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A tumultuous marriage, enormous wealth and deadly greed. Crime files continues this week with a look behind the crime tape at one of the tri state most gruesome murder for higher plots that left a famous hotel. He dead news, 12 senior investigative reporter to Rosenbloom brings us the details never shared before in the murder of Ben Novak junior and his mother, Bernice. If the facts of this case were proposed as a movie, I think it would be rejected by Hollywood for being too far fetched. A millionaire playboy, Ben had everything at his beck and call his whole life, his trophy wife, the former stripper. She was a beautiful woman. But why would anyone want the heir to Miami's legendary Falcon hotel dead? It was a Sunday. I got a call from work. He had been a homicide at the helm. When the detectives arrived, they found Ben Novak junior bound, tortured and beaten to a bloody pulp inside his hotel room. They beat him so bad when they opened the chest cavity, his ribs look like chicken bones broken into his organs. It was a vicious, vicious attack. It was a far cry from what anyone expected when Novak, his wife, Narsi and stepdaughter may boarded the plane to New York from Florida two days earlier, but a darker, a more sinister version of events would soon emerge. Ultimately landing Narc Novak behind bars to find out what she said. And the unexpected moments during her sensational months long murder trial. Join me for crime files, Tuesday night. I'm Tara Rosenbloom for news 12.

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A wealthy hotel heir, a stripper-turned-millionaire's wife, brutal torture and a vicious murder. 

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