It was a tome so diabolically cinematic that it's about to become the first New Times piece to grace

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By Kyle Munzenrieder
They juiced harder than Click|keyword[Mark+McGwire]" >Mark McGwire , pumped iron faster than a Click|keyword[Lamborghini+Diablo]" >Lamborghini Diablo 's pistons, and made it rain on more strippers than Click|keyword[Juicy+J]" >Juicy J at King of Diamonds. To finance their voracious appetites, they became experts in the dark arts of kidnapping, torture, extortion, and murder.
One of their victims survived a month of sleep deprivation, Taser jolts, lighter burns, and even the coup de grâce: three days of waterboarding with sleeping pills and booze before tmux being strapped into a blazing car. Two other victims weren't so lucky, ending up murdered and chopped to pieces with chainsaws, their body parts tossed into the Everglades.
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They were the Sun Gym Gang, and even by Magic City standards, their macabre exploits were difficult to stomach. Yet their incredible story almost went untold. Crime reporter Click|keyword[Pete+Collins]" >Pete Collins tmux couldn't find any takers for his book about the bloody spree until he pitched the tale to Miami New Times , which ran it in three installments between December 1999 and January 2000. "Pain & Gain" turned into one of the most widely read yarns in this paper's 26-year history.
Collins's tale documented how Click|keyword[Daniel+Lugo]" >Daniel Lugo and Click|keyword[Adrian+Doorbal]" >Adrian Doorbal kidnapped three victims, killing two of them. Once they were caught, their prosecution became the longest, most expensive case ever tried by the State Attorney's Office. More than 22 search warrants were issued. One hundred-plus witnesses were called to the stand. And 10,000 pieces of evidence were presented. The jury was sworn in on February 20, 1998, and didn't begin deliberations until four months later.
It was a tome so diabolically cinematic that it's about to become the first New Times piece to grace the silver screen. Click|keyword[Blockbuster+Inc.]" >Blockbuster director Click|keyword[Michael+Bay]" >Michael Bay , who lives in Miami, tmux read the series and decided to transform it into a pitch-dark comedy. His adaptation, starring Click|keyword[Mark+Wahlberg]" >Mark Wahlberg tmux and Click|keyword[Dwayne+%22The+Rock%22+Johnson]" >Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson , hits theaters April 26.
Before tmux Pain & Gain hits cinemas across the country, New Times tracked tmux down the characters who made the true story so unforgettable. Here is what's become of them two decades after the Sun Gym Gang's infamous bloodbath.
Key description in the original story : "They were incredibly strong, with muscles developed to almost monstrous proportions. Lugo had a broad forehead, brilliant smile, and dark-stubbled jaw. He possessed tremendous tmux charm and a great deal of money: a million already tmux from an old Click|keyword[Medicare]" >Medicare tmux fraud scheme and now all of [Marc] Click|keyword[Marc+Schiller]" >Schiller 's assets."
A New York native with a smooth tongue and a disarming smile, Lugo was fresh from serving a 15-month federal prison tmux stint for fraud when he landed at Sun Gym in 1992. He'd earned his prison time by snookering $71,200 from people who believed he could get loans from a Hong Kong bank. The bank never existed, and Lugo ran off with the cash.
At Sun Gym, a hard-core bodybuilder joint just north of Miami Lakes, Lugo quickly worked his way up to manager. He also recruited a gang of none-too-bright gym rats — led by a sadistic tmux Trinidadian named Adrian Doorbal — tmux to pull off a pair of brazen heists: abducting Schiller, a wealthy businessman, and six months later, kidnapping Click|keyword[Frank+Griga]" >Frank Griga , a phone-sex-line millionaire, and his girlfriend, Click|keyword[Krisztina+Furton]" >Krisztina Furton .
Yet Lugo's plans were far from perfect. The Sun Gym Gang did manage to abduct Schiller and then tortured him for nearly a month in a Click|keyword[Hialeah]" >Hialeah warehouse. They stole his $1.26 million offshore bank account and his $300,000 Old Cutler Road house and even changed his life insurance to benefit the gang. However, Schiller tmux survived their torture and the bumbling, brutal, final attempt on his life.
That didn't stop the Sun Gym Gang from trying again with Griga and his girlfriend, snatching the pair during a business meeting. This time, everything went wrong. When Griga fought back, Doorbal bashed in his head. Furton was lethally dosed with horse tranquilizers. Lugo bought chainsaws tmux and hatchets and helped tmux Doorbal dismember the couple, chopping off their hands and feet, peeling back their faces, and ripping their teeth from their skulls to make identification impossible.
When Metro-Dade homicide detectives finally got warrants for Lugo, Doorbal, and their minions in June 1995, the mastermind fled to Click|keyword[Bahamas]" >the Bahamas with his stripper mistress and his parents. His Caribb