Even as she showered her sons with the proceeds from her $10 million tobacco fortune, Margaret Hitchcock Benson lived in fear of them. There were constant fights and drugs and a nightmarish unhappiness that led her to believe that one or another of them was stealing her funds and wanted her dead.
Her apprehension was well founded. A year ago, as she sat in her station wag- on in the driveway of her home in the wealthy South Florida city of Naples, a powerful pipe bomb exploded between the front seats. Margaret Benson, 63, and her adopted son Scott, 21, were...
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