they just said, oh, well, we know who did it, magdi did it. they focused on magdi. they never left magdi. and they never really figured out who sent those emails. they never did. and the day and three hours of argument never once mentioned the emails. never tried to explain them. just left them alone. just like the police. what is hanging out there, the question of who sent those emails and why? could the threats be the reason ryan s friend offered him a knife? the fact that he was offered a knife for his protection by his drug-dealing friend just minutes, or at the latest, hours before the murder of his mother by someone using a knife suggests to me that there was some reason for him to be afraid for his own safety in his own home. the defense also attacked ryan s credibility. remember what ryan told us, that one of the intruders said i know your circumstances. i know what you re going
it might have been the manifestation of her own american dream. ariet hired a divorce attorney and began planning a new life. i really felt like my mom was empowered. she just wanted to be happy that she felt like there was happiness coming. instead, the next month, she was murdered. and to investigators who heard ariet s story, it now seemed obvious her husband magdi was the prime suspect. everything pointed at magdi. except for the fact the phone records proved that magdi was at his own apartment when ryan called him that night. and according to the only witness, two black men committed the murder. and there was still the question of why that witness, ryan, was left alive. and just a few days after his mother was killed, the rebellious son, ryan, received another anonymous message on his computer.
he was in soledad state prison. prosecutor balleste and wilson paid him an unannounced visit. and there you are in a little room. yes. a table like this one. yes. between you. and you say? i want to talk to you. and he s a little surprised, right? he s a little surprised, yes. but anthony bridget was hard to rattle. he s been involved in gang-related homicides in the past. pretty experienced at the prison system. so, saying to him, hey, the guy that hired you, magdi girgis, just rolled over on you, that s not going to work. right. this is not a virgin. exactly. but they did get something. you said to him, i have your dna at a murder scene. yes. and he said, where? he said, where? not, i haven t committed any murder. did you ask him whether he knew magdi? no. we never got that far. here s what bridget didn t know. the prosecutor and the detective
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.
most disturbing by far was what happened seven months before the murder in february 2004. on the eve of magdi and ariet s 24th wedding anniversary. so she starts talking on magdi. can we go out to dinner? that s what starts this fight. doesn t sound like a very long fight. no. he punches her in the face. this was a challenge to magdi. that will not happen in his household. someone standing up to him? oh yeah, challenging him in how he should run his marriage. that was absolutely completely out of line. even if the person challenging you is the other partner in the marriage, your wife? to magdi girgis, she s not a partner. that s what we would call her, but that s not what he sees. richard remembers arriving