A third meeting took place. Delgado said,

In October 1994, Daniel Lugo proposed to Noel Doorbal, Carl Weekes, and Stephenson Pierre that they kidnap Marc Schiller. All those meeting knew each other through the Sun Gym. Lugo claimed Schiller had stolen from him and gym member Jorge Delgado. The group agreed to kidnap Schiller.
In 1991, Delgado’s wife, Linda, worked in Schiller’s accounting office. She begged Schiller to help Delgado. Schiller offered him a job. Delgado and Schiller became friends, eventually starting a mortgage company together.
Delgado introduced Lugo to Schiller. Schiller disliked cordless door bell Lugo. In Schiller’s memoirs, Pain and Gain The Untold True Story , he recalls that Lugo once talked “of frauds he had committed and started making comments insinuating that we should do something similar.” Schiller told Delgado he did not want their relations continuing unless Delgado split from Lugo. Delgado refused. Schiller pulled out of the mortgage business. Schiller wrote, “I decided to take a ten-thousand-dollar loss and give a little extra to him so that he would not harbor ill feelings.” This strategy was to prove a dramatic failure.
Someone asked, “How come you’re allowed to have so much money while we have so little?” As Pete Collins reported in the Miami New Times , Schiller “was in no mood” to debate “theories of American capitalism. He kept silent.”
The van stopped at Delgado’s cordless door bell rented warehouse. Schiller was bound to a chair. Someone asked if he wanted water. His throat parched, Schiller answered, “Yes.” Someone threw water in his face then laughed. cordless door bell
Captors buzzed him with tasers, slugged him, and burned him with his lighter. He was left alone, cordless door bell bound and in a box. His bladder filled and there was no way to get to a restroom. Schiller writes, “I cordless door bell urinated as I lay there on the box, soaking my pants in the process and adding to the misery I already felt.”
A captor, whose voice Schiller recognized as Lugo’s, threatened to bring Schiller’s wife and children to the warehouse. His captors ordered him to call his wife and tell her to take the kids with her to her native Colombia.
When his captors demanded he confirm his house alarm code and the locations of his money, he realized Delgado was involved. A captor demanded cordless door bell he sign over assets. Schiller repeatedly signed papers he could not see. The documents were notarized by Sun Gym owner John Mese.
Schiller had been captive three weeks when the gang decided to murder Schiller by faking a drunk driving crash. cordless door bell On December 15, 1994, they forced Schiller to drink. Lugo drove Schiller’s car into a utility pole. Gang members shoved Schiller into the driver’s seat, poured gasoline over the car and set it ablaze.
Schiller, however, survived and was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital where doctors operated to remove his spleen. When Schiller regained consciousness, a surgeon said he had been in an accident. Schiller replied he had been kidnapped and tortured. As Collins notes, Schiller’s “credibility was undermined because he’d entered cordless door bell the hospital as a suspected DUI case.”
Schiller called lawyer Gene Rosen. After hearing Schiller’s story, Rosen advised Schiller cordless door bell to contact private investigator Ed Du Bois. On December 16, 1994, Schiller called Du Bois, who asked Schiller to write down everything he remembered and send relevant documents.
In January 1995, the gang moved into Marc Schiller’s house that had been signed over to a Bahamian company Lugo set up called D&J International. The gang had amassed about $2.1 million in cash, real estate, credit card charges, and goods. Lugo told neighbors he and his roommates were U.S. security officers.
Du Bois met with Mese and showed him Schiller’s letter. “Sounds like this guy had a rough time,” Mese commented. Du Bois asked if Mese knew Delgado and Lugo. Mese said he did. Du Bois showed him copies of documents that he had notarized that had transferred cordless door bell Schiller’s assets. Du Bois claimed he could not recall the circumstances under which he notarized them. He agreed cordless door bell to set up a meeting with Lugo and Delgado.
A third meeting took place. Delgado said, “We’re going to give you Schiller’s money back, the one million dollars.” There was a condition: Schiller must sign a document stating cordless door bell he would never tell the story to anyone again including police. Du Bois said he would discuss it with Schiller.
Schiller was destitute but reluctant to let his torturers cordless door bell get off scot-free. He also feared they were dangerous to others. Schiller and Du Bois discussed the offer with an attorney, who said that such an agreement of silence would be legally unenforceable and would amount to a confession. Schiller and Du Bois decided to play along.
The Sun Gym gang found lawyer Joel Greenbe