“Muscle, Mayhem and Murder" airs on Saturday, April 20, 2013 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT). No pain, no gain… The real-life story of the South Florida crime spree so sensational that it inspired the major motion picture now in theaters. In 1994, a group of body builders from Miami plotted the extortion and kidnapping of a millionaire; their plan, however, went awry, ending in one of the most gruesome double homicide to hit the area, and the escape of a survivor whose account was so incredible, it took months for police to believe it.
Best friends Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal ran the Sun Gym, known in Miami during the early 90s as THE body builder hangout. A fellow gym member, Jorge Delgado, approached them with the promise of making big money, and a plan to exact revenge on a former partner: Marc Schiller, a successful South American businessman, who allegedly cheated them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Together, Lugo, Doorbal and Delgado kidnapped Schiller and forced him to sign over his assets. For nearly a month, they kept Schiller in a warehouse, beating and torturing him until he signed over everything he had. Of course they couldn’t spend Schiller’s money, live in his multi-million dollar home, drive his cars while their captive was still alive… so they force-fed him liquor and sleeping pills and then put him behind the wheel of a car. Schiller crashed the car, which led to a fiery inferno, but somehow he escaped. While in the hospital recuperating, he tried in vain to tell hospital personnel about what he had endured, but after a month in the same clothes, not bathing, smelling of alcohol and full of drugs - nobody believed his story; he was written off as a deranged homeless man.
The Sun Gym gang quickly blew through their fortune from Schiller, so they set their eyes on another millionaire, Frank Griga—known for his adult hotline business, exotic dancer girlfriend, Krisztina Furton, and covetable Lamborghini. This time Lugo and Doorbal invited the couple to dinner under the guise of discussing a business venture… and then trapped them inside a townhouse where they beat Griga to death and injected his girlfriend with a fatal dose of tranquilizers --- all before extracting any information from which they could profit.
While the gang transported the bodies of Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton to the same warehouse where Schiller was tortured, and dismembered them… news of the missing millionaire couple begins to surface. Metro-Dade police eventually focus their attention on Lugo and his team, with the help of one very surprising source. Troy Roberts provides a full report on this incredible-but-true case, and speaks one-on-one with survivor Marc Schiller about his ordeal... on this week's all-new 48 HOURS.
JUDD FINKELSTEIN - JUDD HILL WINERY
Judd was raised in Napa Valley. He graduated from The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication at Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in Television Production, but you might say winemaking was in his blood. Since he was a tot, his parents were making wine. From pruning to picking to punching to pressing, Judd has been involved in every facet of winemaking, and he also studied winemaking at UC Davis and Napa Valley College.One of Judd's other passions is playing his ukulele, both solo and with his band, The Maikai Gents Featuring The Mysterious Miss Mauna Loa. "We perform old-time Hawaiian crooning in the Hapa-Haole style. We started because I wanted some Hawaiian music for a birthday luau I was having for myself and couldn't get the entertainer I wanted. We learned a few Hawaiian tunes and performed them at the party. My friends and family loved it, of course, but the funny thing was that the resort asked us back for a festival they were having later that spring! So we learned some more songs and have been gigging ever since." Why the ukulele?" Someone needed to play it! We thought a ukulele would round out our sound....and I haven't put it down in three years!" Judd has also started a ukulele club in the Napa Valley,
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