48 Hours: Buried Secrets of Las Vegas
It's been more than a decade since gambling tycoon Ted Binion was found dead in his Las Vegas home, but the questions still remain: how did he die, and where is all his money? "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
Sandy Murphy's wedding day has all the trappings of Orange County, Calif., privilege. But her route to a walk down the aisle has been as twisted as anyone could imagine.
When asked how she would describe herself to people she has never met, Sandy replied, "I would just say, 'Hi, my name's Sandy. And I'm in Laguna and I'm an art dealer. Come see me.'"
When asked how she would describe the life that she's led, she told "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Peter Van Sant, "Umm, well, it wasn't an easy one that's for sure."
Sandy grew up in southern California, the adored only daughter of a hard-working family. She says she was always a natural competitor.
"I went to high school and I played, I think, three sports my freshman year," she said.
Sandy worked for a local car dealer, all the while looking for the bet of a lifetime. Her sense of adventure brought Sandy to Las Vegas.
"I was 21 and I had never been on a vacation away from my parents," she said.
Glenn Puit, a former Las Vegas newspaper man turned true-crime author, would come to know all about Sandy's soon-to-be legendary Las Vegas jaunt.
"She's got a great personality. She's as sweet as can be," Puit told Van Sant. "When you sit and talk with her, her eyes will melt you."
Those eyes first lit up the Las Vegas Strip when Sandy and a girlfriend hit town in 1995, with a wad of cash and visions of a good time.
"For the trip I just brought, like, whatever my budget was. I think it was like $15,000 at the time… Well, we went to gamble. And we lost it all like in the first hour," she told Van Sant of their time at the blackjack table.
Sandy was busted and desperate for cash to last for the rest of the trip. That's when the girlfriend she was traveling with suggested they try selling some of the custom lingerie she made. Together they headed over to one of Sin City's most famous strip clubs.
"We just went in and asked the bouncer if we could sell all of our lingerie. And if it was OK if I put it on and modeled it," Sandy explained. "I was wearing a Dallas Cowboy outfit… And that's how I met Ted."
Ted. His first name was all Sandy knew about the memorable man she met that night at Cheetah's; a man who couldn't take his eyes off of her.
"And then he became more flirtatious throughout the night. And, you know, Ted's the kind of guy that's like larger than life and when he's in the room you just want to be close to him," she said.
Sandy was attracted to the "very sexy" man with the big personality.
But Ted wasn't just a sexy guy with a big personality. He was Ted Binion. His family business was the legendary Horseshoe - one of the most famous casinos in the world. Ted was Vegas royalty - the son of Benny Binion, one of the town's original icons.
No one has more Vegas in his DNA than Wayne Newton, the singer, actor and icon known as "Mr. Las Vegas" who grew up with everyone from Sinatra to Elvis. But long before Newton sang "Danke Schoen," Benny Binion was already a notorious outlaw and Las Vegas pioneer.
"Benny Binion's place was right across the street from where I spent five years at the Fremont Hotel," Newton explained. "And Benny Binion was a legend then."
Benny Binion was legendary enough to make it onto CBS News in 1981.
"I never did own no stock. I don't own nothing I don't control," he said with a smile.
Peter Van Sant tours the legendary casino
Photos: Binion's Horseshoe
It all began in Texas where Benny controlled the largest illegal gambling operation in Dallas. He had a serious reputation even then. Nicknamed "Cowboy," Benny admitted killing two men himself.
"I hear about that organized crime, but I don't really know a damn thing about it," he said in the 1981 interview.
In 1946, the Dallas district attorney vowed to shut him down. Benny stuffed a suitcase with $2 million and headed for what was then a sleepy desert town: Las Vegas.
"The founding fathers of Las Vegas - Benny Binion certainly headed up that group," said Newton.
Vegas was a paradise of legal gambling and Benny became king.
"It wasn't a matter that you didn't cross Benny Binion," Newton explained with a laugh. "It was a matter that it never crossed your mind to cross Benny Binion."
Benny had built a goldmine with Binion's Horseshoe. He also invented the now-famous World Series of Poker. His casino's trademark: $2 steaks, free booze and no-limit betting.
For Becky Binion Behnen, her brothers, Ted and Jack, and her sisters, Barbara and Brenda, it was a life of splendor, action and outlaws. That was the extraordinary bit of Americana - the one-of-a kind story - that Ted Binion was part of.
But on that fateful night at Cheetah's, as Sandy Murphy danced for Benny Binion's millionaire son, she had no idea she'd just hit the jackpot.
"I was from Califiornia, completely clueless," said Sandy, who claimed she knew nothing about the legacy of Benny Binion's son, Ted - the mysterious man she was dancing for.
Following Sandy's dance for Ted at Cheetah's, she said, "He was very persistent and extremely, like, relentless. We just started dating every single day."
The girl who'd come to Vegas for a week, was soon living at Ted's beautiful home with its huge, rambling backyard located just minutes off the Strip. "He just said he liked me because I was different."
But for Sandy, at least, it wasn't quite love at first sight.
"Oh no, it was lust at first sight," she said with a laugh.
"And when did it turn into love for you?"
"Probably about six months into the relationship."
"What was it about Ted that you loved?"
"I just loved his carefree spirit. And he was a very nice person."
But from the get-go, Becky wasn't taking the bet that it was Ted's spirit that Sandy really loved.
"I mean he was 50-something years old. She was a 23-year-old girl," Becky said. "What would she see in a 50-something-year-old man except his bankroll?"
But there was something else Sandy would soon discover about Ted; something even more powerful than his multimillion-dollar bankroll.
According to Puit, "Teddy was a hardcore heroin addict."
"He would just get high everyday, all day long," said Sandy.Las Vegas real estate agent Cristine Lefkowitz has been trying to sell Ted Binion's house for years.
"2908 Palomino Lane is a very interesting property," she said. "We're offering it at $1.8 million."
It's a tough sell in today's market and you've got to be creative, especially a house with a history like this one: It's rumored that there is treasure buried somewhere on the property.
"Um, well, we always had cash because, you know, we would spend cash," said Sandy Murphy.
When Sandy moved in with Ted, she started living a life with all the perks of Las Vegas royalty - a new Mercedes and diamond jewelry.
And, according to Glenn Puit, "a spending account, fine dining, champagne."
Sandy said she didn't fall in love with Ted because of who he was and she didn't fall in love with his money.
"Oh, I just fell in love with the guy and all the stuff came after," she replied.
Ted's sister, Becky Binion Behnen, believed Sandy was a calculating gold digger and made no bones about it.
"Money. She sees money," Becky said. "She'd say things to me like, 'I wouldn't be with any old man unless he was rich.'"
When asked if she ever said anything about it to Ted, Becky replied, "Oh, Ted knew. But Ted liked that she was young."
"Did he have some of the charisma like your father did?" asked Van Sant.
"Yeah," Becky replied.
"Knew where every dollar was, where every dollar was going," Puit said of Ted. "But he wasn't his father. His father was a pioneer. Teddy was trying to live that legacy."
The truth is Ted never came close, because along with his brilliance as a casino manager came a far darker side; his association with known gangsters and his deadly addiction to heroin.
Said Sandy, "He would smoke it. His favorite kind was the black tar heroin."
Unlike most addicts, Ted had a nearly unlimited bankroll and he could afford to "chase the dragon" - a wasteful method of smoking heroin involving squares of foil.
More than heroin would soon go up in smoke as Ted's addiction became known to the authorities. They'd investigate, and in 1998, the Nevada State Gaming Commission revoked Ted's casino license. He was barred from the floor of The Horseshoe and the whole town knew he couldn't go into his father's casino.
Peter Van Sant tours the legendary Las Vegas casino
"You couldn't have done anything, possibly short of killing a child or molesting a nun, that would have carried the frowns and the uh-oh," said Wayne Newton.
Ted stepped up his heroin use and the fairytale on Palomino Lane seemed to come to an end for Sandy.
"He just became a guy I didn't really know. You know? Like a stranger," she told Van Sant.
So why didn't she leave? "I don't know. It's a weird thing when you love someone and they're having a hard time."
Ted's life became a closed and shadowy world. But a new person was allowed to gain entry. Ted Binion met Rick Tabish in a most unusual place.
"Teddy met Rick at a urinal," according to Puit. "He was relieving himself. He looked over and there was Rick Tabish."
The two men shared an interest in Montana where Rick grew up and Ted spent summers at a family ranch. But Tabish, a smooth-talking business man, was, in fact, a convicted felon with a record for theft.
"Teddy started giving him jobs, you know, odd jobs here and there to do things for him," Sandy explained. "For example, he's the one who built the vault."
The vault was for Ted Binion's silver. Depending who you ask, Ted had between $7 to $14 million worth of silver bars and coins stacked up at his father's casino.
The Binion family still owned The Horseshoe, but Ted was banned there since he'd lost his gaming license. So he decided to move his silver to the sleepy desert town with the unlikely name of Pahrump, Nev., where Rick Tabish helped him build a bizarre underground vault in an empty lot Ted owned between a Burger King and a casino.
According to Puit, only two people knew the combination to that vault in Pahrump: Rick Tabish and Ted Binion.
"When he took the silver from the casino, I called my sister, and I said, 'If you and Jack let him take the silver from this casino, you're gonna get him killed," Becky told Van Sant. "I never said who would kill him. But I had strong feelings about Sandy. I didn't know that much about Rick at the time, but I did not trust this girl."
Apparently, Teddy trusted Sandy to the point where he wrote her into his will.
"You know, to put her in his will was insane. Just absolutely insane," said Becky.
"Did you think it was inviting something?" asked Van Sant.
"Yes I did."
Then on Sept. 17, 1998, at 3:55 p.m., a call came into a 911 operator in Las Vegas.
The hysterical voice was Sandy Murphy's. Moments before, she claimed she found Ted Binion on the floor - cold as ice and surrounded by drug paraphernalia.
"Like I kinda rolled him over, you know, and I just started to panic because he wasn't breathing," she explained.
Across town at The Horseshoe, Becky got word that something happened to her brother.
"I heard that the coroner's office was in front of Ted's house," she said. "So I called the coroner's office. And then they told me, 'Yes it's - Ted is dead.'"
By all initial appearances, it seemed like an open-and-shut case: suicide or accidental death of a life-long addict by lethal overdose.
Ted's sister had other ideas. She pressed the cops for further investigation and told the press this wasn't an overdose. "And I asked 'em, 'Please consider this a homicide till proven otherwise'"
Two days later, a series of bizarre events in the desert, 60 miles from Las Vegas, blew the case wide open. In death, as in life, Ted Binion was a Vegas headliner.
Las Vegas Police Lieutenant Wayne Peterson led the investigation. He said
Ted's body was found in the den.
"It was right here in the middle of the floor on a sleeping bag. The bottle of Xanax next to it," Lt. Peterson showed Peter Van Sant.
Peterson already knew all about Ted and his bad habits.
"It looked like a drug overdose, and certainly with Teddy's reputation there was no surprise to me or the sergeant at the scene," he said.
None of that appeared to lessen the shock for Ted's sister, Becky, or his friend, Rick Tabish.
It all left Sandy Murphy hysterical.
"I like, didn't really believe it," she told Peter Van Sant. "I said, 'No he's just on drugs, like, he needs to go to the hospital.'"
"[Sandy] had been wheeled out on a gurney and put into an ambulance screaming," Glenn Puit said.
Even as she was rushed to the hospital, questions began to arise about Sandy's sincerity.
"Nurses described your crying as theatrical, that you were actually saying the words, 'Boo hoo, boo hoo,' while you were crying and they felt it was fake," said Van Sant.
"Well, I just think that's mean talk," Sandy replied.
"It just reinforced my thoughts… That she had something to do with the death of my brother," said Becky.
According to Puit, "It didn't take long for the suspicions to start swirling. And they were swirling big time, within a matter of 48 hours."
"Swirling into a tornado," added Van Sant.
"Category five," added Puit.
The unlikely epicenter of that tornado was not in Las Vegas, but in the small desert town of Pahrump, where Ted Binion had Rick Tabish build that underground vault to store his millions of dollars worth of silver.
What Rick Tabish did next made one thing certain; this case was about to explode.
Nye, County Police Lieutenant Ed Howard was out on patrol when he spotted a large tractor digging in the cold night earth.
"Right away, I knew something was wrong because nobody digs up a vault at 2:00 in the morning," he said.
It was right where Ted Binion's secret vault sheltered some $7 million in silver.
"I'm thinkin' somebody's stealin' the money," said Lt. Howard.
Just one day after Ted Binion had been found dead, who had turned up in Pahrump?
"Turns out to be Rick Tabish," Lt. Howard said. "And he goes, 'Is there a problem?'"
Along with a tractor, Howard said Tabish and two sidekicks had a truck.
"My partner looked inside the truck and looked at me and said, 'There's a shit-load of silver in there.'"
Tabish calmly informed police it was all OK; that Ted had told him if he ever died, to get the silver for his daughter, Bonnie.
"And I go, 'Really? Does the family know you're doing 'em this favor?'" Howard said. "And he goes, 'Well, no. I was gonna call them.' I go, 'Of course. Of course you were.'"
Rick Tabish was arrested and charged with grand larceny. But there was another surprise. The person who bailed him out was Sandy Murphy.
"That sent the story into the stratosphere," Puit said. "Front page news, every day."
While cops caught Rick leading a dig for Ted's silver, Sandy was conducting a manic video inventory of Ted's valuables at Palomino Lane. Her attorney videotaped it all.
"I had taken a bunch of his pills," Sandy explained. "And I was just really upset you know."
"Your focus at that moment seemed to be more on possessions rather than Ted," said Van Sant.
"Maybe I could have behaved better. But that's how I behaved," she said. "And that's the way I dealt with it at the time."
Was Sandy protecting Ted's estate or protecting a secret relationship?
"They called each other all the time," said Puit.
When asked if Sandy and Rick Tabish had an affair, Puit replied, "Yes they did. They went to Beverly Hills."
"Well, I only had sex with him the one time at the Peninsula Hotel," said Sandy.
"Prior to Ted's death, had you and Rick Tabish talked about a life together?" Van Sant asked. "A life without Ted?"
"No," she replied. "We never had that kinda relationship."
But Ted, suspecting Sandy was two-timing him, was ready to cut his losses.
"He'd totally had it with her. [The relationship] was over," said Becky.
And, according to Becky, the day before he died, Ted told his lawyer to take Sandy out of his will.
"He said, 'If I'm dead tomorrow, you'll know who did it,' meaning Sandy Murphy," Becky said. "Next day, he is dead."
Las Vegas cops had a motive; now they needed evidence. Police searched for the piles of cash he'd hidden in the basement, ceiling and every nook of the mysterious rumor-filled house.
"Everything was gone. It was all gone," Becky said of the missing millions in cash and a valuable rare coin collection.
Police zeroed in on the events of the day Ted Binion died; casual events that seemed out of place, starting with the positioning of a simple set of curtains in the living room.
"These drapes were closed. And according to the landscaper, these drapes were never closed," said Detective Wayne Peterson. "These were shut. He couldn't see inside the house that day."
Cops still believed Xanax and heroin killed Ted Binion. But was it an accident?
"This was more than just a simple drug overdose," said Det. Peterson.
Remember, Ted had smoked his heroin - "chased the dragon" - to play it safe.
"He was careful. He knew that it was a dangerous drug," said Puit.
The evidence would be in the autopsy. When the Vegas coroner examined Ted Binion, heroin and Xanax wouldn't only be found in his bloodstream.
"A large amount of heroin in his stomach," said Peterson. "That would be a waste of good heroin for him to eat or drink heroin."
Cops now believe Ted was force fed a lethal cocktail of heroin and Xanax. With that evidence and mounting pressure from the Binion family, Ted's death was classified as a homicide.
"They were responsible for his death," Becky said of Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish. "The money. The greed. The greed factor."
On June 24, 1999, Rick Tabish and Sandy Murphy were arrested and charged with the murder of Ted Binion.
"Would you be able to kill Ted for money?" Van Sant asked Sandy.
She replied, "No."
"Are you a killer Sandy?"
"No."
Las Vegas' trial of the century was set to start. "At first I kind of thought it just was so ridiculous that it was just a joke," said Sandy Murphy of being arrested for the murder of Ted Binion.
But the charges were deadly serious: murder in the first degree for the killing of the casino mogul. Still, Sandy didn't quite seem to get it, flirting openly with her co-defendant and lover, Rick Tabish.
"The overwhelming sentiment in Las Vegas… was they're guilty and someone needs to pay," said true-crime writer Glenn Puit.
Sin City was outraged and transfixed by the audacious couple as the curtains opened on the trial of the century.
Plenty of witnesses questioned Sandy's character, including Bonnie Binion, Ted's daughter.
Attorney: Did you love your father?
Bonnie Binion: Very much.
Attorney: Do you think Sandy Murphy was jealous of your relationship with your dad?
Bonnie Binion: I think it's very possible. She called me a bitch.
Key testimony came from two unlikely witnesses, starting with a Vegas manicurist.
Deanna Perry testified that as she polished Sandy's nails, she casually mentioned that her rich boyfriend, Ted, would soon be dead of an overdose.
David Roger: Did Miss Murphy make any comments about - Ted Binion's future?
Deanna Perry: He wasn't gonna be around.
David Roger: Did she tell you when he was gonna die of a drug overdose?
Deanna Perry: Within three weeks.
Kurt Gratzer told a tale of premeditated murder and a planned heist. He testified that his childhood friend, Rick Tabish, asked him to kill Ted and promised there would be a big payday for all.
Attorney: Did he tell you where that money was gonna come from?
Kurt Gratzer: From a sale - a sale of proceeds from the silver, as well as insurance money that Sandy Murphy was - stood to gain.
Attorney: Did he tell you that there were any other items inside that house that he was interested in?
Kurt Gratzer: Diamonds. Cash. Coin collections.
The diamonds and cash rumored to be hidden in Ted's house and backyard still hadn't been recovered. Prosecutors then focused on the suspicious way Ted died.
Prosecution: How many heroin overdose deaths are you aware of-- using the-- method you've described as 'chasing the dragon'?
Dr. Michael Baden: It almost doesn't occur.
World-famous forensic pathologist Dr Michael Baden didn't believe an overdose killed Teddy.
"My opinion is he died of asphyxia by suffocation," he said.
Not just any kind of suffocation said Baden, but a rare method of murder dating back to 19th Century England called burking - suffocating an already intoxicated person leaving minimal evidence.
Baden said Ted's burking was botched and pointed to circular marks on Ted's chest, "which, in my opinion, matches up to the buttons on the shirt."
The defense was weak and was never able to undermine Baden's burking theory. Neither Sandy Murphy nor Rick Tabish took the stand.
After eight days of deliberations, all of Vegas watched as the jury foreman announced the verdicts on live television.
We find the defendant Richard Bennett Tabish guilty of murder of the first degree. We the jury find the defendant Sandra Renee Murphy as follows guilty of murder of the first degree.
As Vegas cheered, both faced life in prison. But even with her freedom stripped away, Sandy Murphy bet on another long shot.
"She's sitting in a Nevada prison, most likely for the rest of her life. Is the story over?" Van Sant asked legendary lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
"No," he replies. "She writes me a letter, a handwritten letter. I read this letter and I say to myself, 'This woman is innocent.'"
Sandy hit the jackpot again. Dershowitz, the lawyer who'd defended celebrity clients like O.J. Simpson, now agreed to spearhead her appeal.
"Look at the facts, look at the evidence," he continued. "It seemed to me that the great Dr. Baden… started with his conclusion and reached the burking as a theory of justifying his conclusion and the evidence just didn't support it."
Remarkably, the Nevada Supreme Court agreed with Dershowitz's arguments and overturned the convictions of Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish.
"I immediately got Sandy on the phone and I explained to her that she was going to get a new trial. I said this, 'You're all in on this one. This is it!'" Dershowitz said.
Four years after her first trial, Sandy was back in court, this time with hotshot Las Vegas defense attorney Michael Cristalli. Tabish also drew a winning hand, hiring wild-man San Francisco lawyer Tony Serra.
The defense suggested key witnesses had been bought off.
Manicurist Deanna Perry was quickly compromised when she admitted receiving $20,000 from Ted Binion's estate after her testimony in the first trial. The estate called it a reward for information.
Joseph Caramagno: Madam, you've been paid, yes?
Deanna Perry: Yes.
Joseph Caramagano: My question is, do you see the irony in that. Yes or no?
Deanna Perry: I don't know.
Joseph Caramagno: I wouldn't expect you to.
Deanna Perry: Good.
And this time around, Kurt Gratzer told the court Rick Tabish was only kidding about offering him cash to kill Ted.
"And he said he wanted to kill him, but wanted me to do it and he started laughing," Gratzer said.
The defense took apart pathologist Michael Baden's burking theory. They said the marks on Ted's body weren't from buttons being pressed into his chest, but were nothing more than a simple skin condition. On top of that, the world-famous doctor had never even examined Ted's body and mostly relied on photographs.
But Baden and his burking theory came under the most severe attack. Serra pointed out that the doctor had never examined Ted's clothing or his body and had mostly relied on photographs.
Watch excerpts of Tony Serra's cross-examination of Dr. Michael Baden
Dr. Baden: You say there are buttons, so I'm asking you, would you want to measure?
Tony Serra: You'd like to look at the buttons; you'd like to measure the buttons, wouldn't you?
Dr. Baden: Yes
Tony Serra: OK. Your fantasy theory goes out the window doesn't it?
Dr. Baden: No
Defense lawyers would have an amazing nine medical experts of their own testify that Baden's burking theory was dead wrong.
"And they have, in a singular voice, rejected as absurd the Baden theory of burking," Serra told the court.
Serra took center stage and delivered a performance they are still talking about in Las Vegas.
"Mr. Ted Binion was a demigod. He lies fallen on his shield. Hail Caesar; we will find an assailant. A head must be brought forth and placed on the stick by dusk," he told the court in his closing.
Watch excerpts of Serra's closing arguments on behalf of his client Rick Tabish:
Somewhere out there off the Strip, you could almost hear Benny Binion rolling over in his grave as the second jury got busy.In November 2004, more than six years after casino owner Ted Binion's mysterious death and two "trials of the century," Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish were about to learn their fate.
The anticipation and fear made Sandy physically sick at the defense table.
Count one, conspiracy to commit murder - murder and/or robbery, we find the defendant not guilty.
Not guilty. The once-convicted murderers were now vindicated.
For Ted's sister, Becky, the verdict made her sick, as well.
"There is never any closure," she said. "I don't get my brother back."
But the verdict wasn't a complete victory.
The jury found the two guilty of stealing Ted Binion's buried silver from the vault in Pahrump, Nev. Because of his previous record, Tabish remained in prison. But with credit for the more than three years she served on the first conviction, Sandy was soon leaving Las Vegas.
Now finally home again in California, Sandy put her life back together, marrying a successful art dealer in April 2009. It was the fairy tale wedding she never had with Ted.
The once notorious Sandy Murphy is now Mrs. Kevin Pieropan.
"I'm very happy," she said. "Just to be able to get in my car and just drive a mile away… I don't think I would appreciate it as much as I do now if I didn't have these experiences."
And whatever happened to Ted Binion's treasure? His daughter got most of the silver from the vault in Pahrump. Ironically, a sizeable amount remains unclaimed in the courthouse.
"These are silver dollars, I take it. Some of Ted Binion's coin collection?" Van Sant asked evidence custodian Rainey Williams. "Fascinating. People have been trying to find where all the rest of his coin collection is."
"Yeah, there's lots of rumors about that," she said with a laugh.
Rumors about unaccounted for millions. Realtor Cristine Lefkowitz thinks she knows where it might be.
When asked about a strange mound in the front yard of Ted Binion's house, Lefkowitz said, "if you look at the backyard… you'd see a couple more spots like this."
With the current owner's permission, "48 Hours" decided to do some treasure hunting and hired ground penetrating radar technician Jared Lampe.
"If Ted did have something buried here, I think we'll find it," Lampe said.
He spent hours combing across a section of the dead millionaire's backyard.
"We found some anomalies here that were about six inches from the surface," Lampe said.
As the sun went down, our treasure hunt began; all we found was fool's gold.
Then our crew began to dig at a second location. But the deeper we dug, the more frustrated we became. No treasure was found.
The old Las Vegas guard still wonders, what really happened?
"I do believe, yes, that someone did get away with murder," Wayne Newton told Van Sant. "However, Ted's demise might have been contributed immensely by Ted himself."
And as for Sandy, she feels the town has always had her pegged wrong and she is now vindicated.
"I felt like… That this little girl was mightier than they were because I had something that they didn't have going for 'em, and that was the truth," she said with a new, confident voice.
Sandy's a little older and a little wiser, with a story for the ages. And she's not looking back.
"I don't think that there's any winners in this ordeal," she said. "I am lucky to be where I am that's for sure."
Rick Tabish's latest bid for parole is under consideration.
Sandy Murphy is suing the state of Nevada, alleging false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.
Ted Binion's home on Palomino Lane has been unoccupied since the day he died 11 years ago.
Produced by James Stolz and Chris O'Connell