no. cash. 15? yes. so i took the envelope, basically snatched it from him and counted the money right there and put it in the envelope. that was what, $1,500 in $100 bills? $1,500 in $100 bills. gonna be over, you ain t gonna see us no more, man. everything good? yes. so, this was not some sort of frightened little mouse who was doing what he was told by you guys. this was a guy who was poised and kind of in control of the situation. oh, yeah. i m going to get it done and this is going to be it. and it will be over. but before it was, the undercover dropped one more line to see if magdi would bite. what the [ bleep ] did your wife do so mother [ bleep ] bad to you to make you want to kill her ass? he didn t take the bait. he almost did. magdi probably thought he was home-free, but as he drove away, officers swarmed in. you arrest him. and you guys are all feeling like wyatt earp. we re feeling pretty good, yes. very good, actually. ryan girgis, of course,
a punch, a kick, you kind of name it, depending. i would find the sooner i would cry, the sooner it would stop. a tough lesson to learn from your dad. yeah. he was a very harsh person which made it more fortunate to have my mom in my life, because she was like the complete opposite. as tough as he was on his sons, they say magdi was just as tough on his wife. ryan and richard say they never saw their father hit their mother, but they say they heard the yelling and they did see the bruises. we never ever called 911. we had the sense of fear that we didn t want to cross the line. you were more afraid of what your dad would do to you if you did call 911 than what might happen to your mom if you didn t? yeah. we were scared of my dad. we were just like so petrified. did you know your dad was more than capable of just hitting people?
and she made like the hand gesture like he punched her in the face. from that, that started the whole cascade. police went to the girgis home and arrested magdi. that was really scary. that was scary. not thrilling. it was terrifying. not the moment you d been waiting for? no, no, no. there was no point of return. somehow i knew immediately after that that it was there is no going back. no going back. so the life you had before was never going to be the same. a court issued a protective order and magdi moved out of the house he worked so hard for to an apartment complex he and his brother owned nearby. after more than two decades of marriage, it seemed magdi and ariet were headed for divorce. it was a thought that seemed to terrify ariet. i think she was scared and had a lot of cold feet. about striking out on her own in the world. exactly. ariet was totally dependent on magdi. she had never written a personal check.
didn t even know their mortgage was paid off. she had expressed to me, i wish all this would just not be here. i wish everything could go back to the way it was. magdi, too, seemed frightened and perhaps chastened. he was definitely trying to get back with my mother. did it seem like your mom was wavering at all? yeah. there was a limbo period where my mom was considering taking him back. richard, who had stepped up during his father s absence as the man of the house, overheard a strange conversation between his parents. he was like, oh, i love you. had you ever heard your dad say i love to you your mom? i can t really recall that. until that conversation when he needed something from her. yeah. what did magdi need? it turned out he was more worried about himself than anyone else. a domestic violence conviction
attempt to trap magdi. the only way anthony bridget or somebody like him commits a crime like this is some kind of gain, financial, primarily. so you develop that kind of individual and you come up with a way in which they were able to contact magdi and demand more money. let me holler at you for a few ticks. in other words, these two undercover officers posing as gang members would approach magdi and hit him up for some hush money. since investigators knew that money was magdi s particular obsession, they hoped they were about to strike a nerve, but they had to be careful. if the killers were working for magdi, it wasn t clear if he knew them directly or hired them through a middleman. so, you couldn t have these guys claim that they were the actual guys in the house. correct. because possibly, he knew them. possibly he knew them. so, you have them pose as friends of the guy in the house. yes. and he s now in jail.