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 s 9 millimeter glock 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
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two friends were killed first as 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 it to the police. it turns out there wasn t enough of a conflict there 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
on the night of the murders, mark wu said he was in his apartment in madison, wisconsin, and spent the night alone. but mark s 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 that s within the city limits of verona. he didn t really give a good explanation on why he had lied. but the gist of it was that he didn t know anything about these murders. and he just thought that he should have basically an alibi. and mark wu had no history of violence or erratic behavior. mark wu was about as unlikely a suspect in a triple homicide as you re going to get. his yearbook entries, his classmates, former teachers,
that mark wu had, over a four- or 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 some 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 pistol,