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