but why kill ben s 87-year-old mother. because in ben s will in place at the time, if he died first, his mother, not his wife narcy would be the primary beneficiary. but with bernice dead, there was nothing standing in narcy s way. had they not tried to kill ben and succeeded in killing ben, they probably never would have been caught. and there was more. when detectives arrested garcia, they learned still a third murder might be in the works. someone else provided for in the will. narcy s daughter, may. she was in serious payroll. i always believed she was, i couldn t prove it to anybody. when we sat down with garcia and learned that there was a hit out on may, that became concerning. a battered photo of may was found in garcia, the confessed hit man s wallet. he was told, she would be the next job. well, may freaked. she needed to move apartments asap. and told federal prosecutors she didn t have the money. the feds told her they would get
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 mother s story of coming down to pitch in with breakfast. i was thinking, there is a lot of people. there is 2,000 people down here. i ll take any help i can get. after the breakfast rush, narcy says she called her husband up in the room, no answer. then she comes back up around 7:30 or so and finds him. yeah. she told the detective she tripped over the body, bolted from the room shrieking for help. our security guard was holding narcy at the end of mr. novak s feet and narcy was continuing to lunge towards the body, howling and screaming at the top of her lungs. when narcy told police about
case to follow the money in ben s murder. down there in the fine print of the will, it shows that may, the daughter, may have had her own reasons for wanting ben dead and her mother accused. may abad and her children were the next in line. if somehow narcy was removed from the line of inheritance, the daughter, may abad would get $10 million through her children. 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 ceasefire, even though they inturned ben in in the family funeral plot.
she adjusts to pretty much everything. she left behind her stripper pole to marry ben novak jr. but the little girl felt like so much excess baggage. she was dispatched to boarding school at the age of eight. did you feel you had been shipped off? kind of. you had a tough childhood. the best thing is that it s over. they lived in a $2 million fort lauderdale estate. his elderly mother lived not far away. but may, the stepdaughter was never going to be a rich man s trust fund kid. she grew up tough and hard estranged from her mother, paying her own way with bar tending and pray tressing jobs. she had two young children and sweated the bills. it was the grandchildren that thawed the ice. she may have been a horrible mother but she was the best grandmother. she did everything with them. and ben jr. warmed to may.
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 mind, there were 2,000 potential suspects.