there were some people who believed that pam could never have done anything like this. and there were others who suspected her. yes. yeah. gary s ex-girlfriend robin moved back to virginia in 2000, to raise their daughter elliott. he was a great father to all four of his other children. and elliott missed that experience. my daughter was a victim. for nearly a decade, gary triano s friends and family waited and hoped for an answer. as time went by and there weren t any arrests, what did you think? maybe i m wrong about pam? maybe this will never be solved? no. i think part of me thought that in time, it would all be found out and that it just wasn t time yet. and detectives waited too. until one day in 2005, when a tip came in from 2000 miles away.
suspect at all. then they read the search warrant affidavit, which detailed the audiotaped conversations between pam phillips and ron young. when you sit in a women s prison for murder, would you sit in a woman s prison for murder? and it s at that point, that we realized something was wrong. that the whole thing was not right. 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,
investigators had been looking at gary s business dealings. but started hitting one dead end after another. so they began scouring his personal life. gary had lived large. and it turned out he loved that way of life. and he was no angel. by the time of his death, gary s name was already 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 his death to report that robin showed uninvited to his home and threw a vase at him.
and she never once said, here s what i think happened? no. no, i don t think so. reporter: through the years, heather and brian maintain the relationship with him, even as they had families of their own. she was at my wedding. she was at my wedding and we were friends. reporter: but gary s niece melissa couldn t help suspect that pam had something to do with her uncle s murder. in my mind, the only person that had anything to gain from him dying ways pam. there was really a rift in your family, wasn t there? some who believe that pam could never have done anything like this. and others who suspected her. yes. yeah. reporter: gary s ex-girlfriend robin moved back to virginia in 2000, to raise their daughter elliott. he was a great father to all four of his other children. and elliott missed that experience. my daughter was a victim. reporter: for nearly a decade, gary triano s friends and family waited and hoped for an answer.
my father moved away when i was 17. i was sort of a lost child, if you will. and my uncle kind of helped me realize a lot of my skills. and taught me a lot about the real estate industry. it was kind of a father figure? 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. 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