Sandy Murphy Sues Binion Family

[zengrifter]

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.

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[Brutus]

Eight years after his death, some of the valuables Binion kept at his home and elsewhere - including a $300,000 collection of antique coins and currency and a bag of rare Carson City-minted silver dollars worth millions of dollars - are still missing.

I wouldnt mind seeing some of that action

One person who is not looking forward to the renewed legal battles over Binion's death is his sister, Becky Behnen.

Although she is not a party to any of the litigation, she has had to live with the horror of her brother's untimely death for more than eight years.

"There never seems to be any closure to Ted's death," Behnen said. "I just wish it all would go away."

I wish Ted would just come back, and bring the old rules back with him.