reporter: aspen, colorado. a year-round playground for the rich and famous. amd sometimes for the people who pray on them. that s the kind of case that then aspen police detective jim crowley called back in 1996. two local businesses said they had been defrauded by a man named ron young. but the scam was is that he would become a business manager, help you grow the company, and he did that part of it. but at some point he would have all your credit information so we would apply for credit cards and your name. at himself as a sign or. uses credit cards to pay bills. as far as you can tell, he stole how much money? probably between 80 and $120,000. but before crowley could get
stay in europe. but if you think she was living a rough life as a fugitive, think again. our cameras caught it firsthand. went dateline tractor down in february, 2009. we found her living in the beautiful lake cytokine of , switzerland. the area known of switzerland s version of monte carlo. her daughter, just a little girl when gary triano died, was now a college student there. we discovered pam phillips living in a 5000 dollar a month apartment. and she had made a new friend. a well heeled widower, for whom she would often dine overlooking the lake at this
gary triano the businessman, the father, the philanthropist. none of it made sense. he had just played a round of golf and then the man who loved living large died a spectacular death. i was just so in shock, like the rest of my family. that this could happen at all. you don t want to believe it. and you don t want to accept it. no one that i know was killed with a bomb. it was like something on television. it was a crime scene no one will soon forget. i just thought, oh my goodness. i can t believe this is
security for the kids. and, the friend told the jury, she actually forgot to make the last two payments on the insurance policy before gary was killed. which you think are significant, why? because she testified at trial, that pam never asked her again about the insurance policy. it never came up in any conversations with her. she just let it go. so if pam was killing gary for the insurance, she would have said something to your friend like, you made the last payments, right? exactly. but then how to explain those last recorded phone calls between pam and ron, the discussion of payments? i m really happy that the threats. there s just, plenty of stuff, that, i could literally dig out of the ground. and talk of prison time? when you sit in a woman s prison for murdering when you sit in a woman s prison for murder the defense argued ron was extorting pam with threats of ruining her reputation in
proven quality sleep. only from sleep number. passed since gary triano was killed by a car bomb. police had investigated his business partners and then his ex-wife pam. and they had come up empty. they had deep suspicions about ron young, an accused con man with a murky connection to pam. but investigators couldn t even find him. it looked as if the case may stay cold forever. and then, in 2005 with the tv show america s most wanted featured the triano case and focused on the fugitive ron young. and that works? it took about 19 hours. reporter: after nine years on the lamb, ron young was fingered in florida by a most unlikely tipster.