part in the demonstrations. that does it for us. thank you very much for watching. death row stories starts now. on this episode, a millionaire is accused of brutal murders in a downtown miami hotel. >> the crime scene was a bloody mess. >> but after a death sentence, one man fights to save his life. >> got the federal court to say my guy's innocent. too bad, mate. that's got nothing to do with it. >> what he discovers will turn the case upside down. >> anybody will say, that's not allowed. this was more covered up than any case i've seen in decades.

>> there's a body on the water. he was butchred and murdered. >> in this case, there are a number of things that stink. >> this man is remorseless. >> the electric chair, flashed in front of my eyes. >> dead in conviction, the truth forward. another death discovered in downto dupont miami. >> this was unusual. how many times do you have a double homicide in a downtown

miami hotel? >> the crime scene was a bloody, bloody mess. the father was shot sex times. crawling, trying to escape. shot execution style. this was a pretty shocking case. >> derek woo young, a father of four and young son dwyane who was just accepted to law school. a few hours after the shootings, a journalist named neville butler contacted police saying he'd seen his boss, 47-year-old kris maharaj. >> there was an individual, neville butler, thaptd to speak to us. >> butler described in pain staking detail to him. >> a gun in hand, the glove on. that's when i almost passed out. but i asked kris, what on earth is this? he said, keep out of this.

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

said he denied being in room 215 and denied vlg a gun. he clearly did have a 9 millimeter pistol and said that was the gun used for this murder. he had invested in property and according to kris, derek had stolen $441,000. just embezzled it. kris had a motive. and finally, the icing on the cake was a star witness, neville butler. >> kris' case went to trial. in court, presented no alibi witnesses and kris never took the stand. ron pa trillo was the defense investigator on the case. >> i knew when i heard of this going on in the jury room, what the final outcome was going.

>> the jury returned guilty verdicts in less than four hours. >> in the penalty phase, judge gave him the death sentence. >> during his ruling, the judge declared that the coldness and calculated manner in which the defendant executed his heinous plan cannot be overstated. kris would officially begin his time on death row. >> once they gave me the death sentence, i said, god knows i am innocent. they would not kill me. they cannot. >> kris was from england, a country that had abolished the death penalty from murder in 1965. with one of the citizens on death row, the british government asked clive stafford smith to investigate kris' case. clive was a young ied listic lawyer fighting death penalty cases on a pro bono basis.

>> he had been sentenced to death, gone up to the supreme court on appeal to the u.s. supreme court and came back down. so my first thought was, oh my goodness. how did i let myself into this? >> despite his reluctance, he met with the man he presumed was guilty. >> they don't know you, they don't trust you. kris was one of the rare people who insisted on giving me an a to z lecture that he didn't do it. i found that quite convincing. but the evidence against him was pretty strong at the time. >> as a former cop, ron patrillo had doubt about the innocence when he joined the case. >> initially, i thought kris just killed these guys but i'm looking to see where the evidence takes me and it didn't add up. the deeper i got into the investigation, it began to dawn on me that kris was innocent.

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where the little things mean everything. maharaj was put on death row for the murders of derrick and duane mao young in florida, he was living a life of luxury in england. >> kris had come to england when he was quite young. worked incredibly hard and had become a millionaire. >> in england, kris married and had four kids while working his way from a truck driver to a business magnate. >> i was in business, all sorts

of stuff. i started small. and i then became the largest importer. >> he was very flamboyant millionaire here in london. he had a rolls royce. and then he began to get into horse racing. >> i was able to purchase a hundred horses. i had 12 trainers. >> kris was second biggest stable of racehorses in ek land, only the queen. having emigrated from trinidad, kris also mingled with members of parliament, gaining entrance into an upper crust, lily white society rarely available to immigrants of color. >> when i got arrested for these murders, members of parliament said we knew maharaj. something is wrong. he's been framed. >> kris first met the men he has been accused of killing when he began importing their fruit from jamaica. after years of doing business together, derrick moo young

asked kris to invest in houses he was building in florida. >> my plan was when i reached 65 i would spend the summer month in england and the winter month here in f. lauderdale, and i invested the money with him. >> but according to kris, the moo youngs took his money and embezzled it. they also incorporated as km distributors, a name similar to kris', and allegedly started drawing money from kris' accounts. >> according to kris, derrick had stolen property worth $441,000. so you can see why kris would be very angry. he wanted to put an end to this. >> kris was used to settling disputes with words, not weapons. he sued the moo youngs and told clive he expected to win. >> there was no question of me killing them for the money, as a matter of fact, killing them would make me lose the money, obviously. >> but if kris then had little reason to walk into the dupont hotel with a loaded weapon why was there so much evidence pointing to him as a suspect.

according to kris he went to the dupont at 9:30 a.m. on the morning of the murders to discuss a business deal he had started in miami. neville butler set up the meeting. >> neville butler set up the meeting. >> >> but the man kris was supposed to meet was not there. >> neville butler said perhaps he went out. >> the two men waited for nearly an hour. >> he insisted that i wait. i said, no. i'm going. i am never late for an appointment and i am always on time and i left. >> at 10:30, kris drove 25 miles to ft. lauderdale and attended meetings during the hours that the meetings took place, and he could prove it. kris had alibi witnesses, including tino geddes. >> tino geddes swore to me he

had been with kris, gone to lunch, stayed by kris. >> the manager at the restaurant kris frequented also clearly remembered seeing kris at lunch. >> i know i saw kris the day of the murders because there was a person who was sick and i needed to come in and fill in for that person. it doesn't seem like there is any way possible that he could have killed people at 12:00 and then been in for lunch sometime between 12 and 2:00. >> five other witnesses would come forward placing kris with them on the day of the murders. >> i have no doubt that i saw him that day. so that was 12, 12:30, within that time. >> yet neville butler told the pd homicide detective a convincing account of seeing maharaj commit the murders in cold blood. someone had to be lying. butler was a home run for police, not only could he identify maharaj he would go on to take the detective where he was having dinner.

>> i was having dinner, i saw him walk in with a man, he pulled out a card and said you have been arrested for murder. i said what are you talking about? >> kris would be taken for interrogation and stark differences would emerge about what was said during that conversation. >> he said kris denied being in room 1215 while his fingerprints were all over the place. >> kris' fingerprints would only be significant if he denied being in the room to police. >> i told them i went to the hotel. i was in room 1215 for about an hour. >> then, he also said that kris denied ever having a gun, he clearly did have a 9 mm pistol. >> i told him yes, i owned a gun and i owned one when i lived in trinidad.

in england i owned a gun. >> but if he thought kris was trying to hide something he never took a sworn statement during the interrogation to document that fact. and the lie detector test kris took later that evening would support kris' version of events. >> they had one of the top polygraph examiners do the test. >> despite having numerous alibi witnesses, kris was booked and held without bail. it would be a year before he got his day in court. >> put it this way, i went from living like a prince to an animal. >> on the eve of trial, kris and his investigator, ron petrillo, felt good about their chances. >> kris had seven or eight alibis, i had located people and gotten him sworn statement that

is put him squarely in broward county, some 25 miles away during the time these murders occur. >> but as the trial approached, kris got word that one of his alibis, tino geddes, was about to change his story. >> everything he said when the murders took place, it was all a lie according to tino. >> geddes was now going to testify for the prosecution and no one, including kris, was prepared for the accusations geddes was about to make.

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death penalty for the murders of derrick and duane moo young. one of the witnesses had a dramatic change of heart. >> tino geddes worked for kris, a newspaper that he working on. from day one, from the beginning, he swore to me he had been with kris. now, tino changes his story on the day the murders were committed. he wasn't with kris, kris wanted the moo youngs dead. >> kris now claims the actions were premeditated. >> he said he had been with maharaj on several occasions, and that in fact, kris maharaj's sole motive at the time was the death of derrick and duane young.

>> kris said he had prepared to murder the moo youngs and kris was going to burst through from room 404 to room 406 to do it. i went to the dupont plaza hotel. there is no door between 404 and 406. there are all sorts of why tino is lying, the question is why. >> why do you think that tino was lying? >> tino geddes had a dwi trial coming up, and he was also being charged for smuggling guns and ammunition. >> he was smuggling a whole bunch of guns from jamaica at a time when there was very, very harsh sentencing. my vast experience is that when people are facing life in prison they're ready to say anything, and probably about their grandmother. >> in tino geddes' misfortune,

the prosecution sensed an opportunity and flew to jamaica to help their new witness. >> paul ridge and costanocis went to testify on his behalf and got him off i think with just a fine instead of doing jail time. and i thought well, okay, they're doing their job. until i found out that they, and tino, went to a strip club. a lot of people would say, well, what they do on their own time is their own business. but they're there on my dime as a taxpayer. testifying on behalf of this man and they go to a strip club with him? yeah, i would say that they got a little too close. >> kris's trial began on october 5th, 1987, almost exactly a year

after the murders occurred. it was presided over by judge howard gross, known to friends as mousey, because of his small frame and large ears. chris' attorney was eric hendon, who helped other accused killers avoid the death penalty. during open arguments, the prosecution contended that the moo youngs were innocent businessmen, joined down by kris, a cold-blooded killer, eric hendon said they would hear fictional stories from the prosecution worthy of a hollywood drama. but on the third day of trial the proceedings came to a sudden halt. >> what happened on the third day of the trial if you can believe it is that howard the mouse has not shown up because he had been arrested for taking kickbacks in another court, and had been caught, by agents posing as drug dealers. >> mousey's removal was to call

for a mistrial. with the new trial, hendon would know the prosecution's arguments ahead of time. without a new trial, the judge replacing mousey could face deciding a death sentence without hearing all the evidence. >> i wanted a new trial, the advice was, not to ask for a mistrial. >> he said they would just go on with the trial because he felt they made headway and they had a good jury. >> why would they do this? >> probably the main motivation was he was on a set fee. and you're going to have to start over and that cuts into your fee. >> hendon claimed he had worked hard on behalf of his client, the jury would go on to hear six days of testimony, all directed against kris. neville butler testified about the graphic details of the murders he said he had watched kris commit. tino geddes said that kris had asked him to make up an alibi. and the detective said kris

tried to cover up the crime during his interrogation. when the case was finally turned over to the defense, hendon's judgment would again come into question. >> eric said to me that if he didn't call any witnesses he would have two shots at the jury in closing argument. i said to him but you're for the of -- not going to do that. he didn't answer me. >> eric hendon's defense case for kris would consist of only nine words. >> eric stood up, and said your honor, the defense rests. eric didn't call a single witness. nothing. i thought kris was going to rip

the skin off my forearm. >> i just couldn't believe my head. i was shocked. >> it is not often in a capital case you get six alibi witnesses putting your client somewhere is. one is, did the lawyer not put those on? >> i have never wanted to hit another human being, physically attack another human being like i did that day with eric hendon. >> the jury responded to hendon's strategy by returning guilty verdicts for two first degree murders. they would also vote whether or not to recommend the death penalty and with florida being the only state where a simple majority is needed in sentencing, the vote of death passed by a count of 7-5. the judge who replaced mousey agreed. kris would be sentenced to die in the electric chair. >> kris fainted. kris hit the floor. passed out completely.

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when clive finally got the chance to appeal kris' case in 1995, he immediately set out to talk to the alibi witnesses who were never called at the trial. >> i talked to the alibi witnesses who were very convincing, they say it was true. kris was not at the dupont plaza hotel that day because he was with us. he was in ft. lauderdale. >> but kris' alibi fell on deaf ears, the courts only concerned with whether or not he received a fair trial. >> i am just saying the facts are wrong. most of it is about what people discouragingly call legal technicalities. >> but clive did have an opening. if he could show the representation was ineffective, he could open the door for a new trial. then kuehne worked on the trial.

and would cross examine hen don. >> he needed help in a case of this magnitude. and kris has suffered the consequences as a result of his lawyers' errors. >> but hendon needed to admit under oath that he made mistakes and when ben asked him why he didn't present kris' alibis, he told the court, it appeared to me that these were alibi witnesses who had been sought out. it seemed all too convenient. in other words, hendon didn't believe any of kris' alibis. >> how is a judge going to be the witness to the key, that is not a decision for a lawyer to make, not with the stakes this high. >> hendon said he thought he had a strategic reason for not putting on the alibi, he thought it was too good.

now it becomes out of the realm of his work. >> ultimately the court agreed with clive and ben, refusing to believe that hendon had been ineffective. clive still believed that kris was innocent and while preparing, went through files and discovered evidence he believed police and prosecutors did not want kris to have. >> i started going through it. i discovered that police knew that criss had lost his gun before the murders took place. i discovered that kris actually told them from the very beginning he had been in room 1215. there was a perfect explanation. >> clive had also seen photos belonging to the moo youngs. the contents were something that kris wanted to see before the trial.

>> i went to the detective bureau. the bar master was too busy to see me. sent the young girl and. i open the brief case and it is empty. and i said to her, where are the contents? and she said that detective burhmaster told her to tell me that he didn't find anything of any evidentiary value and returned the contents to the family. >> burhmaster had said that moo young had gotten rid of the brief case, that wasn't true. here in the file were hundreds of pages of notes of the moo youngs. it was all sort of intriguing things, far from people who were making $24,000 a year, they were offering loans around the caribbeans, first, for $250 million, just extraordinary stuff. >> they didn't have a pot to pee

in, or a window to throw it out of, where were they coming up with $100 million. >> shortly before their deaths, derrick and duane moo young also took out a million dollars worth of life insurance policies. the company who issued it hired an investigator, because they were suspicious. >> the moo youngs' headquarters which consisted of a garage at the family home only had left an old telex machine and no documents whatsoever. the more we learned about it, it seemed like they were either selling false goods entirely or they were laundering the money. >> but if the moo youngs were involved in laundering, whose money were they laundering? >> those kind of dollars and narcotics go hand in hand in 1980, i think that is fair to say. >> do you know, i didn't really get that.

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

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

this great plan they would skim 1% of the money. so if you were ripping off the colombia drug cartels, that is a slightly stronger motive for you getting killed than what was going on with kris. it totally re-framed the case. now we have a huge alternative suspect. >> a suspect that happened to be staying in the room directly across the hall from the murders. twhat do i do?. you need to catch the 4:10 huh? the equipment tracking system

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uncovered evidence suggesting that before the moo youngs were murdered they may have been stealing money from a colombia drug cartel. and a photo ron petrillo had seen boosted the theory. >> when you look at the crime scene photo, there is blood smear on the door frame of 1214. it begs the question, who was in 1214? >> did you ultimately find out who was it? >> oh, yeah, i wound up looking into an employee, it was mejia. >> mejia said he was an

importer, but the truth is he would soon be busted by the drug enforcement agency for laundering. >> he said i chatted with him for a few minutes, standing in the hallway and he didn't seem to know anything. >> this is the only other guy who is there. the only room occupied on the 12th floor. we discovered mejia was wanted at the time of kris' trial for conspiracy to take $14 million in cash to switzerland. >> former dea agent had his own opinion. >> he was involved in the money laundering business. not only was he working for escobar, but there was other work done for the organization as well. jaime says he worked for insurance companies, that doesn't make any sense, people working in insurance don't work in the import business. why is there blood on the door?

it doesn't add up. there were a series of questions that should have been asked of him that were not asked. >> officers took a brief statement from jaime mejia and let him go. would the jurors at kris' trial have found an alternate decision of they had seen evidence about the moo youngs and mejia. while piecing together the evidence, clive pieced together what he believed was the evidence. >> what happened in my mind, the moo youngs were laundering money for the cartels. they started to skim money off the top. they then got in trouble. and it was set up so they would meet in the dupont plaza hotel and kris would be there, too. all three were meant to die. it would then be determined to

be a murder/suicide, and then you have somebody else fingered for it. clearly jaime mejia supervised it. >> but the courts were not the least beat interested in the evidence. innocence was not the issue. >> one of the bizarre things that americans have no idea about is whether you're innocent or not is not a legal issue. you go into court and say my guy is innocent, they say well, too bad, mate, that has nothing to do with it. and the judge actually said that in kris' case. >> but clive did manage to produce a document into the proceedings that the courts could not ignore. a document showing that the death sentence had been issued by some other judge.

>> i find in the prosecution file ordering kris sentenced to death days before the sentencing hearing. they were written by the prosecutors, because it said js k. >> in allowing prosecutor john kastrenakes to set his death sentence, he ultimately allowed him to impose the death sentence at the sentencing phase of trial. >> the judge asked the prosecutor would you prepare a proposed sentencing order imposing the death penalty before the sentencing had been completed? anybody in the world would say what? that is not allowed. >> the evidence was enough to vacate kris' death sentence, he would no longer be scheduled to die in the electric chair. but kris was far from a free man. clive and ben would now argue for a more lenient sentence for kris in front of a judge and jury who could once again

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>> as it turned out, one police officer jailed for corruption >> a new enemy suddenly emerged. corruption within their ranks. >> particularly in the early 80s, miami police rushed out and made a lot of hirings without bothering to look too deeply at the people's backgrounds. >> already, 11 officers have been arrested or relieved of duty this year. >> they put in additional

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

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

something he did not do. while fred may believe the cops in kris' case were on the take he has never identified the individuals involved. no evidence has ever been presented in court to substantiate his claim. but recently, some of clive's suspicions about who killed the moo youngs were confirmed when he sent a man to speak to the man who was involved. jaime mejia was plagued by men with four years when he discovered that he ran afoul on the drug smuggling operation, and said the moo youngs had to be dealt with. >> i visit kris every week. i don't tell people about kris' case. i don't discuss kris' case

because if i tell them they will think i'm crazy. he is not losing his hopes, and you know, that is good. >> all i can say about marita is god sent her to me. she is a blessing, sent by god. if i would switch places with marita, i would not put up with what she did. she is one in a million. she is the heroine of this tragedy. >> you cannot have a better husband. even now that he is in prison, there is nothing he really can do for me. but he has a lot of hope. >> in 2008, clive and ben kuehne submitted a clemency appeal to the governor of florida documenting the police and prosecutors in the case, and new evidence they had found.

>> kris had been in prison for over 20 years which is a long time to serve for anything. but the victim's family showed up. and charlie crist was the governor at the time and he instantly denied clemency. by now, kris is 70 years old. he is in bad health, his poor wife, marita, stuck by him. i've been representing kris now for 18 years and i have failed to get him justice. the most culpable character in kris' scenario is the justice system because they're just not interested in justice. as we produce more and more evidence that a, he had an unfair trial, and b, no one will listen.

on this episode of death row stories, a white woman is brutally beaten. >> the crime scene was unbelievable. >> and a black man is arrested. >> his fingerprint was found. there were a number of hairs on the victim's bed. >> but after a death sentence, a law intern has her doubts. >> there was something wrong. i started seeing what the lies were. >> and the case begins to unravel. >> there are those that have a