his ex wife pam phillips was now on trial, charged with his murder. and right from the start, pam s defense team insisted that police rushed to judgment. it is a lot easier to go after the ex-wife who collected $2 million. it is easy. that is the low hanging fruit. in his opening statement, attorney defended not just pam, but her latched coconspirator as well. the evidence you re going to hear is going to convince you not only that my client is innocent, but that ron young is innocent. the defense insisted there was nothing placing ron young or pam phillips in tucson on the day of the murder. if you are going to do a bombing, you have to come in and to the bombing. they have no evidence whatsoever and says comes attorney alicia there was no proof ron even knew how to build a bomb. there is no evidence he had the ability, no evidence he had the knowledge, nothing in his van or any of the stuff that
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Real estate developer Gary Triano lived large and when he was murdered there were whispers of a mob connection, an angry investor, or a mad ex, but the mystery.
presented their case against ron young to a jury, they argued ron young planted the bomb that killed gary triano, and that pam phillips paid him to do it. everything you say, everything you have heard, weeks of conspiracy, it takes to people who are so cold and so greedy that they believe that nothing else matters. gary s niece melissa testified, and learned for the first time that her name had been on a list found in ron young abandoned van. it was alarming, it was horrifying. the defense argued that pam s payments to ron or just extortion, and blackmail, and that there is no evidence tying ron young to a bomb or placing him in tucson on the day of the murder. you have a laundry list of
about neil not long about the murder. but did you tell them about a person by the name of neil? yes. did they ask you about and ? a friend of mine, just something he had said. so why didn t the detective at least talked with neil? because it s just one of those things that fall through the cracks, or because you guys were so focused on pam phillips? that is what the defense would have you believe, that we were focused on pam phillips, i would say there were 8 to 10, what i felt were viable leads in addition to pam phillips? and neil mcneese was not one of them? no. in hindsight, you wish you had dragged neil mcneese through and asked some questions? of course. if you had done, that would you think you would have found? based on the evidence that i have seen, both from our investigation and the defense investigation as we would have cleared him some way, we would not have any level where he would have been a suspect. there was nothing to the mcneese s