“Do Not Disturb,” the typical hotel sign, was on the door when a security guard and other staff arrived at night in room 1215. The lock was unlocked. The morning of that day, October 16, 1985, the maid did not see the sign and wanted to enter, but could not. It was locked.

Entering the room, they found the unexpected: the bodies of two men, reviews from the Research For Change Bristol site.

Krishna Maharaj, a resident of Trinidad, has been convicted of this double murder for more than 30 years. But this man and his team of lawyers have denied their participation for decades, pointing to Pablo Escobar, the late head of the Medellín Cartel, as the author of the events.

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Double murder at the DuPont Plaza hotel

The men killed at the DuPont Plaza hotel were Derrick Moo Young and his son Duane. Everything pointed to it at that time.

And the aforementioned site backs it up: “The police fingerprint expert found that the samples from the do not disturb sign and other surfaces belonged to Maharaj. In addition, a firearms expert testified that the gun used in the killings was the same model that Maharaj owned.”

Kris Maharaj had moved from Trinidad to Peckham, South London, in 1960. Fortune smiled on him on the old continent, Infobae reported.

In the early 1980s, “Maharaj moved to South Florida to invest in real estate.” There he contacted Derrick Moo Young, “a Jamaican of Chinese descent whom he had met in London, to oversee the investments while he was out of town,” the aforementioned outlet explains.

The double homicide made it to court, where – according to Research For Change Bristol – the state’s leading witness, Neville Butler, was deemed to be the “truth”.

According to Butler, “Maharaj had instructed him to arrange a meeting with Derrick in hopes of settling a dispute over $160,000, which Derrick allegedly extorted from Maharaj’s relatives in Trinidad. Surprised by Maharaj’s presence, the meeting quickly soured and an argument ensued between the pair, eventually leading to the shooting of Derrick and his son, Duane, who was also present.

Maharaj, who believed he had been “set up”, was arrested for first degree murder, kidnapping and illegal possession of a firearm. The maid’s statement about the hotel sign was also considered in court.

Maharaj, published by BBC Mundo, stated that after waiting in vain in the Moo Youngs’ room for an appointment they failed to keep that morning, he left at 10:00 am for the office of a newspaper he co-owned, at Fort Lauderdale. .

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Damn Krishna Maharaj

Maharaj “was sentenced to (1) the death penalty for the murder of Duane Moo Young, (2) life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years for the murder of Derrick Moo Young, (3) two life sentences in the prison for the convictions for kidnapping and (4) 15 years for possession of the firearm consecutively on each of the foregoing sentences,” Research For Change Bristol broke out.

After the court verdict, Maharaj insisted on his innocence. Despite efforts, “a direct appeal was rejected”.

A series of events marked this judicial process and it was in 2002 when “a Florida court decided to revoke the death sentence and reduce it to life imprisonment”.

In addition, according to Infobae, Butler, “the prosecutor’s star witness, failed the lie detector, changed his story several times and was fired.”

Why do they point to the “authorship” of Pablo Escobar?

In 2001, according to Infobae, a group of 300 politicians, church leaders and judges demanded a new trial of then-Florida Governor Jeb Bush because the conviction was “flawless.” And he signed off on the thesis that “the newly formed Medellín Cartel had outstanding accounts with Young.”

In 2014, Kris Maharaj’s lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, claimed – Infobae reported – that he had “overwhelming evidence” accusing the cocaine cartel of the double murder.

The reason? It was argued that “at that time the Colombian gangsters were active on the scene of violence in Miami. He discovered that the Youngs were laundering money for the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellín Cartel. And that they robbed him, so he ordered them to be killed.”

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Apparently, like Duane, Derrick had “laundered billions of dollars for the drug kingpin.”

According to the findings of Reprieve, founded by Stafford Smith, the Moo Youngs allegedly lost or even stole some of the laundered money.

In Research For Change Bristol, they point out that “five Escobar’s drug cartel associates supported these claims. In addition, the new findings show that a cartel killer resided in room 1214, the room opposite where the bodies were found.

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There’s more… Infobae reported that Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, aka ‘Popeye’, Escobar’s assassin, “admitted that his boss ordered the Moo Youngs killed because they stole some of the cocaine money they had got to launder.

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“Popeye”

Kris Maharaj, already in his 80s, is confident that the truth will come out about what happened in room 1215 of the DuPont Plaza hotel in Miami. “Neither my husband nor I have ever given up hope,” his wife, Marita, said in 2020.

To the W Radio Colombia Mrs. Marita insisted, “I was with him the moment they say he killed those people.”