ben novak jr., the one-time prince of the fountain blue had been murdered. who police wondered might want ben dead? was this murder a business deal gone bad or was someone after ben s fortune, maybe someone closer to home? coming up, the investigation begins. the comings and goings of every room, every guest 450 rooms. when family affair continues. great presentation, tim. could you email me the part about geico
his ex-girlfriend said he always wore sunglasses to protect his bad eye, but he wasn t wearing them that day. you see the two of them walking very fast out. alejandro with the bag. alejandro doesn t have his glasses on anymore. with the broken frame which is are now well, apparently as the victim reacts to the assault, he hits alejandro in the face, breaking the glazs. the glasses fall on to the bed. they rewound the tapes even further back to the first day of the convention and there they were again. garcia, in sunglasses and a yellow shirt and the other guy casing the hotel. in one chilling scene, they check out their future victim, ben novak jr. in the lobby. and in less than 48 hours, they re going to murder this guy. in less than 48 hours they re going to murder this guy. the second man is ided as joe gonzalez of miami. wilson and his team had two targets and started with the apparent leader, garcia. we started to hunt him down. the miami hunt didn t take long.
opened the door since midnight, who then had admitted the killer or killers? an early on mystery. may meanwhile had been summoned by the hotel manager to her stepfather s suite. i asked them, what happened? and they re just like he s gone. you know. and i m like, what do you mean he s gone. try go do something. the hotel guards wouldn t let her in the room. one security officer was talking to another one. he said it s a blood bath in there. a blood bath that sent her mother into hysterics. she is emotional, whaling, tears? she is throwing herself on the floor. then she said, i think they re after all the convention money. it had to be a robbery. they know we carry a lot of money. somebody must have been watching us. unusually ben novak s convention business ran on cash, bags of it. the exhibiters would turn over their dollars to the stepdaughter may and her assistants on site. this weekend they had taken in more than $100,000. now, that money wasn t being kept in a hote
back to washington on sunday. there is no recession in sight. this comes after a week of turmoil on wall street with the dow dropping 8 00 points in one day. now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline extra. ben novak junior was found beaten to death. his hands bound behind his back. his wife, narcy told investigators ben liked sex games involving bondage. now narcy s daughter was convinced her mom was tied up in ben s murder. here again is dennis murphy. the cops were going through hours of hotel security cam footage looking for what, they weren t exactly sure. the footwork team of a homicide investigation was under way.
in the homicide, did you think, is this a sex game gone wrong? we brought it up to her and i confronted her with that during the interview. ben is found in a way that he enjoys sexually no, no, no, no. when i left ben uh-huh. he was not tied up. i just found it odd that the way he finds pleasurable he is killed in the same way. because she was the spouse, the questions for narcy got sharper as the night wore on. was she in on the murder? if i m being asked if i let anybody in, no i don t let them in. all the while may had been outside eves dropping on her mother s interrogation, getting chills. may said to me that somebody told her it was a blood bath. i don t remember anything blood. blood is red. just listening to her talk to detectives, nothing was making sense. when she heard her mother describe tripping over the body and reaching down to touch ben,