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the two hit men had confessed, admitting to killing ben novak jr. they claimed ben s wife narcy and her brother paid them to do it, but still no charges had been filed as police continued to investigate. then the hit man, alejandro garcia dropped a bomb shell. he claimed he also killed someone else on orders from narcy and her brother, almost a year earlier. and he had gotten away with it. the murder for hire, none other than ben novak s 87-year-old mother bernice, the one-time queen of the fontainebleau died three months before ben in what florida cops and the medical examiner ruled an accidental death. a slip and fall getting out of her car. how does he kill her? he had a monkey wrench and he took what appeared to be a baseball swing and hit her several times to the head. garcia said he got paid $600 for the job. but why kill ben s 87-year-old mother.
ben novak sr. lost the hotel to bankruptcy and died not long afterwards. the son, ben jr., all grown up now, stayed in the hospitality business and made his mark. he created a company ran out of his home here that organized conventions in big hotels. like his father, he was a hard-nosed businessman. and in time, he was grossing $50 million a year. and like his father, he needed someone like his mother to mix and mingle with the clients. he found that woman in a lady from ecuador. her name is narcy and she had a little girl named may. my mother is a lot of fun. you know, she definitely partied. when ben jr. met her, she was partying for tips as a stripper in a sleesy miami club, supporting herself and her little girl. she did very well with it, i guess? she did very well. my mother is a survivor. she adjusts to pretty much anything.
then along came their prince, ben novak jr. he was a spoiled kid. he was a brat. ben jr., don t call him benji would be trotted out to shake hands of the likes of the jfk then back up to the hotel elevator. the kids who came to the birthday party, were complete strangers to him. just kids who were passing through the hotel. the friendless, lonely boy lost himself in the fantasy world of batman. the superhero became an obsession. even as an adult, ben jr. was still amassing a floor to ceiling collection of batman memorabilia. he bought an old bat mobile. just as the rat pack faded away, so too did the fountain blue. by the late 70s, miami beach was regarded as a stale place for old people.
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 hotel safe behind the front desk. rather, it was stashed in closets, under the beds of the staff members. question, had an insider who knew how they had gone about their business decided to rip off the company by torturing ben to cough up the cash? they had around 110,000 in cash. you re in motivation country right now, right? we re trying to figure out, what s going on. they didn t get anything from him. so of course i m scared. you know, not just for myself but for the staff. and if someone had been roaming the hotel hallways with money and murder on their