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. here we go back up on the 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
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 leaves like neil who had openly wished gary triano dead. there is plenty of proof that we have summoned that there is a reasonable doubt. the state went after the easy the woman who got a 2 million dollar insurance policy, and the guy that was extorting her. but, said the prosecutor, the idea that any one else was responsible for this murder, other than pam and her coconspirator ron young was just pure fantasy. it makes for a good story that neil did must have been him. it makes for a good story that he has a friend who does model airplanes and has
180-degree, change very paranoid, blamed all his problems on select people, and then went after them with conventions. and there was his storage locker full of weapons. it was all military weapons, it was all m16s, militarized shotguns, and you could see hand grenades laying on the ground. and his use of dynamite for sport. and he throws dynamite on firecrackers and then there was a company he kept. the doctor says in the early 90s, neil was hanging around with anti government militia types in montana, and then right after the oklahoma city bombing in 1995, neil s girlfriend showed up at house. and she swore up and down that he felt he was involved in this, financially. so at this point in time so neil s girlfriend told you that she thought neil had bankrolled the oklahoma city bombing? yes. the doctor even called an
Crime. and, the man the defense pointed out has a name you might recall. a lead that came up early in the murder investigation, one that was never pursued. neil mcneese s. well, he was coked out of his mind, and he was about as evil as they come. this is lawrence patrick d antonio, the doctor of osteopathic medicine. he sat down with us to share the extraordinary tale he told the jury about neil mckinney. a man, d antonio says, suffered from a couple of maladies. one was a drug addiction, the other one was exceeding wealth. the doctor says he first met him around 1989, and says neil s mother paid him to block off his schedule and look after her son, who was at the time, addicted to heroin and cocaine. he had a very sweet types humble personality when he wasn t on drugs, but then when he would use
Was not the only person to mention neil, as a potential suspect in the case. gregory this friend of gary told detective keith st. jean about neil not long about the murder. but did you tell them about a person by the name of neil? yes. did they ask you about and ? a friend of mine, just something he had said. so why didn t the detective at least talked with neil mcneese? because it s just one of