They had a heckuva fight out of it, he says. There was a local uproar over the thought that the public would be paying his bills, and in mid-January the judge reversed himself. 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. One youth remembered finding dry-cell batteries, wire and alligator clips in a closet and saying to himself, "Oh, this is Steve Benson's stuff . She said, I want to know where all the money went. She wanted to see the books. 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. Electronics. Steven Benson's palm print was one of the major points in the prosecution's case against him, a case that ultimately convinced a jury to convict him of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and arson of a dwelling in the killing of his mother and nephew and injuring of his sister with car-bomb in front of their Naples, Fla., home. I guess he didnt want him to go to hell.. '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.'. Cirace said the rumors were never confirmed until Steven Bensons lawyers questioned Mrs. Kendall about it, to test her credibility. Steven Benson is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 2, and prosecutors have asked for a life sentence. If Steven Benson caused problems, then Scott caused traumas. Benson was sentenced to life in prison. According to prosecution evidence, there was even talk that Steven might be cut out of his mother's will. Murphy s nephew, Steven Benson, was the only one to. It looks like we don't have any photos for Carol Lynn Benson Kendall yet. I thought I was being electrocuted. Moments later there was a loud explosion. However, according to a veteran Florida criminal attorney, "any time in a murder case when a defendant without a prior record fails to take the stand, it looks bad. Benson, who was serving two consecutive life sentences, had last been housed at the Taylor Correctional Institution, a prison about an hour southeast of Tallahassee. Young, the investigator, said hes seen more horrendous cases than the Benson case, ones where people killed their children by drowning them in their mothers blood. I must think of a better word. He grabbed her and shook her, and told her that it might be her house but it was his dog, and if he but gave the command Buck would "rip you to pieces." Benson's own sister, Carol Lynn Kendall, then 40, who survived the blast but was severely burned, wanting to make sure her brother was sentenced to life in prison for the killings. The chief prosecutor, Jerry Brock, argued she had made conflicting statements in earlier depositions. Murphys father, Harry Hitchcock, was fine. It wasn't the prison pallor that surprised people who had known him; it was the grim and almost affectless bearing. 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. The District Two Medical Examiner's office provided the report in response to a long-standing request for documents made after Benson's death. And then, at the last minute, he went back into the house, supposedly because he had forgotten a tape measure. Murphy declined to say where she now is living and says she does not see her regularly. But the jury only wanted to have portions of Carol Lynn Benson Kendall's testimony read back. At the age of 63, Margaret Benson, was killed by her son, Steven Benson, with a car bomb that also took the life of her her grandson, Scott Benson, and injured her daughter, Carol Lynn Kendall, on July 9, 1985, in fron t of their Naples, Fla., home. He went through money like crazy, Sands says. Benson wasnt much more popular in the penitentiary: At one point, he was stabbed by another prisoner and had to be transferred to a different facility for his own safety. We were trying to get some emotion out of him, he said. It was very weird. Police later learned that Scott. But by late 1984 and early 1985, they argue, she was coming to the conclusion that bankrolling Steven was something less than sound. She suffered first-degree burns on her face and hands in the explosion and is still undergoing extensive reconstructive surgery. He wanted his own way and he was going to get it one way or another, he says. He turned to the television cameras and delivered a stern warning to the "youth of Southwest florida" about the dangers of laughing gas. 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. The Chevrolet Suburban was blown all to bits and pieces, with a body lying out on each side.. Please enable JavaScript to properly view our site. 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. He will be eligible for parole when he is 85. Margaret Benson and her adopted son, Scott, were killed in the 1985 blast at their Naples home. The bills were sent to and paid for by Margaret. Young said, I knew he did it immediately.. The three children were to divide the estate equally. She is shown here in a photo shoot at. Hed claimed he had no money to pay his attorneys, so he claimed indigency -- and Judge Hayes approved the claim. He was sobbing.. Sands said he was only allowed to speak with Steven Benson for a couple of minutes because he wasnt family. In the Know: Is that Benson guy still in prison? Maybe it was the money, the power and the greed, they say. After his initial outburst, Benson became stoic and unemotional as the evidence was presented against him. Tracking money - that was my forte, said Dwight Brock, who is now 61 and works as the Collier County Clerk of Courts in Florida. He said Steven was laughing. Attorneys, an investigator and a juror have never forgotten what Steven Benson did, and how it affected their lives in the years since he was convicted of killing his family in Naples, Florida. Benson died earlier this month in a Florida prison, where he was serving two life sentences for the crimes. Kendall was retained by clients in two separate cases but failed to adequately represent them. Young had several reasons to suspect Benson. How people were crooked. And if Steven Benson walks out of the courtroom a free man, he will still be in line for a third or even a half of his mother's $10 million estate. In addition, the Benson Family murder case was the subject of The Serpent's Tooth, a 1987 book by Christopher Andersen. Benson, they learned, had been pressuring his mother for money. He stared at her and walked away, said Kendall, who is now 70 and living somewhere in Florida. Her daughter, Kendall, was. They have never learned to live, really.. She, not being blinded by the forces of sexuality, very quickly perceived the true character of Tracy Mullins and was very much opposed to my seeing her. Scott Benson, who was originally thought to be Steven Benson's brother but was revealed during the trial to be his nephew, was killed at the age of 21 on July 9, 1985, in front of his Naples, Fla., home by the car bomb that also took the life of his grandmother, Margaret Benson, who was 63 at the time, and injured his mother, Carol Lynn Kendall. 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. I can see what money can do when people get so tied up in self, he says. . After nearly three decades behind bars, Benson died July 3 at 63, the same age his mother, Margaret Hitchcock Benson, was when she was killed by a pipe bomb he planted in her Chevrolet Suburban in the familys North Naples driveway in 1985. Scrambling desperately, the injured Kendall pitched herself through the open door of the mangled van and onto the circular driveway in front of her mother's home. BOSTON (AP) _ Tobacco heiress Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, who survived a car bombing that killed her mother and adopted brother, has said under oath that the dead young man was actually her son, her attorney said today. I knew it was no accident, said Young, now 75, of Naples. Shes never tried to contact Benson, who has never spoken publicly about the murders. Carol Lynn Kendall testifies during the trial of her brother, Steven Benson, during his 1986 trial. September 1, 1989. Please enable JavaScript to properly view our site. When he returned, they said, he prepared to join his family to look at a piece of land his mother had bought. He was a strange fellow, says Sands, who worked as a landscaper for Bensons late grandfather, Hitchcock. 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. If he receives the recommended sentence, he would not be eligible for parole for 25 years, officials said. As trial testimony brought out, Steven had started yet another company, Meridian Marketing, which was located about 30 miles away in Fort Myers, where Steven had just bought a new (and very large) house. 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.". BOSTON (AP) _ Tobacco heiress Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, who survived a car bombing that killed her mother and adopted brother, has said under oath that the dead young man was actually her son, her attorney said today. I think it was just pure greed for money, Murphy said. It was just a tragic story. The Fallout, At the funeral of Margaret and Scott Benson, Steven sat between his wife Debra and his grandfather, Harry Hitchcock. 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. The matricide was a huge point, she said. Also in the car were her two children, 21-year-old Scott, who died, and 41-year-old Carol Lynn, who was badly injured but survived. Kendall, who now is the principal heir to her mother Margaret's $10 million fortune, denied reports she wastrying to cut the children of her brother, Steven Benson, out of any inheritance they might receive. He. [12], Dominick Dunne's investigative crime show Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice devoted an hour for the case of Steven Benson. By the time the closing statements were presented, the evidence was clear, Bennett said. Indeed, Margaret Benson did change her will, but in a terribly ironic touch, the only change was to cut out Wayne Kerr as executor. She is shown here in a . He was always doing things but never getting anything accomplished, Sands recalls. In July 1985, Margaret, 63, her 41-year-old daughter, Carolyn Benson Kendall, her 33-year-old son Steven Benson, and her 21-year-old adopted son, Scott Benson, all got into a vehicle to go check out a plot of land in the city, where Margaret was planning to build another home for the family. It was her sister, Margaret, 63, and her nephew, Scott, 21, who had died in a horrific car explosion in Florida. File photo. The explosion was so loud that golfers ran off the course to see what had happened. That seemed more important to him than his family lying all over the golf course.. Steven Benson turned gray behind bars and died, to little fanfare. He seldom looked at Steven.The defendant watched his grandfather enter the courtroom, but after that he never looked at him. Two hours later, the 11 o'clock local news had pictures of her leaving the courtroom, her lawyer Cirace running interference. Also on the public record is a 3-year-old paternity suit filed by Scott's former live-in girl. He didnt say anything after prison. Dysfunction, said Patty Bennett, a juror on the case, trying to describe the Benson family. And he is an arbitrator within the family when things go wrong., Steven started to cry. 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. I knew she was scared of Scott, but that was a different situation. Carol Lynn testified that he arrived unusually early and insisted on taking the Chevy Suburban, rather than his own car, and first going by himself for coffee and doughnuts. In addition to the fatal wound to the head, Associate Medical Examiner Anthony Clark noted a puncture wound to the left scalp and multiple bruises on Benson's torso, upper and lower extremities. Bensons aunt, Murphy, recalls him as being different as well. But there is no doubt that he had a rough crowd of friends -- the defense called several occupants of the Naples jail to testify about Scott and his various habits, in the hope that this possible alternative theory would raise a reasonable doubt as to whether Steven is guilty. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District. 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. And she also contradicted the wake testimony regarding bombs. He was going to turn it into an apartment house. . Her daughter, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, was injured. This orange thing was all around me. Her father, she says, was broken up by the entire affair. Young said they talked about Mothers Day, and how sad it would be to not have his mother around on that day. Carol 's cause of death is unknown to us at this time. Photo Gallery. Another daily attendee was a lawyer representing the trust funds left by Harry Hitchcock's late wife. ", 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. 20 years later, friends and family still try to make sense of Benson murders: 'It still seems unreal', By opting into newsletters you are agreeing to our. "How long does it take to say a guy was stabbed in the temple?" It was then that she had her personal secretary run a tab of what her children owed her. Investigators said Steven Benson had embezzled up to $2 million from his mother and had recently learned he may be cut out of her will. On July 9, 1985 Benson placed a car bomb on the family car, in which Margaret, Scott, and Steven's sister, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, (a former Miss Florida runner-up) were waiting for Steven to join them in the vehicle when the Suburban exploded. Steven said he was sorry but that he already had a business meeting. As for Carol Lynn, she too waited in Florida for the verdict. He was my main suspicion before I got out of the house with him.. Apparently, the idea was to cut down on speeches to the jury, and to speed things along. In 1983, a fight with Margaret over the behavior of his bouvier des Flanders guard dog -- she'd let it in the house and it had wet on the expensive white carpet -- turned violent. "I don't really know how to comment on it. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall Disbarred . Benson calmly talking on the phone about his burglar alarm companys profits when investigators arrived at the home where the shattered bodies of his mother, Margaret, 63, and his brother, Scott, 21, still lay outside on the driveway. 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. He is a good son. A maid testified that he was "the apple of his mother's eye." Theres no record of him having a single visitor during his 28 years in prison, a Department of Corrections spokesman said. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, 42, of Brookline, Mass. The judge made the sentences consecutive, in accordance with Bensons sisters wishes. Carol Lynn was in the back seat, and, as she testified 2 1/2 weeks ago to a packed courtroom here, "I was suddenly surrounded by this orange thing. Support local journalism. It all came back to him.. And he complained. Steven Benson and his wife, Debra, leave funeral services for his mother and brother, Margaret and Scott Benson, at St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster in 1985. It also wanted to rehear some of what the government fingerprint expert had said about the palm prints. Retired U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agent Frank Kendall -- no relation to Carol Lynn -- testified that the palm print Steven Benson voluntarily gave the police in the summer of 1985 and the palm print on the pipe invoice were "made by the same person." Puncture wound of right temple made by a sharpened instrument ('shank')," the report states. I couldnt get through to him spiritually., Im no psychologist, Sands adds, but he lives in denial. The thing that stuck out in my mind was, wow, how easy this is to see what the money did. Amos Sands of West Donegal Township remembers the day 20 years ago today as well. Bensons wife never attended the trial. Nobody else had time to put a bomb in there, Young said. ", 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. Many members of the family have disappeared from public view in the past 20 years. My mother and I were very, very close and we didn't have anybody else except each other because Scott went his own way, and Steven . https://insideeko.com/carol-lynn-benson-kendall-obituary-d/ insideeko.com ", When they got back to Naples, Margaret told Steven she wanted to meet with him and Kerr that evening and "talk business." Prosecutors linked Benson to the bomb explosion by producing a receipt, with Bensons palm print, for the purchase of pieces of pipe and end caps. She is shown here in a photo shoot at Lancaster Country Club in 1974, more than a decade before the incident. Landscaping. On July 11, two days after Margaret and Scott Benson were killed, Wayne Kerr, the lawyer from Philadelphia, filed a 1983 will that named him executor of the estate. Later, investigators found a receipt, with Bensons palm print, for the purchase of pieces of pipe and end caps used in the bomb. The Trustees set up a trust for Kendall, a trust for Stephen, and a share for Scott. He just ignored it.. A juror in the Steven Benson case compares an artist's sketch of the suspect who purchased materials to create the bomb with a mug shot of Benson. Thats the way Steve was.. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Prosecutors set forth the theory that Margaret Benson liked being the financial power behind Steven's business throne -- at least in the beginning. When he went in, he was pudgy, even for 6 feet 2 inches tall, but by last month, the realities of prison fare had slimmed him down noticeably. McDonnell did not call Steven Benson in his own defense. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. 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. The police were called and he was held for five days. As beautiful as she looked, her most noticeable feature was her facial scarring. BOSTON (AP) _ Tobacco heiress Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, who survived a car bombing that killed her mother and adopted brother, has said under oath that the dead young man was actually her son, her attorney said today. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall Death, Obituary pending- Carol Lynn Benson Kendall has reportedly passed away unexpectedly and suddenly. She had hoped he would get the death penalty. Tragically, Hitchcock turned out to be right about his grandson. The star of the show by far was Carol Lynn Benson Kendall. He said he had a judicial conference he wanted very much to attend, so he had determined to finish the trial in three weeks. The Daughter and Her Son. Most recently, he was assigned as a houseman, performing maintenance and cleaning duties. [6][7] Over the course of his sentence, Benson was transferred to various prisons because of constant threats and abuse from other inmates. Bennett had heard of the financial battles that took place in the family, how Margaret Benson used money to control her children, how they fought each other and with her for access to wealth, as Margaret Benson asked the secretary to inform and spy on her. Prosecutors argued that Margaret Benson was apparently beginning to face the growing evidence that Steven was spending beyond the limits of her frequent loans and the $3,000 a month she paid him as a "consultant" to the Meridian businesses. An aerial shot of the home is shown in the background. Mrs. Kendalls attorney, E. Richard Cirace of Boston, confirmed the report. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, 2719 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 164, Hollywood, disbarred effective immediately, following a September 22 court order. Steven Benson blew up his family in the driveway of their Florida home in July 1985. That's a negative as far as the jury is concerned. Justice is justice," he said. Florida authorities have charged Steven Benson, Mrs. Kendalls 34-year-old natural brother, with setting the blast outside the familys Naples, Fla., home because he believed he was about to be cut out of his mothers will. 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. The feud went back to at least 2012 after a series of assaults by Washington. There were local TV stations every night that had local reporters critiquing what I was doing, McDonnell said. Lets go with disastrous hate. 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. Only Carol Lynn Benson survived in this tragic blast. Oh no, she thought. Toxicology tests showed no drugs in Benson's system, the report states. 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. That she is now horribly scarred is obvious; large red subdermal slashes streak her face. If they had objections they were to say, quietly, "May we approach the bench?" (Admitted to practice: 2002) Further, Kendall shall pay . Benson is also featured in an episode of the New Detectives entitled "Short Fuse" (Season 2, Episode 3) and an episode of Florida Man Murders entitled "Killer Succession" (Season 1, Episode 3). 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. Here, prosecuting attorney Jerry Brock addresses members of the media outside the Florida courtroom where the case took place. Benson was convicted of killing his mother and nephew and injuring his sister with a car-bomb on July 9, 1985. He was born in 1951 in Baltimore. Collier County's most notorious killer himself met with a violent end. [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? 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. He parked it and positioned his family in it. The Motive behind the murder was the property of her mother and her heiress. When the Challenger space shuttle exploded a year after the Florida murders, Hitchcock broke down, Murphy recalls. To Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, this question is, in a sense, peripheral. Inmates told investigators that Washington planned to extort $1,000 from Benson within days after arriving at Taylor Correctional Institution. LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - Heres what has stuck with them for 30 years, since the day that Steven Benson blew up his family in a Chevy Suburban in the driveway of their Florida home, in a greedy attempt to inherit a $10 million Lancaster tobacco company fortune: . He walked behind him and put his hand on his shoulder and he said, Steven Benson is a nice person. . He cried so much, she says. By July 8, the day before the bombing, Margaret had learned of Steven's new house in Fort Myers, according to testimony. Steven Wayne Benson was an American double murderer of his mother, tobacco heiress Margaret Benson, and his brother, tennis player Scott Benson. All but 30 remain open investigations. She wanted an accounting and, if it had to be, a confrontation with Steven. Benson's death was reported soon after it happened on July 3. Behind bars, Benson has worked in the laundry and on a painting detail. Margarets blood was still all over the side of his van. I think it was the dumbest murder I ever solved that had been planned. He was talking to one of his associates - the phrase How much did we take in yesterday? sticks in my head. Carol Lynn testified that she thought Scott's being there was a "silly request. Copyright 2023 The Washington Times, LLC. The mangled Benson family Chevy Suburban that Steven Benson exploded with a pipe-bomb in front of his family's Naples, Fla., home, killing his mother and nephew and injuring of his sister. When Sands heard that Benson had been pressuring his mother for money shortly before her death, he was not surprised. It came to an average monthly payment of more than $10,000, or a grand total of "around a quarter of a million dollars.". Carol Lynn Benson Kendall is 42 years old. Those involved with the case say they are surprised at how it still resonates in peoples minds, and their own lives. There was an error processing your request. 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. Steven Benson is led into the Collier County jail complex on the day of his arrest in 1985. Beyond that, Young had little to say. Once these equal trusts were created, the children of the settlor would receive a net income over their lifetime and an amount equal to 2% of the capital, which would be determined at the time of the establishment of the individual trusts on a quarterly basis. Carol Kendall currently lives in Hollywood, FL; in the past Carol has also lived in Norfolk VA. Other names that Carol uses includes Carol Lyn Falkiner, Carol Lynn Benson, Carol Lynn Benson-kendall, Carol Lynn Falkiner and Carol Lynn Kendall. And Steven usually drove when we were together. 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. It continued to prosper, and eventually both families had what some people call "real money," and what others disdain as "nouveau. Error! He is a good brother. Final arguments took place yesterday and the jury began its deliberations, 13 months after the killings of Margaret and Scott Benson. He was 63, the same age his mother was when he killed her. . Trending. He thought he was better than everybody else.. Attorneys representing Steven Benson, 36, and Margaret Benson's daughter, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, 43, said they both probably will appeal Monday's ruling. Collier Judge Hugh Hayes presided over the trial. 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