# The Millionaires Who Went Mad in Their Jungle Fortress Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-it-was-like-5287591/the-millionaires-who-went-mad-in-their-jungle-fortress Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-it-was-like-5287591/the-millionaires-who-went-mad-in-their-jungle-fortress.md Podcast: [What It Was Like](https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-it-was-like-5287591) Published: 2026-03-07T03:34:46+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/what-it-was-like/episodes/69ab8588e2ffe1fef6642e7c Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6200ee776bcd50001215d4e7/e/69ab8588e2ffe1fef6642e7c/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-it-was-like-5287591/episodes/the-millionaires-who-went-mad-in-their-jungle-fortress Duration seconds: 3074 ## Resource When American millionaire John Bender moved to Costa Rica with his wife Ann, they set out to build a dream life in the jungle. Instead, their relationship spiralled into madness. When Bender died from a gunshot wound in 2010, the question remained: was it suicide or murder? Journalist Carol Vaughn takes us inside one of Costa Rica’s strangest cases. Check out Carol's book on the case:  Crazy Jungle Love: Murder, Madness, Money & Monkeys Find us on TikTok:  @whatitwaslikepodcast Find us on Youtube:  @whatitwaslikepodcast Follow us on Instagram:  whatitwaslikepodcast This is a  Superreal  production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-it-was-like-5287591/episodes/the-millionaires-who-went-mad-in-their-jungle-fortress/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-it-was-like-5287591/the-millionaires-who-went-mad-in-their-jungle-fortress.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.