FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Valuable Batman memorabilia owned by slain Fontainebleau heir Ben Novack Jr. is missing from several Florida warehouses, police in New York say.
"The (Batman) stuff is gone -- disappeared," said Rye Brook, N.Y., Police Chief Gregory Austin, whose department is investigating Novack's death.
The disappearance of the Batman collection is the latest development in a homicide that has produced a bitter court battle involving the estate between Novack's wife, Narcy, 53, and her daughter, May Abad, 33, The Miami Herald reported Thursday.
The Florida hotel heir was found beaten to death July 12 in a Westchester, N.Y., hotel room three months after his mother, Bernice Stempel Novack, 86, died of a skull fracture at her Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home.
His body remained at the Westchester County, N.Y., medical examiner's office for 52 days while his family haggled over money and other matters.
Austin says he is not sure how the Batman stuff was stolen but sources close to the case say locks at the warehouses were cut.
