Novack Widow Due in Court to Fight Use of Interrogation Tapes

Woman charged in husband's murder trying to keep tapes out of trial

The Fort Lauderdale widow charged with killing her millionaire husband and mother in law is expected in a upstate New York courtroom Tuesday for oral arguments and pretrial motions.

Narcy Novack, 55, is facing life behind bars in the murder of husband Ben Novack Jr., who was found beaten and killed in his Rye Brook, N.Y. Hilton hotel room on July 12, 2009.

Prosecutors allege Narcy Novack let two killers into the hotel room, watched as they beat her husband with dumbbells and ordered them to cut his eyes out as he lay with his hands and legs bound with tape. Her brother, 58-year-old Cristobal Veliz, is also facing murder charges.

The trial is set to begin April 16, and both have pleaded not guilty.

At Tuesday's appearance in federal court, Novack's attorney will attempt to have over 10 hours of taped interviews with police following the murder excluded, according to the Miami Herald. He claims they violated her constitutional rights.

In the tapes, Novack denies knowing anything about the murder or seeing her husband's killers.

Narcy Novack, Veliz and two accomplices were charged in July 2010 in the murder of Ben Novack. Last April, they were charged in the death of 86-year-old Bernice Novack, who was found dead inside her Fort Lauderdale home just two months before her son was killed.

Her death had initially been ruled an accident and was thought to have happened after she slipped and fell.

Ben Novack's father, Ben Novack Sr., built Miami Beach's Fontainebleau hotel.

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