'Dateline' to spotlight Peggy Nadell murder in Rockland

Clarkstown civic activist Peggy Nadell's murder will be the subject of a segment on the NBC news show Dateline at 8 p.m. Thursday.

The hour-long episode will focus on Nadell's murder Jan. 25, 2014, inside her Valley Cottage home, the Clarkstown police investigation and arrests, the guilty pleas and the recent sentencing of her daughter-in-law Diana Nadell, 51, of Florida, and co-killer Andrea Benson, 25, of Washington, D.C.

Diana Nadell orchestrated the killing to gain her husband's half share of her 80-year-old mother-in-law's more than $4 million estate.

Diana Nadell received 23 years to life in prison, while Benson got 20 years to life after cooperating with the Rockland District Attorney's Office. Both women now are being held at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester.

Susanne Nadell-Scaccio, who found her mother's body, said friends and relatives plan to watch the program with her. Many of them attended court sessions with her and her husband, Robert Scaccio. She and her husband are among those interviewed, along with Clarkstown detectives, Rockland prosecutors and friends of Peggy Nadell.

"They will show pictures of my mother, but not the gory ones," Nadell-Scaccio said. "Everybody is going to watch or DVR (it)."

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