diagnosed with back in 2005, which laura says, is nonsense. you sure you remembering that conversation with him accurately? absolutely. your health problems? the brain tumor you survived in any way impacted your memory of things like that? absolutely not. how important a witness was laura? i think she was very important. she was critical. this was pam phillips saying that i could hire somebody to take him out, i have insurance on him, his golf game is pretty predictable, i can do it. and that is exactly what happened. of course, gary s niece melissa had never wavered from her belief that pam was guilty. she is the only person that could gain anything from his death, monetarily. as the trial headed to its close, and his co-counsel nicole green felt confident, but one never knows which way a jury will go. we both firmly believed that we had the right person on trial, we both firmly believed the evidence showed she was guilty, and the question was, given the circumst
which, to some, was ironic. i was basically mr. mom. pam s former nanny, kevin mcdonald. i was taking care of trevor and lois for seven days a week. day and night. and according to him, pam was too busy shopping to take care of her kids. shopping, that is, for a new husband. she wasn t apologetic about it. all of her expenses, she was getting worried. because she said kevin, i m down to my last $60,000. what should i do, she said. i said, get a job. but she was focused on finding a man with a job, a good one. she wanted to find a husband that was worth at least $20 million. that s what she told me. worth $20 million. so the pam that married gary triano for his money hadn t changed. except zip codes. yes. zip code and weather.
a year after she went on the land, they found her in austria. detective robin gardner received the newsom overseas, and realized he was not out of after all. a coded message that said she is in custody in vienna, do you want to extradite her? it was like in one word response, yes. but pam would spend some time waiting in an austrian jail first, while her accused coconspirator ron young stood trial. in february 2010, prosecutors presented their case against ron young to a jury, they argued ron young planted the bomb that killed gary triano, and that pam phillips paid him to do it. everything you say, everything you have heard, weeks of conspiracy, it takes to people who are so cold and so greedy that they believe that nothing else matters.
sort of, yes. and gary was a loving father to five children. four of them from his first two marriages. and a daughter with a woman he dated named robin gardner. he was full of life, gary was more full of life than anybody i have ever known. when i met gary he was 21 years older than i. and we would go dancing. we would go to the movies. and he was caring, and fun. and charming? extremely charming. robin moved to tucson in her twenties, from a small town in the appalachian mountains. gary, she says, opened her eyes to a new way of life. well, i had never eaten at a five star restaurant. i had never drank fine wine. i had never been on a private jet. and, robin says, gary was generous with the money he made. gary was a big giver, a big giver.
you always follow the money in a homicide. and then you look at who benefited from the death. investigators were now examining gary triano s closest personal ties. was there someone closer to home? to whom gary may have been worth more dead than alive? i remember asking him, why would anyone want to follow you? and he said because of a life insurance policy. coming up . the women in gary triano s life, an ex wives club. and an angry former girlfriend. they were not happy, at the breakup between she and gary triano. i think the current husband put it best. when robin is mad, you will know it. it s going to be a street fight. when dateline continues. (rose h) smoking caused my lung cancer. they put this in me to drain the fluid.