Florida lawyer and team of investigative sleuths lead police to solve a 55-year-old murder case.

Florida lawyer Paul Novack has dedicated much of his public life to his hometown of Surfside. Reelected six times from 1992-2004, Novack stands as the longest-serving mayor of the sleepy oceanside villa just outside of Miami Beach.

While in office, Novack balanced Surfside's budget every year and never increased taxes. Novack can stack up his resume against anyone, but even he will tell you that his finest achievement as a citizen of Surfside was bringing closure to the disappearance of Surfside resident Danny Goldman who Novack lived nearby growing up.

Novack led a group of cold case investigators which included Joe and Danny Graubart to help the Miami-Dade police department close the cold case into the disappearance of Danny Goldman. The Graubart brothers were good friends with Danny growing up and held a very personal stake in ensuring their friend received justice. Goldman was abducted from his family home on March 28, 1966, just a day shy of his 18th birthday. A robber slipped in through the unlocked back door and took him while his mother and father slept.

Before the robber departed with Danny, he verbally demanded the Goldmans pay $10,000. Danny's father, Aaron Goldman, a director of Five Points National Bank of Miami, held a press conference shortly thereafter and pleaded with the kidnappers that they had raised the money to assure their child's safe return.

The kidnappers never contacted the Goldmans again and Danny's body was never recovered. While the mayor of Surfside, Novack had seen enough corruption investigations to think that organized crime could have had a hand in Danny's disappearance.

"I've been involved in corruption investigations back to the time I was mayor of Surfside," Novack said. "There was nothing that directly associated the mafia with Danny's kidnapping. However, now we know that much of the local investigation was derailed because it was directed by two people associated with law enforcement who had direct ties to the mob."

In 2012, seven years after Novack left office, Danny's friend Joe Garubert showed up on Novack's doorstep armed with information Danny's family had kept throughout the investigation. That's when the case of Danny's disappearance took a giant leap forward.

Garubert, a former Surfside city commissioner, came to Novack with a package of papers he received from Danny's mother, Sally, before she passed away. Included in these papers was an open letter she wrote two years after Danny's...