December 18, 2006
Binion case heating up, this time over his estate
Murphy sues for her share; family to pursue its wrongful-death civil case
By Jeff German
Las Vegas Sun
Two years after Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish were acquitted in their retrial of killing casino boss Ted Binion, one of the most publicized criminal cases in Las Vegas history is back in the news.
The case, from the start, has had it all: the alleged murder of the scion of one of the city's most famous families; a decades-younger girlfriend accused in his death; drugs; a palimony suit and alleged will change the day before a mysterious death; stolen silver and missing antique coins, and protracted legal battles over mountains of money.
This time the attention is on the stepped-up legal battle between Murphy and Binion's family over the $55 million estate that he left after his Sept. 17, 1998, death.
...more - http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/consumer/2006/dec/18/566642598.html
Binion case heating up, this time over his estate
Murphy sues for her share; family to pursue its wrongful-death civil case
By Jeff German
Las Vegas Sun
Two years after Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish were acquitted in their retrial of killing casino boss Ted Binion, one of the most publicized criminal cases in Las Vegas history is back in the news.
The case, from the start, has had it all: the alleged murder of the scion of one of the city's most famous families; a decades-younger girlfriend accused in his death; drugs; a palimony suit and alleged will change the day before a mysterious death; stolen silver and missing antique coins, and protracted legal battles over mountains of money.
This time the attention is on the stepped-up legal battle between Murphy and Binion's family over the $55 million estate that he left after his Sept. 17, 1998, death.
...more - http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/consumer/2006/dec/18/566642598.html
