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A billionaire banker died in 1999, all because of someone's desire to secure his job. Murder in Monaco, a Netflix documentary, sheds light on this incident involving Edmond Safra, who died due to asphyxiation from a fire that could have been contained easily. This stunt, done by one of his nurses named Ted Maher, turned into a murder.
Edmond Safra was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the time of the incident. Alongside him, another one of his nurses died due to the same reason. Since he was a well-known personality, and given the fact that he ratted out on the Russian mafia, some believed that a criminal organization might have been involved in this.
However, there wasn't anything that connected with the Russian mafia or any other criminal organization. It was just an irresponsible move from a greedy man who wanted to make sure that his flow of income kept coming.
Murder in Monaco's description, as per Rotten Tomatoes, reads,
"Monaco, 1999. One of the world's richest men dies in his penthouse. This documentary unpacks the mysterious murder of billionaire banker, Edmond Safra."
Let's look at some more details about the man who did it.
Ted Maher says Russians killed Safra in Murder in Monaco
Ted Maher was sent to prison after he was found guilty of Edmond Safra's murder, serving eight years in jail after that. He was released in 2007 and again got involved in a case that year. He was found guilty of planning his wife Kim Lark's murder.
The event that made this man famous occurred on December 3, 1999. He was among the seven nurses working there, all of them in the service of Safra. Ted was scheduled to do an overnight shift that day. Alongside him, working was another nurse named Vivian Torrente.
It was pure drama, the story told by Ted Maher after the death of Edmond Safra. When the investigators and firemen asked him, he said that there were a couple of intruders in the house. He tried to alert others in the house using a fire alarm, which he did by setting a piece of toilet paper alight.
Unfortunately, the responders managed to get to Maher but weren't able to reach Safra and Torrente, who died of asphyxiation right there and then. However, it was later found out that Maher had lied to the investigators, and this was all a part of his plan.
If you see him in the Murder in Monaco trailer, he isn't admitting what he did. He says,
"Am I a liar? No. Absolutely not. The evidence clearly shows that I am not."
Moreover, a few seconds after this sequence in the Murder in Monaco trailer, Ted Maher is asked who he thinks had killed Safra. To that, he says that the Russians did it.
Edmond and his wife, Heidi, trusted Maher, especially because he belonged to the Green Berets, a highly respected branch in the United States Army. Sadly, they chose a false one.
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