my heart breaks. casinos, charisma, connections. he was mr. big. he was very dark flamboyant. extremely charming. his murder was big to. a car explosion at a posh resort, somebody wanted to make a statement. who would want him dead? or who wouldn t? a string of angry investors, even whispers about the mob. everybody went, oh, this is mob connected. so why would police focus on her, a beautiful socialite, ex-wife number two? she 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. she s 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 end. we are going back up under a rollercoaster. spend a little time in tucson, arizona and here, in the shadows of the majes
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
it was a company, my father persist for her when they were married. this was great, i thought, this was something my father started. i will come and restarted as it wasn t developed. during the time heather lived with pam, she took care of her younger siblings. but she never once had a discussion with pam about gary s unsolved murder. we didn t talk about it, really. she was basically a member of your family, at least for a while, and clearly felt close to the two of you. and she never once said, here s what i think happened? no. no, i don t think so. through the years, heather and brian maintain the relationship with him, even as they had families of their own. she was at my wedding. she was at my wedding and we were friends. but gary s niece melissa couldn t help suspect that pam had something to do with her uncle s murder. in my mind, the only person that had anything to gain from him dying was pam. there was really a rift in your family, wasn t there?
Playing golf? man or woman? man, never identified. it made an impact on camber s boss. then sheriff clarence dubnick. i ve never seen an assassination of this kind. if in fact it was a hit, it probably was a professional hits. reporter: could the sheriff be right? if so, who hired a hitman? who wanted triano dead? he was very flamboyant, very outgoing, engaging. he ran in real big circles, running around with donald trump, people like that. and he was throwing money around? yes. and so when a flamboyant guy dies in a flamboyant way yeah. people start thinking? you tie him with big money, flamboyant lifestyle, casinos, then killed in a car bombing? everyone makes this automatic assumption that that has to be some mob related hit. reporter: and as
An arrest warrant, ron young disappeared. he knew you were on his trial, and he skipped town? yes. young fled in a rented mini van that later turned up in southern california. young himself was nowhere to be found. but what was found in the mini van was very curious. a note in the car that was kind of like a laundry list. buy toothpaste, down the list further was sawed off shotgun. reporter: ron young was not known as a violent criminal. but when police found a shotgun and a taser in the van, it may detective crowley that a man wanted for white collar crimes may possibly more be more dangerous than he thought. in ron young s mini van, investigators found something else peculiar. paperwork related to the divorce of pamela phillips and gary triano. at the time the name gary triano meant what do you? nothing. but pam phillips, that was a name that crowley had heard before. he knew her as another aspen resident who claimed she had been ripped off by ron young. pam said ron