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'48 Hours' Premiere Spoilers, CBS Start Time: Costa Rican Paradise Home Turns to a 'House of Terror'

A brand new season of documentary news TV series "48 Hours" is set to air its premiere episode entitled "Paradise Lost" this coming Saturday, Sept. 27 at 10 p.m. on CBS.

For its 27th season, "48 Hours" will delve into an investigation of the death of a Wall Street whiz who is, according to the surviving and suspected wife, "phenomenally handsome" and symbolizes a "future with a capital F."

Together with the "48 Hours" team, correspondent Susan Spencer will take on the death of Wall Street multi-millionaire John Bender, who was reportedly killed in his 8,000 acre home set in the midst of a Costa Rican jungle in Jan. 8, 2010.

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His wife and the only other person besides him living in the "paradise," Ann Bender was charged with the crime which she denies. Trialed in Costa Rica, she was found not guilty. But the prosecution side appealed to the verdict. Ann is currently in the country while the appeal is being heard.

The season opener will also take its viewers right into the heart of the crime-scene, a four-story house that Spencer aptly described as "spaceship on a mountaintop."

Together with the show's own forensics team and legal experts, "48 Hours" will interview everyone involved including the accused wife, her legal assistants, as well as the prosecution.

"You can usually get a sense of who's telling the truth," Spencer told the NY Daily News. "I didn't come away after talking to Ann Bender with any sense of that."

"I defy anyone who looks at all the facts in this story to say definitively, 'This is what happened,'" she added.

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