think she had kicked my son out.

36.30He was a teenager.

37.50He called me.

39.10And he said, "Hi, ma."

41.70And

44.20it was just the best phone call

46.00I ever got in my entire life.

50.70I flew to New York

52.00within a couple of weeks

54.50and reconnected with him.

57.20And we've been tight

58.90ever since.

01.80Every once in a while,

03.30I would like type Ted's name,

04.80see if anything popped up.

06.70And it popped up that he was released

08.80and that Heidi had slapped a restraining order

10.90on him right there at the airport.

13.60She had gotten to that point as well.

17.50And then

18.80at some point,

20.00Donna got a hold of me

21.80on Facebook.

23.50And she told me

24.60about what Ted did to her.

27.60you know, and how he

28.30pretty much left her for dead

30.00after he beat her up.

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00:08I met him July 3rd,

10.192014.

13.69I had just started in the oil fields

16.39hauling crude oil

18.19out of Love Lady, Texas.

20.73and he comes running up

22.83with sunglasses,

24.63helmet,

25.43you know, our PPEs on and

27.33just had this crazy wide

30.43grin on him

31.63like, who, you know.

33.43Who are you?

34.13Where'd you come from?

35.03And I was like, okay,

36.73this guy is a little too friendly.

39.43So he went back to his truck,

41.73but every day

43.23that I delivered a oil down to Houston,

46.33he would be there.

48.03So it started from there.

50.73He introduced himself

52.33as John Lawrence Green.

55.13And I didn't think nothing of it.

58.63I think I was in my mid-40s

01.73and I realized he was a lot older.

04.33have kind of crazy white hair.

06.43Mad scientist looking

08.03kind of thing.

09.03To me, I wasn't attracted to him.

10.83It was his charm.

12.43I think later that swooned me over.

15.33He always tried to,

16.33you know, some of the stupidest jokes,

18.23but they were funny because of the way he was telling them. I had never really dated anybody like that. Like, wow, somebody's decent. Somebody nice. Wow, what a change, you know? Later, he talked me into moving in with him. I just felt secure and safe and the future was looking very bright. In the beginning, we were always like hip to hip, you know? And then we hardly ever got to see each other. And that was kind of weird because I noticed uh he would work nights if I was working days or I worked nights and then he come to days. And I'm like, okay, well, what's going on, you know?

03.53The red flags were there.

05.03I just uh

05.73I guess I was so enamored with it,

07.93I just didn't think to pay attention to the signs I was seeing.

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00:01When Ted and I first met,

00:02he did not introduce himself

00:04as Ted Maher.

00:05He introduced himself as John Green.

00:08And that went on for about a year and a half.

00:11I did not know that he was uh someone else.

00:15I later learned a lot.

00:17And he showed me the book that he had published.

00:21And I'm like, man,

00:22that's kind of a crazy story.

00:24And um, he said,

00:26would you be upset if I told you it might be true?

00:28And I'm like,

00:29uh, yeah, I'd be a little upset.

00:32I sure would.

00:34He said, it's about me.

00:36And this happened.

00:37But I I'm innocent.

00:40I'm like, here we are a year and a half in

00:42and I don't even know who I'm with.

00:45That's weird.

00:482016 on my birthday,

00:51we were meeting up at the hotel,

00:52no big deal.

00:54And so I got in the shower

00:55and he kept running back outside.

00:58And I was like, what are you doing?

00.60And so I followed him out there.

02.10He was on another phone,

04.00a track phone.

05.50And I didn't say nothing.

07.10I just kept my mouth shut.

08.20I said, oh, he's up to something.

10.20And then he left again.

11.40And I was like,

12.80is is something wrong?

14.10I mean, what's going on?

16.20He wouldn't not answer me.

18.20And I said, look, this ain't going to work.

20.60He said, that's fine, I'm leaving.

22.90And he got in the truck.

25.40So I walked all the way around.

28.10I'm sitting in the front seat of the truck.

29.80It's running.

30.40And I'm just sitting there like,

32.00you know, can we talk about this?

33.40What's going on, you know?

35.10And he grabs me by the throat.

38.70picks me up

40.10and pushes me out.

42.90I see the look in his eyes.

44.70They were piercing.

48.20He came within a paper thin hair

50.80of running me over that trailer.

54.20And I remembered reading the book

56.50and realizing,

58.50I'm living with a murderer.

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00:01That's the first time he'd ever

00:03put any hands on me, ever.

00:06I mean, he's yelled and stuff

00:07and carried on, but nothing,

00:10nothing of that nature.

00:12That's when I really saw

00:13the violent side of him.

00:16And somebody in the hotel

00:17would called the cops,

00:18so the cops showed up,

00:20and I wasn't going to say anything.

00:23I think that's the mentality

00:25of victims.

00:26They they tend to

00:28not want to cause any more problems

00:30because you don't know what's going to happen.

00:32That's the second person that I actually

00:34had dated that um

00:36put their hands on me.

00:38And I was so berated so long

00:41that I just think that I

00:42didn't know any better.

00:49Sorry.

00:52I've been berated so badly

00:54and talked down to so much

00:55and beat on that I just

00:57didn't think any better of myself

00:59to get myself out of that situation.

04.50And then I got to digging around in his truck

07.50and I found the track phones.

10.00I got into the phone

12.50and um I called everyone he

15.20came in touch with.

17.80Ted had to have more than

19.20just one person at a time.

21.80And he uh

23.50supposedly told me he he broke everything off,

26.30but he didn't.

27.20It it just kept dragging out

28.80through the whole course

30.50of our uh relationship.

32.30And I don't think it was just that

34.20he couldn't be with one person.

35.70I think it was

37.50the challenge of hiding it.

42.20And I didn't know at the time

43.50that he had already met Dr. Kim.

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00:02Ted and I hit it off right away.

05.40He seemed to like everything that I liked.

08.60He liked the dogs.

10.30He liked riding a bicycle.

12.20He liked skiing.

14.30It's just like he was a chameleon.

16.50Who wouldn't want a best friend?

18.50You know, 'cause that's the way

19.50he came off.

23.50When I met Ted,

25.50he came into the practice

27.80to have a biopsy done.

29.60And I sent him to another physician.

33.60But then we still talked

36.30and texted back and forth

38.30and the next year

39.90we started dating.

43.30It was just a nice relationship at the beginning.

48.40I knew that John Green

50.10was his name now,

52.40but he always was Ted.

54.10That's the way he wanted to be

55.50known to people.

57.90I thought his ex-wife

59.90was making his life miserable

01.40and that's why he got his other name.

04.80It was

06.10a couple years after

07.80he had moved in and we were dating

09.20that he proposed.

11.50He staged the whole thing

13.20while we were up skiing

15.40and he got this big fancy ring.

18.30That was a bit of a

20.00uncomfortable spot for me

21.20'cause I definitely

22.10had to warm up to the idea of getting married.

25.50I really didn't

27.00have any meaningful relationships.

31.30I didn't see myself getting married.

33.50That just wasn't me.

35.40But nonetheless,

36.50I did.

39.30Yes.

40.50And that's when our

42.20relationship went south.

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00:02Ted will always be the victim.

00:05Ted will never, ever

00:08take responsibility for anything he does.

00:12I realized that he had

00:14previous relationships

00:16and wives,

00:17and none of them ever ended well.

00:20And it was never,

00:21ever Ted's fault.

00:24He had a house

00:26in San Antonio.

00:28So he had to go back

00:29like three or four times a year.

00:32And those periods started

00:34getting longer and he

00:36would be out of touch.

00:37No, I was just up all night.

00:39He always had an excuse.

00:41I began to realize

00:43that he was lying about everything

00:45that he was doing in San Antonio.

00:49He didn't want me in the house

00:50in San Antonio.

00:52We went one time

00:54on our way to visit another friend

00:57and he forgot the keys.

00.39I knew something was up

01.79because Ted doesn't forget stuff like that.

05.23One time,

06.35some friends of mine had come to visit me.

09.55And I noticed that Ted

11.35was in our bedroom

12.71and wouldn't come out.

14.83And then he finally came out

17.31and he got in an altercation

19.67with a friend of mine.

21.71In fact, it was so bad

24.51that the four of us were trying

26.31to get Ted off of my friend.

29.71He just looked like he was

31.27on a bender of some sort.

33.51And I actually called the police on him

36.59and he ran.

38.87and then left the community.

42.79And then he went to San Antonio

45.95for 30 days.

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00:01I had not seen him

00:02after he married Kim for a long time.

00:05And so a year later,

00:07I was trying to build up a business.

00:10That was going well

00:12when he showed up.

00:14He's a man with a plan.

00:17Smells like shit.

00:19He comes to the house and he's like,

00:20I want to fix the

00:22hot water thing

00:24so you'll have hot water.

00:25So he got up in there

00:27and he cleaned out the little koi pond

00:29and I got a phone call from a a friend of mine.

00:33at the time he and still is married to the same person.

00:36that he said,

00:37I feel like I just needed to call y'all all of a sudden.

00:39And I'm like,

00:40well, I don't know why.

00:41Well, Ted heard him

00:44and went nuts.

00:47Who is that

00:48and who are you talking to?

00:50And I'm like,

00:50I'm looking at him,

00:51I'm like, what do you care?

00:53We're not together.

00:56And so he grabbed the phone.

00:59And I I yelled,

01:00I said, I'll call you later.

01:01He said, no,

01:02you're not calling him.

01:03Ever.

01:04You ain't calling nobody.

01:05I don't want no man here.

01:06I said, dude, I'm not seeing anybody.

01:08This guy lives clear up in Oklahoma.

01:10I I haven't seen him in years.

01:12And he changes again.

01:14His eyes.

01:17I just felt this tingle

01:18and I felt like I need to run right now.

01:20Just don't worry about nothing, run.

01:22I didn't have no shoes on.

01:23I just had my clothes on.

01:25That was it.

01:27I got to the front door

01:29and the next thing I know,

01:30I'm being kicked

01:32out the front door.

01:34kicked me to the curb.

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00:00My face opened up

00:02and

00:04I I remember blacking out

00:07and then when I came to,

00:08I heard him calling me

00:09all kinds of awful names.

00:11And then I started screaming

00:12'cause it was hurting.

00:13I was like, why am I in so much pain?

00:15And I saw all this blood.

00:17And I'm grabbing my face

00:18and he's just kicking me.

00:20He's just kicking the snot out of me.

00:21He's like, you're ruining everything for me.

00:23And I'm like,

00:24I need to go to the hospital.

00:27I can't take you to the hospital.

00:28They're going to think I did this.

00:29I said, you did do this.

00:32And I'm like, call 911.

00:33He's like, no.

00:34Get in the car, I'll take you.

00:37I've got blood everywhere at this point.

00:39It's all over me,

00:40it's all over the front of the car

00:42where I'm sitting.

00:43and I'm trying to figure out what to do.

00:47And I'm like,

00:48this is not the way to the hospital.

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00:01I kind of knew

00:02that it's not the way to the hospital.

00:04And so I was like,

00:05look,

00:06I don't know what you're thinking about doing,

00:08but this isn't the time.

00:10I said,

00:10it's not going to be good for you or me.

00:13And I would like for you to just stop the car and let me out.

00:16He wasn't going to stop.

00:18I thought he was going to kill me.

00:21Something told me to get out of that car.

00:24So I opened the door

00:25and he slams on brakes,

00:26still not stopped all the way.

00:28And I got out

00:29and he took off.

00:31And then I passed out again.

00:34And the next thing I know is

00:36this couple stops and picks me up

00:38off the side of the road

00:39and takes me to the hospital.

00:41I think I had one or two cracked ribs.

00:45Everything was messed up.

00:47And they kept me there for four days.

00:49And I could not remember what my name was

00:52for several days.

00:55I couldn't remember nothing.

00:58I was John Doe.

00.89Finally, I was like,

01.69wait, I have a phone.

03.49And that's how I found my friend

05.39Charlotte's number.

06.59She was like, hey,

07.99I'm just trying to figure out where you're at

09.29and what's going on.

12.99I finally got Charlotte

14.49to come pick me up from the hospital.

17.59I went to the house

18.69to go get all my stuff out of there.

22.29And it was gone.

23.19Everything.

24.59Car was missing.

25.59That house was empty.

26.69There was nothing in there.

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00:02When Ted came back down here,

00:05he apologized

00:06and said that he went into a

00:08alcohol and drug rehab program.

00:12And,

00:13you know, he promised me

00:14it would never happen again

00:16and unfortunately, I took him back.

00:20I just never trusted him after that.

00:26Ted

00:27kept on saying

00:28he would like to get money

00:30for his 2010 Toyota.

00:34But he said he would get

00:36more money from the insurance

00:38for the car than he would if he sold it outright.

00:42Well,

00:42he went to El Paso

00:45and then he called me and told me his car was stolen.

00:49And I knew the moment that he told me that story that it was a lie.

00:55Once he got to the point

00:57where he was willing to lie, cheat, and steal,

01:00that was the end of our relationship.

01:03What else did he lie and cheat about?

01:07I knew at that point

01:09I had to somehow get my dogs and myself away from him.

01:17He disappears.

01:19And then, I think it was April,

01:22I uh, came in and it was payday.

01:25And I looked in the drawer

01:28and my check is not there.

01:31And then I get a call

01:34from the bank that he's trying

01:35to write himself a check for 44,000.

01:41What the hell is wrong with you?

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00:02I found out that he had broken

00:05into my office.

00:07He forged signatures

00:10on my paychecks.

00:12He wrote himself checks

00:14on my account

00:16and cashed those.

00:17At which point, thank goodness,

00:19another bank executive

00:21at a different branch called me.

00:23And I said, absolutely no,

00:26I did not write him a check

00:28for $44,000.

00:30In fact, he shouldn't even have

00:32my checkbook. He has stolen it.

00:35They call the police.

00:37He's waiting there for his 44,000.

00:41And they come up to him and say,

00:42are you John Green?

00:44And he's like, no.

00:47And then he realizes,

00:48I guess the gig is up,

00:50and he tries to leave.

00:52and then gets in a scuffle

00:54with the police officer.

00:56and drives away.

00:59That son of a bitch.

01:01I'm sorry.

01:02I was pissed.

01:03Yeah.

01:05He didn't realize that because of his phone,

01:09I could find him.

01:12He went up to a hotel

01:15in Artesia.

01:17The person who was working the desk,

01:20I think he befriended her.

01:22and she called him and let him know

01:23that the police were looking for him.

01:25And I think he went out the back door.

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00:03Ted would do anything to hurt me.

00:06and he knows the best way to hurt me

00:08is through the dogs.

00:13A month later,

00:15he reappeared.

00:18He waited until I went out

00:23and he had gone to my house

00:24and kicked in the door

00:26and stole my car keys.

00:31Every Thursday,

00:32I am at Lake View Hospice.

00:35It's a 30, 40 minute meeting.

00:38I keep the dogs in the car

00:41locked with the air conditioner

00:42running.

00:45I'm in that meeting

00:46and all of a sudden

00:48I hear my dogs barking.

00:51and I run out the door

00:54and I see him in my vehicle

00:55driving off with my dogs.

00:59Zero, who was pregnant,

01:02Storm

01:03and Felony.

01:05And they got on the highway

01:07and they went north

01:08on North Canal.

01:10Oh my God.

01:12I've never been more afraid

01:14and sick in my entire life.

01:17He could do anything.

01:18He could have gotten money,

01:20he could have gotten my house,

01:21he could have gotten anything.

01:23but just don't touch my dogs.

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00:02A friend of mine had an avalanche dog.

00:05And when I was skiing in Washington,

00:08I met the dog

00:09and I saw some of the things

00:11that they were doing with the dogs.

00:12And I always loved dogs.

00:14and I thought,

00:15I want to do this.

00:17That was it.

00:18I mean, hook, line and sinker.

00:20I loved doing disaster work

00:21with my dogs.

00:24They love to work.

00:26And watching a dog do something

00:28that they love to do

00:29is really a pleasure.

00:31It's all about the dog.

00:34When I moved out here,

00:36I was deployed to the Pentagon

00:38and then New Orleans after Katrina,

00:40Texas after Rita, plus

00:42I don't know how many hurricanes

00:45and tornadoes over the years.

00:50Ted knew how to hurt me.

00:52And he did the one thing

00:54that he knew would hurt me.

00:56He took my dogs.

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00:04I was sitting in my home office.

00:06I get a call from Dr. Lark.

00:08and she explained to me what had happened.

00:11She explained to me that her ex-husband

00:14had taken her dogs

00:15and he traveled through Texas

00:16and she didn't know where the dogs were at.

00:18But she told me that one of her dogs

00:20was pregnant.

00:21and she was really concerned.

00:24Having learned a lot of his history overseas,

00:28it became real that this person is potentially dangerous.

00:32It was almost unreal.

00:35Dr. Lark was persistent.

00:37She was constantly calling,

00:39asking,

00:40why can't we locate him?

00:41Why can't we find him?

00:42Why hasn't he been arrested?

00:44She wanted us to take action

00:46and take action now.

00:51Ted was on the run.

00:52He had crossed state lines.

00:54And so the FBI was clearly involved.

00:58We thought that there's a possibility

00.54he could he could have left the country

02.04and gone to an island somewhere

03.34with the dogs

04.04and had the resources

05.34to do something like that.

08.34If there's a dog involved,

10.44it captures attention.

12.24We had people contacting our office

14.24from all over the world,

15.64just wanting information about the case.

19.64All of the people out in the world

21.04that were following this case

22.44were following it from the aspect of

24.04find the dogs.

25.64But for law enforcement,

28.14their focus is

29.54arrest the person.

33.34Where is he?

34.44And how are they going to find him?

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00:00Several days had passed by.

00:03We interviewed people.

00:04We knocked on doors.

00:05And then we received a tip.

00:09We had learned

00:10that Ted

00:11was going to be at a doctor's office.

00:16And so we staked out the parking lot.

00:20We knew the car that he was driving.

00:22I saw him park the car.

00:23I was sitting in my car, he walked past me.

00:26And then just to make sure I get an eyeball,

00:29I acknowledge him,

00:30kind of give him a head nod,

00:31and I realized that that it is him.

00:34I notify some of the members of the team that's out there.

00:38And at that point,

00:39they commenced with the arrest and

00:41he was in custody.

00:45When Ted was arrested

00:47at the VA,

00:49they had asked Ted,

00:51what about the dogs?

00:53Where are the dogs?

00:54And he goes, what dogs?

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00:01The FBI law enforcement's job,

03.23they apprehended Ted.

04.73Their job was completely done.

06.33My job is kind of beginning again

08.03because

09.23we found Ted, but there was no dogs.

12.53and we were very concerned

14.03about the safety of those animals.

17.63We had learned that Ted was not working alone.

20.83that he had an associate by the name of David.

24.23I had my analyst

25.43research the relatives of David.

28.13There was an aunt living in San Antonio.

31.23It was at that point that we

33.13went to the address of that aunt,

34.83knocked on her door.

36.43At that moment, the lady,

38.33she says, uh,

39.43you know, I know why you're here.

41.63Why don't you come back here and I'll show you.

43.63She escorts me to the back room

45.93and she opens the door.

48.03And as I peer in,

49.73all three of the dogs plus the babies

51.53are in that one room.

53.63And I was elated when I saw that.

55.33I I was just beside myself.

56.73I couldn't believe it.

05.55Thank God for Abel.

09.15He is the reason

10.85that I have my dogs back.

17.35There was Zero, Storm and Felony

20.55and eight Border Collie puppies.

24.35The puppies were not healthy.

26.05They were dirty

27.55and they were underfed.

32.55The moment that I knew he wasn't coming back,

35.55I started going through

37.15all his stuff and I'm thinking,

39.15Oh my God,

41.15what did he use these for?

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00:01When Ted was arrested,

00:03he was in jail for two years.

00:06The moment that I knew

00:08he wasn't coming back,

00:10I went into this spare bedroom

00:12where he spent a lot of time.

00:15and in there I found this bag

00:18of six latex masks

00:22to hide your identity.

00:24They were really, really creepy.

00:27You know, it's one thing

00:29if you're going to a Halloween party

00:30and you buy one mask.

00:32You don't buy six.

00:35In the barn,

00:36there were huge channel locks

00:39to break chains.

00:42When they're that big,

00:43you're trying to break in to something.

00:47I found a little map

00:50that he had the mileage

00:53from each way in and out of a store.

00:57I don't know why,

00:58unless he was trying to figure out

00.99response times or escape times

03.39or whatever.

05.76When I was looking through my barn,

09.36I found a wallet that belonged to somebody else

13.37with all of her driver's license,

16.30credit cards, everything.

20.50And then

21.43I found his iPad

24.30and there's a section that's hidden.

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00:03He was videoing himself

00:06having sex with other women

00:08while we were together.

00:11You son of a bitch.

00:14I'm going to go see the doctor

00:16and get checked for every known

00:17sexually transmitted disease

00:19on the face of this earth.

00:22It's disgusting

00:23to watch him.

00:25And then

00:26what happened was,

00:28I got a letter

00:29from somebody who had been

00:31incarcerated with Ted.

00:34And I'm thinking,

00:35oh my God.

00:36Here is some criminal

00:38who's got my address

00:40and who knows

00:42what else Ted has told him.

00:45So I opened this letter

00:47and this guy

00:49said that Ted

00:51was not a very good person

00:54and he planned to do

00:55something horrible to me.

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00:01Dr. Lark received a letter.

00:03from an individual that she did not know.

00:05Someone that claimed they

00:08were incarcerated with John Green.

00:12and that he began talking to people

00:14about how

00:16if he could get rid of Dr. Lark.

00:19He was plotting to kill her.

00:23And so she reported to law enforcement.

00:25And that's kind of

00:26where it all started.

00:28The inmate that wrote the letter

00:31talked about

00:32overhearing these conversations

00:34and he believed it to be a real viable threat.

00:37They told me that

00:40Ted had hired a hitman.

00:42He was a fellow cellmate.

00:45Ted bailed him out of jail

00:48and they had discussed

00:51in horrid detail

00:54how

00:55that hitman was going to kill me.

00:58Apparently, there was a plan

00:59to get rid of my body in Mexico.

02.95I was scared to death.

07.75I met him in jail.

10.45We started out just knowing each other

12.15and then it became pretty close.

14.95Friends, I guess I would say.

18.35The part where

19.95he hired me to kill his wife.

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00:02John Green,

00:03I met him in jail.

00:06It's just a one room

00:07and there were 17 of us

00:08in that one room.

00:09We just had bunks.

00:13He was cocky.

00:16He's also loudmouthed.

00:19gave him the name of silver tongue.

00:22He sure knew how to talk.

00:25He was asking everybody

00:26to kill his wife.

00:29Green wasn't shy

00:30about how he talked about it.

00:32He was asking everyone.

00:34And then I realized

00:35he's not joking around.

00:37He's trying to get somebody

00:38to kill his wife.

00:43and I found out he had money.

00:45That changed my whole dynamic.

00:48I became desperate at one point,

00:49so I said I'd do it.

00:51He promised me

00:52that once I completed the job

00:54that I would get a 60-foot

00:55flatbed trailer

00:58and a 1998

00.59Ford F-350

02.29that he had.

03.79That and $10,000.

05.29That's what he promised me.

07.99I would play chess with him

09.69every day.

12.09We would just brainstorm ways

13.29to try to kill her.

15.79I wanted to make it look like a

17.39robbery go wrong

18.49and he didn't like that.

19.49He wanted to make it look like

20.49a fentanyl overdose.

24.59And then I was like,

25.19well, you know,

26.19can't do it from in here,

27.29kind of got to get out.

29.89I convinced him

30.89to bond me out.

33.79I already knew I wasn't going to do it.

35.69I don't think anybody else

36.89thought I was going to do it either,

38.29except for Green.

39.99I conned the con man,

41.39I guess.

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00:01I was out a week

00:02before the task force came and talked to me.

00:05And they said, do you know what this is about?

00:07I said,

00:08probably that guy wants me to kill his wife.

00:10And they said, yeah,

00:11that's exactly what this is about.

00:14They arrested me

00:16for conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.

00:20That's a first degree felony.

00:21That's minimum of 12 years,

00:23I thought.

00:25I was freaking out.

00:27We needed Greg Markham.

00:29We knew that all along.

00:31But we had to kind of encourage

00:33Greg Markham to be cooperative because

00:36he got what he wanted already.

00:38He got money and he got out.

00:40Why does he care about Dr. Lark

00:42or John Green?

00:45The guy is a bad guy to begin with.

00:46It's like if he's willing to kill his wife

00:48over something that simple,

00:50then he needs to be put away.

00:54They played chess together.

00:56And I think this was just another chess match.

00:59Who is making the next move?

02.40Greg Markham's real move

04.30was never to kill Dr. Lark.

07.20So, if at the end of the day,

09.00did John Green get played?

10.70He did.

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00:02The plot that John Green was hatching

04.93while he was incarcerated

06.33involved the individual of Greg Markum.

10.33What he was being asked to do

12.23by John Green was to actually go

13.53to Dr. Lark's home,

15.83wait for her where she would pull in

18.53and cut the power to the house.

21.63I was to hide out and wait for her to come home.

25.33And it was to be done on a Wednesday.

29.83I had to control the dogs.

32.73With hand signals, just a hand gesture,

34.43I could control the animals.

37.43She kept a 38 in her console.

40.43And I was to steal that,

41.93take that,

42.63and then I could point that gun

44.83at one of the dogs,

46.73the main cadaver dog.

48.73And she would do whatever I asked her to do.

51.23And then I would just force her to drink the water.

56.33because they were going to

58.63hold a gun

00.53or try to kill my dog

02.63and make me drink water

04.83that was laced with fentanyl.

08.03They said if they had my dog

10.83that I would do anything for my dog.

14.43He would never control my dogs.

17.73All he had to do is get near me and

20.63it would have been game on.

22.53I would have fought to the death.

24.03And if I'm fighting for the death,

26.53trust me,

27.43my dogs are going to fight with me.

30.63John Green had all of her assets to gain

33.13because they were still married.

35.63So that was the real catch.

37.73Uh, and he knew that.

39.53Motive really was that

41.63his life would be better

43.53without her in the picture.

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00:01John Green had quite a story to tell

00:04to investigators.

00:06It was all about

00:08just being a good person

00:10who's going to help out Greg Markham.

00:13He's just helping people

00:14inside the facility

00:16because that's just who he is.

00:17You never asked him to do anything for you

00:19once he got out?

00:20No, sir.

00:21Make any types of

00:21No, sir.

00:22He was just not

00:24going to admit to anything.

00:26He was not going to ever say

00:28that he had ever

00:29even contemplated killing her.

00:32My understanding with him is that

00:34he's

00:35been in and out of here, I don't know,

00:37a couple dozen times and

00:41on drugs they just can't get off.

00:45All I know is that

00:47chronic liar, he's

00:49he's a salesman that can sell anything

00:51according to people that that know him.

00:55It is completely fabricated.

00:57Uh, Greg Markham is just a liar

00:59and an opportunist.

01.40And John Green

02.50loved Kim Larkin, he would never harm her.

05.14He'd never harm her.

06.54I explained to you this is just

08.14a vicious attempt

08.94by two career criminals

10.14trying to extort

11.24$40,000 of money from

13.24my my ex-wife out.

15.54And I had nothing to do with it.

17.07I would never want anything to have,

18.84you know, hopefully happen

20.34to come to my wife at all.

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00:01I had just been assigned to the crime beat

00:03and part of my job

00:04was to go through the jail records.

00:07And usually it's, you know, DWIs,

00:09domestic violence,

00:10you know, you're kind of run of the mill crimes.

00:12So going through that,

00:13I came across Greg Markham

00:15who was charged with conspiracy

00:17to commit first degree murder.

00:18And I was like, that's kind of out of the ordinary.

00:21Murder for hire is not something I'd ever seen

00:23on that list before.

00:25So then I go scroll to the next person

00:27and it's John Green

00:28and they have his mugshot and his photo.

00:31And I was like, this is the dognapping guy.

00:34We need to follow up on this

00:35and and find out what's going on.

00:39Mr. Green, I can see you, I know you're present,

00:41but can you say your name for the record?

00:44John Green.

00:45Thank you.

00:46You may be seated.

00:48It was probably one of the more unique trials

00:50I've ever covered.

00:50And I've covered several trials

00:51here in town over the years.

00:54You kind of wonder like,

00:55who are these people?

00:57What is really happening here?

01:00The most interesting part of the case

01:02was when Dr. Lark

01:04testified.

01:06This is a person who,

01:08this was probably one of the worst things

01:09that ever happened to her.

01:11She seemed kind of scared.

01:13She didn't seem like she was excited to testify.

01:16What was your understanding of

01:19the type of harm that may come your way?

01:22I was told that somebody

01:24would try to end my life.

01:27I think Dr. Lark was nervous.

01:29I think it was very emotional for her.

01:32But at the end of the day,

01:33this wasn't the case where she was going to be

01:35the star witness.

01:36She was the focal point of it.

01:39But the star witness was Greg Markham.

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00:03My biggest concern

00:05was who we were having to rely on.

00:09At the end of the day, it was going to be

00:11those 12 jurors going to be able to look

00:13at Greg Markham sitting on the witness stand,

00:15hearing what he says

00:16and believe that it's credible

00:19that John Green

00:20was giving him this money

00:22as a down payment, so to speak,

00:24to kill Dr. Lark.

00:27Mr. Markham,

00:28there's been some things in your past that haven't been quite honest.

00:32Yes, I have

00:33I have done things in my past, yes.

00:36The whole defense focus was on

00:38why Greg Markham is a liar.

00:40And so it was just

00:42nit picking what he did or didn't do

00:45and trying to pick apart his story.

00:49regarding what you you claim you were promised.

00:52The main thing was

00:54the truck,

00:55the trailer and the 10,000.

00:58But out of all those things that you were promised,

01:01you only got bonded out

01:04because of the down payment.

01:06Correct, his payment, yeah.

01:08We have to corroborate everything that we can

01:11to verify that what he's saying is truthful

01:16because otherwise,

01:18how are we going to prove this?

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00:01They asked questions,

00:03I gave them my best response.

00:05If you didn't find me credible,

00:07then okay.

00:08Ask her where did she keep her gun.

00:11How many people knew that it was

00:12going to be in the console?

00:13Only her and him.

00:16Did John Green tell you anything else

00:17about Dr. Laura's house?

00:18Yes, I I he described it

00:20in great detail.

00:21I I believe I drew a

00:23a diagram.

00:24You could look at pictures of the house,

00:26look at the floor plan.

00:27He could describe it perfectly.

00:29So, someone had to tell him.

00:31He told me that the double doors in the back

00:34is the easiest way to get into the house.

00:36That's how he got in

00:37when he went and got the dogs.

00:39Why would someone tell you

00:41how to gain access to your home?

00:43Why would someone tell you

00:44how to cut power to your house?

00:46Why would someone tell you

00:47where your safe is

00:47and how to access it?

00:49And what was in the safe was accurate.

00:50There should be cash

00:52and the titles to the vehicles

00:54were in there.

00:55He was given all these details

00:57that if you'd never gone to the property,

01:00you're certainly not going to know.

01:02He knew

01:04what I kept in my safe

01:07in the the bedroom.

01:08I guess he planned to get me

01:09to open up that too.

01:11But he knew where everything

01:13was in the house.

01:15Have you ever seen a fentanyl

01:16overdose before?

01:18Yes.

01:19I have.

01:21They they could turn blue in the lips.

01:22They don't they don't breathe.

01:24They uh...

01:26their life escapes them.

01:29Did you ever seriously contemplate

01:30doing that to Dr.?

01:31Never.

01:32Never would I do that to a human being.

01:35I think he showed remorse.

01:37Even if you can say,

01:38well, I was never really going to do it.

01:40That's easy to say later, right?

01:42The reality of what had been asked to do

01:44and who John Green really was

01:47became very real in that courtroom.

01:49He was so dead set on having

01:51something done to her.

01:53There's no doubt in my mind that

01:54if he got out on his own

01:56that he would have killed her.

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00:03John Green was a desperate man.

00:08A desperate man that

00:10was sitting in jail because

00:11he had already taken a vehicle

00:14with rescue dogs,

00:15broken into the house.

00:17He had broken into the office,

00:19and he had problems.

00:22And all of his problems would go away

00:25if there was no more

00:28Kim Lark.

00:33What he wanted was

00:34Kim Lark dead.

00:36Thank you.

00:40Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

00:42at this time,

00:43I'm about to ask if you wish to

00:45begin deliberations tonight.

00:47I loved doing jury trials

00:49until the jury's deliberating.

00:51And then you realize

00:52you've lost control.

00:54The jury could think there's reasonable doubt

00:56and they could come back not guilty

00:58and you need to be prepared for that.

01.89If Ted gets out,

03.59he has nothing left to lose.

06.93I was scared to death.

13.54All right, we are now on record.

15.44This is the matter of State of New Mexico

17.84versus John Lawrence Green.

18.67I've been advised

20.00that the jury has reached a verdict.

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00:00At this time,

00:00I'm going to ask all parties

00:02to please rise.

00:03We find the defendant, John Green,

00:06guilty

00:07of criminal solicitation

00:08to commit first degree murder

00:09as charged in count one.

00:12In this case,

00:13the jury came back guilty.

00:15So sigh of relief for Dr. Alark,

00:17disbelief by John Green.

00:23All I could do was smile.

00:27I think Ted was surprised.

00:31I don't think Ted thought

00:32he was going to be found guilty at all.

00:35Ted believes his own lies.

00:38And I think he thought he was going to get off.

00:41He got the maximum.

00:43The judge told him

00:45that he showed absolutely

00:47no remorse

00:49and that he was afraid for my life.

00:52And just as he was being

00:54led out,

00:56he says to me,

00:57Kimmy, I still love you.

00:59You're so full of shit.

01.30Excuse me.

02.00But that's what I thought.

03.20I still loved you.

04.50Yeah, right.

05.80What the hell is wrong with you?

09.50What a coward.

11.50If you're going to kill somebody,

12.50you do it yourself.

13.60But to hire somebody,

16.50He's a pussy.

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00:01When I think about Ted,

00:03I think what a sorry

00:04son of a bitch he is.

00:06that he's preyed on people

00:08his whole life

00:10and is willing to lie,

00:12cheat, and steal.

00:14Ted did not take any responsibility

00:17for anything he's done,

00:19including the stuff in Monte Carlo.

00:22I think Ted has just gone

00:24from one con to the next.

00:26Unless you're in a relationship with this man

00:29and you know how he really is,

00:33you'd think he's a great guy.

00:34You know?

00:35Everybody loved him

00:37because he was funny.

00:37He was tall, blonde, good-looking.

00:41When he's really a monster.

00:43He really is.

00:45He just happened to get caught this last time.

00:47What if he had not got caught?

00:49Somebody else would have died.

00:52The hardest thing that I've ever had to do

00:54is not just survive this,

00:57but to give peace of mind

00:58to myself.

01.80I forgave that man.

07.30God have mercy on his soul

09.00for how he's treated all of us like this.

11.80It's awful.

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00:02We've all been so horribly mistreated

05.83and abused by this man.

07.98And I don't want him to get away with it anymore.

10.61I just really don't.

12.41I want everybody to know

14.31what horrible things he did to me

17.31and Donna

18.81and Kim.

21.31His mother even said this about him.

24.21The man falls in a pile of shit

26.21and comes out smelling like a rose,

28.31no matter what.

30.51So, he'll probably get his appeal.

33.31And he'll probably be out

34.61in a couple of years.

36.11And

37.11when I hear that,

38.31I'll have to

39.81sleep with my gun a little bit closer

42.21again.

44.51We'll have to live with that fear

46.21for the rest of our lives

47.61that he's out there.

49.41They told me I should carry a gun.

51.51And I carry a gun

52.81still to this day.

54.21I have a shotgun

55.91right next to my bed.

58.31That's there every single night.

01.61Could he have hired somebody else?

03.11Yes.

03.51Could he hire somebody else in the future?

05.71Yes.

06.31Could he do it himself

07.41when he gets out?

08.11Yes.

08.81Do I feel safe?

09.41No.

11.11It definitely changes your life

12.81and how you look at everything

14.21and where you're going

15.31and how alert you are

16.51and

17.01is the next person

18.21that's coming in trying to be a patient a hitman?

20.41I don't know.

23.01He's where he needs to be

24.81and he needs to be there

26.01for the rest of his life.

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When a billionaire dies in a mysterious fire, his devoted nurse is hailed as a hero. But as cracks form in the official story, investigators begin to question everything. Years later, new victims emerge, revealing how charm, lies, and reinvention allowed a dangerous man to hide in plain sight.

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