Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney.

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

As much as most of us might try to live easy, conflict-free lives, sometimes you just can't avoid an uncomfortable interaction.

Maybe an unpleasant neighbor gets in your face about nothing at all.

Maybe somebody behind a counter gives you all kinds of attitude.

It's more or less inevitable that sooner or later,

someone will throw some grit into the smoothly turning gears of your life. And most of us just

deal with it and forget about it. Most of us don't have actual enemies, but the main character

in this week's story made enemies like it was her full-time job. She would burn down years-long

friendships over the smallest imagined slight, and if there were an actual real betrayal,

well, she'd burn down your whole life. This is Payback, the murder of Ted Ammon, part one.

Music Ted Ammon, part one.

So, campers, for this one, we're in East Hampton, New York, a place of huge mansions and staggering wealth out on the far edge of Long Island, Monday, October 22, 2001.

The late afternoon sun glinted off a helicopter as it raced from Manhattan toward East Hampton.

Inside were Mark Angelson and Milton Masias, respectively an investment banker and a chauffeur. Both men had the same boss,

multimillionaire Ted Ammon, and they were worried about him. Ted hadn't answered the door that

morning when Milton drove out to Long Island to pick him up. He hadn't answered the phone all day.

In fact, no one had heard from him at all since Saturday night. This wasn't like

Ted at all, especially not with Mark Angelson, who was Ted's friend as well as a colleague. They

talked every day. When Ted hadn't picked up his twin children after school for a scheduled

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