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(man) miami's kinda unique.

Florida in general is kinda unique.

We get the weirdest of the weird.

(man) this case, it had it all.

(narrator) it was a notorious crime spree

Fueled by sex, drugs, and miami's fast lane.

(man) it was a wild, wild tale

That had a cast of real shady characters.

(man) the glitz and glamour of miami.

(narrator) a lamborghini is mysteriously abandoned

-In the everglades. -We knew something terrible

Had happened to frank and krisztina.

This was one of the biggest cases,

The fbi, the us marshals.

(man) these meatheads dressed as ninjas.

(man) they called themselves batman and robin.

(man) they proceeded to torture him.

(man) he was treated worse than any prisoner of war.

(man) they used a butane lighter to burn his body.

They return the chainsaw that they'd just used.

-It was almost comical. -It was one stupid attempt

After another.

(man) they were a dumb group of criminals

Who almost got away with one of the most vicious,

Disturbing crimes

-That I have ever seen. -It was evil.

(narrator) located on the southern tip of florida,

Miami is a tropical paradise.

Sugar-white beaches,

Year-round sultry temperatures,

And a vibrant nightlife make this international city

A hotspot for tourists and celebrities.

(davidson) in the '90s,

Miami was glitz and glamour.

Madonna was here.

Jennifer lopez was here.

People were coming from around the world.

It was the hottest place to be in america.

(narrator) miami's south beach,

With its celebrity glam and sizzling temperatures,

Becomes a haven for partygoers who want it all:

Sex, drugs, and lots of money.

But life in the fast lane also has a dark side.

In the 1990s, miami was also a hotbed for crime

And a gateway for drug trafficking.

(garafalo) crime in the '90s was running rampant.

(siren wails)

The narcotics industry was going crazy.

(weinstein) we had homicides, robberies,

Large-scale conspiracies that involved

Some money-launderings.

-One call for a doa. -Strange things tend to happen

In miami.

♪

(unintelligible police radio transmission)

(narrator) on may 27th, 1995,

A florida state trooper discovers a yellow lamborghini

Conspicuously out of place in the everglades,

A giant swamp made up of coastal mangroves

And sawgrass marshes

Just miles from downtown miami.

(garafalo) the lamborghini was found by a state trooper,

And she discovered that this was a stolen vehicle.

(narrator) further investigation reveals

That the vehicle has been reported stolen

And the owner is a resident of an affluent neighborhood

North of miami.

(davidson) the florida highway patrol officer noticed

On the windshield of the car was a golden beach sticker.

Golden beach is just north of miami beach.

It's just an enclave of 1,000 houses.

(weinstein) the people who live there are very wealthy.

It's very highly guarded and protected.

(davidson) so she called the golden beach police department

And they connected that lamborghini to frank griga.

(narrator) frank griga and his girlfriend,

23-year-old krisztina furton,

Were reported missing three days earlier.

(garafalo) frank and krisztina were reported missing

On the 24th of may by their neighbor, judi bartusz.

(narrator) frank and krisztina were planning to leave

For a sun-soaked private weekend aboard frank's yacht.

(davidson) frank and krisztina were going to the bahamas.

He had a condo there, he had his boat there,

And they were going to chill out.

(narrator) when the housekeeper arrives at 8 a.M.,

Their beloved dog chopin is home alone,

But there are no signs of frank and krisztina.

(davidson) the housekeeper went to the house.

She saw the dog had torn up some furniture,

There was poop on the floor.

(ferrer) krisztina and frank would never do that.

They would never leave their dog behind.

(narrator) the housekeeper calls frank's close friend judi,

-Who immediately comes over. -Judi bartusz

And her husband gabor and frank were best friends,

And they lived within walking distance.

When judi got into their house,

She knew something was wrong too,

Not only because of the dog,

But because their tickets to the bahamas were on a desk.

Now, in those days, you didn't have e-tickets,

And that's how she knew, also, that something was wrong.

They wouldn't leave the dog,

And they never came back for their tickets.

Judi bartusz is the first one to sound the alarm.

(narrator) when judi notices that the lamborghini is missing,

She calls frank's pager but he does not respond.

Judi immediately files a missing persons report

With the golden beach police.

She tells them that she saw the couple the previous night

With two unidentified men.

And judi was able to give them a description

Of what krisztina was wearing the last time judi saw them.

Krisztina was dressed in a red leather skirt,

Red leather top, red leather boots.

The chief there called miami-dade police department

To let them know what was going on,

And miami-dade said, "oh, they'll come back."

You know, "let us know if you need anything else."

And that's where that portion of the case stalled.

(narrator) miami-dade police department does not start

Their formal investigation until they find frank's lamborghini

Three days later.

Although the crime scene investigators process

The lamborghini for clues,

They do not find any evidence of foul play.

(garafalo) we knew that there was something wrong here,

That these people didn't just arbitrarily disappear.

♪

(narrator) after notifying frank and krisztina's family,

Investigators immediately begin to look into the couple's

Background for clues as to where they could be.

♪

(alvarado) frank was a hungarian immigrant

Who came to the united states chasing the american dream.

(davidson) frank griga grows up in hungary

Behind the iron curtain.

(burst of static)

He's able to watch miami vice.

And he gets completely taken by this miami lifestyle--

Don johnson, armani suits,

Fast cigarette boats.

So eventually, he comes to south florida.

(alvarado) that miami lifestyle,

It's a place where people think that in order to show

That you've made it,

You have to go get an exotic car,

Go hang out at nightclubs,

Having boats,

And these are all things that require a lot of money.

And sometimes, the only way you can make a lot of money

Really fast is by being involved in shady behavior.

♪

(weinstein) frank got involved in the 900 sex numbers business.

He set up an operation where people would call in

-To 900 numbers. -Before long,

He's a millionaire from this.

(weinstein) he became the success story of an immigrant

Who came to america with nothing and ended up very wealthy.

(davidson) he owned a boat that he kept in the bahamas

Called the foreplay.

(alvarado) frank bought himself a big mansion.

He had three exotic cars,

Including the lamborghini.

He was living the lavish lifestyle.

(narrator) frank's american dream came true,

And the only thing missing was a beautiful woman

To share it with.

(davidson) frank met krisztina at a club in miami.

They were both from hungary.

She had been an athlete in hungary,

She was a swimmer.

She was lovely.

They were hopelessly head-over-heels in love

With each other.

(narrator) now, three years later,

They wind up missing,

And police are searching for answers.

(ferrer) frank griga,

He and his girlfriend krisztina were well-liked.

Might not like the area of business he went into,

But as a person, everybody liked them.

They were a nice, likeable couple.

(garafalo) we were able to determine

That frank and krisztina were good, quality people.

No records, they were hardworking people.

Our investigators did procure a search warrant

For frank's residence in order to process that scene.

(narrator) police do not find any signs of foul play

In frank's house,

And without a body or evidence,

Investigators are perplexed.

The good-looking couple is well-known

In the vip lounges of miami,

Yet no one knows where they are.

A lamborghini can attract a lot of unwanted attention.

Did the couple's flashy lifestyle

Make them a target?

♪

(davidson) police make a connection

Between the kidnapping of marc schiller

And the disappearance of frank and krisztina.

(garafalo) mr. Schiller had been held captive in a warehouse,

So we're hopeful that frank and krisztina

Will be found somewhere, alive.

(narra

Just north of miami is shattered

When a-list couple frank griga and krisztina furton

Mysteriously vanish.

The only clues investigators have

Are frank's abandoned lamborghini,

The airline tickets that were left behind,

And the two mysterious men who were last seen

With frank and krisztina.

Police learn that frank and krisztina

Were living their dream life.

Frank's business was skyrocketing,

And the couple were madly in love.

(davidson) krisztina and frank were a perfect couple.

They fit together like a hand in a glove.

(narrator) police theorized that this may have been

A carjacking gone wrong.

But if it was a carjacking,

Then where are frank and krisztina?

Detectives launch an aerial search of the harsh terrain,

Looking for any signs of the couple,

But they come up empty-handed.

Judi tells police that the last time she saw

Frank and krisztina

Was on Wednesday night at 10 p.M.

The couple was on their way to one of miami's hotspots,

A restaurant called don shula's.

Was the couple randomly targeted by a carjacker

On their way to dinner?

(garafalo) we had learned that frank and krisztina

Were supposed to have gone to some type of business meeting

In the miami lakes area.

(davidson) frank is a risk-taker.

He was looking for other ways to use his money

To invest in other things.

(narrator) according to judi,

Frank and krisztina were going to dinner with two men

Who wanted to pitch a business idea to frank.

Judi tells police that frank met the men

Through a friend.

(davidson) it's about 10:00 at night.

Judi happened to be walking her dog

When she saw this gold mercedes in the driveway

Of frank and krisztina's house.

She went to see what's going on

And she met the two guys.

(narrator) judi tells police that they were typical miami guys,

Buffed and flashy,

But the taller one left an impression.

(alvarado) she described him

As a dark-skinned chiseled adonis

With long black hair.

He was a very good-looking man.

That's the last time anybody has seen them.

(alvarado) the police started retracing their steps

And found that the restaurant they were supposed

To go have dinner happened to be closed that night.

(narrator) why would the two men invite frank and krisztina

To a restaurant that was closed?

The restaurant is an hour from where the lamborghini was found.

How did the lamborghini get there

And who drove it?

Was it frank and krisztina,

Or was it the two mystery men they had dinner with?

As investigators dive into frank and krisztina's background,

They learn that the couple had been living

Their american dream life.

Frank works hard and plays hard.

Both frank and krisztina flaunt frank's success

By throwing money around at solid gold,

The club where the couple met.

(davidson) solid gold was a strip club in miami.

They were considered to be big spenders

And that's where they spent most of their time.

(alvarado) miami is a very flashy city.

People come from other countries to achieve the american dream,

And sometimes they want to achieve that dream

In the fastest way possible.

(narrator) krisztina was a model in hungary.

When she turns 20,

Krisztina leaves everything behind

To follow her dream of moving to america,

And she is immediately drawn to the glitz and glamour of miami.

Little does she know that this sunny paradise

Has a dark side.

(davidson) krisztina came to the us

And she started working at solid gold.

Now, for a lot of these girls,

They just stayed here beyond their visas

Or whatever documents they had,

And they can't get a job unless you have a green card.

But they can work at places like solid gold.

(weinstein) krisztina worked as a dancer.

Frank worshipped her,

He wanted to get together with her after he found her

As a stripper in solid gold.

(narrator) it's an intense romance for the couple.

Frank became her prince charming,

Showering her with gifts.

Their relationship went from him just being a customer

To something more serious.

But krisztina wasn't the first woman

Frank had a relationship with at solid gold.

(davidson) frank would go to the strip clubs

Looking for models to appear in his commercials and ads,

And that's how he met beatriz.

Beatriz had an affair with frank griga,

But it was over, they remained friends.

-She really cared for frank. -Beatriz tells detectives

That she has moved on from frank

And she is happy that he found the love of his life.

However, beatriz is still a dancer at solid gold.

Could jealousy have led to something sinister?

Police ask beatriz if she noticed that frank

Was associating with anyone new lately,

And she says no.

(garafalo) it was questionable,

But who knows what her motive is or if she's lying.

(narrator) although police do not have any evidence

That beatriz is guilty of any wrongdoing,

She remains a person of interest

Because of her previous relationship with frank.

With no other leads,

Detectives turn to frank's family

With the troubling news that no one has seen the couple

In a few days,

And they are hopeful that the family can point them

-In the right direction. -We contacted frank's sister.

She didn't know much about the disappearance

Of frank and krisztina

(narrator) without a body or evidence,

The investigation stalls.

Detectives circle back to the two men last seen

With frank and krisztina.

Although judi cannot id the men,

She told police that they were weightlifter types.

Police continue to investigate the case.

That's when the homicide detective

Recalls a wild story.

(garafalo) our homicide captain at the time

Was an individual named al harper,

And was acquainted with ed du bois,

A private investigator.

(du bois) received a call from a maj. Al harper

With miami-dade police who said,

"you know that situation you told me back

A couple months ago,

Your client was kidnapped by weightlifters?"

I said, "yeah."

He said, "I think they're at it again."

I said, "well, what do you mean?"

He says, "there's a missing hungarian couple."

I said, "oh, god."

(narrator) ed's client, marc schiller,

Was tortured by a violent gang who stole $2 million from him.

(garafalo) mr. Schiller had been the victim of an abduction

In November of 1994

And was held captive in a warehouse

By a group of individuals, big muscle heads,

In the miami lakes area.

(narrator) the night frank and krisztina went missing,

They were headed to miami lakes.

Could these be the same men who kidnapped frank and krisztina?

If these two cases are related,

Is there a dangerous gang targeting millionaires in miami?

♪

In may 1995,

Multimillionaire frank griga and his girlfriend krisztina furton

Mysteriously vanish after leaving their home

With two men described as bodybuilders.

It's a head-scratcher for police

Until the homicide captain recalls a story he heard

A few months back

About a group of muscle heads who fit the description.

(davidson) the police make a connection

Between what happened to schiller

And the disappearance of frank and krisztina.

(narrator) three months earlier,

Multimillionaire marc schiller told detectives

That he was kidnapped and tortured by weightlifters

Who extorted $2 million from him.

Although police initially dismissed

Marc schiller's crazy story,

With no other leads or suspects in frank and krisztina's case,

-They are now willing to listen. -I was more interested

With frank and krisztina's whereabouts,

Their survivability, than schiller.

But I interviewed marc schiller,

And he was well-spoken, well-educated,

He was a cpa.

He told me the story of how he was abducted.

(davidson) they grabbed him,

Tased him many times,

Threw him in the back of the van,

Put duct tape around him, shackled him,

And kept on tasing him.

(alvarado) and the next thing you know,

Marc schiller woke up tied up to a chair

-In a hialeah warehouse. -Marc schiller was kept prisoner

By this violent gang for over a month.

(alvarado) they proceeded to torture him

With all kinds of weird shenanigans,

Including burning him with cigarettes.

(davidson) blindfolded, shackled,

They didn't feed him.

(ferrer) he was tortured and treated worse

Than any prisoner of war.

♪

(narrator) marc schiller tells detectives

That while he was held captive,

The men wore hoods and referred to each other

As the sun gym gang.

After getting their kicks by torturing him,

The gang drains marc schiller's bank accounts.

(ferrer) they brought him documents to sign.

He couldn't see what they were because he's blindfolded.

(alvarado) they would force him to sign paperwork

Turning over his assets while they were torturing him.

(ferrer) they transferred ownership of a condo he had.

They transferred the ownership of his cars.

They moved into his house.

They were living his life.

(alvarado) the whole goal was just to, like, wipe this guy clean

Of everything he owned so that they could have it

And then live a lavish lifestyle.

(narrator) while he is held captive,

The gang tells schiller that they are spending his money

On drug-fueled nights at the solid gold strip club.

(ferrer) they used his money.

They'd been living off his money,

They'd been going to solid gold strip club,

Dating all the strippers,

Dropping $2,000, $3,000 a night on them.

Their girlfriends were strippers at the club,

Their friends were strippers at the club.

(narrator) if this gang was mingling with the solid gold crowd,

Did they cross paths with frank and krisztina?

(ferrer) they took marcelo schiller for every penny he had,

And that's when they realized, "we can't let him go."

(du bois) the next step was to kill him

And make it look like a car accident.

(ferrer) they drive marcelo schiller

West of miami international airport.

They get him very drunk.

They put him into the driver's seat.

They crash his car into a light pole,

And they torch the car.

He gets himself out of the car.

They thought that marc schiller was gone, dead,

But marc schiller did not die.

♪

(narrator) after narrowly escaping the grips of this barbaric gang,

Marc schiller is too afraid to call police,

And he reaches out to private investigator ed du bois.

(du bois) so the first big lead I had in the investigation

Was the notary, john mese.

(narrator) the documents schiller was forced to sign

Were notarized by a man named john mese.

He is a cpa

And the owner of a popular weightlifters' paradise in miami

Called the sun gym.

They needed john mese for his notary,

And they needed him to help them launder the money.

He was sophisticated in moving money around,

He knew what to do.

Without him, they couldn't have done as much as they did

In terms of the transactions.

(narrator) john mese tells ed du bois that he had

A lucrative business deal with marc schiller,

And he invites ed to his office.

(du bois) and I go to john mese's miami lakes office,

And they put me into a waiting room.

We notice that the trashcan in there

Was overflowing with paper,

And we started just to go through it

To see if there was anything relevant in it,

And it was all relevant.

I took it all, I stuffed it down my pants,

I stuffed it in my jacket,

And it was a glory hole of evidence.

It had copies of bank accounts from the sun gym,

Where they had deposited the checks from schiller.

They had copies of the checks they used

To pay each one of the bad guys.

It gave us the entire network.

There were 11 men involved in this criminal enterprise.

They were called the sun gym gang.

These morons had taken documents

That were evidence of their crime

And threw 'em away in the garbage can

In the conference room where they put the investigator.

Marcelo schiller goes

To the miami-dade police department headquarters

With ed du bois, the private investigator.

(alvarado) unfortunately,

Law enforcement authorities do not take the case seriously.

(ferrer) it doesn't make sense.

He was kidnapped, tortured.

They tried to kill him,

They ran him over with a car,

And when he gets out, he just leaves?

He doesn't call the police?

When he's in the hospital and he gets a phone,

He calls this private investigator,

Not the cops?

So the police, I think understandably,

Don't believe his story.

They think that he is a drug dealer.

Miami is still awash with cocaine,

And they think that he's trying to eliminate

A rival drug dealer with this outlandish story.

It was terrible,

It was just terribly outrageous, unprofessional.

(narrator) ed du bois warns police

That the sun gym gang is very dangerous

And they will target more victims.

(davidson) du bois is telling the police,

"these guys are gonna do it again.

They're getting away with it once,

They're gonna do it again."

♪

(narrator) the spine-tingling tale from marc schiller

Turns the investigation on a different course.

Detectives are beginning to see parallels

Between marc schiller and frank griga.

Both men are immigrants who obtained the american dream.

They were self-made millionaires,

But then marc schiller throws police a curveball

When he reveals what he does for a living.

(garafalo) schiller was involved in medicare fraud.

(narrator) marc schiller tells detectives

That the sun gym gang threatened him.

If he went to the police about the money they stole from him,

They would turn him in for his illegal business.

Did the sun gym gang kidnap frank

Because they believed he was also involved

In illegal activity?

(garafalo) people associate 900 numbers as,

Oh, they're not paying their taxes,

Or it's pornography.

Well, lemme tell you,

Frank was a hardworking guy,

An ingenious type of guy,

Who paid his taxes, who worked hard.

(narrator) if these two cases are related,

Is the sun gym gang draining frank and krisztina's

Bank accounts while they are being held captive?

Detectives jump into action.

The couple has only been missing for a few days.

Can they find them before it's too late?

(garafalo) because they did find schiller alive,

I had hoped that we would find frank and krisztina

In a warehouse or wherever.

♪

(narrator) after hearing a wild story about a multimillionaire

Who was tortured and extorted by the sun gym gang,

Detectives race to the warehouse

Where marc schiller was held captive.

But it's empty.

(garafalo) I hoped that we would find frank and krisztina alive,

But time went on

And who knows where they were being kept.

(davidson) the business plan for the sun gym gang

Was to kidnap wealthy miamians, hold them prisoner,

Force them to sign over all their assets,

And then when they had everything signed over,

They would kill the victims.

(alvarado) you know, whatever they stole,

They would just turn it into excursions at the strip club,

Buying a lot of cocaine,

And just living that miami lifestyle

And partying with people all night long.

(narrator) although detectives are following a hunch,

They have no solid evidence that the sun gym gang

Actually kidnapped frank and krisztina.

There has been no activity on frank's bank accounts,

And besides the lamborghini,

Nothing else has been touched, including his house.

Ed du bois gives police a list of the entire network

Of people involved in marc schiller's kidnapping.

(garafalo) ed du bois ended up giving us information

That we were able to piece together.

(narrator) detectives zero in on a man named danny lugo.

(du bois) danny lugo was the ringleader of the sun gym gang.

He was the mastermind,

And he was the one that plotted the entire criminal activity.

Danny lugo is a convicted felon,

Recently out of federal prison.

(narrator) 32-year-old danny lugo spent two yearsrison

For bilking elderly people out of millions of dollars

In a fraudulent insurance scheme.

He pulled off a medicare scam,

And he defrauded old people out of their money.

(narrator) danny is a natural con artist.

-He knows how to seduce people. -Danny was smart,

He was personable, he was charismatic,

He was 6'2", he was built,

And he was flashy,

And he was an excellent liar.

(narrator) in 1993, danny is released from prison.

Lured by the glitz and glamour of miami,

He heads south to start a new life.

An avid bodybuilder,

Danny applies for a job at the sun gym.

(alvarado) the sun gym was a weightlifters' gym

In miami lakes.

It's the kind of gym where people that want to lift weights

And be bodybuilders,

That wanna have the biggest muscles ever.

(narrator) danny lugo is exactly what john mese,

The owner of the sun gym, is looking for:

A smooth operator with a gift for the gab.

(du bois) danny was hired by john mese

To be the manager of the sun gym facility.

(narrator) it wasn't long before danny leveraged

His position of power to begin organizing

His little group of criminals.

They called themselves the sun gym gang.

(du bois) danny lugo took the opportunity to solicit people

In the sun gym to help him in a criminal enterprise

Of kidnapping and extortion.

(narrator) danny recruits 28-year-old adrian doorbal.

(davidson) doorbal is from trinidad.

He's younger than danny lugo.

Doorbal is pretty much a disciple of lugo.

In fact, they call themselves batman and robin.

(narrator) 34-year-old george delgado

Hires danny lugo to be his trainer,

And it's not long before he's under danny's spell.

Delgado tells danny about his boss,

Multimillionaire marc schiller.

(alvarado) so lugo and delgado were the ones

That came up with the plot to kidnap marc schiller.

(narrator) armed with this new information,

Detectives begin searching for danny lugo,

And they start at solid gold.

(weinstein) they spoke to lugo's girlfriend, sabina,

Who had worked at the solid gold strip clubs.

(narrator) when police interview sabina,

She admits that she does know frank and krisztina,

But she did not introduce them to danny.

(weinstein) danny lugo was known as a very scheming guy.

He never told anybody the truth,

And that included people like sabina.

He told her he was this double agent

And that he was working for the government,

-And she believed it. -Sabina tells police

That danny is on a secret mission

And she doesn't know when he will be back.

(garafalo) by the time we had started presenting

Information to them about the disappearance

Of frank and krisztina,

People started to talk.

(narrator) while at solid gold,

Detectives question frank's ex-lover, beatriz,

And this time, she cracks under pressure.

Beatriz admits to police that she is the one

Who introduced frank to her boyfriend, adrian doorbal,

-Danny lugo's sidekick. -One day,

Doorbal is flipping through her photo album

And sees this young guy standing next to this yellow lamborghini,

And immediately, dollar signs pop up in his eye,

And he goes, "who's that?"

And she says, "oh, that's my ex-boyfriend, frank.

He made a lot of money in 976 numbers."

Danny and noel develop this plan,

And they tell noel's girlfriend,

"I'd like to set up a meeting with him,

Because we have ideas that he might like

And we can expand his business," et cetera,

And she introduces frank griga to noel doorbal

And danny lugo.

(narrator) with the statement from beatriz,

Detectives now have a solid connection

Between the sun gym gang and the missing couple.

The investigation ignites,

And police begin putting together pieces of the puzzle.

(garafalo) there was identification by judi bartusz.

"yes, those were the people that I saw there at the house."

She described a vehicle, it was george delgado's car.

And all of a sudden, everything explodes.

♪

(davidson) there's no face,

There's no fingerprints.

(weinstein) it was their intent

That nobody would ever find these bodies,

And if they did, they'd never be able to prove the crime.

♪

(narrator) after detectives identify the two men last seen

With frank and krisztina,

They launch a manhunt for ringleader danny lugo

And the sun gym gang.

They race against the clock to find the couple.

(dramatic music)

(garafalo) the investigation was

A cooperative effort

Between the metro-dade police department, the fbi,

The us marshals' violent crimes task forces,

The state attorney's office.

This was one of the biggest cases

During that time period.

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(ferrer) they find out where doorbal lives;

They found out where danny lugo is staying.

They start seeking search warrants,

And I happen to be the emergency duty judge

Who's signing all the search warrants.

(davidson) it was June 3rd.

It's before dawn.

A whole task force meets at a park in miami lakes.

They're armed with search warrants

And they're gonna fan out across miami-dade county.

They're looking for the sun gym gang.

Well, they find delgado and they find doorbal,

But they don't find danny lugo.

(narrator) when police raid adrian doorbal's apartment,

They find evidence of marc schiller's kidnapping.

(garafalo) there were guns and assassin kits recovered

At doorbal's place.

We found evidence that belonged to schiller.

(narrator) investigators are combing

Adrian doorbal's apartment for evidence they can link

To frank and krisztina.

(ferrer) they were looking for evidence of blood,

Luminol testing in an apartment.

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(garafalo) we found blood evidence

In doorbal's apartment when we executed search warrants.

(narrator) without a body,

Detectives cannot confirm if the blood belongs

To frank or krisztina.

But they do confirm that the couple

Was in the apartment.

(davidson) they find frank griga's business card.

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They find krisztina's red outfit that she wore

The night that she went to eat,

And judi was able to give them a description

Of what she was wearing the last time judi saw them.

(narrator) after two days of interrogating adrian doorbal,

He finally breaks down and admits to police

That he was involved in the marc schiller kidnapping.

Adrian tells detectives that this was not an easy job,

And he gives police a play-by-play.

(ferrer) these meatheads were so ineffective

In their attempts to kidnap marcelo schiller

That it was almost comical.

They kept messing up.

(alvarado) there was a lot of, you know, harebrained schemes.

(davidson) they went to a place called the spy shop

And they bought all kinds of gear that would help them--

Night vision goggles,

And they staked out schiller's house.

(ferrer) they dressed as ninjas

And hid in his yard to kidnap him at 5 a.M.

When he came out for the paper.

They ended up running through people's backyards

With these headsets on, yelling, "abort! Abort!"

Like they were seal team six.

So it was like one stupid attempt after another.

(narrator) after hours of interrogating adrian doorbal

About frank and krisztina,

He finally cracks and gives them what they have been waiting for.

(garafalo) adrian doorbal had been interviewed

By two other detectives.

He eventually told them that he participated

In the abduction and the homicide

Of krisztina and frank.

Poor frank and krisztina.

(narrator) adrian doorbal tells police

That two months after they kidnapped marc schiller,

The sun gym gang targets businessman frank griga.

(weinstein) their plan was to get frank to sign over money

That frank had made in the 900 phone sex business,

And an additional other amount of properties

And bank accounts,

Much the same as they had done with schiller.

(narrator) on may 24th, 1995,

Danny lugo and adrian doorbal arrange to meet

Frank and krisztina for dinner to discuss a business deal.

(alvarado) daniel and adrian decided to

Take out frank to dinner,

But it was all a story, it was a ruse, it wasn't--

They weren't really gonna take him out to dinner.

It's about 10:00 at night, restaurant's closed.

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So doorbal says, "why don't you come up to my townhouse?

It's only three blocks away," and they agree.

Frank and krisztina, unsuspecting, agree to do this.

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(alvarado) and then once they got to doorbal's apartment,

That's when all hell broke loose and they went after frank.

(davidson) as soon as frank enters,

Doorbal comes from behind and he gets him in a chokehold.

Frank starts fighting back,

And they're tumbling around the room.

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Krisztina hears the yelling that was going on

And she starts running to help frank.

As she's running, danny lugo tackles her,

Pulls her down to the floor,

Starts beating her.

These guys kept a kidnap kit.

In the kidnap kit, among other things,

Were tasers, duct tape, and horse tranquilizer.

So he injects krisztina with the horse tranquilizer

And knocks her out.

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She never gets upstairs.

Doorbal kills frank.

In addition to choking him,

He hit him over the head with something.

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Frank griga is the guy with all the money,

And he's dead.

So they throw his body into a bathtub

And just let his blood drain down the pipes.

And they try to extract information from krisztina.

But she's so drugged from the horse tranquilizer

That she's not making sense,

And she's trying to give them numbers.

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Doorbal walks over to krisztina and says,

"the bitch is cold."

She had died.

They gave her enough horse tranquilizer

To kill four 1,000-pound horses.

And now, they have frank dead, krisztina dead.

They can't get in the house.

They have no way to get any money.

They got two bodies to dispose of.

Danny lugo says to george delgado,

"I got somebody who's gonna fix this."

♪

In walks john raimondo.

This is the cleaner.

And he says to them,

"you guys are a bunch of amateurs."

♪

(davidson) john raimondo was

A florida department of corrections jail guard,

And he was working out at sun gym.

That's how he knew them.

And he told 'em what to do, they did it.

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(weinstein) they came up with this plan

That they were going to cut up the bodies.

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So how were they gonna do it?

They were gonna use a chainsaw.

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(narrator) adrian doorbal's jaw-dropping tale

Of how the sun gym gang murdered multimillionaire frank griga

And his girlfriend krisztina furton

Shocks even the most hardened miami detectives,

Who until now thought they had seen it all.

(garafalo) poor frank and krisztina.

I've seen death countless times,

But these individuals were evil human beings.

(ferrer) these meatheads buy a gas-operated chainsaw

To cut krisztina furton's head off,

But it gets tangled in her hair and it won't work,

It won't do the job.

So, geniuses that they are, they go back to home depot

And return the chainsaw

That they just used

To try to cut off krisztina furton's head.

(weinstein) they ended up having to use brute force.

They used hatchets and just literally

Chopped up the bodies.

(davidson) the bodies are put into 50-gallon drums,

And they're driven out to the everglades,

And they're dumped in a canal there in the everglades.

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(garafalo) the only asset they did get from frank

Was his yellow lamborghini.

No one wanted to get caught driving that car.

Raimondo drove that lamborghini

To a desolate area where a state trooper discovered

That this was a stolen vehicle

And that it was tied into our case.

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(narrator) adrian doorbal tells investigators

That danny is the only one who knows where

Frank and krisztina's bodies are located.

(weinstein) they had to track danny lugo down.

He had fled south florida.

(narrator) on June 8th, 1995,

Authorities hunt down danny lugo in the bahamas.

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(garafalo) daniel lugo admitted that, yes, he was there

When they were murdered.

(narrator) three weeks after frank and krisztina vanished,

Daniel lugo is arrested for their murders.

(ferrer) well, danny cuts a deal with them.

"you waive the death penalty,

I'll take you to where the bodies are."

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(blades whirring)

(davidson) he took them to the location where

The 50-gallon drums were dumped.

(narrator) just three miles from where frank's lamborghini

Was found.

(weinstein) those detectives who went out there described it

As just a surreal situation,

Having to take those drums out of the everglades,

And then finding what they found inside those drums.

(davidson) they opened up the drums,

Only have two torsos.

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There's no face, there's no fingerprints.

(narrator) danny lugo is up to his old tricks.

Without fingerprints,

Law enforcement cannot identify frank or krisztina.

It was their intent,

Doorbal, lugo, and the rest of them,

That nobody would ever find these bodies,

And if they did, they'd never be able

To tie them back to them and prove the crime.

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(narrator) two days later,

Law enforcement receives an anonymous tip.

(ferrer) somebody called and tipped off the prosecution

To where the hands, feet, and heads could be located.

It was on alligator alley in a drainage ditch,

And metro-dade police went out there with helicopters.

And flew over the drainage ditches

And found the buckets with the hands, feet, and heads.

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(davidson) they found a breast implant

That had a serial number on it.

They traced the serial number to the doctor,

Who told them it was krisztina furton.

They identified frank from one of the mandibles

That were in the paint can,

And forensic dentists matched that molar to frank.

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(garafalo) this was heinous and atrocious and cruel,

What they did to frank and krisztina.

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(weinstein) frank's sister zsuzsanna

Really cared for her brother,

And she was very appreciative of what we were able to do

To help bring closure to her and to her family for this.

(jury foreperson) daniel lugo is guilty,

Noel doorbal is guilty.

(ferrer) I sentenced danny lugo and noel doorbal to death

For the crimes that they committed

Against frank griga and krisztina furton.

(davidson) all in all, 11 people were charged.

(weinstein) john mese was not charged with a homicide

Because he didn't get involved with what was happening

With frank and krisztina,

But he owned sun gym,

And that was really the center,

The hub of this whole conspiracy.

(ferrer) people have said, well, it was 'roid rage, you know,

These people were probably on steroids

And it led to that.

Okay, what about all the other people

Who just went along with it?

What about the people at the gym who were

Doing curls next to them and they said,

"hey, you want to babysit some guy that we've got

Kidnapped in a warehouse," and they did.

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Evil, pure evil.

But yet it fits into what was going on in miami, again,

The glitz and the glamour.

These guys wanted some of that.

They were just consumed with greed.

If you have any kind of brain,

You don't let yourself be seen by neighbors and best friends

When you go to pick up a couple

If you're gonna take them and kidnap them.

(du bois) I think crooks always think they're smarter than the system,

And they'll beat the system.

(alvarado) if they had been a little more careful,

They probably would have gotten away with the murders

And they probably would have gone on to find more victims.

To target and more money to steal.

(ferrer) had the police listened to marcelo schiller,

Frank and krisztina would be alive.

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But it was just

Too crazy of a tale.

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