The Defense. Eric Strachan/Naples Daily News, Steven Benson, right, enters Lee County Court with his defense attorney Mike McDonnell as the jury selection portion of his murder trial Monday, July 14, 1986. Carol Lynn Kendall unsuccessfully ran for a Naples City Council seat while living in Port . FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) _ The estate of murdered tobacco heiress Margaret Benson should be shared equally by the children of the son who killed her and by her daughter, a judge has ruled. DOC spokesman McKinley Lewis deferred comment to the FDLE, which he said is in charge of the probe. Bennett heard about the money battles that were going in within the family, how Margaret Benson used money to control her children, how they fought among themselves and with her to gain access to the fortune, how Margaret Benson asked a secretary to inform and spy on Steven. The Herald also reported that it was common knowledge among certain of Steven's childhood friends that he liked to make bombs. 'It's hard for me to even put into words the devastation emotionally that this has caused me and my children,' Kendall told reporters at Logan International Airport after flying home from Florida. I dont think he believed he belonged in there.. BOSTON -- Tobacco heiress Carol Lynn Benson Kendall said Wednesday she has no intention of cutting her brother's children out of the family fortune despite his conviction of murdering her mother. I mean, I was scared of Scott . I dont know if it will ever go away or not., Information from: LNP, https://lancasteronline.com. Movies. The feud went back to at least 2012 after a series of assaults by Washington. Had she not left the rear door of the unairconditioned Chevy Suburban wagon open on that miserably hot July morning 13 months ago in Naples, Fla., she, like her mother and her 21-year-old adopted "brother" Scott, would also be dead. It also wanted to rehear some of what the government fingerprint expert had said about the palm prints. At the trial, the man with whom he'd spent that evening testified that Steven had not set up the meeting until 6:30 that same night. He got down from his ladder, and walked toward the tennis courts, where he found Steven holding what appeared to be a remote control device. Yesterday, a jury began deliberations on those charges after weeks of riveting testimony involving enormous amounts of money and a tangled family web. Lets go with disastrous hate. Her daughter, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, was injured. To him, sadly, its not a shocker, the terrible things people do to each other, the terrible things they do for money. To that end, he held court one day from 8:30 in the morning, his usual opening time, to 10 that night. Then the witness surprised the judge by asking if he could make a "statement." Cirace said the rumors were never confirmed until Steven Bensons lawyers questioned Mrs. Kendall about it, to test her credibility. ", Should the court decide that the 3-year-old in question is indeed the daughter of the late Scott Benson, the child could inherit either (depending on what happens to the man who might be her Uncle Steven) one-third or one-half of Margaret Benson's $10 million estate, and establish her as a legitimate claimant to the estate of the 89-year-old Harry Hitchcock, who is said to be worth as much as $400 million. Police later learned that Scott. Within this circle, there was lots of money. Benson, now 53, is serving two life sentences in a Florida prison for killing his mother and brother, and trying to kill his sister. Kendall was injured in the car-bomb that killed her son, Scott Benson, and mother, Margaret Benson, on July 9, 1985, in front of their Naples, Fla., home. But what is apparently harder is that she has to face the death of Scott Benson, who died at the age of 21 without ever knowing that the woman he thought was his much older sister, by adoption, was in fact his own natural mother. Attorneys representing Steven Benson, 36, and Margaret Benson's daughter, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, 43, said they both probably will appeal Monday's ruling. Benson died earlier this month in a Florida prison, where he was serving two life sentences for the crimes. After the shaking incident, Margaret had her secretary compile a list of everything she'd bought for Scott in the last two years. But that changed over the next three weeks, as witness after witness took the stand. This orange thing was all around me. Benson was 33, just five years younger than Bennett at the time. Carol Kendall was born on 07/08/1944 and is 78 years old. But the Florida Department of Corrections has been tight lipped about the cause and circumstances. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The explosion was so loud that golfers ran off the course to see what had happened. He turned to the television cameras and delivered a stern warning to the "youth of Southwest florida" about the dangers of laughing gas. For years, she had paid for the lessons and the coaches and the trips, not to mention his 16 tennis racquets. [2] (Margaret Hitchcock Benson was heiress of the Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Co., Lancaster, Pa., and had no connection with Benson & Hedges brand cigarettes manufactured in the US by Philip Morris.) My relationship with Tracy was always a very turbulent one. Naples killer Steven Benson who sought $10 million family fortune dies in jail with $30 to his name, Naples pipe bomb killer Steven Benson dies in prison. Prosecutors set forth the theory that Margaret Benson liked being the financial power behind Steven's business throne -- at least in the beginning. Nor was he surprised when prosecutors said Benson had murdered his mother and sister to get at the familys fortune. How do we fathom in our heads that this boy plotted and schemed, and told them where to sit so he could do the most damage to the ones he hated the most?. Success! Hitchcocks daughter, Margaret, it turned out, was not really the mother of Scott Benson. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, a former Naples City Council candidate, is now a lawyer in Broward County focusing on family law and real estate. I guess people just exhibited good taste, he said. There was an error processing your request. In a rare moment of emotion during his trial, Steven Benson cries in the Florida courtroom where a jury convicted him in 1986 of blowing up his family in a Chevy Suburban in the driveway of their Naples, Fla., home on July 9, 1985. Bensons grandfather, the family patriarch and the Lancaster Leaf Tobacco magnate, the late Harry Hitchcock, was a congenial-looking, white-haired Christian businessman known for his tulip gardens in School Lane Hills. BOSTON -- Tobacco heiress Carol Lynn Benson Kendall said Wednesday she has no intention of cutting her brother's children out of the family fortune despite his conviction of murdering her mother and son. Click here to learn more about the role the Lancaster County Local Journalism Fund plays in Lancaster County and to make a tax-deductible donation. and never miss an insightful take by the TFIGlobal team, This website uses cookies. When he returned, they said, he prepared to join his family to look at a piece of land his mother had bought. Also Read : . He walked behind him and put his hand on his shoulder and he said, Steven Benson is a nice person. He had cautioned his new employes, according to testimony, not to let anyone in the offices of the Naples-based companies know the name of the company or what they did. He was 63, the same age his mother was when he killed her. He is a good son. malevolent." An autopsy report obtained by the Naples Daily News indicates the cause of death was a stab to the right temple. . Prosecutors said it showed that while Carol Lynn owed her mother $118,560.33, Steven's IOU was $268,163.89. He is also charged with the attempted murder of his sister, Carol Lynn. The jury was left with one noticeable absence from the list of witnesses. When the police questioned him about the trip, he said he was delayed when he ran into some people he knew; but Steven was unable to provide the police with their names. Lending her emotional support was her grandfather, Harry Hitchcock, who had made a dramatic appearance in the courtroom at 8:25 a.m. and stayed the entire day. Murphy does not know whether the couple, who had three children, later divorced. Inmates told investigators that Washington planned to extort $1,000 from Benson within days after arriving at Taylor Correctional Institution. Most recently, he was assigned as a houseman, performing maintenance and cleaning duties. Carol 's cause of death is unknown to us at this time. But in reality she had been alone with her thoughts -- the memory of that "malevolent orange thing," and her recollection of the day she took the stand and referred, for the first time in public, and in front of all those strangers, to the late Scott Benson as "my son.". Later, investigators found a receipt, with Bensons palm print, for the purchase of pieces of pipe and end caps used in the bomb. For his work, the man who once stood to gain millions received no compensation, prison officials said. Before the day was over, according to newspaper accounts, Steven had asked for and received a loan of $20,000 from his grandfather. He cried so much, she says. Scott had canisters of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, to which he was addicted, delivered to the house on a monthly basis, defense witnesses said. doesn't have anything to do with my mother anymore.". Carol Lynn Benson Kendall Death, Obituary pending- Carol Lynn Benson Kendall has reportedly passed away unexpectedly and suddenly. Born on Christmas Day 1963 in a Baltimore hospital to Carol Lynn Benson, then an unmarried teen-ager, he was adopted by Margaret and Edward Benson. Murphys nephew, Steven Benson, was the only one to escape the fiery blast that day. We learned about the passing of Carol Lynn Benson Kendall on May 23, 2022. The motive was money. He said Mrs. Kendall, who was recovering from severe burns at her home in the Chestnut Hill section of Boston, recently told her teen-age sons about Scotts parentage, but never told Scott. The Trustees have not presented reasonable grounds for attributing the settlors scheme to their section of the trustee exercised on November 27, 1985, following the death of Ms. Benson. He returned and got everyone into the Suburban and then went back into the house to retrieve a tape measure. People are interested in that, and the way it was done every day, people dont blow up their mother and brother and sister in a prominent part of Naples., Young described Benson as calm, calculated, coldblooded., He thought he could get away with it, Young said. And Steven usually drove when we were together. PHOTOS: Looking back at the Benson murder trial, The Bensons: Lancaster family ripped apart by greed and murder 30 years ago, Danger and loneliness: Steven Benson's life in prison after he killed his family members, Notorious Lancaster County killer Steven Benson allegedly murdered in prison inmate's revenge scheme. Reached Friday about her brother's death, she. ", When they got back to Naples, Margaret told Steven she wanted to meet with him and Kerr that evening and "talk business." Please enable JavaScript to properly view our site. The Money. He was tall and thin and looked intellectual. Shocked by the attack, she says that since then, her siblings have been completely uninterested in her physical and emotional well-being. According to prosecution evidence, there was even talk that Steven might be cut out of his mother's will. As the lead investigator in the Collier County Sheriffs Department, Harold Young was one of the first people to answer the call about a bombing at Margaret Bensons home in a gated golf course community on the morning of July 9, 1985. The jury convicted Benson on the first vote, she said. The Prosecution. On the morning of the explosion, the entire family agreed to inspect the land at Stevens suggestion. (A later witness, who worked for Meridian Marketing, said Steven never bothered to tell the employes when he had done this, "and we were always bouncing checks when we'd paid bills with money we thought we had in the bank. He just looked at me. Reached Friday about her brothers death, she said, I really have no comment.. Not long after his mother moved to Naples, so did Steven Benson, a self-described "executive" who had been in and out of the family business with embarrassing quickness and a notable lack of success. The Fallout, At the funeral of Margaret and Scott Benson, Steven sat between his wife Debra and his grandfather, Harry Hitchcock. And he complained. "How long does it take to say a guy was stabbed in the temple?" ", Once all was set, she testified, Steven handed Scott the keys, and then said he had forgotten something and headed back toward the house. When the Challenger space shuttle exploded a year after the Florida murders, Hitchcock broke down, Murphy recalls. . She sat in the front row, not directly behind Steven, but on the other side -- in one of the seats reserved for the prosecution. He and his wife had two children, Margaret and Janet, and when Margaret married she chose a quiet accountant from Baltimore named Edward Benson, with whom she had two children, Carol Lynn and Steven. Joyce Quinn, Margaret Benson's quiet and polite young secretary who'd lasted but three months in the job before realizing there had to be saner employment, testified that Margaret "paid for everything for Scott" -- his cars (among them two Lotuses, a sports car that costs $45,000 to $50,000) his van, his Cigarette speedboat, his apartment and furniture, repairs, his tennis lessons, his clothes and his gas credit cards. 10-Year Discipline History: . Then the jurors filed out and the door closed behind them once again. A jury convicted Steven Benson of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and arson of a dwelling. (Photo: File), Cameraman Al Durruthy records video footage of a Chevrolet Suburban outside the home of Mary Quinn, Wednesday afternoon (June 4), in the Quail Creek Estates in North Naples. Distraught over the bombing and what she says is her brother's complete lack of interest in her physical and emotional condition since then (she testified he has never contacted her in all that time, not even to inquire about her health), she is occupied with trying to hold herself together emotionally. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Once, Benson wanted his mother to loan him the down payment for a factory building in Lancaster. She also said that Steven was gone so long for coffee that she kidded he "could have gone all the way to Fort Myers. Its been decades since his trial attracted attention, though TV specials still pop up on cable channels from time to time. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall Disbarred . He said, Thats how Margaret died. Carol Lynn Kendall testifies during the trial of her brother, Steven Benson, during his 1986 trial. [12], Dominick Dunne's investigative crime show Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice devoted an hour for the case of Steven Benson. Scott ran with a rough crowd, and was known to get rough with both Margaret and Carol Lynn. The first thing he said was, Well, Steve done it, you know that. He thought that right away, Sands, now 81, remembered today. Benson never bothering to wash his mothers blood spatters from the side of his white van, which he had parked near the blown-apart Suburban, and which he was still driving on the day police showed up to arrest him for the killings, a month and a half later. Collier County's most notorious killer himself met with a violent end. He thought he was better than everybody else.. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, 42, of Brookline, Mass. It seemed like a dumb thing." I think it was the dumbest murder I ever solved that had been planned. Scott was an aspiring tennis professional, but apparently the aspirations were Margaret's rather than his. Carol Lynn Kendall, sister of Steven Benson, survived the car bomb that killed her son, Scott Benson, and mother, Margaret Benson, on July 9, 1985. [3] On July 9, 1985, Benson placed a pipe bomb in the family car, in which Margaret, Scott, and Steven's sister, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall (a former Miss Florida runner-up), were waiting for Benson to join them when the Chevrolet Suburban exploded. Murphys daughter, Brenda, was there that day. Young had several reasons to suspect Benson. All but 30 remain open investigations. 'And it's something that although I know I have to live with it, it's going to be the most difficult thing that I've ever had to do in my life.'. An investigator said later they probably didnt have a chance to move.. Apparently, the idea was to cut down on speeches to the jury, and to speed things along. Last Known Contact Information. (Admitted to practice: 2002) Further, Kendall shall pay . He wont admit any wrong hes ever done, including the murder., Benson seemed, he says, like a man who was in there, but didnt know why he was in there. Shortly before his death in 1990, Harry Hitchcock the owner of Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Co. asked a longtime family employee, gardener Amos Sands, to visit his grandson in prison on his behalf. Margarets blood was still all over the side of his van. US fails miserably against Russia at the crucial UN Vote. He became known for writing grievances against both inmates and correctional officers, complaining about anything from the amount of sales tax charged at commissary to the Spanish programs playing in the television room. 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[13] He had been driving it all that time, he said. She is shown here in a photo shoot at Lancaster Country Club in 1974, more than a decade before the incident. McDonnell did succeed in keeping the jury from hearing the testimony of the groundskeeper who had said he had seen Steven playing with a remote-control bomb device in Pennsylvania, but he was not able to stop a former employe from telling the jury that at the wake, Steven mentioned to a small group that he had "made bombs as a kid.". It r It just never stopped, Cirace said. [citation needed], Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice, "Killer Succession" (Season 1, Episode 3), "Inmate Population Information Detail - Steven Benson", "In the Know: Is that Benson guy still in prison? At first, Murphy thought her niece, Carol Lynn Kendall, 40, also had died, but she found out that she was badly burned but had survived. TV show Monday features Benson family murders, one of Naples' notorious crimes, Lighthouse Project - History: Murderers, moonshiners, swindlers lead rogues gallery of SW Florida crooks, Naples pipe bomb killer Steven Benson dies in prison. Release Calendar Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. It is said that she has taken their three children and returned to her small Wisconsin home town. Prosecutors argued that Steven had engineered the whole idea of the early-morning trip to view the huge -- 17,000-square-foot -- residence his mother was building nearby in the same exclusive subdivision. Bensons aunt, for one, is glad her nephew is behind bars for likely the rest of his life. A month later, the Naples police arrested Steven Benson and charged him with two counts of homicide and one count of attempted murder. After his initial outburst, Benson became stoic and unemotional as the evidence was presented against him. There was none. On Monday, the state produced a witness whose testimony left a strong impression on those spectators who had seen the trial from the beginning. Benson, then 33, was running out of it and wanted to inherit his mother's. It was very weird. Her daughter, Kendall, was. The family and everybody just treated his grandmother as Scotts mother, the attorney said. Those involved with the case say they are surprised at how it still resonates in peoples minds, and their own lives. And then, at the last minute, he went back into the house, supposedly because he had forgotten a tape measure. It was like . However, she continued to pamper him. Photo Gallery. By July 8, the day before the bombing, Margaret had learned of Steven's new house in Fort Myers, according to testimony. She cannot believe that two decades have passed since the day that two family members were killed and her familys life was changed forever. Bensons aunt, Murphy, recalls him as being different as well. He was just not your usual teenager. "Sharp force head trauma. He was my main suspicion before I got out of the house with him.. Benson told his family members where to sit in the Suburban. In July 1985, 63-year-old Margaret, her 41-year-old daughter Caroline Benson Kendall, her 33-year-old son Stephen Benson, and her 21-year-old adopted son Scott Benson got into the car to drive away to check a piece of land in the city where Margaret planned to build another house for the family. The Chevrolet Suburban was blown all to bits and pieces, with a body lying out on each side.. He parked it and positioned his family in it. TV show Monday features Benson family murders, one of Naples' notorious crimes, Lighthouse Project - History: Murderers, moonshiners, swindlers lead rogues gallery of SW Florida crooks, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall was a former Miss Florida runner-up and was survived in a murder attempt by her brother Steven Wayne Benson in 1985. Not at her mother's house in Naples, for that has been sold, but behind several closed doors in the state's attorney's offices. They have never learned to live, really.. It continued to prosper, and eventually both families had what some people call "real money," and what others disdain as "nouveau. ", She said that Steven had called her the night before the bombing to make sure that both she and Scott would be coming along in the morning when he planned to stake the dimensions of his mother's new lot. * The prosecution's key evidence, along with the testimony of Steven's sister, were palm prints on sales receipts for pipe identical to that used in the bombs, as well as end caps. Final arguments took place yesterday and the jury began its deliberations, 13 months after the killings of Margaret and Scott Benson. He said that "initially" he thought it was just sloppy bookkeeping. [9][10] Benson was in a long running feud with Cordell Washington, another inmate at the facility. He was talking to one of his associates - the phrase How much did we take in yesterday? sticks in my head. David Ahntholz/Staff (Photo: David Ahntholz .da-), Ajuror compares a police artist's sketch of the man who bought pipe at Hughes Supply to a mug shot of Steven Benson. The 63-year-old Pennsylvania tobacco heiress died when two pipe bombs ripped apart her car apart on July 9, 1985, in front of her North Naples home. His second wife Debra was not in the courtroom, or even in Florida. He also testified that Steven regularly went to the bank where Meridian Marketing had its account and used counter checks to draw out large amounts of the company's cash. Young said they talked about Mothers Day, and how sad it would be to not have his mother around on that day. 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