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,
waiting for? no, no, no. there was no point of return. somehow i knew, immediately after that that it was like there s no going back. there s no going back. and so the life you had before? it 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 we re headed for divorce. there was a thought that seemed to terrify ariet. i think she was scared and had a lot of cold feet. about striking on on her own in the world? exactly. ariet it was totally dependent on magdi she had never written a personal check, didn t even know their mortgage was paid off. she would express to me, like, you know i wish all of this would just not be, here or i wish everything could go back to the way it was. magdi to seemed frightened.
force him to split his hard earned money with ariet. he had his back to the wall. yeah. so magdi came up with a plan. a letter in which ariet would say she wasn t sure what happened. that her injuries could have resulted from a fall. magdi and ariet weren t speaking at the time so magdi convinced richard, the dutiful older son to transcribe the letter and persuade ariet to sign it. thus getting her husband off the hook. do you feel bad at all trying to get your mom to change her story of something that you knew she was telling the truth about? yeah. back then, i felt like i was just trying to help. and maybe the price of saving your family is convincing your mom to lie about something you know is true. he really just manipulated
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.
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 of the. 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