everybody went, oh, this is mob connected. so why would police focus on her, a beautiful socialite, ex-wife number two? it was very intoxicating. i think she was cold and calculating. maybe her former husband was worth more dead than alive. it s easy to blame the rich, beautiful woman. the person everyone loves to hate. but she is completely innocent. or maybe it was someone else entirely. he is obsessed with gary triano, obsessed with him. it s a case we investigated for more than five years. now a stunning new in. we are going back up under a rollercoaster. spend a little time in tucson arizona and here, in the shadows of the majestic saguaros you will find a thriving metropolis of 1 million people, with a surprising small town feel. it s the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone. and if you ask anyone from tucson where they were on november 1st, 1996, they will tell you it was the day of a murder. so dramatic, so horrific they will never f
conspire to kill gary triano, did not carry it out, well then, who did? you are about to hear one wild story of a man police never checked out. a man who had the means, the motive, and apparently the desire to kill gary triano. coming up he was coked out of his mind, he was about as evil as they come. could he be the real killer? he was so obsessed with gary, he immediately started declaring he would kill him. wait, you heard him say that? oh yeah, many times, many, many times. when dateline continues. , everything s taken care of. -hey, jamie. -oh, what am i up to? just visiting a special secret client. i can t say who it is, but let s just say she bundled her dream house and her dream car for round-the-clock protection with progressive. oh. she has another house in malibu. she s been an astronaut, an architect, a ceo. we re in front of her house, dude. i d love to tell you who her boyfriend is,
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he ended up with worth about $70,000. gary switched the ring on him? at some point, that is one neil lost it toward gary. he went berserk, and he was so obsessed with gary, he immediately started declaring he was going to kill him, years later. wait, wait, where you heard him say that? many. times many many times. hundreds, to maybe thousands of times. he is obsessed with gary triano, obsessed with him. that was the case that defense made to the jury. they argued neil had the means and the motive, and the stated desire to kill gary triano. any evidence that investigators never looked at this guy as a possible suspect? no. no. they ignored this whole line of investigation completely, completely. the defense even connected neil to a potential bomb maker, his close friend jerry happened to be a master woodworker and handyman. one of jerry s hobbies was he was an avid radio control
separated, pam told laura about the problems they were having. she started talking about how easy it would be to hire somebody, that she should just hire a hitman and have him taken out. how easy it would be, because he had such a predictable schedule that he played golf every day. and then, she started talking about their insurance policy, the life insurance policy, and of course you know, at the time, you think it is just somebody who is venting, angry you don t think she is actually plotting the murder of her husband? of course not. you thought this was pam letting off steam yeah. and so laura brushed the conversation aside. this of course was three years before gary triano murder. pam and laura stayed friends, even after she moved to aspen. then, november 1st 1996, laura heard the news about the car bombing at i remember once i heard who it was, that it was gary, i remember saying to my husband, oh my gosh, she really did it. but laura chose not to go to the aut