but she was focused on finding a man with a job, a good one. she wanted to find a husband that was worth at least $20 million. that s what she told me. worth $20 million. so the pam that married gary triano for his money hadn t changed. except zip codes. yes. zip code and weather. reporter: but while pam was looking for the right deal in aspen, back in tucson, gary triano was feeling uneasy. gary said, i think we are being followed. i just thought, you are starting to scare me, dude. [laughs] reporter: taylor show bergh, his girlfriend at the time, says was gary was convinced that someone was following him. i remember asking him, why would anyone want to follow you? and he said, because of a life insurance policy. reporter: turns out gary was insured for $2 million. his children, trevor and louis for the beneficiaries. until they turned 18, though, the money was controlled by their mother, pam. they had gone through a nasty divorce?
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. reporter: 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. reporter: coming up . a brand-new mystery. where was pam phillips? pam s disappeared. she could be anywhere in the world. but ask me to pull a rabbit out of my hat, i don t think i have any more rabbits. you were feeling defeated? yes. when dateline continues.
alternative suspects in this case. that may just as much sense as ryan young. the jury however did not buy it. we find the defendant ron young guilty of in march of 2010, ron young was found guilty of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. he was sentenced to life in prison. just two months later, pam phillips was extradited back to the united states. you can guess who was there to welcome her back. what do you say to the family? what do you say to your own children who don t have a father, whose mom and dad will be in jail? but lupita murillo wasn t the only face she saw at the airport. was that like to see them come back to see trial? it was gratifying when she got off the plane a 10:00 at night. she was not happy to see me. also present, melissa triano. why was it important for you
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
we don t know because she never came back and refused to answer my calls after that. so she originally came to you and made it complaints backed off, yes. i never told you why? no. reporter: their former nanny remembers that ron and pam seem close. pam would come over at least two or three times a week. and some nights, pam would cook for him, have romantic dinners with candlelight and music. reporter: although, kevin says, ron didn t seem to be pam s type. he did not have any money. he was not a socialite. and that s why she generally went for. reporter: so what exactly was pams relationship with ron young? and why wouldn t pam cooperate with police? did she want to protect ron? or was she afraid of him? crowley didn t know what to