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it's in the dirt, past the catcher. the runner from third is heading home! and there's the throw. safe! the game ends in a wild pitch and pittsburgh wins 7-6. i don't believe it! for the second night in a row, pittsburgh wins in 15 innings. >> according to friends, when mark realized that he won, he couldn't contain his excitement. >> wu is ecstatic, he's screaming, he's 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 that jason never placed the bet. >> jason reacts to that by pulling his newly purchased glock pistol out of his pants, waves it at him and says shut the [ bleep ] up. >> there is, in fact, no bet placed. nothing documents that wu had any money put down. jason did not have any money put down. so, this bet is completely a false bet. >> why jason didn't place the
some other way. >> next, police started to run down the vehicles parked outside jason's apartment. one was jason's cadillac escalade. the other was a red toyota, one of two vehicles owned by jason's 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 two cars in jason's parking lot because it was safer than parking in the city. >> wu had a residence downtown in madison, and parking down there is very difficult, and he had a number of vehicles. and so, by keeping one out at jason mcguigan's residence in
activities. in jason's personal files was evidence he placed bets through olympic sports, an offshore betting agency in the caribbean. >> he would call in, and they would tell you the lines, the spreads and what the picks were on those games, and he would then place betets on those. >> gambling agencies set up shop outside the country to circumvent u.s. law enforcement. >> all of his bets throughout his entire account history with olympic sports were made by telephone. olympic sports records all incoming phone calls, and the reason they do that is just in case somebody has an argument over whether or not they made a bet or did not make a bet. they've got some kind of proof to back up what happened. >> when police listened to the tapes, they heard someone else on the phone with jason. >> 100 -- >> okay. i'll place my bet on --
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 there's definitely money issues going on between the two of them and they're very severe in nature. >> mark gave police permission to search his apartment. they found no bloody clothes or weapons, but in the parking lot was the second vehicle mark wu owned. this one was silver. like the one seen following jason mcguigan the afternoon before the murders. inside was the owner's manual for a glock .9-millimeter
>> the voice sounded like jason's 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 that's going on. >> i'd like to know who the pitchers are for the baseball game, atlantic at new york. >> no. atlanta braves. >> yeah. >> should be maddox and glavine. >> maddox and glavine? >> yes, sir. >> i'll place my bet on -- >> he didn't know what he was doing. he didn't know pitchers' names, he didn't know team names. he didn't understand the odds. >> an investigation into mark wu's finances revealed a telling piece of information. >> when we began to discover that mark wu had over a four or
feet curling over the bed to the floor. >> mcwiggin had been shot twice with a .9-millimeter handgun. jason's 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 jason's apartment was a receipt for a .9-millimeter glock pistol. he had purchased it just a few weeks earlier. but the gun wasn't found in the apartment. also missing was the key to jason's bank safe deposit box. investigators believe jason mcwiggin was the intended target and that his two friends sleeping in the living room were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> it's t was just totally unexpected. he didn't really have any enemies that we knew of at all. so, when this happened it was a big surprise to us. >> jason, dustin and daniel,
they slept in the living room. the killer took jason into the bedroom. there was some sort of discussion before he, too, was killed. in a search for suspects, police learned that jason mcguigan and his upstairs neighbor, todd vincent got into a fight a week or two before the murder. >> mcguigan had slapped todd. todd retaliated by choking jason or throwing jason to the ground. jason reported to the police. it turns out there wasn't enough of a conflict that anybody got charged. >> todd denied any involvement in the murders. gunshot residue tests on his hands were negative. but he said something curious, that he didn't hear any gunshots from jason's apartment. ballistic experts say that's not necessarily unusual. >> if they don't expect to hear a gunshot, when they do hear something, they'll interpret it
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, i'll sign you up with a betting service and give you advice. he was essentially trying to sell his advice. >> mcwiggin had spent some of his time with his associates and acquaintances, boasting about the gambling. he almost was starting to emerge as almost a wanna be gangster. >> on a warm june afternoon, jason's aunt stopped by his apartment to pick up an old computer. she found the back door open. inside were the remnants of a massacre. >> jason mcwiggin is laying on his back on the bed with his
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 didn't place the bet, so he refused to pay. around 3:00 p.m. on the day of the murders, a witness saw jason mcguigan's friends threaten mark wu, angry, apparently, because wu had been following them. later that night, around 8:00 p.m., mark broke into jason's apartment, but jason wasn't there. so, he stole jason' jason's .9-millimeter glock pist pistol, then called jason, asking him what time he was coming home. mark wu returned to jason's apartment around midnight and jason still wasn't there. instead, jason's two friends
pistol, like the one missing from jason's 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 don't see very often. >> they matched, proving that it was jason's own weapon that killed him. hoping to find the murder weapon, police searched the garbage dumpster behind mark wu's apartment. instead, they found a pair of sandals in a white plastic bag along with some of mark wu's credit card receipts. police also checked other dumpsters in a four-block radius. >> they find out specifically