On August 22, 1985, Steven Benson, aged just 33, was arrested for murdering his mother, Margaret and his brother Scott, and attempting to kill his sister, Carol-Lynn. — Margaret Hitchcock Benson was the heiress of the Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Co. Her father, Harry Hitchcock, had founded the company in 1941. Harry had come from nothing and built the company from the ground up. Lancaster Leaf Tobacco became one of the largest dealers of tobacco in the world.