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 can t 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 novak junior was a successful entrepreneur and the wealthy son of a miami businessman. then, he was found bound and bludgeoned to death in a new york hotel room. who wanted ben novak dead? in this case, there was no shortage of suspects or, possible motives. but a mysterious letter will lead detectives in the direction no one expected. here is dennis murphy with family affair. if ever there was a little girl lost, it was may a bond. from when i was little, i was always in the way. she survived a mother d
it s 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. someone had 10 million reasons to kill. if you look back and say, my god, i can t 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 novak junior was a successful entrepreneur and the wealthy son of a miami businessman. then, he was found bound and bludgeoned to death in a new york hotel room. who wanted ben novak dead? in this case, there was no sho
condense of nice s guilt. her own daughter. may and she was about to put herself at risk to prove it. here again is dennis murphy with family affair. hey the cops were spool-ing through hours of television looking for what they didn t know exactly sure. homicide investigation was underway. we were leaving the doors open as far as we were concerned, everything is on the table until the investigation led to get us back to arrest. it was at the medical examiner. mother and daughter attached now by blood only, returned to florida separately. may had her own agenda. telling the cops she had helped them anyway she could. she was collecting her things from her parents house when she stopped at the guest cottage, where ben had his home office. she was snooping through his files for the detectives, when
could have somehow been involved in the murder, so she and her sons could inherit ben s estate. may hadn t arceneaux back in her way. if narcy novak disappears, she takes and her children take under the will. those are facts. so that s the defense? jurors consider who is gonna get this money here. and it s not just narcy novak, it s a daughter, may. there was an incomplete investigation done in this case. i am not claiming that anyone else committed this murder. the defense here is that narcy novak did not commit this murder. detectives concluded that may new nothing about that ends well. until well after the murder. i didn t even know that miami name or the boys names were in this well. after a nine-week trial, narcy and her brother were found guilty of racketeering and conspiracy in the death of ben novak junior and his mother bernese. they were acquitted up only one charge involving the theft of ben s diamond bracelet. for the crime that conspirators almost got away with
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 ben s murder. down, they re 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. correct,. was narcy out of the picture, may would ve got a flat $150, 000, and her two boys, the rest of the 10 million dollar estate. nicely began offering her own theory of the crime. may did it. when she realized, you know, the finger was pointed unmanned on her, she accused me. arranging to kill ben. for the money. yes. the mother and daughter finger-pointing accusations continued without cease-fire. even as the internet man and