were happy. they seemed happy. they would sing love songs. gary and pam had some very good years, says gary s niece melissa. they were running around with marla maples, donald trump, they were friends with lee majors. and just taking really extravagant trips. money flowing like water? yeah. gary helped pam launch an astrology website, starbabies. com. the site was designed to give parents an astrological reading about their children. it was a business pam started after her children, trevor, and lewis were born. what do you say trev? heather and brian say those new babies brought them closer to their new stepmother. we grew to like her and love her as a step mom. and as mother of our brother and sister. she was great, very sweet. and i think also being a girl,
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.
there were some people who believed that pam could never have done anything like this. and there were others who suspected her. yes. yeah. gary s ex-girlfriend robin moved back to virginia in 2000, to raise their daughter elliott. he was a great father to all four of his other children. and elliott missed that experience. my daughter was a victim. for nearly a decade, gary triano s friends and family waited and hoped for an answer. as time went by and there weren t any arrests, what did you think? maybe i m wrong about pam? maybe this will never be solved? no. i think part of me thought that in time, it would all be found out and that it just wasn t time yet. and detectives waited too. until one day in 2005, when a tip came in from 2000 miles away.
mcneice had experience with high explosives and that he had access to them. and that he had a foul temper. and that he had a lot of money. but that was not the end of it. the bureau was also told that neil mcneice carried a profound hatred of gary triano. detective gamber s supervisor back then was keith st. john. and you had neil mcniece s name from two different sources. one of which was the fbi? yes. and you never talked to him? no. it would be years before investigators realized how significant an omission that was. but there is no disputing that the neil mcneice tip was never followed up. and so investigators changed focus. and looked away from gary triano s business relationships. you do two things. you go: let s follow the evidence. and you say follow the money.
decades to bring pam phillips to trial, and according to prosecutors, there was no doubt she was guilty of murder. if there s one reason that gary triano was murdered, one reason, he was murdered because his death benefited pamela phillips in a big, big way. and while there was no physical evidence tying pam phillips or ron young to the car bomb that killed gary triano, and nothing placing either one of them in tucson at the time of the murder, prosecutors urged the jury to listen carefully to those phone calls between ron and pam that were recorded after the murder. there is talk of an agreement. i m not going to keep