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 is really sort of the mastermind behind any of this 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. new york mets. yeah. should be maddux and glavine. maddux 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
winds up. the pitch. 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
his back on the bed with his feet curling over the bed to the floor. mcguigan 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 mcguigan 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 just totally unexpected. he didn t really have any enemies that we knew of at all. when this happened, it was a big surprise to us. jason, dustin, and daniel, they were just normal kids
there wasn t really a sense of mark wu being a person who had been in trouble. i d say naive, helpless, really nice guy. i was laughing out loud when the fbi suggested that he could be in a gang or something. but police found evidence that wu and mcguigan were both involved in gambling. we learned that mark wu, through his family, it appears primarily, had resources. so he had money to burn. five days before the murders, mark wu gave jason mcguigan a large sum of money to bet on a professional baseball game. one game in particular was a major league baseball game, pittsburgh versus cleveland. that game happened to go 15 innings and lasted about five hours. mark wu used his cell phone to call a sports betting service that night to find out which team won. the pitcher takes the sign.
governments. 28-year-old jason mcguigan saw gambling as a way to have fun and also 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. mcguigan had spent some of his time with his associates and acquaintances boasting about the gambling. he almost was starting to emerge as a sort of wannabe 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 mcguigan is laying on