There are threats on my life. I know we are in danger. I know we are. Its a riveting mystery that started in a place of glamour. It became a destination for the Rat Pack. Ending in a case of murder. The wealthy heir to this legendary hotel. He was my father. The only father i ever knew. Police said she was next. Someone in the shadows. My suspicions are growing by the minute. Who is behind all of this . Plenty of suspects and plenty of motives. Anger, jealousy, greed. Someone had 10 Million reasons to kill. I couldnt believe what i saw. Youre not going to believe it either because in this case theres a terrifying twist. I see my mother with a crowbar. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Ben Novack Jr. Was a successful entrepreneur and the wealthy son of a famous miami businessman, then he was found bound and bludgeoned to death in a new York Hotel room. Who wanted Ben Novack dead . In this case, there was no shortage of suspects or possible motives. A mysterious letter would lead detective
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 them with a crowbar. hello and welcome to dateline. ben novack jr. was a successful entrepreneur and the wealthy son of a famous miami businessman. then he was found bound and bludgeoned to death in a new york hotel room. who wanted ben novack dead? in this case there was no shortage of suspects or possible motives, but a mysterious letter would lead detectives in a direction no one expected. here s dennis murphy with family affair. ne if ever there was a little girl lost, it was maya bod. from when i was little, i was always in the way. she survived a mother/daughter relationship quite unlike any you ve ever heard. my mother is like trying to hug a cactus. you will eventually get hurt. and
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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 the in the will. narcy s daughter, may. she was in serious peril. 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 her the money but the paperwork would take time.
Gary personally knew nothing of the ben novak case and his department wasn t involved. there s people obviously that heard the name and knew about him, the fontainebleau and all. i wasn t one of them. i didn t know anything about it until i talked to detective wilson in new york. the letter, written in spanish, was nothing less than a blueprint to the murder. naming names, siting motivations. this is shocking and it could be a big break. sergeant wilson up in west chester couldn t wait to see it. whoever wrote this letter obviously had information, inside information. looking back, that letter had the whole story. the greed, inheritance, the obstacles in the way of the inheritance. the facts in that letter were on the money. here is the gist of the letter. it claimed narcy s brother had hired thugs to kill ben novak jr. sergeant wilson and his team paid an unannounced visit to the brother at his place in philadelphia. we apparently had caught him off guard and he told