NOEL “ADRIAN” DOORBAL | Member of the Sun Gym Gang | “Pain and Gain” Murderer | Lot of 2 ALS

Noel Doorbal. Autographed Letters, Signed. Handwritten, Commercial #10 (4.125 × 9.5 envelope). Raiford, FL. Lot of 2, dates: (1) March 14, 2007 and (2) July 18, 2007. Content unknown. SEALED.

• Classification: Murderer

• Characteristics: Kidnapping – Extortion – Dismemberment

• Number of victims: 2

• Date of murders: May 25, 1995

• Date of birth: December 21, 1971 | age 52

• Victims profile: Frank Griga and his girlfriend Krisztina Furton

• Method of murder: Poisoning (Rompun, a horse tranquilizer)

• Location: Dade County, Florida, USA

• Status: Sentenced to death on July 17, 1998

• UPDATE: Because of changes to capital punishment laws, Doorbal's death sentence was overturned in 2017.

Doorbal was arrested and, at trial, was convicted of two counts of first degree murder, conspiracy to commit racketeering, racketeering, two counts of kidnapping, armed kidnapping, attempted extortion, two counts of grand theft, attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery, burglary of a dwelling, first-degree arson, armed extortion, and conspiracy to commit a first-degree felony. For each murder, the jury recommended the death penalty by a vote of eight to four, and the trial court sentenced Doorbal to death for each murder.

The Sun Gym Gang were active in Miami, Florida, during the mid-1990s and were responsible for the murders of Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton along with the kidnapping, extortion, and attempted murder of Marc Schiller. The gang was composed mostly of bodybuilders who frequented the Sun Gym in Miami Lakes, Florida, including Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal. Pete Collins published a three-part series in the Miami New Times in 1999 and 2000 chronicling the stories of the gang titled "Pain and Gain" which was then loosely adapted into the 2013 film Pain & Gain directed by Michael Bay.

How true is the movie Pain & Gain?

Doorbal (Anthony Mackie), whose given first name was Noel, was a handsome bodybuilder whose steroid use had indeed rendered him impotent. He saw a doctor for hormone injections to fix that problem, but he did not meet his future wife, Cindy Eldridge (called Robin Peck in the movie), at those appointments. (She did recommend the doctor, though.) The need to fund those injections did not motivate Doorbal’s crimes; he was reportedly in good shape financially, because Lugo had given him a cut of profits from the Medicare scam. The movie depicts Doorbal as fairly timid, but, according the gang’s first target, “Doorbal just loved violence,” and seemed like “the kind of guy you’d imagine had fun killing cats and dogs as a kid.” It was Doorbal, not Lugo, who murdered Frank Griga, the gang’s second target. Doorbal and his wife did not have a whirlwind romance: She turned down his first proposal of marriage, and he began dating a stripper; later he and Cindy got back together and married at a courthouse. Cindy helped Doorbal clean up the blood in his townhouse after the Griga murder, though she apparently did not know exactly what had transpired at the time. As in the movie, she divorced Doorbal during the trial and testified against him.

• VIDEO: the Real-Life Sun Gym Gang Muscle and Mayhem | https://youtu.be/iMPueH4ZA6A

• VIDEO: The Most Notorious Kidnapping and Murder in Florida | The Case of The Sun Gym Gang | https://youtu.be/jarZJzuYWTc

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