Jorge Delgado admitted to jurors last week that he tried to kill a man who had gained his trust and friendship in a gruesome extortion plot gone haywire. The man, who had amassed a small fortune mostly through Medicare fraud, was tortured, beaten, starved, stunned with a Taser and set on fire during a planned car crash into a concrete pole. That victim, a man named Marcelo Schiller, managed to survive.
The kidnapping and torture of Schiller and the murders of Frank Griga and girlfriend Krisztina Furton by a group of body builders and workout fanatics known as the Sun Gym Gang not only turned into one of Miami-Dade's most sensational and lengthy trials, it also supplied source material for the 2013 movie Pain & Gain starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.
Now, the brutal crimes are being revisited in Miami-Dade criminal court in a state-ordered hearing that could potentially change the death sentences for two of Delgado's partners in the deadly shakedown plots three decades ago - Noel Doorbal, 52 and Daniel Lugo, 61.
So far, both Delgado, who spent only seven years in prison after flipping on his partners, and Schiller have taken the stand to recount the chilling details. 'They asked for a list of my assets and started hitting me and then they decided to play Russian Roulette,' Schiller said to jurors.
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