1
00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,000
Speaker 1: Two rich, young Americans moved to the Costa Rican jungle

2
00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,040
Speaker 1: to start over. But one of them will end up

3
00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:16,279
Speaker 1: dead and the other tried for murder three times. From

4
00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,279
Speaker 1: the start, the omens are bad.

5
00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,400
Speaker 2: Their place is the darkest jungle you've ever seen in

6
00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,040
Speaker 2: your life. You have no clue.

7
00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,280
Speaker 1: John and Anne Bender are young, rich and attractive. He's

8
00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:29,520
Speaker 1: a Wall Street wiz.

9
00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:31,920
Speaker 2: Kid, just handsome. We'll be star handsome.

10
00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,000
Speaker 1: And they're devoted to each other.

11
00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,480
Speaker 2: There's a lot of just like warmth and care.

12
00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,160
Speaker 1: They set up a nature reserve and build a strange

13
00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,400
Speaker 1: new home. It's like a spaceship's landed on attop of

14
00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,640
Speaker 1: a hill in the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica.

15
00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,840
Speaker 1: But slowly their dreams starts to crumble.

16
00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,920
Speaker 2: It was just doomed, just doomed.

17
00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,800
Speaker 1: I'm Becky Milligan and this is Hell in Heaven, a

18
00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:03,279
Speaker 1: new podcast from Exactly Right Media and iHeart Podcasts, produced

19
00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:07,520
Speaker 1: by Blanchard House. I'm a seasoned investigative journalist and I've

20
00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,000
Speaker 1: reported on some pretty weird stories over the years. But

21
00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:16,319
Speaker 1: believe me, stories don't get much weirder than this, Because

22
00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,600
Speaker 1: even out here in the jungle, you can run, but

23
00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:21,640
Speaker 1: you can't hide.

24
00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,280
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, there's guys with guns, lots of

25
00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:25,160
Speaker 2: men with guns.

26
00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,240
Speaker 1: They were saying, help, help the they're kidnapping us. As

27
00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,600
Speaker 1: their past catches up with them. Our couple retreat from reality.

28
00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,319
Speaker 2: They lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of like.

29
00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:42,440
Speaker 1: Nuts until one night everything spins out of control.

30
00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,080
Speaker 2: Inmi.

31
00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,240
Speaker 1: He says Colonel we heard a shot inside the boss's

32
00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,680
Speaker 1: house and I could see the gun on the floor

33
00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,160
Speaker 1: and the trail of blood, and one of them will

34
00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,280
Speaker 1: end up being tried for murder.

35
00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:05,360
Speaker 2: Not once, people, yes, not twice stunned, but three times.

36
00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,640
Speaker 2: We were all looking at each other just in total disbelief.

37
00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:18,600
Speaker 1: Helen Heaven premieres on October ninth. New episodes Thursdays. Listen

38
00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,880
Speaker 1: to Helen Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or

39
00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:30,519
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.