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 web 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 married. 9-1-1 was even called after his death to report that robin showed 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 robins door. they were pretty unhappy at the break up between she and gary triano. we looked into robin and i
with pam about gary s unsolved murder. we didn t talk about it, really. she was basically a member of your family, at least for a while, and clearly felt close to you. 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 nice 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 move 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. as time went by and there weren t any arrests, what do 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. reporter: detectives waited to. until one day in 2005, when the tip came in from 2000 miles away. coming up i helped you want something that was, beyond what anybody else in the world would probably do. reporter: secret tapes are about to warm up a cold case. there s plenty of stuff that i could dig out of the ground,