the murder of ariet girgis, when detective james wilson got his first solid break. home invaders had tied up ariet s son, ryan, with a shoelace. the detectives submitted that shoelace to a crime lab, hoping for a long-shot dna hit, and the results were in. the dna belonged to anthony bridget. he had numerous violent conduct, including prior conviction for manslaughter. so, this was no novice. long, violent rap sheet. absolutely. bridget also had a drug conviction. and remember, ryan girgis admitted he sometimes dealt weed. could ryan and anthony bridget have known each other? is that why richard immediately wondered if ryan was the target of the attack? police considered that theory and dismissed it. in fact, for police, anthony bridget and his gang
mom yelling, take anything you want take. anything you want. and then after that i noticed the guy was taking my mom away. toward her bedroom. ryan s attacker dragged him into the closet but then noticed the duct time was slipping around ryan s hands. i heard him taking some shoe string off one of my shoes. using the shoelace, the man tied ryan hands behind his back. through closet door, ryan pleaded with his attacker. i was saying please don t kill me. please don t kill me. i started praying. and he said he know your circumstances. i know what you re going through. i m not going on kill you. he know your circumstances. strange as those words sound, ryan found them somehow comforting. i started feeling a little sense of relief. but then ryan heard a sound
the intruder took his gloves off before handling the duct tape, and also, the shoelace used to tie him up. you don t have to be a detective to think, maybe that had some dna on it. the detective checked to see if the shoelace had ever been tested. it had not. so he sent it off to the crime lab. and one afternoon, eight years after ariet s murder, detective wilson s phone rang. the crime lab did call me and tell me they got a hit. and no one could have predicted the name police were given. had to be our suspect, agent least one of our suspects. and the name the crime lab gives you anthony bridget. was that in any of the case files? no. not someone who had been talked to at any stage of the investigation. wasn t even in our inhouse