most violent, desperate criminals that we ever had in south florida. they could see a pretty girl in the car, they would wait and take the car. the miami s crime rate turned it into the murder capital of the nation. there have been so many murders in miami lately that a special truck is being used to store all the bodies. it turns out it was a truck that they used from burger king to haul the bodies. clive was beginning to see the picture frame around the murders and now wondered whether the moo youngs had caught themselves in the cross hairs of miami s cartel violence. clive felt the road map to the 80s could be found in the moo youngs brief case. we figured out the moo youngs were laundering money for the cartels. they got greedy and came up with
i didn t ready understand miami in the 80s. say hello to my little friend. federal agents seized 25,000 pounds of cocaine. in the 80s, the moo youngs were operating in a city where drug smuggling was bringing in 7 to $12 million a year. the banks in miami had more money than all the other banks in the country put together. people were walking in and buying mercedes and porsches for cash. miami could have been seen as the headquarters for money laundering. but the violence ballooned into what would become known as the cocaine wars. and law enforcement was quickly overwhelmed. we had bank robberies, kidnapping, extortion. one of the guys shot me through the fingers. in the back of the arm. standing between my legs, i went to kick home and he shot me in the groin. i figured he would kill me. these drug dealers were the
that s when he fired the first shot at his leg. that s when kris must have let go of four or five bullets. the television that was there, the lamp and everything was destroyed from a bullet. he turned his attention from the son. he said, come with me. took up the stairs, down to this door and then the next thing i heard was, shot the boy in the back of his head. kris ma ha raj was wealthy from new england who started a newspaper in miami. he was quickly charged with two counts of first-degree murder. the maximum sentence, the death penalty. it didn t look too good for kris. the lead detective, john burnof
with the crime if anyone got on to them. this officer told me yeah, yeah, kris was framed. it was my former partner who did it. it took clive a full year to get him to testify. he declared, i was a former police officer in miami, i was persuaded to tell what i know to his lawyer, clive stafford smith, i do not expect to benefit from this. i know the particulars of the maharaj case. indeed, i visited the scene of the crime when it happened. i know that mr. maharaj was framed because officers investigating the double murder told me they were going to do this. i had a moral duty to free a man who had been framed for 26 years and spent many of those years on death row. he could have been executed for
background investigators. and some of those people were tied into the drug dealers. the latest allegations go beyond cocaine and cops to charges now of first degree murder. we can just say that we are fryi trying to clone our own house. everybody you thought you could trust, you couldn t trust any more in miami. as it turned out one police officer as it turned out, one police officer jailed for corruption would hear about kris case and tell clive he knew what happened because he was there. i started courting a witness, that is probably the word for it, a witness who was in the place who could tell the truth. and this officer had told me that the police back in the 80s had a deal with the drug dealers where they would protect the murderers who were going around killing people in these drug cases. they would frame someone else