No Pain No Gain

0:11It's a swampy, desolate area. It's a wooded area. There's thousands of canals down there. It's populated with alligators, snakes. It's just an area that no one would really want to just go to and hang out.

0:35Troy Roberts:It's the ideal spot to dump a body. When we first went down there, it was pitch black. I shined a flashlight into the water and I was able to see the barrels. We only had a torso. The head, hands and feet were missing. All right, ready to go, Judge Alex? And I've tried some of the worst people there are. But this case really got to me. The victims were murdered one night in 1995. A young, successful, good-looking couple. Frank was 32 years old. He made a ton of money. He was a millionaire. Christina was his 23-year-old girlfriend. And they had everything. Boats, hot cars, Lamborghinis. They were living the life.

1:18This case had everything. It had sex, it had violence, dark, dark humor. We had a group of muscle heads. These were a bunch of meatheads. Guys who were working out in the gym, probably taking steroids. One of their targets was Frank and Christina. Basically the plan was, kidnap wealthy people, take everything they have, and then kill them. They got away with over a million dollars. The most fascinating case I think I've ever tried. Hollywood had to make a movie out of it. When's the last time you paid your rent when it was due? I got a plan to change that. If somebody scripted this, you would say, well, that's ridiculous.

2:01Except that it actually was true.

2:17He loved fast cars, beautiful girls, and life.

2:24Troy Roberts:Susanna Griga can never forget the kidnapping of her brother Frank and his girlfriend Christina Furton back in 1995. She was very beautiful. She was only 23 years old. My heart breaks when I think what she went through. Very handsome couple. They looked like they were made for each other. Felix Jimenez, now retired from the Metroday Police Homicide Department, was lead detective on the case. Frank was the American success story. An immigrant came to this country with$10 in his pocket and made millions. He came from Budapest, Hungary, and found a minimum wage job in New York City. It was like a service station.

3:04He was changing the oil, washing cars. What he accomplished should make everyone proud, because he went from nowhere to a millionaire on his own, just by using his own resources.

3:14Troy Roberts:In fewer than 10 years, he was living in an upscale Miami enclave called Golden Beach, running a phone sex line empire. He was on top of the world until May 24, 1995. I started calling him, and he wouldn't pick up the phone. I kind of knew that something really bad happened then. The disappearance of Frank and Christina will become one of Miami's most notorious crimes. But who would want to kidnap them? How did this all go down? We got a call that there was a missing, a wealthy couple that was missing out of Golden Beach. That was a little strange, because in homicide, we need a crime scene. We need a dead body to respond to.

3:53There's few and far between when there's actually a missing person that we would respond. It has to be highly suspicious circumstances. And it so happens in this case there was.

4:03Troy Roberts:At first, the detectives hoped they could find Frank and Christina alive. A missing Hungarian couple had said that they were going to the Bahamas the following day. So all their friends assumed that the reason they weren't home was because they were in the Bahamas. But that all changed, though, when police made a stunning discovery. Their Lamborghini was found in an abandoned wooded area far outside of Miami. At this point, we realized that something bad had happened to this couple. Sal Garofalo, also retired, worked the case for his boss, Felix Jimenez, now both CBS News consultants. We got information and we ended up going to Golden Beach.

4:42Troy Roberts:So you have a missing Hungarian couple and a Lamborghini. We had more information than that. We had a next-door neighbor that had actually been to the house the last time they were seen alive, and they invited her in, introduced her to two muscle-bound men that were driving a brand-new gold Mercedes and told them that they were going out to dinner to discuss a business deal. That neighbor would tell police she met the driver of the gold Mercedes and knew his name, Danny Lugo. Danny was a big, muscular guy. Police would soon learn that Lugo was a burly ex-convict who had served time for running a phony loan scam operation.

5:22Troy Roberts:After his release, he became the manager of a suburban Miami health club called The Sun Jim. It's real close to here, Sal. This is where Sun Jim was located. This is what we would call the gang headquarters. Danny Lugo was a Puerto Rican-Cuban kid from the Bronx. He thought he was smarter than anybody else. He had a way of convincing people to do things that they didn't want to do. The investigation into Frank and Christina's disappearance continued. Detectives learned Lugo was the leader of a group made up of drifters and petty thieves who hung out at the Sun Gym. Lugo's main partner in crime was another musclehead, Adrian Dorbal.

6:07Adrian Dorbal was Danny Lugo's protege. Dorbol was just an evil... He reminded me of just being an evil guy. He was a steroid freak, 5 '7 tall, 5 '7 wide. He did everything and anything that Danny told him to do.

6:23Troy Roberts:In May 1995, Danny Lugo and Adrian Dorbol would be at the center of one of the most notorious crimes in Miami history, a complicated and deadly plot that involved kidnapping, money, and murder. My name is Daniel Lugo. 18 years later, the story was too much for Hollywood to resist. I watch a lot of movies, Paul. I know what I'm doing. In the movie Pain and Gain, Lugo is portrayed by Mark Wahlberg. The film was released by Paramount Pictures. Paramount is part of Viacom. If you're willing to do the work, you can have anything. That's what makes the USFA great. The movie captures what Lugo was about in real life.

7:03Troy Roberts:His infatuation with getting rich, says Patti Barrientos, who worked alongside him at a gym. He said, I'm going to have a lot of money. I want to grow. I want to be somebody very big. He was money hungry. Yes. And with the little money he had, he spent a lot of it here at the Solid Gold Strip Club. It was here he began an affair with a one-time penthouse model turned exotic dancer named Sabina Petroscu. She was a very, very attractive woman. She fell for Danny and believed everything he told her. Sabina was another recent immigrant who made a splash in Miami. She was a finalist in the Miss Romania contest in 1990, then came to the United States to begin a modeling career.

7:45Troy Roberts:She made it onto the pages of Penthouse magazine, but filled the rest of her time as an exotic dancer. Danny treated her well. He gave her a BMW. Sabina would play a crucial role as police continued gathering more evidence, connecting Lugo and Dorbel to the disappearance of Frank and Christina. We have the housekeeper who was also at the home when the musclemen were there. We have the next-door neighbor. We show them photographs. They make identification. So we have a lot to go on. So search warrants were executed? Yes. Search warrants for the homes of Lugo and Dorbel and their associates. I mean, we had so many cops it wasn't even funny.

8:24In fact, we mobilized right here at this park. Right.

8:28Troy Roberts:Police quickly hit pay dirt in the apartment of Danny Lugo's girlfriend. There was some damning evidence there. Bloody clothing belonging to Frank and Christina. There was the kidnap kit, a case with duct tape, guns, handcuffs. There was so much evidence in that apartment. Soon, Adrian Dorbel was in custody and refused to talk to police. The main guy that we're after, Danny Lugo, is nowhere to be found. Danny Lugo had given them the slip.

9:14This case was all over the news. Miami was riveted as to this attractive Hungarian couple, you know, this yellow Lamborghini found in the Everglades. And that they're missing. And they continue to be missing.

9:28Troy Roberts:But detectives had lost their lead suspect, Danny Lugo. Lugo's gone. We have a warrant for his arrest. He's just vanished. We don't know where he is. They did have one good lead. We had his girlfriend, Sabina Petrescu. Sabina Petrescu, Lugo's girlfriend, the magazine model turned stripper, had quite a story to tell. She said her boyfriend wasn't a criminal. He told her he was a CIA agent. Number one, she was smitten with Danny Lugo. And number two, I think she believed what he was saying, that he was a CIA operative, that he was working for the U.S. government in kidnapping people that were dangerous to this country.

10:13Troy Roberts:Danny Lugo had convinced her he was a spy on a secret mission. So for now, she wouldn't tell detectives where Danny was, but it would be just a matter of time. In an incredible twist of fate, detectives in another department at Metro de Police had also been looking at Danny Lugo and Adrian Dorbol. Their case was the bizarre kidnapping of another Miami millionaire. Now Lugo and Dorbol were front and center of two cases. The Miami millionaire was Mark Schiller, an accountant. He was Argentinian-born, grew up in the U.S., went to school, got his CPA license. He had a medical billing business that did very well.

10:56Troy Roberts:The two crimes would become one huge case, a case that Judge Alex Ferrer, now TV's Judge Alex, and Miami-Dade prosecutor Gail Levine would never forget. This case was what made me who I am today, a career prosecutor. Of all the cases I've tried, this was by far the most fascinating case. Schiller would eventually tell police a wild story. That five months before the murders of Frank and Christina, Schiller himself had been grabbed by a gang. Bound and gagged, he'd be dumped in an industrial warehouse for more than a month. So this is it? This is it.

11:36Troy Roberts:So this was an empty warehouse that they had rented? This is a warehouse that was rented by one of the members of the Sun Jin gang. They drove the van with Schiller inside into the warehouse. Mark Schiller was the perfect victim because he was involved in something that was illegal. I think he got greedy and started getting involved in Medicare fraud. Danny Lugo learned about Schiller from this man, George Delgado, who also worked out at the Sun Gym. Schiller and Delgado had been in business. Him and George Delgado started a mortgage business together. But business went badly, and leaders Schiller and Delgado had a falling out over a deal.

12:17Troy Roberts:Delgado wanted revenge and told Lugo Schiller would be an easy mark. They basically go, well, he's not going to go to the cops. He was involved in Medicare fraud. We'll shake him down. So what was the plan? The plan was actually very simple. Kidnap Mark Schiller, have him write his own ransom, and then kill him. Simple as that? Simple as that. But catching Schiller to shake him down was tougher than it looked. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic because they made these stupid attempts. They would hide in his yard under blankets like they were some kind of ninja waiting for him to come out to get the paper at 5 in the morning and they were going to kidnap him only to be surprised that cars were coming down the street and lighting them up with their headlights.

12:58So then they're running through the yards, you know, screaming, abort, abort, like they were on some secret mission for the government.

13:05Troy Roberts:Hollywood could not resist this crazy scene. The gang used costumes and comic book codenames like Batman and Robin and tried to stage an accident to kidnap Schiller. They were waiting for him to drive by to stage this accident. They turned the car off and as he's driving by, they're cranking it and the car won't start. And he just goes driving by. So it's like the Keystone cops gone bad. Finally, after multiple attempts, the gang that couldn't shoot straight enlisted some serious muscle and planned to take Schiller down outside a restaurant he owned. They waited in a van and they had their biggest gym rats come out.

13:48I'm a good-hearted person. I just made a mistake.

13:51Troy Roberts:The man who we agreed to obscure and alter his voice worked with the Sun Gym gang to kidnap Schiller. I was pretty hardcore. At your peak, you could bench 475 pounds? 505. 505. How big were you? I was like a lean 270 pounds. Big guy? Yeah. Intimidating? Yeah. He was desperate for money and sometimes worked at the Sun Gym. Back in 1994, Lugo and his gang were offering cash for a little help. He told me, look, I got to talk to you about something. He owes me money, and I need you to come with me and help me collect. He agreed, and in November of 1994, brought his gun. So you had your.45 with you?

14:41Troy Roberts:I always carried my firearm. We were parked right there, and as soon as he came out of his restaurant, they saw him, so they said, there he is, there he is. It was one of those days in Miami where a storm was coming in. Schiller, a man who cheated death and whose harrowing ordeal was dramatized by actor Tony Shalhoub in a recent movie. I made a lot of money. Maybe yourself ought to spend some of it on a salad. You know who invented salad? Poor people. Why are you alive? I guess it's divine intervention. I can't explain it. Schiller's nightmare started just as he was about to head home after work.

15:25I walked out to my car. As soon as I opened my door, I'm grabbed from behind by three guys. And as soon as they grabbed him, the guy grabbed the steering wheel. Was he screaming? He was screaming. They just kept punching me, and they had a taser, and they kept tasering me. They were tasing him. Begging for mercy? He was screaming. What do you want? What do you want with me? What are you doing? So at that point, they dragged me to the van. It was a white van. They handcuffed my hands behind my back. You must have been terrified. They thought they were going to take me to kill me. They thought they'd take them.

15:54They put a tape in his mouth, and we took off out of here. When we got to the warehouse, they called the boss.

16:01Troy Roberts:The boss was Danny Lugo, the same man at the center of the Christina Furton-Frank Griega murder case. Told him the eagle has landed. I guess I was the eagle. When I left, Schiller was sitting in the chair. He was taped up, hands and legs, and were beaten on him. Schiller was tortured endlessly. Sometimes it was with fire. Doorbell would yell, fire, fire, but real sick. And he'd burn me, burn my skin. And then he'd do this again. And he would be laughing so hard he was crying. Other times, they played Russian roulette. They would place a gun to his head. They would take a revolver and spin it and pull the trigger.

16:44For the first couple of weeks, he wasn't even allowed to use a bathroom. He would have to urinate and defecate on himself.

16:49Troy Roberts:But the worst was yet to come. At this point, they thought, well, if you don't give us a list of everything you have, we're going to bring your wife and rape her here in front of you. Schiller says he was allowed to make one phone call. He called his family, telling his wife to take their two young children and flee to Colombia. She chose not to call the police. Why didn't she call police? I don't know. I think at that point it was prudent not to. And for some inexplicable reason, neither did any of Schiller's employees or friends or extended family raise the alarm. With his family safely out of the country, Schiller was still suffering.

17:26Troy Roberts:Finally, the daily torture was too much. He gave up, giving the gang everything. I signed, they told me he'd make that sentence. He was signing over everything, including his life. How much altogether? It was$1.2 million in cash and assets and a$2 million life insurance policy. And pretty soon, they had everything the man owned. They moved into his house. They changed the pool contract to their name. They were living there and partying in his home, and they were taking some of the furniture they liked and putting it in their own apartments, wearing his jewelry, driving his Dodge Viper and his Mercedes, and just basically living off of his money.

18:04Well, at that point, you can't let the guy live. So they decide that he's got to go.

18:17Troy Roberts:Having forced him to sign over his assets, the Sun Gym Gang, led by Danny Lugo, was partying in Mark Schiller's house. In the Hollywood feature Pain and Gain, Mark Wahlberg's character depicts the depravity. I know what I'm doing. They were living in the house, in my house. Despite his cooperation, Mark Schiller still remained chained like an animal in the Miami warehouse. Schiller was tied to a pipe in a very small bathroom. That's where he spent the next 30 days, was handcuffed to that pipe. The businessman and father was living in kind of a hell associated with a third world dungeon, complete with racial slurs.

19:04They just told me we got a matzo ball. What does that mean? I guess they were referring to the fact that I was Jewish.

19:11Troy Roberts:Schiller can't forget the sixth soundtrack that came with his daily beatings. I mean, this whole time they were laughing uncontrollably. To them it was just a fun game. While they were beating you? Yeah. Did any of your captors show you any kindness? Yeah, the guy that was a knight did because they stopped feeding me. I was starved. I hadn't eaten for like three days. he brought me a can of canned ravioli, which I had to eat with my hand. That would be one of the last meals the Sun Gym Gang intended for Mark Scheller to have as Lugo put his final plan into action. They give him alcohol to drink, get him all drunk.

19:50Troy Roberts:They plod you with alcohol for three straight days? It was probably more than that. It was probably like five days. And then what did they do? The last day, they sent me in a chair and they gave me this concoction to drink liquor tequila vodka and gave him sleeping pills and eventually he passed out you were unconscious i was unconscious they put him in his uh toyota 4 runner in his suv they drove the car into a light pole doorball was driving and then doused the car with gasoline and set it on fire and that was their attempt to kill him they backed out about a block away to watch the car as it was engulfed in flames.