picked my arm up and she got this whole end on me with the crowbar. it was literally the final blow for may. she was calling me a traitor. she knew that you were giving evidence against her? uh-huh. could you have backed off at that point? could you have been a good little daughter and fallen in line? no. it s not in me. i knew what she had done was wrong, even though she was my mother i knew she was wrong. the battleground between mother and daughter then moved from the novack house to the courthouse, a take-no-prisoners fight over the will. may was giving the cops her theory, her mother had murdered her stepfather for the inheritance. narcy, as the beneficiary, stood to get an estate estimated at $10 million, lock, stock and bat mobile. at this point my mother was to get everything and i was like, she s going to get away with this. may filed a civil lawsuit against her mother, arguing the probate court shouldn t award
testify against narcy and her brother or go away to prison for what likely would be life sentences. the two confessed to being the hitmen in a murder for hire scene. then there was something else, a second murder they didn t know about, and if they didn t act fast a third was on the way. coming up, just who was in the crosshairs? there was a hit out on may. when dateline continues. e. then they get released back into the air so you smell them later ew. right? that s why febreze created new small spaces. press firmly and watch it get to work. unlike the leading cone, small spaces continuously eliminates odors in the air and on surfaces-so they don t come back for 45 days. now that s one flushin fresh bathroom. breathe happy febreze. la la la la la.
here again is dennis murphy with family affair. the cops were spooling through hours of hotel security cam footage, looking for what they weren t exactly sure. the footwork team of a homicide investigation was underway. we are leaving the doors open as far as we re concerned. everything is on the table until the investigation either stalls or, you know, someone is arrested. the body of ben novack jr. was with the medical examiner. mother and daughter attached now by blood only returned to florida separately. may had her own agenda, telling the cops she would help them anyway she could. she was collecting her things from her parents house when she stopped in the guest cottage where ben had his home office. she was snooping through his files for the detectives when she turned to see her mother upon her like a fury. i see my mother coming at me with a crowbar, and i very quickly she swung it and i
up, does he like his hands behind his back or in front of him? he likes his hands at the back because now, here he had been tied up in the homicide. right. did you think it was a sex game gone wrong? we brought it up to her and i confronted her with that during the interview. ben is found in a way that he enjoys sexually no, no, no. when i left ben, he was not tied up. i just found it odd that the way he finds pleasureable, he s killed in the same way. because she was the spouse, the questions for narcy got sharper as the night wore on. was she in on the murder. if i m being asked if i let them in, no, i don t let them in. all the while may had been outside eavesdropping on her mother s interrogation, getting chills. may said to me that somebody told her it was a blood bath. i don t remember anything blood. blood is red. just listening to her talk to
narcy ben s money because she had had him killed. the judge ended up freezing ben s assets while the court looked into the daughter s allegation, so the big money was on ice, but may said her mother had already been then illicitly cleaned out the safe deposit boxes kept by ben and his mother. was she on the list of people that had the key to get into the boxes? no, she was not. she told them a story? she did. my husband is out in the car waiting? uh-huh. and he had been dead at that point by a week? yes. narcy was seen leaving the bank with a duffle bag. with police scrutinizing her every move and may hounding her, narcy hired new york attorney howard tanner. he said narcy did have authority to go into those safe deposit boxes. he also disputed may s contention that narcy was involved in her husband s death. she had absolutely nothing to do with it. when she discovers ben novack, she acted consistently with how anyone else would act in that situation. and the defe