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>> on the night of the murders, mark wu said he was in his apartment in madison, wisconsin, and spent the night alone. but marks cell phone records indicated he was in verona, about 30 miles away from his apartment, which is where jason mcguigan lived. >> wu makes a call at 8:16 p.m. and it hits the verona tower. verizon tests show that any cell phone call that hits tower 165, the verona tower, is basically going to be confined to someone thats within the city limits of verona. >> he didnt reall...

Bet is unclear. either he forgot or decided to pocket marks money instead. regardless, this gave mark wu 17,000 reasons to seek revenge. ♪ ♪ isnt it beautiful when things just come together? build a beautiful website with squarespace.

Winds up. the pitch. 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 lear...

There wasnt really a sense of mark wu being a person who had been in trouble. >> id say naive, helpless, really nice guy. i was laughing out loud when the fbi suggested that he could be in a gang or something. >> but police found evidence that wu and mcguigan were both involved in gambling. >> we learned that mark wu, through his family, it appears primarily, had resources. so he had money to burn. >> five days before the murders, mark wu gave jason mcguigan a large sum of money to bet on a prof...

Were in the living room asleep, the ones who harassed him a few hours earlier. mark wu killed them to eliminate potential witnesses. [ gunshots ] 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. [ gunshots ] then mark shot jason with his own gun. no one know...

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 is really sort of the mastermind behind any of this gambling thats going on. >> id like to know who the pitchers are for the baseball game, atlantic at new york. >> no, atlanta braves. new ...

Mark wu being a person who had been in trouble. >> id say naive, helpless, really nice guy. i was laughing out loud when the fbi suggested that he could be in a gang or something. >> but police found evidence that wu and mcguigan were both involved in gambling. >> we learned that mark wu, through his family, it appears primarily, had resources. so he had money to burn. >> five days before the murders, mark wu gave jason mcguigan a large sum of money to bet on a professional baseball game. >> one...

His fingerprints in a garbage can a few blocks from his home. he put his bloody sandals in a garbage bag and tossed them into the dumpster behind his apartment with the identification provided by his credit card receipts. the next morning, mark flew to new york city with his parents. they were about to leave for taiwan when police intervened. >> hes holding a plane ticket to taiwan, a country that does not have an extradition treaty with the united states. if mark wu gets to taiwan, mark wu neve...

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...

The pitch. 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 th...