The Return of Ted Maher: Billionaire Edmond Safra’s Killer Accused of Plotting Yet Another Murder

The Murder Sheet has an exclusive report touching upon an infamous international case.

In 1999, an American nurse named Ted Maher was accused of setting fire to a Monte Carlo penthouse and murdering billionaire Edmond Safra and a colleague named Vivian Torrente.

In 2023, under the new name Jon Green, the same man was charged with criminal solicitation to commit murder.

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Reporting on Edmond Safra:

The Los Angeles Times’s reporting on American Express:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-28-fi-1108-story.html

Coverage from Forbes on the Russia-related scandal: https://www.forbes.com/2007/05/17/bony-russia-lawsuit-biz-services-cx_lm_0517suit.html?sh=4dcae2bd21c1

The Jewish Week’s feature on Safra: https://www.hsje.org/Whoswho/Edmund_Safra/we_have_lost_our_crown.html

The New York Post’s coverage of Safra’s reputation: https://nypost.com/1999/12/14/safras-sleuth-pi-joe-mullen-saved-the-reputation-of-the-late-edmond-safra-and-has-cracked-many-a-case-for-this-decades-famous-and-infamous/

The Washington Post’s coverage of the American Express incident involving Safra: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/07/29/american-express-offers-4-million-and-apology/aafa682c-f909-420a-8cba-64c1171b8754/

Coverage from The Times of Israel on Edmond Safra: https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-biography-probes-into-mysterious-backstory-of-billionaire-banker-edmond-j-safra/

“A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire” by Daniel Gross: https://www.amazon.com/Bankers-Journey-Edmond-Global-Financial/dp/1635767857?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=e421f9aad81731bd8c533450c2d33219&camp=1789&creative=9325

"Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra" by Bryan Burrough: https://www.amazon.com/Vendetta-American-Express-Smearing-Edmond/dp/0060167599?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=daa163a4a68a59e1be75830f6856bef4&camp=1789&creative=9325

“Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows” by Isabel Vincent: https://www.amazon.com/GILDED-LILY-Isabel-Vincent/dp/0061133949?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=703a51336f36524e9ccc1178740241e4&camp=1789&creative=9325

Reporting on Ted Maher:

The New York Times’s story on the 1999 nursing strike: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/05/nyregion/nurses-plan-strike-monday-at-columbia-presbyterian.html

The New York Times’s story on how the 1999 nursing strike was called off: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/10/nyregion/tentative-deal-averts-strike-by-nurses.html

Time’s reporting on Ted Maher: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,992877,00.html

Seacoastonline’s report on Heidi Maher: https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/2002/11/21/praying-for-murder-acquittal/51281826007/

Coverage from the New York Post on Ted Maher’s release:

https://nypost.com/2007/08/17/back-from-dead/

The New York Post on Ted Maher’s former wife’s lawsuit against the Safra estate:

https://nypost.com/2003/05/27/60m-safra-suit-killers-wife-hits-widow-over-police-grilling/

The New York Post on Lily Safra’s reaction to Ted Maher’s release: https://nypost.com/2007/08/18/widows-pique-at-killers-release/

The New York Post’s coverage of Ted Maher’s innocence claims: https://nypost.com/2007/10/14/tycoons-killer-my-frame-up/

"Framed in Monte Carlo: How I Was Wrongfully Convicted for a Billionaire's Fiery Death” by Ted Maher, Bill Hayes, and Jennifer Thomas: https://www.amazon.com/Framed-Monte-Carlo-Prison-Murder/dp/1510755861?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=fddac60f9dea02c78ede9cf2a644bf01&camp=1789&creative=9325

Coverage of the fire and homicides in Monaco:

The Washington Post’s coverage of the 1999 murders: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/6/safra.htm

The NBC special on the case, with quotes from Torrente’s daughter: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23767683

The Guardian’s report on the 1999 murders: https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/oct/29/features.magazine47

Another Guardian report on the 1999 murders:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/dec/07/jonhenley

Yet another Guardian report on the 1999 murders:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/dec/05/paulwebster.theobserver

The New York Post article on the 1999 murders:

https://nypost.com/2002/11/18/safra-choke-twist/

Dominick Dunne for Vanity Fair on the killings: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2000/12/dunne200012

MSNBC on the 1999 murders: https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20151213_000000_Mystery_of_the_Billionaire_Banker

CNN on the 1999 murders:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/12/ctv.monaco.trial/index.html

The Wall Street Journal on the 1999 murders: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB94441779970529365

Court TV’s timeline of the 1999 murders: https://web.archive.org/web/20080204074511/http://www.courttv.com/trials/monaco/chronology.html

Newsweek’s coverage of the 1999 murders: https://www.newsweek.com/bad-bet-monte-carlo-151519

Coverage from CBS of Ted Maher’s trial: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/part-ii-an-american-on-trial/

Additional coverage from CBS of Ted Maher’s trial: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/murder-in-monaco-an-american-on-trial/

A report from the Times on the trial of Ted Maher: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/monaco-police-in-dock-for-billionaire-s-death-mk7v5nrb8cr

A report from The Telegraph on the trial of Ted Maher: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/monaco/1414023/Gilded-Lily-faces-her-husbands-killer.html

Coverage of the dognapping incident involving Jon Green:

KRQE’s coverage of the dognapping: https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/carlsbad-dognapping-man-with-bizarre-past-accused-of-taking-ex-wifes-dogs/

KRQE on the return of the missing dogs: https://www.krqe.com/news/stolen-search-and-rescue-dogs-reunited-with-carlsbad-woman/

Fox San Antonio’s story on the rescue of the rescue dogs: https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/dognapping-suspect-wanted-on-multiple-charges-arrested-after-extensive-manhunt

NBC’s coverage of Jon Green’s legal issues: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/man-mysterious-past-facing-multiple-charges-run-after-dognapping-carlsbad-n1295803

The Carlsbad Current Argus on the missing dogs: https://www.currentargus.com/story/news/crime/2022/06/15/missing-carlsbad-search-and-rescue-dogs-found-safe-in-texas/65361052007/

A feature from the American Veterinary Medical Association mentioning Dr. Kim Lark:

https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2011-09-15/honoring-dogs-911

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