[2] The gang was composed mostly of bodybuilders who frequented the Sun Gym in North Miami, Florida,[2] including Daniel Lugo and Noel "Adrian" Doorbal.
[4] In 1991, Lugo had been arrested and plead guilty to fraud, serving a fifteen-month sentence in addition to a three-year federal probation period.
When this didn't work out, he remained at the gym first as the back-office manager in the weight room before ending up as a desk clerk.
[4] In a 1994 meeting, Daniel Lugo asked Noel "Adrian" Doorbal and Stevenson Pierre whether they were interested in making $100,000 for two days' work.
[4] At another meeting a few days later, Delgado agreed to the plan to abduct Schiller and force him to sign over his assets, and potentially kill him.
[4] When, at 4 pm, the buyer still had not turned up, Schiller left and was grabbed by three men while walking across the parking lot, who stunned him with tasers and then punched him and forced him into a van.
[4] For weeks, the gang made Schiller tell a series of stories and, under pressure, sign over all of his assets, making dozens of requests for his signatures.
[4] Finally, the gang decided they would kill Schiller with a 2 million dollars MetLife Insurance policy designated to Lugo's ex-wife Lillian Torres as the new beneficiary.
[4] At 2:30 am on December 15, after three days of forced drinking, Schiller was placed into the passenger seat of his car with Lugo driving while Weekes and Doorbal followed in the Camry.
[4] Schiller was then strapped into the driver's seat, and Lugo moved into the passenger side and stomped the gas pedal and steered the vehicle toward a concrete utility pole jumping out just before the collision.
[7] In 1994 Daniel Lugo again planned to extort and kidnap Winston Lee, a Jamaican man who frequented Sun Gym.
[4] Through Noel "Adrian" Doorbal, the gang were informed of another wealthy man, Hungarian Frank Griga who had made his fortune by running a phone-sex empire.
[14] The gang began to attempt to extract information from Furton regarding the codes which would grant entry into Griga's home, whilst continuing to inject her with Rompun.
Shortly following, Bartusz contacted their mutual Hungarian friends in the Miami area to see if they knew the couple's whereabouts.
[22] The next morning, Metro–Dade police served warrants on the houses of Daniel Lugo, Jorge Delgado, Noel "Adrian" Doorbal and Sun Gym owner John Mese.
[23] Lugo had already fled to the Bahamas, but was arrested five days later in Nassau by a multi-agency task force, who brought him back on a commercial flight to Miami.
[23] On June 10, Lugo agreed to reveal the hiding place of the bodies in return for the police mentioning his helpfulness to a jury.
The body of Furton was later identified through her breast implants' serial number, which was matched to the records held by her plastic surgeon.
[citation needed] A month later, information that the missing body parts could be found in Alligator Alley was supplied by an anonymous caller.
Count XLVI Conspiracy to Commit a First-Degree Felony[27]He remains on death row for the murders of Griga and Krisztina Furton[28] and has made multiple unsuccessful appeals against his sentence.
Count XLVI Conspiracy to Commit a First-Degree Felony – 15 years[29]Because of changes to capital punishment laws, Doorbal's death sentence was overturned in 2017.
Mese was indicted on October 2, 1996, for the kidnapping, extortion, and murders of Furton and Griga in addition to crimes against Schiller.
[29] On July 20, 1998, Mese was sentenced to 56 years imprisonment for the kidnapping and extortion of Schiller, after a judge set aside the convictions for the Griga and Furton crimes.