five star hotel. maybe it s proof, that if you do enough shopping, sometimes you find exactly what you are looking for. just basically living the very affluent lifestyle she didn t need to work, apparently. back in pam phillips s former country of residence, and november, 2009. three of gary triano s children won their wrongful death lawsuit against pam phillips. a judge ordered her to pay them $10 million. but gary triano s friends and family wondered, would they ever see pam phillips returned to the united states to face charges? because, by then, detective james gamber had learned pam was no longer in switzerland. and it s like i told heather, i said pam has disappeared. we don t know where she is anymore she could be anywhere in the world. and i said the sheriff told me to find her. and i said, they are asking me to pull a rabbit out of my hat, i don t think i have any more updates. you are feeling defeated? yes. and what did you think, you are never going to see pam ph
months before gary triano was killed? yeah. and what was interesting about his choice of hotels, it was geographically almost halfway between where gary triano and the la paloma country club. where he played golf every day? yes. and even more suspicious, ron young stayed under a phony name. the name of one of the people he was accused of defrauding in aspen. but that was well before the murder. and there was no evidence that ron young was in tucson when the bomb went off. reporter: anything in ron young s record or possession that suggested he either knew how to or was involved in building a remote control bomb? no. and he s got no history of working with explosives? that s correct. reporter: still, detective james gamber desperately wanted to talk with ron young. aspen police was looking for him, it was an active fugitive case going on, because they had a fraud warrant. but he basically just fell off
or cooperating with u.s. authorities, and they started tracking pam cell phone. so even though you don t know where she was, authorities of there were still hot on the case? yes. they kept checking the records and looking for pam, and in december of 2009, more than a year after she went on the land, they found her in austria. the detective receive the news from overseas and he realized he wasn t out of the rabbit hole after all. a coded message that said she is in custody in vienna, do you want to extradite her? it was like in one word response, yes. but pam would spend some time waiting in an austrian jail first, while her accused coconspirator ron young stood trial. in february 2010, prosecutors
detective james gamber and keith st. john were there when the call came into the department at tucson. it certainly got investigators attention, especially when they learned more about what was found in that van. there was a map of tucson and handwritten notes with the names and types of cars driven by some of gary triano s business associates, family and friends, including his niece melissa and one time girlfriend taylor. and there was more. and then we found a receipt for a hotel here in tucson, we are ron young stayed in the hotel, for 18 days, during the summer of 1996. which would be, what, a few months before gary triano was killed? yeah. and what was interesting about his choice of hotels, it was geographically almost halfway between where gary triano and the la paloma country club. where he played golf every? day yes. and even more suspicious, ron young stayed under a phony name. the name of one of the people
$10 million. but gary triano s friends and family wondered, would they ever see pam phillips returned to the united states to face charges? because, by then, detective james gamber had learned pam was no longer in switzerland. and it s like i told heather, i said pam has disappeared. we don t know where she is anymore she could be anywhere in the world. and i said the sheriff told me to find her. and i said, they are asking me to pull a rabbit out of my hat, i don t think i have any more updates. you are feeling defeated? yes. and what did you think, you are never going to see pam phillips again? yes. coming up . i think she was cold and calculated. so calculating she could allude the cops. the worldwide hunt for the socialite suspect is on. she had thought that she had gotten away with this. when dateline continues. dateline continues making friends again, billy?