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48 Hours

Almost Paradise

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In October 2001, Wall Street tycoon Ted Ammon was found bludgeoned to death in his Long Island mansion. Investigators focused on Ted's former wife, Generosa, and her new husband, Danny Pelosi. But when Generosa died of breast cancer, Danny became the lone suspect. “48 Hours" Correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 9/3/2005. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Your Starbucks is ready.

0:03.0

Beans ground.

0:05.0

Milk frothed.

0:06.0

Shots pulled.

0:07.0

Velvety milk poured into a double shot of dark perfection and

0:11.0

oof, that's the good stuff.

0:14.0

The baristas are ready.

0:15.0

The finest coffee beans are ready.

0:17.0

The Starbucks you love is ready.

0:20.0

Hello again from the Starbucks coffee company.

0:23.6

The Starbucks Coffee Company. The Hamptons is a playground for the rich and the famous.

0:44.3

A couple hours from Manhattan.

0:46.3

Money runs like water.

0:48.3

Fancy cars, huge estates, security gates, seclusion. In October of 2001, Ted Ammon was brutally murdered

0:59.0

in his East Hampton mansion.

1:05.0

There was nothing that was really disturbed in the house.

1:10.0

There was no ransacking.

1:12.6

The perpetrators had opened up the door to the bedroom, walked in, approached the bed.

1:16.6

This was an individual sleeping.

1:18.6

Somebody who's jumped on and doesn't have a chance to do much fighting back.

1:21.6

He was beaten about the head, and probably fairly early on in the assault was dragged off the bed. The individual over him is literally raining blows down on his head until he struck some 30 to 35 times, which is a conservative estimate.

1:34.3

Ted Ammon, I thought he was the greatest. He's the all-American guy.

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