by car bomb had set the tucson rumor mill on overdrive. but according to local nbc reporter lupita murillo, an awful lot of fingers were pointed 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. 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.
robin gardner was pretty unhappy at the break up between she and gary triano. we looked into robin and i think her current husband put it best. when robin is mad, you will know it, and whatever will happen will happen right now. so basically it s going to be a street fight. and you are convinced that while she was angry at gary triano, she wanted him alive. yes. i don t think she would have done that to their child. so investigators looked away from robin as a person of interest. and moved on to some of the other women and gary s life. he had maintained a good relationship with his first wife, mary, after the divorce and investigators eliminated her. that left his second ex-wife, pam phillips. like gary, pam phillips had been married once before. the stunning blonde had a business degree from the university of arizona. and was one of few women to find success working in commercial real estate in tucson in the late eighties. pam and gary seemed off to a
what was it like you for you that she would have been your stepmother, and your friend. a very good friend. that she was implicated? i wanted to throw up. in november of 2007, 11 years after the murder, heather and brian along with gary s youngest daughter elliott, filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit against pam phillips, and ron young. elliott s mother, robin. it was not to recover money? the idea was to serve subpoenas, and maybe get the investigation going? it had came to just a slow halt. and it just seemed as if it was as cold as cold could be. so the children got together, and as you said, not for revenue. but to simply get the ball rolling. despite all the evidence investigators had uncovered in ron young s possession. prosecutors in tucson, still didn t feel there was enough to
fbi hotline to report neil, there s no indication the bureau found any link between neil and the bombing. but the fbi did eventually contact antonio when they were investigating him for something else. he found himself a defendant in a federal wiretapping case, accused of extorting money from a man who had been his friend. ultimately pleaded guilty to receiving the proceeds of extortion, and was sentenced to two years probation. why was any of this relevant in the murder trial of pam phillips, because, as doctor his frightening acquaintance had a history of bad blood, with none other than gary triano. it started, the doctors, that after mcneese and gary triano agreed to purchase an item together at a charity auction. gary did not have the money
and she first met pam back in the late 80s. she was very sweet, very nice. the two became good friends, and laura had a front row seat to pam and gary s upscale lifestyle. they had a dining room table that actually came out of the floor, which i thought was a bit over the top, but it was interesting. it was a lifestyle that, laura, says pam was not pleased to part with when gary s finances started to crumble. to pam, that was more significant then thinking to yourself, well, he s a wonderful guy, i love him, he is the father of my children i have to wonder, if she really truly ever did love, him or if it was just the lifestyle that they had she was in love with. and when pam and harry