for her. my suspicions are growing and growing by the minute. so who was behind all this? plenty of suspects, and plenty of motives. anger, jealousy, greed, someone had 10 million reasons to kill. we look back and said my god, i couldn t believe what i saw. you re not going to believe it either because in this case there is a final terrifying twist. i see the you bar. . hello and welcome to dateline. ben novak jr. was a successful entrepreneur and the son of a wealthy miami businessman. then he was found bound and hit to death in a hotel room. who wanted him dead?
was having an affair with ben jr. he put her up in a nice waterfront apartment and told bliss he was going to leave his wife for her. narcy, the story goes, learned of the affair and called bliss, saying if i can t have him, no one will. six months later, he was dead and without eyes to ever look at another woman. this case was about money and it was about narcy not wanting to be replaced. when defense attorney howard tanner put on his case, he zeroed in on the hit men s credibility and their motivation in testifying. he also attacked their allegation that narcy was in the room during the murder. they themselves stated they would do anything to help themselves. in my book, they would have been willing to lie. is narcy in the room? absolutely not. how about the disturbing direction she allegedly gives them, gouge his eyes out. it didn t happen. narcy s daughter may could have been involved in the murder so she and her sons could inherit ben s estate.
and told federal prosecutors she didn t have the money. the feds told her they would get 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. what did you decide to do? 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, they admonished would call it buying witness testimony. i can t sleep at night. if i wake up tomorrow morning and know something happened to may and her children, i couldn t live with it. 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 walked before the cameras of america s most wanted. she and
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.
message was clear. get on board now, confess, or take the fall. he will be booked on charges of murder. meanwhile, the evidence against narcy s brother was piling up. cell phone records showing him near the hotel on the morning. evidence providing a get away car. who was in charge of this gang, the conspirators? the street boss was handling everything going away with narcy s brother. and who was the boss of bosses? with a $10 million motive, there was only one answer for the cops. narcy novak had ordered the hit on her husband. obviously he reported to narcy or worked at the direction. what started as a small suburban investigation was now a multistate conspiracy case. the decision was made to let federal prosecutors take the