my heart breaks. casinos, charisma, connections. he was mr. big. he was very dark flamboyant. extremely charming. his murder was big to. a car explosion at a posh resort, somebody wanted to make a statement. who would want him dead? or who wouldn t? a string of angry investors, even whispers about the mob. everybody went, oh, this is mob connected. so why would police focus on her, a beautiful socialite, ex-wife number two? she was very intoxicating. i think she was cold and calculating. maybe her former husband was worth more dead than alive. it s easy to blame the rich, beautiful woman. she s the person everyone loves to hate. but she is completely innocent. or maybe it was someone else entirely. he is obsessed with gary triano, obsessed with him. it s a case we investigated for more than five years. now a stunning new end. we are going back up under a rollercoaster. spend a little time in tucson, arizona and here, in the shadows of the majes
everybody went, oh, this is mob connected. so why would police focus on her, a beautiful socialite, ex-wife number two? it was very intoxicating. i think she was cold and calculating. maybe her former husband was worth more dead than alive. it s easy to blame the rich, beautiful woman. the person everyone loves to hate. but she is completely innocent. or maybe it was someone else entirely. he is obsessed with gary triano, obsessed with him. it s a case we investigated for more than five years. now a stunning new in. we are going back up under a rollercoaster. spend a little time in tucson arizona and here, in the shadows of the majestic saguaros you will find a thriving metropolis of 1 million people, with a surprising small town feel. it s the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone. and if you ask anyone from tucson where they were on november 1st, 1996, they will tell you it was the day of a murder. so dramatic, so horrific they will never f
attached to two divorces and a trail of broken hearts. he had left his first wife, mary, after two children and more than 20 years of marriage, to wed a younger woman, pam phillips. gary had two more children with her. after that marriage ended, gary dated robin gardner for two years. and that union produced a daughter, elliott. but gary and robin never married. after an angry break up while robin we still pregnant. gary even called 9-1-1 after a year before his death to report that robin showed up uninvited to his home and threw a vase at him. robin told investigators she through the base at the ground after gary pushed her. and so investigators came knocking on robin s door.
what was it like you for you that she would have been your stepmother, and your friend. a very good friend. that she was implicated? i wanted to throw up. in november of 2007, 11 years after the murder, heather and brian along with gary s youngest daughter elliott, filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit against pam phillips, and ron young. elliott s mother, robin. it was not to recover money? the idea was to serve subpoenas, and maybe get the investigation going? it had came to just a slow halt. and it just seemed as if it was as cold as cold could be. so the children got together, and as you said, not for revenue. but to simply get the ball rolling. despite all the evidence investigators had uncovered in ron young s possession. prosecutors in tucson, still didn t feel there was enough to
sort of, yes. and gary was a loving father to five children. four of them from his first two marriages. and a daughter with a woman he dated named robin gardner. he was full of life, gary was more full of life than anybody i have ever known. when i met gary he was 21 years older than i. and we would go dancing. we would go to the movies. and he was caring, and fun. and charming? extremely charming. robin moved to tucson in her twenties, from a small town in the appalachian mountains. gary, she says, opened her eyes to a new way of life. well, i had never eaten at a five star restaurant. i had never drank fine wine. i had never been on a private jet. and, robin says, gary was generous with the money he made. gary was a big giver, a big giver.