from pam. payments that were made carefully and surreptitiously using a cryptic code that the two had devised. i m really happy that you are 1. 6 six tax free. he talked about you ve got your 1. 6 i got my four, which adds up to 2 million, adds up to the insurance payment. there is nothing on those tapes which says, ron young says, you hired me for this money to bomb your husband s car. it s not said directly. but when you piece the conversations together, that is said. i helped you on something that was beyond what anybody else in the world would do. perhaps the most damning piece of evidence? would you sit in a women s prison for murdering? would you sit in a women s prisons for murder? i m going to hang up. as far as i know, the only murder in pam phillips life was the murder of gary triano.
by car bomb had set the tucson rumor mill on overdrive. but according to local nbc reporter lupita murillo, an awful lot of fingers were pointed in the same direction. within 24 hours after the dust settled, the word that i was getting was that it was his former wife. and it was because of this insurance policy. pam phillips, gary s ex was someone that investigators wanted to talk with, especially afterward came from aspen that pam had been connected in some way to a fugitive on the run from fraud charges named ron young. nine days after the murder, investigators got their chance. pam phillips voluntarily came in for questioning.
now each side had one last chance. the defense insisted that investigators had blinders on when they went after pam phillips, carelessly ignoring other possible leaves like neil who had openly wished gary triano dead. there is plenty of proof that we have summoned that there is a reasonable doubt. the state went after the easy the woman who got a 2 million dollar insurance policy, and the guy that was extorting her. but, said the prosecutor, the idea that any one else was responsible for this murder, other than pam and her coconspirator ron young was just pure fantasy. it makes for a good story that neil did must have been him. it makes for a good story that he has a friend who does model airplanes and has
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
by now, she was beginning to understand more about how her father died, and who might have done it, and why. when you heard that pam was accused of having your father murdered for 2 million dollar insurance policy, what did you think? i don t know what it is like to live the kind of life that she was living, but i know what it is like to grow up without having my dad around, my biological dad. pamela ann phillips, this is your rain, those are your charges. pam phillips pleaded not guilty to murder and charges to commit murder assigned to prosecute the case. she married gary for his money, we believe, she divorced him for the same reason, he was