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Its in the dirt, past the catcher. the runner from third is heading home! and theres the throw. safe! the game ends in a wild pitch and pittsburgh wins 7-6. i dont believe it! for the second night in a row, pittsburgh wins in 15 innings. >> according to friends, when mark realized that he won, he couldnt contain his excitement. >> wu is ecstatic, hes screaming, hes excited. 17 grand, i won 17 grand. >> when mark wu asked jason mcguigan for the $17,000 he had won, he learned for the first time th...

Some other way. >> next, police started to run down the vehicles parked outside jasons apartment. one was jasons cadillac escalade. the other was a red toyota, one of two vehicles owned by jasons friend, 19-year-old mark wu. he was from taiwan, the son of a wealthy businessman and an honor student at the university of wisconsin. when police tracked him down, mark wu was in new york city and about to board a plane to taiwan to visit his family for the summer vacation. mark said he left one of his...

Five-month period drawn more than $70,000 out of his bank account, that mark wu was telling investigators that he at one occasion had dropped $15,000 on a single bet. >> and investigators already knew there was a disagreement about the baseball bet and that mark wu believed jason owed him $17,000. >> so, it tells us that theres definitely money issues going on between the two of them and theyre very severe in nature. >> mark gave police permission to search his apartment. they found no bloody cl...

>> the voice sounded like jasons friend, mark wu. and it was clear that wu was also betting big on sporting events. >> you have jason actually taking over, grabbing the phone in some manner, because you could hear the voice change on the tapes. you can also hear him in the background telling wu what to do. so, you can see that mcguigan really is sort of the mastermind behind any of the gambling thats going on. >> id like to know who the pitchers are for the baseball game, atlantic at new york. >...

Feet curling over the bed to the floor. >> mcwiggin had been shot twice with a .9-millimeter handgun. jasons two friends, daniel swanson and dustin wilson, were shot to death in the living room. >> it could have been a professional hit, just because of the way these bullets went into people. >> inside jasons apartment was a receipt for a .9-millimeter glock pistol. he had purchased it just a few weeks earlier. but the gun wasnt found in the apartment. also missing was the key to jasons bank safe...

Lottery, now run by local governments. 28-year-old jason mcwiggins saw gambling as a way to have fun and also to make a living. he dabbled in casino gaming, but his real love was sports handicapping. he was known to wager thousands of dollars on a single event. >> he was not a bookie. he had made the offer to quite a few people that if you give me some money, ill sign you up with a betting service and give you advice. he was essentially trying to sell his advice. >> mcwiggin had spent some of hi...

To collect the $17,000 jason mcguigan owed him for the baseball bet. he wanted to deposit this money into his bank account to placate his parents, but jason didnt place the bet, so he refused to pay. around 3:00 p.m. on the day of the murders, a witness saw jason mcguigans friends threaten mark wu, angry, apparently, because wu had been following them. later that night, around 8:00 p.m., mark broke into jasons apartment, but jason wasnt there. so, he stole jason jasons .9-millimeter glock pist p...

Pistol, like the one missing from jasons apartment, the same caliber weapon used in the murders. ballistic expert bill newhouse compared the shell casings from the murder scene to the ones provided by the manufacturer when jason purchased the weapon. >> it was clearly printed as having been cartridge casings fired in, and it specified the glock pistol which it had been fired with, and the serial number and nice information we dont see very often. >> they matched, proving that it was jasons own w...

Were in the living room asleep, the ones who harassed him a few hours earlier. mark wu killed them to eliminate potential witnesses. in doing so, he got dustin wilsons blood on his sandals. jason didnt come home until close to 2:00 a.m. and mark was waiting for him. again, mark demanded his $17,000, but jason didnt have that kind of money in his apartment. in desperation, he handed mark the key to his safe deposit box. then mark shot jason with his own gun. no one knows what mark did with his bl...