yes. reporter: but detective james gamber s investigation showed that pam was in aspen, not tucson, on the day of the murder. and pam the socialite certainly seemed more bombshell then bomb maker. and so pam phillips is probably not someone you thought was thinking around building a pipe bomb? no. reporter: detective james gamber and his team seemed to be had another dead end, until an alert detective 800 miles away caught a news report about the bombing. and some bells went off. coming up they found a note in the car, buy toothpaste, and down a little further was off shotgun. reporter: what could that have to do with the murder of gary triano? when dateline continues. line continues.
pima county sheriff s car. gary s youngest child elliot was just seven months old when her father was killed. 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 a $2 million insurance policy, what did you think? i don t know what it s like to live the kind of life that she was living. but i know what it s like to grow up without having my dad around, my biological dad. arizona versus pamela anne phillips. that s your arraignment. those are the charges. pam phillips pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. a veteran attorney was assigned to prosecute the case. she married gary for his money, we believe. she divorced him for the same reason. he was bankrupt at the time. you think she also killed him for his money?
that is our broadcast for this friday night with our thanks for being with us. we hope you have a great weekend. brian will be back on monday. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. goodnight. it s probably one of the hardest times of my life. we ever. we i was just numb. my heart breaks. my heart breaks. casinos, charisma, connections. he was mr. big, it was very dark flamboyant. charming. his murder was big to. a car explosion at a posh resort, somebody wanted to make a statement.
reporter lupita murillo, an awful lot of fingers were pointing 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. reporter: 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. i didn t give pamela out of what i knew. i let her talk and let her give me what she wanted to give me. reporter: detective keith st. john spoke with him three times, twice in person. for the record, tell me your
young s apartment in storage locker, investigators found a computer with emails, fedex receipts from spin and a stash of audiotaped that young had apparently recorded in secrets in the years following the murder. conversations with none other than pam phillips. the computer and the tapes turned out to be the gold mine. reporter: investigators began to play tape after tape. looking for anything that would shed light on the investigation. and on those tapes, they heard ron young threatening pam. there s just plenty of stuff that i could literally dig out of the ground. and your afraid doc. reporter: hence mysterious conversations about banks in money. i can t deal with this. i can t. i d rather die. then what? then sit here and deal with