It has been six years since businessman Ben Novack Jr. was found brutally murdered in his hotel room in Westchester New York. The businessman’s wife, Narcy Novack, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for hiring hit men to murder both her husband and her husband’s 86-year-old mother. The brutal killings were inspiration for the 2015 Lifetime movie “Beautiful & Twisted,” which starred both Rob Lowe and Candice Bergen. The probate court had initially treated Narcy as having predeceased Ben as stipulated by Florida’s Slayer Statute. According to Ben’s will the estate would then pass to Narcy’s daughter from a previous marriage as well as her two children. The businessman’s cousins are now trying to challenge the will in court, alleging that Ben was coerced into altering the will so that her progeny could inherit the estate.
See Izzy Kapnick, Murderer’s Family Faces Roadblock To Inheritance, Courthouse News Service, August 07, 2015.
