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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...

The two hit men had confessed. admitting to killing ben number ovak jr. they claimed bens wife and her brother paid them to do it. but still, no charges had been filed as police continued to investigation and then the hit man alejandra garcia dropped a bombshell, he claimed he also killed someone else on orders from narcy and her brother almost a year earlier and 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 off ...

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...

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 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 in the will. narcys daug...

For the job. 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 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 would be in the works. someone else provided for in the will...

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 would be in the works. someone else provided for the in the will. narcys daughter, may. >> she was in serious payroll. >> i always believed she was, i couldnt prove it to anybody. when we sat down with garcia and learned that there was a hit out on may, that became conc...