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Pain & Gain is a 2013 American black comedy [4] action crime film [5] directed by Michael Bay and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.It is based on a 1999 series of Miami New Times articles by Pete Collins about the activities of the Sun Gym gang, a group of bodybuilding ex-convicts convicted of kidnapping, extortion, torture, and murder in Miami in the mid-90's.
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" [3] which was then loosely adapted into the 2013 film Pain & Gain directed by Michael Bay. [3]
The sensational case involving body builders, steroids and porn spurred a novel written by former Miami New Times reporter Pete Collins, whose book turned into the 2013 movie “Pain & Gain.”
A Miami-Dade jury late Thursday night spared the life of a man sentenced to death 14 years ago for the execution-style murder of five people in a Little Haiti apartment almost three decades ago.
A year later a Miami-Dade grand jury indicted Smith and seven others on 17 counts for crimes committed in connection with Liberty City’s violent John Doe drug gang. By 2004, Smith was found ...
Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. (born May 11, 1954) [1] is an American convicted murderer, rapist, and suspected serial killer.Conahan was convicted of one murder, but has been linked to a dozen murders, mostly of transients seeking employment and gay men in the Charlotte County, Florida area in what came to be known as the Hog Trail Murders.
Pete Collins, a native Miamian, is an investigative journalist, a university-level lecturer and magazine writer. Collins' three-part series titled Pain & Gain was published in 1999 by Miami New Times newspaper. Collins and Ed DuBois, the hero of Pain & Gain, have been friends for years. Click here for a link to writer Pete Collins' website.
The family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton held a press conference asking Gov. Bill Lee to examine the case for a potential pardon.