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    Noel Alexander Doorbal - Florida


    Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton




    Summary of Offense:

    Doorbal was convicted and sentenced for the kidnapping, extortion, and attempted murder of Marc Schiller, as well as the kidnapping and murders of Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton.

    Kidnapping, Extortion, and Attempted Murder of Marc Schiller

    Marc Schiller was a successful businessman who owned an accounting firm and hired Jorge Delgado to help with his business. Delgado often visited Schiller’s house, and the two eventually became good friends. Delgado also became friends with Daniel Lugo, who was employed at Sun Gym, where Delgado exercised. Eventually, Lugo began joining Delgado in trips to Schiller’s house.

    In 1994, Schiller questioned Delgado’s business practices, which caused an argument between the two. Schiller and Delgado severed their business ties, and on the advice of Lugo, Delgado hired John Mese to be an accountant. Lugo convinced Delgado that Schiller had cheated the two of them in billing operations. Delgado testified that Lugo produced documents to back up his claims. When questioned by Delgado, Schiller denied any wrong doing. It was at this time that Lugo, along with several associates, including Noel Doorbal and two other individuals recruited by Lugo from Sun Gym, made a plan to kidnap Schiller and force him to sign over assets Lugo believed Schiller owed him (Lugo) and Delgado. Although Delgado had originally told Lugo he wanted nothing to do with the plan, he became very involved in the plot. Delgado gave specific information to Lugo about Schiller’s life, work schedule, home, and family life. Lugo, Doorbal, and the others then secretly observed Schiller.

    After a few attempts, the group was successful in kidnapping Schiller on November 15, 1994. They took him to a warehouse Delgado had rented. Lugo demanded that Schiller sign over his assets to him. After Schiller refused, the group began beating him and shocking him with a stun gun. Schiller finally agreed after Lugo had threatened to harm Schiller’s wife and children. Schiller began unwillingly signing checks and documents, giving Lugo possession of his property and assets. During this time, Schiller was blindfolded so he could not see what he was signing. Mese became involved in the crimes by using his position as a notary public to verify the signing of the checks and documents. During Schiller’s captivity, the group entered Schiller’s house and stole items and charged items with Schiller’s credit cards. Three weeks into the kidnapping, Doorbal and Delgado convinced Lugo that the group needed to kill Schiller because he could possibly identify some, if not all, of those involved in the kidnapping and extortion. In the fourth week of the abduction, a plan was constructed to kill Schiller by staging the murder to appear to be a fatal drunk-driving accident. The group forced Schiller to consume a large amount of alcohol. Lugo took Schiller’s car and ran it into a utility pole to make it appear as though Schiller was involved in an accident. They took Schiller to the car and put him in the front seat, then poured gasoline over the vehicle and set it on fire. The group was leaving the scene in another car when they saw Schiller in the road. Lugo and Doorbal then told the driver to run him over, which the driver did. They left the scene, convinced that Schiller was dead. They found out later that Schiller had actually survived and, at his request, was transported to New York to recuperate. While Schiller was in New York, Lugo and his group emptied his house and bank accounts. Schiller was able to identify Lugo in his testimony because he recognized Lugo’s voice during his abduction.

    Abduction, Attempted Extortion, and Murders of Frank Griga & Krisztina Furton

    Doorbal, through his girlfriend at the time, learned of the wealth of a local businessman, Frank Griga, and his girlfriend, Krisztina Furton. Doorbal relayed this information to Lugo, and they planned to kidnap and extort the couple. Lugo and Doorbal planned to visit Griga under the guise of presenting a business proposition, and they planned to gain his confidence through this encounter; however, Griga was not interested. During their second visit on May 24, 1995, Lugo and Doorbal were to carry out the abduction, but Lugo aborted the plan. The next plan was to lure the couple to Doorbal’s apartment, with an invitation to dinner. On May 25, 1995, the couple followed Lugo and Doorbal to Doorbal’s apartment. When Delgado visited Doorbal’s apartment that evening, he was informed that Griga was killed during a fight with Doorbal. Once Furton knew Griga was seriously hurt, she started screaming. It was at that time that Lugo restrained her and injected her with Rompun, a horse tranquilizer, to subdue her. They then focused on Furton for information about the code to enter and burglarize Griga’s home. Doorbal had carried Furton to the bottom of the stair case where she began to scream again. She was then injected a second time with the horse tranquilizer. After answering a few questions, Furton decided not to supply them with any more information. They injected her with a third dose of the tranquilizer.

    At this point, John Raimondo, a corrections officer whom Lugo had hired to kill Furton and dispose of both the bodies, arrived. He neither killed Furton, nor disposed of the bodies. Lugo went to Griga’s house with what he thought was the code to get in the house. Once he realized he did not have the correct code, he called Doorbal, who informed Lugo that Furton was dead. When Lugo returned to Doorbal’s apartment, he told Delgado to go home and to return to Doorbal’s apartment the next morning with a truck. The next morning both bodies were loaded onto the truck and were taken to a warehouse in Hialeah. After Lugo and Doorbal had purchased the necessary equipment, they proceeded to dismember the bodies with a hatchet and chainsaw. They also attempted to burn the heads, hands and feet in a metal drum. Lugo and Doorbal removed everything from Doorbal’s apartment that had blood on it, including carpet and computer equipment, and stored the items in the storage area of Lugo’s apartment.

    On May 27, 1995, Lugo made a trip to the Bahamas to gain access to Griga’s bank account, but was unsuccessful and returned to Miami. On May 28, 1995, Lugo, Doorbal and another man disposed of the torsos, arms, and legs of the bodies in metal drums that were left at a site in southern Dade County. The heads, hands, and feet were disposed of separately in the Everglades. Lugo escaped to the Bahamas, where he was arrested in June 1995 based on information supplied to police by his girlfriend at the time. Doorbal was linked to the crimes by information obtained through police investigation and questioning of associates linked to the disappearance of Griga and Furton and the kidnapping and extortion of Schiller.

    Doorbal was sentenced to death in Miami-Dade County on July 17, 1998.

    Co-defendant information:

    Daniel Lugo - Indicted on October 2, 1996 and sentenced to death on July 17, 1998. For more on Lugo, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...ht=daniel+lugo

    John Mese - Mese was indicted on October 2, 1996 (Case# 95-17381-F) for the kidnapping, extortion, and murders of Griga and Furton and the kidnapping and extortion of Marc Schiller. A jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts of the indictment; however, the judge set aside the convictions pertaining to the Griga/Furton crimes. On July 20, 1998, Mese was sentenced to 56 years imprisonment for the kidnapping and extortion of Schiller.

    Mese appealed and the State cross-appealed the sentence to the Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District. On June 19, 2002, the DCA ruled that the trial judge improperly set aside the two RICO convictions and ordered a new sentencing hearing to be conducted on those counts.

    On January 15, 2003, Mese was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for one count of Conspiracy to Commit Racketeering.

    John Raimondo - Raimondo was indicted on October 2, 1996 (Case# 95-17381-I) on one count each of conspiracy to commit racketeering, first-degree murder (Furton), kidnapping (Furton), and attempted extortion. The State nolle prossed all but the kidnapping charge, and Raimondo was convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment for the crime.

    Jorge Delgado - In return for testifying for the State, Delgado was sentenced to two prison terms of 15 and 5 years for his role in the murders of Griga and Furton and the attempted murder of Schiller.

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    July 2, 2009

    Court denies Doorbal death-sentence appeal

    In Atlanta, a federal appeals court has denied a bid for a new hearing by a member of an extortion gang convicted of killing and dismembering a Hungarian couple 14 years ago in South Florida. Noel Doorbal received 2 death sentences in the 1995 killings of Frank Griga and his girlfriend, Krisztina Furton, whose body parts were put in 55-gallon drums and buckets left at roadsides.

    Doorbal's gang kidnapped wealthy men and forced them to turn over their assets. An earlier victim survived a staged auto accident in which he was set on fire.

    Doorbal claimed ineffective assistance of counsel in his 1998 trial. A federal judge denied his habeas corpus petition, and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling on Monday.

    (Source: The Macon Telegraph)

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    Doorbal filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the United States Supreme Court on September 15, 2009 that was denied on November 16, 2009.

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    Death sentence vacated by the Florida Supreme Court today due to Hurst.

    http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/d...7/sc17-349.pdf
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    ‘Pain & Gain’ murderer from Miami gets new chance to avoid execution

    By David Ovalle
    Miami Herald

    A Miami gym rat sent to Death Row for the gruesome dismemberment murder of a Golden Beach couple in 1995 is getting a new sentencing hearing.

    Florida’s high court this week tossed out the death sentence for Noel Doorbal, one of the notorious Sun Gym crew whose story was made into the movie “Pain & Gain.”

    The decision was not a surprise. Most Florida Death Row inmates from the past two decades are getting new sentencing hearings because of recent changes to the death-penalty law.

    The U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 ruled that Florida’s death-penalty sentencing system was unconstitutional, and the state justices later ruled that many inmates slated for execution should get new sentencing hearings because juries did not vote unanimously for execution.

    Jurors voted 8-4 to send Doorbal to Death Row. He and Daniel Lugo, weightlifters who worked out at the Sun Gym in Miami Lakes, have been on Death Row since they were convicted and sentenced in 1998. Lugo, 54, is also likely to get a new sentencing hearing.

    Doorbal, 45, remains convicted of the murders. If Miami-Dade prosecutors decide to again seek the death penalty, a new jury will be selected to hear evidence and decide whether execution is the proper punishment.

    Hoping to get some of his fortune, the two men kidnapped Frank Griga, 33, a Hungarian immigrant who had earned his fortune in the 900-phone sex business, and his girlfriend, Krisztina Furton. Inside Doorbal’s apartment, the kidnapping went horribly awry.

    Griga fought back and was beaten to death. Furton was fatally drugged with horse tranquilizers.

    The bodies were whisked away to a warehouse, where they were dismembered. Eventually, their body parts were found in drums and buckets discarded along rural highways in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

    The story was made into 2014’s “Pain & Gain,” starring Mark Wahlberg as Lugo, Anthony Mackie as Doorbal and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Paul Doyle, a fictional composite character based on several members of the murderous crew.

    Billed as a dark comedy, the movie infuriated relatives of Griga, as well as Marc Schiller, a Miami businessman who was also kidnapped and tortured.

    “I think it’s ridiculous. It’s horrible what happened to them,” Zsuzsanna Griga, the sister of Frank Griga, told the Miami Herald before the movie premiered. “I don’t want the American public to be sympathetic to the killers.”

    http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...174659956.html
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    Hard to believe the jury had 4 who voted for life imprisonment. The Florida Supreme Court should have shown some guts and only made Hurst retroactive to cases not Final when it was handed down at SCOTUS.
    Last edited by Helen; 09-21-2017 at 08:30 PM. Reason: no need to post article with comment if its right above

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