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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | It was just after 4 p.m. on November 14th, 1995, when an accountant and businessman named Mark Schiller |
0:11.0 | was finishing up his day at a restaurant he owned. It was called Schlotsky's Deli, and it was near the |
0:16.9 | airport in Miami. Mark had been working on the books that day, but a big storm was coming. |
0:23.3 | There were clouds rolling in, and he decided to go home to his wife, Diane, and their two young |
0:28.0 | children early, before the potential hurricane hit. Mark was originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
0:35.3 | Over the years, he had worked hard and built up his accounting business, |
0:39.1 | as well as several other businesses. He had also made a lot of money over the years. He had built |
0:45.0 | up a fortune. He had a $300,000 house in one of Miami's hottest neighborhoods. He had several |
0:51.1 | luxury cars, and over a million dollars in overseas accounts mark walked across the |
0:57.5 | parking lot and right when he got into the driver's seat of his forerunner three men grabbed him |
1:03.2 | and tased him at first he thought this might be a carjacking he screamed at them to take his watch a gold |
1:09.7 | Rolex but they grabbed him and yanked him |
1:12.2 | out of the SUV and pulled him toward a van that was waiting a few feet away. They threw him |
1:18.9 | inside that van, put a bag over his head and started driving. Mark didn't realize it yet, but this |
1:24.8 | nightmare was just getting started. This would begin an entire month |
1:29.5 | of torture. Eventually, this ordeal would include multi-million dollar fraud and end with two dead |
1:36.0 | bodies. This is a case involving some of the most street smart and yet idiotic group of |
1:42.7 | criminals that I've ever heard of. |
1:45.2 | I'm Catherine Townsend. |
1:46.7 | This is Blood Money. |
2:04.8 | Mark's Kidnappers drove to a warehouse. |
2:10.2 | They chained him to a pipe in the bathroom, the place where he would remain for the next 30 days. |
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