My Prince Charming had a shot at the Kentucky Derby . They were Communists. He refused to identify his employer. The Aronow stables at Ocala, Fla., house about 40 2-year-olds in various. . The locals also found out that the FBI was interested in "a case of murder on the high seas involving the killing and discarding of a body from Robert Young's boat.". He didn't want to talk to The Miami Herald. "And Don did buy it back, " Michael Aronow says. Andreu wrote a report: DeCora "stated he had information from a source who was in federal custody in Oklahoma and provided them the name of Robert Young as the shooter in their investigation of millionaire boat builder Aronau, " spelling the name wrong. They found the Jerry Jacoby the murdered man knew. Takeaways and reaction, Miamis falling murder rates show the fallacy of Republicans anti-immigration stance | Opinion. They threw him in jail. No one has been charged. Conceivably, they could be wrong. Abruptly, he left the office, just as Aronow announced he had to be on his way. A tall stranger walked in, introducing himself as Jerry Jacoby. Maybe they never will. Then Aronow left. Panzavecchia still had on his underwear with the words "Be My Baby, " and his gold panther ring. The drug deal went bad. It hasn't been easy. Both were hot-tempered. Kramer turned over land, assets and a Bell helicopter. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Jacoby never looked for a boat. A child of the Depression, Aronow, 59, founded several of the world's hottest speed-boat manufacturing companies. Call girls got him into Leavenworth. . In his spare time, he built speedboats for the Shah of Iran and American presidents George Bush Sr and Lyndon Johnson, among others and he hung out with the Beatles. This story was originally published April 1, 2009, 10:21 AM. He got himself into Cuba -- for smuggling. Aronow's last boat venture, USA Team Racing, was sold in November. Marshall lived. Michael, the oldest of three children from Aronow . Even the Rev. U.S. District Judge James Kehoe gave him 10 years, on top of life. Then he counted the rings, Mysterious ball seen beside road was 14-foot invasive snake, New York officials say, Elite gathering of financial titans returns to Miami for annual event, UM, Pitt battle for first place in ACC Saturday in front of sold-out Watsco Center, Philly phenom Carranza back at DRV PNK Stadium to face former Inter Miami teammates, Fourth-quarter burst by LaShae Dwyer propels UM women to ACC tournament quarterfinals, Heat falls to 0-2 on important homestand with painful loss to Knicks. a perplexed Aronow asked. Saccenti says they didn't talk about Kramer or bad business blood. Even before police crack the case, though, mystery writers and prime-time TV producers have penned scripts for the gangland-style killing on Feb. 3, 1987. But this Jerry Jacoby wasn't that Jerry Jacoby. But his gold Rolex was missing from his wrist. Along Thunder Boat Row, they called him the Old Man. According to the Nashville newspapers, Silverman is a federal informant. Donald Aronow, a bored millionaire at 28 and a dead man 26 days before his 60th birthday, used to move briskly through Miami's shadowy world where dopers, government spies and mobsters commingle. Aronow built the dead-end street where he died, known as Thunder Boat Row, and paid his well-tanned laborers for designing and manufacturing his sassy speedboats: Formula, Donzi, Magnum, Squadron. Panzavecchia took a shot at Young's car. The chauffeur is 39 years old and 6 foot 2 -- about the same age and height of the stranger who walked into Aronow's office on the afternoon of the murder. With a .45, the killer opened fire. We act in a management and/or Agent capacity in any and all aspects of the industry.. In the 1970s, police said, he ran a "floating prostitution" enterprise in St. Louis; Columbia, S.C.; Wheeling, W.Va.; and Las Vegas. An Aronow family lawyer, Murray Weil, won't discuss the racers' financial dealings. Young skipped out on his $120,000 bond. And in the end, he wound up as nothing more than a target for an assassin's bullet. Young, already serving time for the "Dixie Mafia" murder, didn't respond to a telegrammed request for an interview. It could have had to do with the CIA.". Another possible government witness is William George Walton, also serving time. Ben Kramer, the fast-life desperado, is also adjusting to life in prison. Detectives looked for the watch. A shy waitress and a persistent customer put their faith in fortune cookies in this sweet story from the director of Lbs. He named a Donzi 007. Jesse Jackson, running for president, engineered the release of Young and 21 other Americans, as well as 26 Cuban political prisoners, in June 1984. It exploded, injuring his legs. Not to worry, he explained. Still recovering from the failed breakout, Kramer limped out of court on a wooden crutch. And he may or may not be the same Jerry Jacoby who once strayed into Cuban waters during a scuba-diving trip out of Miami. "To tell you the truth, " he told Officer Tim Frost, "I'm looking for a guy who's been selling crack to my niece and I'm going to kill him . UM women play immature first quarter, bounced by Virginia Tech in ACC tournament, Mysterious creature seen hopping along rainforest river for first time in 24 years, 11 sharks wash up on South African beach, researchers say. This time the dispute was over a 40-foot custom-made sailboat, Cat Dancer, named for Young's green-eyed girlfriend, a one-time topless dancer. One of their horses--named Don Aronow--won more than $200,000 in prize money. He might or might not be the Jerry Jacoby who has a chauffeur's license from Seminole County. For years, Young used different dates and places of birth, different names and occupations. He is in jail in Oklahoma City, awaiting sentencing on the federal drug charge. He is Paul K. Silverman, also convicted on a drug charge, also serving time in Oklahoma. On April 19, 1988, a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City indicted Young and three other men in a Colombia-to-U.S. drug pipeline. A couple of weeks ago, a federal jury found Kessler guilty of a drug conspiracy charge. Take a look, He found a clam on a Florida beach to make some chowder. He seemed "agitated, " says Jerry Engelman, Aronow's manager. "They were having trouble with a deal.". Some think two cars might have been involved. "Unless you could hear that directly from Ben or Don, it's guessing.". Along Thunder Boat Row, people are reluctant to talk about the extent of the Aronow-Kramer relationship. Young liked guns -- rifles, shotguns, Rugers. He was a hero and a genius, a ballbuster and a bully. Just last Friday, he was sentenced in a daredevil escape from Metropolitan Correctional Center April 17, 1989. But when the Feds found out they were buying the boats from Kramer, a drug suspect himself, they cringed. He was bested businesswise very badly.". His widow, Lillian Aronow, has not spoken publicly about her husband's murder. "They didn't like each other in the end, " says Dr. Bob Magoon, an eye surgeon, racer and friend to both. It pulled up to the Mercedes, driver's side to driver's side. Young's old lawyer, Melvyn Kessler, doesn't represent him anymore because of his own criminal problems. He sold his pricey, high tech vessels to the political world: King Hussein of Jordan, the state of Israel, the Sultan of Oman, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's Haiti -- and George Bush and the United States. The street talk is a bit different: Aronow returned the land, the equipment and the chopper to Kramer -- and kept the under-the-table money. But Aronow's son explains: In 1984, his dad sold his USA Racing Team firm to Kramer's Apache company. Aronow drove a white Mercedes, Kramer a white Porsche. He designed, built and raced the famous Magnum Marine, Cary, Cigarette, Donzi and Formula speedboats. ", To another officer, Fort Lauderdale Organized Crime Detective Stephen Robitaille, Young said: "I'm a mercenary.". Aronow drove his Mercedes less than a block, over to Bob Saccenti's boat place. "I'd do anything for him, " an Aronow employee, Patty Lezaca, quoted Jacoby. With him on the ill-fated scuba trip was Robert Young, also jailed. About 2 p.m. the day of the murder, Don Aronow arrived on Thunder Boat Row. And the street talk is that he also gave Aronow cash -- under the table. "I can't confirm or deny anything that's not public record, " says Walton's lawyer, Paul A. Panzavecchia ran guns. . By the 1980s, the two men were in the boat business together. Bush named a Cigarette Fidelity. Others raced in the Kentucky Derby. Prosecutors said the lawyer helped cycle Kramer's dirty profits through secret bank accounts and phony companies stretching from Colombia and Los Angeles to Miami, London and Lichtenstein. Their livers were missing, Little dragon found on uninhabited Australian island is a new species. You can arrest me now if you want to. Someone swiped a gold Rolex watch from the dead man's wrist. He announced that he worked for a rich man who wanted Aronow to build him a 60-foot boat. Someone put a small pipe bomb underneath the seat of his maroon Jeep last September. They threatened to cancel the Blue Thunder contract if Aronow didn't buy the company back. About two weeks later, Palm Beach SWAT officers coaxed Young out of a five-acre estate. Lacy. He and two pals agreed to cooperate and testified against Young in the federal drug case, according to attorney Anita Sanders in Oklahoma City. Robert Samuel Young, 41, the suspected hit man, is a "soldier of fortune type, " says Fred Haddad, one of his multiple lawyers. Investigators don't have the proof. In 1985, Kramer and a car-racing pal paid $50,000 to have a 36-year-old Fort Lauderdale man killed, witnesses told federal agents. His technique was to establish a company's reputation by winning races (the world. He backed his Mercedes into the street. Once a Boca Raton officer stopped Young's Mercury Marquis and spotted one of the dogs in the back seat. His co-defendant: Ben Kramer, the racer-turned-drug lord, also guilty. Another lawyer, now disbarred, could be a player in the Aronow investigation, too. "They've been following leads, " says Gary Rosenberg, assistant state attorney. A fisherman found his body in a canal in Broward County. . They looked for the Lincoln. An old Bell chopper plucked him from the prison's athletic field -- only to snag on a barbed wire fence and crash. At least one he had committed. . Supposedly, he kept a squad of Rottweilers trained to attack on hand command. It could have been international. "That's hearsay, " Michael Aronow says. Aronow, afraid of nothing, also moved in corporate circles. The murder of Aronow, shot to death three years ago, seems to be unraveling as one of the most sensational chapters in the nation's drug story. Nobody thought much of the comment at the time. A day or two after the murder, Kramer told police how troubled he was to lose his "friend" Aronow. Jesse Jackson has a bit part -- as the innocent humanitarian who got Young out of a Cuban prison in 1984. "Bobby is one of those guys you should be afraid of, " the detective says. . Aronow knew a Jerry Jacoby, a racing champion and former partner. A double-dealing mob tale, it might out-Godfather The Godfather -- if, of course, it's not fiction. Although cons have implicated Young in the Aronow murder, some investigators speculate that more than one man pulled off the crime. What's more, Young's description -- blue eyes, dark-blond hair -- does not match a composite drawing of the Lincoln's driver made from eyewitness accounts: a white man with a tanned complexion, a day or two's growth of whiskers and wavy brown hair.