I started to tell them please, dont kill me, please dont kill me. Narrator an attack in the night. I was really freaking out. I was like, whats going on . Whats going on . Narrator a mother murdered. An attack in i was freaking out like whats going on . A mother, murdered. It looked like two ghosts committed the ultimate crime. He lived to tell police a harrowing story. Was it true . He survived, he is practically unharmed. They are treating me like a suspect. Now an undercover plan to solve the mystery. Step out of the car right now. Was the real mastermind . I wanted to be wrong. I really wanted to be wrong. The American Dream so many of us want, a loving family, the honest job, the home you can afford, the idea that you can start over here. And in this new country that better life will be yours. This is a story about that dream , about a family that worked for it, and then what happened to them. This wasnt part of anyones dream. Caller yeah, well, someone just broke into our house,
have done it. crime scene investigators collected mounds of evidence and surprisingly, with all that blood, not a single trace of unknown dna. all the results were people in the house. ariet, richard, magdi and ryan. a witness who for some reason was left alive. two guys came into the house, beat up ryan, tie him up and kill ariet in a brutal hands-on way and leave no trace? that s what it looked like. it looked like two ghosts had just come in and committed the ultimate crime. it seemed improbable and it encouraged detectives to look closely at ryan. he claimed to be a victim. but was he really? police learned the friend he was with the night of the murder had offered ryan a knife for protection.
they suspected magdi had hired bridget and another as-yet-unknown man to kill ariet. and now, apparently, here were a pair of gangsters on magdi s property. the more talkative of the two called himself d-money, and money is what he wanted from magdi. you know what i m saying? we don t care about it. but the thing is, we want to get paid for it. we re not going to say [bleep], you know what i mean? what are you talking about? good question. and who better to answer it than d-money himself? you re a born actor. i believe i am. he s not a gangster. he s an officer from the long beach police department who was working under cover, which is why we are concealing his identity. are 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 sonia and detective wilson had set in motion, even before they met
january 30th, 2013. the home where ariet girgis had met her awful death was suddenly once again the scene of an unexpected confrontation. saw my [ bleep ]. two men showed up on magdi girgis lawn. let me holler at you for a few ticks. let me holler at you for a second. and it was all caught on camera. check it out. me and my homie locked up in the pen right now. police approached him about him killing his wife for you in this [ bleep ] house. interesting, because prosecutor sonia balleste and detective wilson had just returned from visiting crips gang member anthony bridget in prison. they suspected magdi had hired bridget and another as-yet-unknown man to kill ariet.
on the day of closing arguments, richard and ryan walked to court together. they had brought something for prosecutors sonia balleste, a religious tile belonging to ariet. sonia wanted me to bring an item from our mom and stuff that she could hold on to. they learned the evidence driven prosecutor had a superstitious side, she wanted to have something of ariel s to touch during her last closing argument to channel ariet s spirit and courage. she took the witness stand in a preliminary hearing and faced evil. and for the first time in her life, stood up to him. she knew exactly what he would do to her for it. he s done some bad things in his life, but he didn t hire anybody to murder ariet girgis.