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In 1984, Mario Portela, the 22-year-old son of a prominent Miami developer, was abducted at gunpoint outside his father's sales office, setting off a joint FBI and Metro-Dade investigation that began as a race to meet a million dollar ransom demand. Painstaking detective work, from a rented sedan with temporary tags and a telling keychain to forensic matches in duct tape and fibers, traced the crime to the de Parias siblings and an accomplice, revealing that the true motive was revenge over a condominium dispute rather than money. Though Mario was already dead by the time his killers were identified, the case ended in life sentences for the perpetrators, including a fugitive recognized years later in Costa Rica by the voice agents had memorized from the ransom calls.
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