Gambling has a lot more visibility than it used to. It's on the internet, it's on prime time television, and it's almost a varsity sport on some college campuses. But several young men learned the hard way that gambling can put your money at risk, and sometimes your life.

Gambling isn't confined to casinos, church, bingo, and backroom card games anymore. Now, it's everywhere. There are

poker tournaments on the computer. You can play sports wagers offshore, and you can play the

daily lottery, now run by local governments. Twenty-eight-year-old Jason McGuigan saw gambling

as a way to have fun and also make a living.

He dabbled in casino gaming, but his real love was sports handicapping.

He was known to wager thousands of dollars on a single event.

He was not a bookie. He had made the offer to quite a few people that if you give me some money, I'll sign

you up with a betting service and give you advice.

He was essentially trying to sell his advice.

McGuigan had spent some of his time with his associates and acquaintances boasting about

the gambling.

He almost was starting to emerge as sort of a wannabe gangster.

On a warm June afternoon, Jason's aunt stopped by his apartment to pick up an old computer.

She found the back door open, inside with the remnants of a massacre.

Jason McGuigan is laying on his back on the bed,

with his feet curling over the bed to the floor.

McGuigan had been shot twice with a 9mm handgun.

Jason's two friends, Daniel Swanson and Dustin Wilson, were shot to death in the living

room.

It could have been a professional hit just because of the way these bullets went into people.

Inside Jason's apartment was a receipt for a 9mm Glock pistol. He had purchased it just a few weeks earlier, but the gun wasn't

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