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mind and he was about as evil as they come. this is lawrence patrick dantonio, a doctor of osteopathic medicine. he sat down with us to share the extraordinary tale he told the jury about neil mcneice. a man dantonio said suffered from a couple normalities. one serious drug addiction, and the other, exceeding wealth. he first met him in 1989 and said neil s mother paid him to block off his schedule and look after his son, who was at the time addicted to heroin and cocaine. he had a very sweet type of humble personality when he wasn t on drugs. but hen when he would use? 180 degree change. very paranoid, blamed all his problems on select people and then went after them with a vengeance. and there was his storage locker full of weapons. it was all military weapons,
april 2nd, 2014, it had been 17 years, five months, and one day since gary triano and the life he lived had parted company. 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 leads like neil mcneice, who had openly wished gary triano dead. there s plenty of proof that we have shown, that there s a reasonable doubt, and the state went after the easy marks, the woman who got a $2 million insurance policy and the guy that was extorting her. but, said the prosecutor, the idea that anyone else was responsible for this murder, other than pam and her co-conspirator ron young, was just pure fantasy. it makes for a good story,
that neil mcneice didn t like gary triano and it must have been him. makes for a good story that he s got a friend who does model airplanes and has gizmos that are similar to what is used in a bomb. makes for a good story. it s time to hold pam phillips responsible for her crimes. it is time to find pamela phillips guilty. ladies and gentlemen, you re excused to deliberate. and so the jury retired, and everyone else waited. you feel confident as the jury went out? i ve been doing it long enough to never be confident about anything. after two and a half days of deliberations, the jury had a verdict. and the story that had been the talk of tucson for so many years entered its final chapter. we find the defendant pamela phillips, guilty of pam phillips, guilty of first-degree murder and