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Hell and Gone

Introducing: Hell in Heaven: A Mysterious Death in Paradise

Hell and Gone

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.37.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Hello, Disorganized Crime Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, Hell in Heaven: A Mysterious Death in Paradise

About the show: John and Ann Bender had hundreds of millions of dollars and one dream: to build a glittering glass mansion deep in the Costa Rican jungle. But paradise soon gave way to paranoia — with abduction plots, armed guards and a bedroom blazing with hundreds of Tiffany lamps. And then one night, it all ended in blood.

Hosted by award-winning journalist Becky Milligan, Hell in Heaven is an eight-part limited series from Blanchard House, Exactly Right Media and iHeart Podcasts.

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0:00.0

School of Humans.

0:05.4

Helen God Murder Line actively investigates cold case murders in an effort to raise public awareness, invite witnesses to come forward, and present evidence that could potentially be further investigated by law enforcement.

0:18.0

While we value insights from family and community members, their statements should not

0:22.2

be considered evidence and point to the challenges of verifying facts inherent in cold cases.

0:28.5

We remind listeners that everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

0:34.2

Nothing in the podcast is intended to state or imply that anyone who has not been convicted of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing.

0:42.5

Thanks for listening.

0:46.5

Two rich young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over, but one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder,

0:57.3

three times. From the start, the omens are bad. That place is the darkest jungle you ever seen

1:05.0

in your life. You have no clue. John and Ann Bender are young, rich and attractive.

1:11.8

He's a Wall Street Whizkid.

1:13.5

Just handsome.

1:14.5

Movie star handsome.

1:15.9

And they're devoted to each other.

1:17.9

There's a lot of just like warmth and care.

1:21.3

They set up a nature reserve and build a strange new home.

1:26.1

It's like a spaceship's landed on the top of a hill

1:28.4

in the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica.

1:31.1

But slowly their dreams start to crumble.

1:35.1

It was just doomed.

1:36.8

Just doomed.

1:38.7

I'm Becky Milligan, and this is Hell in Heaven,

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