next. someone in the shadows gunning for her. my suspicions are growing and growing by the minute. so who is behind all this? plenty of suspects and plenty of motives. jealousy, greed, someone had 10 million reasons to kill. if you look back and say, my god, i can t believe what i saw. you are not going to believe it either because in this case, there is a final terrifying twist. i see him arriving with the crowbar. hello and welcome to dateline . ben novak junior was a successful entrepreneur and the wealthy son of a miami businessman. then, he was found bound and bludgeoned to death in a new york hotel room. who wanted ben novak dead? in this case, there was no shortage of suspects or, possible motives. but a mysterious letter will lead detectives in the direction no one expected. here is dennis murphy with family affair. if ever there was a little girl lost, it was may a bond. from when i was little, i was always in the way. she survived a mother d
condense of nice s guilt. her own daughter. may and she was about to put herself at risk to prove it. here again is dennis murphy with family affair. hey the cops were spool-ing through hours of television looking for what they didn t know exactly sure. homicide investigation was underway. we were leaving the doors open as far as we were concerned, everything is on the table until the investigation led to get us back to arrest. it was at the medical examiner. mother and daughter attached now by blood only, returned to florida separately. may had her own agenda. telling the cops she had helped them anyway she could. she was collecting her things from her parents house when she stopped at the guest cottage, where ben had his home office. she was snooping through his files for the detectives, when
day. king ben and queen bernice lived over the store in the penthouse suite, then came along the young prince, ben novak junior. he was a spoiled kid, he was a brat. ben junior, don t call him benji, would be trotted out to shake hands with the vip s. then it was back up the hotel elevator to home. birthday cakes came from room service. and the kids who came to the birthday party were complete strangers to him. just kids who are passing through the hotel. the friendless lonely boy disliked by his father s help lost himself in the fantasy world of batman. the superhero became an obsession, even as an adult, ben junior was still amassing a floor to ceiling collection of batman memorabilia. he even bought a bat mobile from the old tv show. but there was no holding off the real world and change. just as the rat pack faded away, so too did the fountain blue. by the late seventies, miami beach was regarded as a stale place for old people.
almost a year after ben s murder, narcy was indicted. and walked before the cameras of america s most wanted. she and her brother cristobal were charged with racketeering and conspiracy for two murders, witness tampering, and a host of other charges. the plot that led to the death of ben novak was a family affair. when the trial got underway, federal court, garcia, the hitman, testified in ice-cold detail how he killed ben novak junior. so how did they get into the room? narcy opened the door and let them in. prosecutors argued that morning that there was a small window of opportunity for narcy to let the hitman in, and direct the assault on her sleeping husband. the victim was in bed. they got right into position, they signaled, one, two, three, and then boom, the assault starts. and they are begging him in the. head him all over the, head to hit him in the ribs. brutally. the two hitmen used small hand weights to pummel then.
could have somehow been involved in the murder, so she and her sons could inherit ben s estate. may hadn t arceneaux back in her way. if narcy novak disappears, she takes and her children take under the will. those are facts. so that s the defense? jurors consider who is gonna get this money here. and it s not just narcy novak, it s a daughter, may. there was an incomplete investigation done in this case. i am not claiming that anyone else committed this murder. the defense here is that narcy novak did not commit this murder. detectives concluded that may new nothing about that ends well. until well after the murder. i didn t even know that miami name or the boys names were in this well. after a nine-week trial, narcy and her brother were found guilty of racketeering and conspiracy in the death of ben novak junior and his mother bernese. they were acquitted up only one charge involving the theft of ben s diamond bracelet. for the crime that conspirators almost got away with