Kill Ben S News Today

are threats on my life and i know we are in danger, i know we are. >> it is a riveting mystery that started in a place of glamour. >> it became a destination for the rat pack, and sinatra. >> and it ended in a case of murder, the wealthy heir to this legendary hotel, dead. >> he was my father. he is the only father that i ever knew. >> now, police said that she was next, someone in the shadows wanted her. >> my suspicion is growing and growing by the minute. >> so who is behind? those ...

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 cant 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 nova...

>> its a riveting mystery that started in a place of glamour. >> it became a destination for a rat packs, for frank sinatra -- >> and ended in a case of murder. the wealthy heir to this legendary hotel, dead. >> he was my father. he was the only father i ever knew. >> now, police said she was 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. anger, jealousy, greed...

Novak, she acted consistently with how anyone else would act in that situation. >> and the defense attorney urged anyone looking at this case to follow the money in bens murder. down, theyre in the fine print of the well, it shows that may, the daughter, may have had her own reason for wanting ben dead, and her mother accused. >> may and her children with an excellent. >> if somehow narcy was removed from the line of inheritance, the daughter mejia, would have gotten the money for her children. ...

Be a baseball swing, hit several times in the head. >> garcia said he got paid $600 for the job. but why kill bens 87 year old mother? because in bands will, in place at the time, if he died first, his mother, now his wife would be the primary beneficiary. but with there was nothing standing in a narcy way. >> had they succeeded, they probably never wouldve been caught. >> and theres more. when detectives arrested garcia, they learned a third minor murder might be in the works. someone else prov...

Bens 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 abod 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? >> thats correct. with narlsy o . >> 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...

But why kill bens 87-year-old mother? because in bens will, in place at the time, if he died first, his mother, not his wife narcy would be the primary beneficiary but with bernices death there was nothing standing in narcys death. >> if they never killed her, they probably would have never been caught. >> they learned that still a third murder might still be in the work, someone else provided for in the will, narcys daughter. >> when we sat down with alejandro and we learned that there was a hi...

Because in bens 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 narcys 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. narcys daughter, may. >> she was in serious p...

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. >> thats 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...

The two hit men had confessed, admitting to killing ben novak jr. they claimed bens wife narcy and her brother paid them to do it, but still no charges had been filed as police continued to investigate. then the hit man, alejandro garcia dropped a bomb shell. he claimed he also killed someone else on orders from narcy and her brother, almost a year earlier. and he had gotten away with it. the murder for hire, none other than ben novaks 87-year-old mother bernice, the one-time queen of the fontai...