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gambling has a lot more visibility than
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it used to
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it's on the internet it's on prime time
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television and it's almost a varsity
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sport on some college campuses
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but several young men learned the hard
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way that gambling can put your money at
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risk
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and sometimes your life
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gambling isn't confined to casinos
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church bingo and back room card games
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anymore now
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it's everywhere
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there are poker tournaments on the
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computer you can play sports wagers
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offshore and you can play the daily
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lottery now run by local governments
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28 year old jason mcguigan saw gambling
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as a way to have fun and also make a
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living
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he dabbled in casino gaming but his real
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love was sports handicapping
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he was known to wager thousands of
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dollars on a single event
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he was not a bookie he had made the
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offer to quite a few people that if you
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give me some money i'll sign you up with
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a betting service and give you advice he
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was essentially trying to sell his
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advice mcguigan had spent some of his
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time with his associates and
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acquaintances boasting about the
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gambling he almost was starting to
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emerge as sort of a wannabe gangster
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on a warm june afternoon
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jason's aunt stopped by his apartment to
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pick up an old computer
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she found the back door open
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inside
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with the remnants of a
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massacre jason mcguigan is laying
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on his back on the bed with his feet
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curling over the bed to the floor
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mcquiggin had been shot twice with a
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nine millimeter handgun
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jason's two friends daniel swanson and
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dustin wilson were shot to death
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in the living room
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it could have been a professional hit
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just because of the way
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these bullets
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went into people
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inside jason's apartment was a receipt
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for a nine millimeter glock pistol he
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had purchased it just a few weeks
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earlier but the gun wasn't found in the
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apartment
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also missing was the key to jason's
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bank's safe deposit box
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investigators believe jason mcguigan was
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the intended target
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and that his two friends sleeping in the
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living room were simply
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in the wrong place at the wrong time
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it's just totally unexpected he didn't
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really have any enemies that we knew of
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at all
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so when this happened it was a big
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surprise to us
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jason dustin and daniel
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they were just normal kids trying to
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make something out of their life they
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weren't
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bad kids
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when local news agencies reported the
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murders a witness came forward with some
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revealing information
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a few hours before the murders the
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witness saw three men in a cadillac
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escalade shouting obscenities and making
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inappropriate gestures to an asian man
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in the car behind them
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she remembers it clearly she thought it
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was a road rage incident and these three
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white kids were somehow
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racially
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attacking this asian kid
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the witness identified the three men in
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the escalade as jason mcguigan daniel
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swanson and dustin wilson
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the three murder victims
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in a case that had so many
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stunning revelations this one ranked
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right up there with him
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police in verona wisconsin were
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investigating a triple homicide
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an analysis of the crime scene indicated
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that jason mcguigan's two friends were
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killed first
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as they slept in the living room
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the killer took jason into the bedroom
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there was some sort of discussion before
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he too was killed
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in a search for suspects police learned
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that jason mcguigan and his upstairs
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neighbor todd vincent got into a fight a
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week or two before the murder mcguigan
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had slapped todd
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todd retaliated by
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choking jason or throwing jason to the
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ground jason reported it to the police
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it turns out that there wasn't enough of
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a conflict there that anybody even got
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charged
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todd denied any involvement in the
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murders
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gunshot residue tests on his hands were
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negative
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but he said something curious
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that he didn't hear any gunshots from
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jason's apartment
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ballistic experts say
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that's not necessarily unusual
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if they don't expect to hear a gunshot
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when they do hear something they'll
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interpret it some other way
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next police started to run down the
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vehicles parked outside jason's
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apartment
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one was jason's cadillac escalade the
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other was a red toyota
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one of two vehicles owned by jason's
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friend 19 year old mark wu
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he was from taiwan the son of a wealthy
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businessman and an honor student at the
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university of wisconsin
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when police tracked him down mark wu was
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in new york city and about to board a
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plane to taiwan to visit his family for
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the summer vacation
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mark said he left one of his two cars in
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jason's parking lot because it was safer
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than parking in the city
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wu had a residence downtown in madison
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and parking down there is very difficult
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and he had a number of vehicles and so
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by keeping one out at the jason
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mcguigan's residence in roanoke i didn't
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have to worry about parking tickets
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on the night of the murders
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mark wu said he was in his apartment in
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madison wisconsin and spent the night
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alone
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but mark's cell phone records indicated
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he was in verona about 30 miles away
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from his apartment which is where jason
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mcguigan lived wu makes a call at 8 16
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p.m and it hits the verona tower
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verizon tests show that any cell phone
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call that hits tower 165 the verona
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tower is basically going to be confined
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to someone that's within the city limits
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of verona
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he didn't really give a good explanation
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on why he had lied
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but
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the gist of it was that he didn't know
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anything about these murders and he just
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thought that he should have basically an
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alibi
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and mark wu had no history of violence
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or erratic behavior
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mark wu
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was about as unlikely a suspect in a
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triple homicide as you're going to get
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his yearbook entries his classmates
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former teachers there wasn't really a
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sense of of mark wu being a person who'd
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been in trouble i'd say naive
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helpless really nice guy
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i was laughing out loud when the fbi
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suggested that
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he could be in a gang or something
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but police found evidence that wu and
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mcguigan were both involved in gambling
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we learned that mark wu
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through his family it appears primarily
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had resources
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so he had money to burn
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five days before the murders
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mark wu gave jason mcguigan a large sum
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of money to bet on a professional
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baseball game
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one game in particular was the major
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league baseball game pittsburgh versus
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cleveland
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that game happened to go 15 innings and
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lasted about five hours
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mark wu used his cell phone to call a
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sports betting service that night to
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find out which team won
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the pitcher takes the sign winds up the
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pitch
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gets in the dirt casts the catcher the
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runner from third is heading home and
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there's the throw
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safe the game ends in a wild pitch and
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pittsburgh wins 7-6 i don't believe it
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for the second night in a row pittsburgh
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wins in 15 innings
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according to friends when mark realized
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that he won he couldn't contain his
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excitement was ecstatic he's screaming
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he's excited 17 grand i won 17 grand
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when mark wu asked jason mcguigan for
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the seventeen thousand dollars he had
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won he learned for the first time that
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jason never placed the bet jason reacts
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to that by pulling his newly purchased
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glock pistol out of his pants
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waves it adam and says shut the [ __ ] up
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there's in fact no bet placed
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nothing documents that woo had any money
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put down jason did not have any money
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put down
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so this bet is completely a false bet
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why jason didn't place the bet is
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unclear either he forgot or decided to
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pocket mark's money instead
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regardless
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this gave mark wu 17 000 reasons to seek
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revenge
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investigators now suspected that jason
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mcguigan was murdered because of his
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gambling activities
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in jason's personal files was evidence
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he placed bets through olympic sports an
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offshore betting agency in the caribbean
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he would call in and they would tell you
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the lines the spreads and what the picks
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were on those games and he would then
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place bets on those
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gambling agencies set up shop outside
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the country to circumvent u.s law
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enforcement
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all of his bets throughout his entire
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account history with olympic sports were
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made by telephone
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olympic sports records all incoming
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phone calls
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and the reason they do that is just in
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case somebody
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has an argument over whether or not they
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made a bet or did not make a bet they've
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got some kind of proof to back up
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what happened
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when police listened to the tapes
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they heard someone else on the phone
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with jason
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okay
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the voice sounded like jason's friend
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mark wu
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and it was clear that wu was also
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betting big on sporting events you have
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jason actually taking over grabbing the
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phone in some manner because you can
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hear the voice change on the tapes you
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can also hear him in the background
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telling what to do so you can see that
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mcguigan is really
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sort of the mastermind behind any of
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this gambling that's going on i'd like
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to know who the pitchers are for the
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baseball game
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atlantic at new york
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no atlanta braves
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yeah
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it should be madison club madison glavin
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yes sir all plays my bet um
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baseball and he didn't know what he was
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doing he didn't know pitcher's names he
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didn't know team names he didn't
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understand the odds
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he really had no idea what he was doing
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an investigation into mark wu's finances
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revealed a telling piece of information
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when we began to discover that mark wu
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had
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over a four or five month period
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drawn more than seventy thousand dollars
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out of his bank account that mark wu was
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telling investigators
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that he
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you know
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at one occasion had dropped fifteen
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thousand dollars on a single bet
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and investigators already knew
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there was a disagreement about the
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baseball bat and that mark wu believed
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jason owed him 17 000
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so it tells us that there's definitely
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some money issues going on between the
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two of them and they're very severe in
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nature
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mark gave police permission to search
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his apartment
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they found no bloody clothes or weapons
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but in the parking lot was the second
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vehicle mark wu owned this one was
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silver
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like the one seen following jason
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mcguigan the afternoon before the
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murders
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inside was the owner's manual for a
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glock nine millimeter pistol like the
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one missing from jason's apartment the
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same caliber weapon used in the murders
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ballistic expert bill newhouse compared
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the shell casings from the murder scene
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to the ones provided by the manufacturer
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when jason purchased the weapon
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it was clearly printed as having been
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cartridge casings fired in and it
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specified the glock pistol
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which had been fired in with the serial
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number and
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really nice information that we don't
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see very often
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they matched proving that it was jason's
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own weapon that killed him that's the
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only time i've encountered that in 30
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some years of doing these kind of cases
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hoping to find the murder weapon
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police searched the garbage dumpster
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behind mark wu's apartment
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instead they found a pair of sandals in
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a white plastic bag
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along with some of mark wu's credit card
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receipts
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police also checked other dumpsters in a
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four block radius
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they find out specifically where that
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particular garbage would be dumped
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and they dig and they you know do that
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dirty work that so often is
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uh the key to solving crime
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and they find this gun case
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we found two halves of a glock gun case
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um they're more of a plastic nature they
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were snapped in half and they were one
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was tied off in one baggy and one was
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found independently
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to see if the case contained any
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fingerprints forensic analyst mike
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riddle used super glue fuming a process
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where the chemicals from heated super
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glue adhere to finger
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oils you hang it in there with super
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glue over a heat source and add a little
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bit of humidity to it
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and the fatty acids and the fingerprints
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absorb the super glue and harden and set
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the print
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riddle saw what he thought might be some
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partial prince
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and used yellow dye to enhance the image
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these partial prints were in an unusual
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location
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they were in one of the corners in a
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curved portion of the gun case
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partially covered by the
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foam rubber that was in there had i not
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removed the foam rubber i probably would
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not have been able to develop these
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prints using super glue
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the prince belonged
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to mark wu
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and on the sandals from the garbage
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dumpster scientists found
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tiny mist like droplets of blood
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i knew that that size was indicative of
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the application of what i would term a
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high energy application of force to the
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blood source
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that's consistent with
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the bullet impact of course
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dna testing revealed the blood on the
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sandals came from the youngest murder
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victim 17 year old dustin wilson
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ironically the dumpster should have been
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empty the day after the murders but the
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garbage truck driver didn't pick up that
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day
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we spoke to the garbage collector
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and he admitted that he often fibs on
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the document indicating that he did pick
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it up when in fact he does not pick it
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up
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mark wu was arrested and charged with
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three counts of first-degree murder
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but he would never be convicted
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marco's parents flew to the united
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states from taiwan because they sensed
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trouble
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mark had withdrawn over seventy thousand
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dollars from his bank account and
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wouldn't give his parents an explanation
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wu had been
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involved in some sort of money losses
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and in their words hadn't been a very
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good boy and they were taking him back
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to taiwan to make him sort of a good boy
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again
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prosecutors say
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mark wu tried to collect the seventeen
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thousand dollars jason mcguigan owed him
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for the baseball bet
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he wanted to deposit this money into his
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bank account to placate his parents
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but jason didn't place the bet so he
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refused to pay
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around 3 p.m on the day of the murders a
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witness saw jason mcguigan's friends
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threaten mark wu angry apparently
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because wu had been following them
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later that night around 8 p.m mark broke
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into jason's apartment but jason wasn't
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there
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so he stole jason's nine millimeter
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glock pistol
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then call jason
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asking him
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what time he was coming home
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mark wu returned to jason's apartment
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around midnight and jason still wasn't
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there
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instead jason's two friends were in the
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living room asleep
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the ones who harassed him a few hours
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earlier
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mark wu killed them to eliminate
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potential witnesses
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in doing so he got dustin wilson's blood
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on his sandals
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jason didn't come home until close to 2
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a.m
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and mark was waiting for him
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[Music]
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again mark demanded his 17 thousand
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dollars but jason didn't have that kind
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of money in his apartment in desperation
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he handed mark the key to his safe
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deposit box
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then mark shot jason with his own gun
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no one knows what mark did with his
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bloody clothes and jason's gun
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he threw the gun case containing his
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fingerprints in a garbage can a few
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blocks from his home
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he put his bloody sandals in a garbage
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bag and tossed them into the dumpster
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behind his apartment with the
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identification provided by his credit
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card
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receipts the next morning mark flew to
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new york city with his parents
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they were about to leave for taiwan
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when police intervened
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he's holding a plane ticket to taiwan a
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country that does not have an
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extradition treaty with the united
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states if mark wu gets to taiwan
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mark wu never becomes
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the criminal defendant in this triple
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homicide
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but the day before the trial there was a
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stunning development
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mark wu
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hanged himself in his jail cell
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he's about to be
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essentially humiliated in the public his
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parents are going to find out what he
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did he's 20 years old he's going to
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prison for the rest of his life he
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killed these three boys
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to try to cover up what he had done
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with all his parents money
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then he had to kill himself
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again at the last minute
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to cover up what he had done and not
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face the truth
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as a courtesy to the victims families
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prosecutors laid out their entire case
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just as they would have presented it to
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the jury
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and the science left no doubt
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there would have been a conviction
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we gave what would have been an opening
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statement or a closing statement to
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these family members and went through
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the evidence we had so that they knew
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we took care of their family members
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their friends killer that this was the
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right person there's not somebody else
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out there to me they showed that that wu
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was guilty
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and it was one of the better things that
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they ever could have done for us
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short of us having an actual trial
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the dna spatter the shell casings
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and the fingerprints are all what really
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wrap up this case and take it from a
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circumstantial case to a case that's
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proven by forensic evidence
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