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the two hit men had confessed. admitting to killing ben number ovak jr. they claimed ben s 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 novak s 87-year-old mother bernice, the one time queen of the off and on blue died three months earlier in what cops and the medical examiner ruled was an accidental death, a slip and fall getting out of her car. how he kill her? a monkey wrench, he took what appeared to be a baseball swing and hit her several times to the head. garcia said he got paid $600 for the job.
narcy disappearance, she and her children get what is under the will. so that is good defense. the jurors decide who is going to get the money. not just narcy but daughter may. there is an incomplete investigation done in this case. i m not claiming that anyone else committed the murder. the defense is that narcy did not commit the murder. the detective says may knew nothing about the will until after the murder. i didn t know my name or the boy s names were in the will. and after a nine week trial, they were found guilty of racketeering and conspiracy in the death of ben novak jr. and mother bernice, acquitted of one charge involving the theft of ben s diamond bracelet. for the crime that conspirators almost got away with, the murder of bernice novk, the conviction had a mandatory life sentence for both. the best part is bernice could finally rest in peace. narcy spoke by telephone to
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
take the fall. he s going to be booked on charges of murder. meanwhile, the evidence against narcy s brother was piling up. cellphone tower records showing him near the hotel on the morning of the murder, evidence he provided a getaway car and driver. who was in charge of this gang, the conspirators? the street boss that was handling everything that was going on was cristobal belize. and who was the boss of bosses? with a $10 million motive, there was only one answer for the cops. narcy novack had ordered the hit on her husband. obviously he reported to narcy or worked at the direction. what started as a small suburban village investigation was now a multi-state conspiracy case. the decision was made to let federal prosecutors take it to trial. they were offered a deal,