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Red Collar

Killer Bodybuilders: The Sun Gym Gang

Red Collar

Catherine Townsend

History, Red Collar, Con Artist, Investigation, American Greed, Society & Culture, Blood Money, Love Detective, White Collar Crime, Catherine Townsend, Hell And Gone, True Crime, Fraud, Murder, Documentary, Red Collar Crime, White Collar, Red Collar Diaries

4.6604 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A gang of gym buff con artists led by personal trainer Danny Lugo hatch a plan to kidnap, torture, and murder multiple victims in a story of sex, drugs, steroids and massive fraud in mid-90s Miami.

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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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