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the problem, i lost my job. i have some but not the whole amount. >> it just goes to show the true character of this man. i, mean here is a guy who will negotiate with thugs ten years later because he feels like he already paid. it's just, that's what i mean, he is not in a normal range. >> i can -- i have 1500. 1500, i have on me. >> >> police had enough to arrest magdi right then and there. but they waited. >> now, you want to do the actual exchange of money. >> we have to get the money. >> that meant a second meeting. but would magdi even show up? and, if he did, would he come with the plan of his own? >> coming up -- >> nerve-racking -- >> >> and, nail-biting. one more hidden camera moment. >> what's happening? did you bring me a check? >> no. >> when dateline continues.

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>> he is not a gangster. he's an officer from the long beach police department who was working undercover. which is why we are concealing his identity. >> you a little nervous going in? >> not at all, no. >> the role he played at magdi 's home that day was part of a war game that sonya and detective wilson that set in motion, even before they met anthony bridget. >> tell me about this scheme. >> you call it a scheme i call it a plan. >> by any name, it was an attempt to trap magdi. the only name anthony barr or anyone creates a crime like this is some kind of gain, financially primarily. so, you develop that kind of individual and you come up with a way in which they people able to contact for the and demand more money. >> let me holler at you for a few ticks. >> and another, were these two undercover cops pursuing -- what approach magdi and hit him up for hush money. since, investigators knew that

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had been to them in jail for about a year, after an undercover sting had led to his arrest for the murder of his wife, ariet. it was a case prosecutor sonia balleste couldn't wait to trial. nearly a decade in the making. and, as it turned, out it would be her last. sonia had been promoted to management. -- >> so you wanted to go out with a win. >> prosecutors don't like to lose. >> yeah, i noticed that. >> despite what you've seen, the case still wasn't a slam dunk. there was no proof magdi knew the alleged killer, anthony brigitte. no proof of paid bridget any money. and while detectives had their suspicion about their involvement of a middleman, they still can improve it. and, as you'll see, even that undercover tape could be seen through a different lens. >> who is it, who was the middleman? >> on the eve of the trial, richard and ryan got ready for

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magdi. can we go out to dinner? that's what starts this fight. >> doesn't sound like a very long fight. >> no. he punches her in the face. >> richard remembers arriving home that evening and seeing his mom. >> she looked very subdued. her face was swollen. her nose was still bleeding. so i went upstairs and i confront my dad. >> what was his response? >> he told me to stay out of it. >> but richard in nursing school at the time worried his mom could have a concussion or worse. he rushed her to the emergency room. they had kept their family secret for so long but that was about to change. >> the nurse asked her what happened. >> and your mom said? >> my mom told her that he punched me in the face. that started the whole cascade. >> police went to the girgis home and arrested magdi.

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>> that was really scary. >> that was scary. not thrilling. >> it was terrifying. >> not the moment you'd been waiting for? >> no, no, no. there was no point of return. somehow i knew immediately after that that it was -- >> there is no going back. >> no going back of the. >> so the life you had before -- >> was never going to be the same. >> a court issued a protective order and magdi moved out of the house he worked so hard for to an apartment complex he and his brother owned nearby. after more than two decades of marriage, it seemed magdi and ariet were headed for divorce. it was a thought that seemed to terrify ariet. >> i think she was scared and had a lot of cold feet. >> about striking out on her own in the world. >> exactly. >> ariet was totally dependent on magdi. she had never written a personal check. didn't even know their mortgage was paid off. >> she had expressed to me, i wish all this would just not be

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american dream. ariet hired a divorce attorney and began planning a new life. >> i really felt like my mom was empowered. she just wanted to be happy shelf felt like there was happiness coming. >> instead, the next month, she was murdered. and to investigators who heard ariet's story, it now seemed obvious her husband magdi was the prime suspect. >> everything pointed at magdi. >> except for the fact the phone records proved that magdi was at his own apartment when ryan called him that night. and according to the only witness, two black men committed the murder. and there was still the question of why that witness, ryan, was left alive. and just a few days after his mother was killed, the rebellious son, ryan, received another anonymous message on his computer. how did you like your gift? lol. lol. >> how did you like your gift? >> yeah.

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anthony bridget. tell me about this scheme. >> you call it a scheme. i call it a plan. >> by any name, it was an attempt to trap magdi. >> the only way anthony bridget or somebody like him commits a crime like this is some kind of gain, financial, primarily. so you develop that kind of individual and you come up with a way in which they were able to contact magdi and demand more money. >> let me holler at you for a few ticks. >> in other words, these two undercover officers posing as gang members would approach magdi and hit him up for some hush money, since investigators knew that money was magdi's particular obsession, they hoped they were about to strike a nerve, but they had to be careful. if the killers were working for magdi, it wasn't clear if he knew them directly or hired them through a middleman. so, you couldn't have these guys claim that they were the actual guys in the house. >> correct. >> because possibly, he knew

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that's what i mean, he's not in a normal range of thrifty. >> $1,500. >> what's that? >> $1,500 i have on me. >> police probably had enough to arrest magdi right then and there, but they waited. now you want to do the actual exchange of money? >> got to get the money. >> that meant a second meeting, but would magdi even show up? and if he did, would he come with a plan of his own? coming up -- >> nerve-racking. >> and nail-biting. one more hidden camera moment. >> what's happening? did you bring me a check? no. >> when "dateline" continues.

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they just said, oh, well, we know who did it, magdi did it. they focused on magdi. they never left magdi. >> could the threats be the reason ryan's friend offered him a knife? >> the fact that he was offered a knife for his protection by his drug-dealing friend just minutes, or at the latest, hours before the murder of his mother by someone using a knife suggests to me that there was some reason for him to be afraid for his own safety in his own home. >> the defense also attacked ryan's credibility. remember what ryan told us, that one of the intruders said -- >> i know your circumstances. i know what you're going through. i'm not going to kill you. >> it turns out, ryan did not tell that to the 911 operator. why? the defense argued because those words were never spoken and said later to deflect suspicion from himself and his drug connections. one thing was irrefutable and

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