done with the two of them for the night, may confronted her mother. i asked her to her face what, did you have something to do with this? i did. i got in her face and they had pictures of like the crime scene and stuff and i smacked them in her face. you think your mother killed ben jr.? i think she definitely had something to do with it. you know, i didn t think she did it herself personally. the cops had only started to peel back the many layers of the novak family story. there was still so much about these people they didn t know. coming up. i see my mother coming at me with a crowbar. when family affair continues. continues. award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. our most awarded luxury suv.
narcy said she was innocent from all the charges. the sergeant and team of detectives, the prosecutors, won their case with some big assists from may abad. now her s more gone and will spend the rest of her life in prison. she didn t see what she had in front of her. she had her daughter. she had two grand kids that loved her, and now she has nothing. and greed and some amount of jealousy presumably is driving this? absolutely. no matter what, i love my mother. she was my mother. she had grand kids that adored her and would have done anything for her, and they did. and she just threw it all away. threw it all away for money. if you go to miami beach, the hotel is there all spruced up with a new lease on life and may has a fresh outlook on the rest of her life. in 2011 may welcomed a new little guy in her life. a son. she named him ben after the lost
that s correct. with narcy out of the picture, may would get a flat $150,000 and her two boys the rest of the $10 million estate. narcy began offering her own theory of the crime, may did it. when she realized the finger was being pointed on her, she accused me. of arranging to kill ben. correct. for the money. uh-huh. the mother and daughter finger pointing accusations continued without cease fire, even as they intured ben. narcy ignored her daughter. the daughter brought her sons. one of my mother s body guards flashed his guns at my kids. i m packing in case there s any doubt. yeah. i saw the extent of everything when she threatened her own grand kids. and i always said she would never do anything to her grand kids. she loves these kids.
her the money but the paperwork would take time. detective allison didn t think there was time. and here came a moment of big moral dilemma for you as a person and officer. yes, it was hard. i decided to give her the money and tell her to move. your money from your bank account. yes. the west chester detective loaned may $5,000 of her own money. may promised to pay her back. when prosecutors learned of it, they removed detective allison from the case. the defense admonished here would call it buying witness testimony. i can t sleep at night. i am very grateful to her because if i didn t move when i did, i wouldn t be here today. almost a year after ben s murder, narcy was indicted and she and her brother 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
and it was a bloody mess. what does that tell you? this was a targeted individual. was it true that his eyes were also gouged out? yes. yes. sergeant wilson learned that the victim was ben novak jr., a name that meant nothing to him. the murdered man s wife and stepdaughter had been escorted to a nearby hotel room so investigators could take their statements. the wife of 20 years, narcy, told sergeant wilson that her husband had been up all night working on convention details and didn t go to bed, she thought, until about 6:30 in the morning. she then had gone downstairs around 7:00 a.m. to oversee getting breakfast organized for the convention guests. could you verify for instance that the wife was indeed at the breakfast by a security camera. yes. we did have our own video confirm what she was saying. the stepdaughter, may abad who managed the company money on these road trips confirmed her