He named a Donzi 007. "But Kramer took a big loss. Then he stopped talking upon the advice of his lawyer. Don Aronow was a dead set legend. Aronow drove a white Mercedes, Kramer a white Porsche. An old Bell chopper plucked him from the prison's athletic field -- only to snag on a barbed wire fence and crash. 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. Panzavecchia still had on his underwear with the words "Be My Baby, " and his gold panther ring. About 2 p.m. the day of the murder, Don Aronow arrived on Thunder Boat Row. "Unless you could hear that directly from Ben or Don, it's guessing.". UMs Destiny Harden was ill and almost didnt play against Virginia Tech. Someone swiped a gold Rolex watch from the dead man's wrist. "They've been following leads, " says Gary Rosenberg, assistant state attorney. The next day, Young, using the name Bobby Scott, took some shots at Panzavecchia -- four .25-caliber bullets through the skull. . They looked for the Lincoln. The drug deal went bad. "That's hearsay, " Michael Aronow says. "What do you do for your boss?" 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. According to the Nashville newspapers, Silverman is a federal informant. Along Thunder Boat Row, people are reluctant to talk about the extent of the Aronow-Kramer relationship. Takeaways and reaction, Miamis falling murder rates show the fallacy of Republicans anti-immigration stance | Opinion. Young, already serving time for the "Dixie Mafia" murder, didn't respond to a telegrammed request for an interview. And Benjamin Barry Kramer, the world champion fast-boat millionaire, could have ordered the daytime ambush after he and Aronow squabbled over a shady business deal, some investigators surmise. Still recovering from the failed breakout, Kramer limped out of court on a wooden crutch. U.S. District Judge James Kehoe gave him 10 years, on top of life. Maybe they never will. On the course, Aronow horses -- Mike began training horses after his accident -- were the top winners at Gulfstream Park during the 1985 season. On May 17, 1988, Miami Detective Nelson Andreu, investigating the Panzavecchia murder, got a telephone call from Metro-Dade Detective Mike DeCora, investigating the Aronow murder. 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. He might or might not be the Jerry Jacoby who has a chauffeur's license from Seminole County. Detectives looked for the watch. 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. Panzavecchia took a shot at Young's car. Conceivably, they could be wrong. The cast of characters -- two behind bars, one the victim of a mysterious bomb explosion, and one unaccounted for -- all have connections to a trans-Atlantic network of shell companies and secret bank accounts. A world-champion boat racer who enjoyed wild success in business, he was also an unapologetic playboy and fabled bon vivant. They never found the other one. And the street talk is that he also gave Aronow cash -- under the table. He designed, built and raced the famous Magnum Marine, Cary, Cigarette, Donzi and Formula speedboats. Abruptly, he left the office, just as Aronow announced he had to be on his way. About two weeks later, Palm Beach SWAT officers coaxed Young out of a five-acre estate. "What they did personally amongst themselves, I have no idea, " says Robert Saccenti, a former pal of both men. Ben Kramer, the fast-life desperado, is also adjusting to life in prison. 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. Young skipped out on his $120,000 bond. By the 1980s, the two men were in the boat business together. "Bobby is one of those guys you should be afraid of, " the detective says. But Aronow may have possessed a darker side that even he could not outrun. 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. For years, Young used different dates and places of birth, different names and occupations. 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. 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. It hasn't been easy. Or it could have had something to do with Ben Kramer, he says. "They didn't like each other in the end, " says Dr. Bob Magoon, an eye surgeon, racer and friend to both. Call girls got him into Leavenworth. His technique was to establish a company's reputation by winning races (the world. But this Jerry Jacoby wasn't that Jerry Jacoby. He didn't want to talk to The Miami Herald. "They were having trouble with a deal.". . Michael Aronow Inc. 1988 - Present35 years Port Washington, New York Thoroughbred and Equine Consultants. Not six months later, Young plotted a drug deal with John "Big Red" Panzavecchia, 39, a member of the "Dixie Mafia." A child of the Depression, Aronow, 59, founded several of the world's hottest speed-boat manufacturing companies. My Prince Charming had a shot at the Kentucky Derby . He and two pals agreed to cooperate and testified against Young in the federal drug case, according to attorney Anita Sanders in Oklahoma City. . Along Thunder Boat Row, they called him the Old Man. Not to worry, he explained. Robert S. Young, a self-described mercenary with a fondness for call girls, guns and mean dogs, is the hit man who gunned down Donald Aronow, the legendary speedboat demon, investigators suspect. 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. Through the lawyer, Mary Catherine Bonner, Kramer denies involvement in the murder. Both liked money, winning, fast toys and the color white. Marshall lived. . Cuban authorities said they found almost 300 pounds of marijuana aboard. Both were hot-tempered. No one has been charged. And in the end, he wound up as nothing more than a target for an assassin's bullet. Take a look, He found a clam on a Florida beach to make some chowder. Robert Samuel Young, 41, the suspected hit man, is a "soldier of fortune type, " says Fred Haddad, one of his multiple lawyers. A Lincoln Continental with tinted windows was parked nearby, waiting. He seemed "agitated, " says Jerry Engelman, Aronow's manager. He got himself into Cuba -- for smuggling. He was a hero and a genius, a ballbuster and a bully. He announced that he worked for a rich man who wanted Aronow to build him a 60-foot boat. Once a Boca Raton officer stopped Young's Mercury Marquis and spotted one of the dogs in the back seat. In the 1970s, police said, he ran a "floating prostitution" enterprise in St. Louis; Columbia, S.C.; Wheeling, W.Va.; and Las Vegas. In the summer of 1987, Fort Lauderdale police arrested Young after he twice shot an Army vet, Craig Marshall. One of their horses--named Don Aronow--won more than $200,000 in prize money. Jesse Jackson, running for president, engineered the release of Young and 21 other Americans, as well as 26 Cuban political prisoners, in June 1984. 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. A double-dealing mob tale, it might out-Godfather The Godfather -- if, of course, it's not fiction. Lacy. It pulled up to the Mercedes, driver's side to driver's side. 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. He was bested businesswise very badly.". "I'd do anything for him, " an Aronow employee, Patty Lezaca, quoted Jacoby. They found the Jerry Jacoby the murdered man knew. At his boat shop, dopers occasionally visited him. Publicly, the Metro-Dade Police Department, the Dade State Attorney's Office and the FBI refuse to comment on the Aronow investigation -- except to cite substantial progress. No buyer, pal or partner turned out to be quite so volatile as Benjamin Barry Kramer, 35, a brash, impatient boat racer who packed a .357 Magnum and ran a worldwide drug empire complete with a toll-free beeper number. They threw him in jail. He kept newspaper clippings about unsolved murders in his house. He is Paul K. Silverman, also convicted on a drug charge, also serving time in Oklahoma. Bush named a Cigarette Fidelity. Supposedly, he kept a squad of Rottweilers trained to attack on hand command. They threatened to cancel the Blue Thunder contract if Aronow didn't buy the company back. A day or two after the murder, Kramer told police how troubled he was to lose his "friend" Aronow. Another possible government witness is William George Walton, also serving time. He is in jail in Oklahoma City, awaiting sentencing on the federal drug charge. His widow, Lillian Aronow, has not spoken publicly about her husband's murder. But when the Feds found out they were buying the boats from Kramer, a drug suspect himself, they cringed. Even the Rev. ", To another officer, Fort Lauderdale Organized Crime Detective Stephen Robitaille, Young said: "I'm a mercenary.". "I can't confirm or deny anything that's not public record, " says Walton's lawyer, Paul A. A shy waitress and a persistent customer put their faith in fortune cookies in this sweet story from the director of Lbs. He instructed his employees to accept collect calls from a con in a federal pen. He sold boats to Christina Onassis and Victor Posner and allegedly was a pal of Meyer Lansky, the financial brains of organized crime. They were Communists. A fisherman found his body in a canal in Broward County. He backed his Mercedes into the street. Jesse Jackson has a bit part -- as the innocent humanitarian who got Young out of a Cuban prison in 1984. Someone put a small pipe bomb underneath the seat of his maroon Jeep last September.