for over $500 million worldwide. one of the biggest opening weekend of all-time. and, took home the hardware at the british open sunday, the american shot one under in the final round at the royal liverpool golf course, finishing six strokes ahead of his closest competitors. now back to dateline. t competitors. now back to dateli february 27 years have passed since gary triano a shocking death by car bomb outside a tucson country club. his ex wife pam phillips was now on trial, charged with his murder. and right from the start, pam s defense team insisted that police rushed to judgment. it is a lot easier to go after the ex-wife then it is easy. that is the low hanging fruit. in his opening statement, attorney defended not just pam, but her latched coconspirator as well. the evidence you re going to
kept that secret, until one evening and 2011 while dining at a local restaurant, she saw gary s daughter heather. something told her, it was time. i said, heather, i think there is something that i need to tell you. i told her what pam had shared with me that night at her house. and the very next day, laura shared her story with detective keith st. john. what made you decide to come forward? seeing heather, and knowing how much she loved her father. knowing that what i knew could possibly help them convict the person who was responsible for his murder. on the stand, the defense attacked laura, saying she was not have been remembering things clearly, because of a brain tumor she had been
at a posh resort. obviously, someone wanted to make a statement. so this is a powerful bomb? yes. pima county sheriff s detective detective james gamber and an alphabet soup of investigative agencies, including the fbi and atf started looking closely at the homemade bomb that had found its way to gary triano s passenger seat. we were able to determine that the device was a 17-inch piece of pipe, about an inch and a half in diameter. the pipe was filled with explosive powder and it detonated by remote control. using something that is normally used to control boats, planes? correct. handheld planes? yes. investigators determined that whoever operated the remote control which probably right there in the parking lot. so the person who set off the bomb was watching gary triano get in his car? yes, we had every reason to believe that, and from the injury patterns, that he was picking up the bag the device was in when detonated.
airplane operator, and he would build planes from scratch. he would do it with the same types of components found in the bomb that killed gary triano. before the trial, the defense inspected jerry s former wood shop. the new owner allowed us to go into the shop, and we found items in that shop that everything there was could have been used to build the bomb. cut pipe, wires, units for the model planes, this is something they could have found in 1997. there s just one problem with this defense theory, it is pretty hard to check out. where is mr. now? he died. and neil is dead? right. so these guys are a third party defends for you guys? they can t stand up and call you a liar? but the evidence is, what it is. the evidence is there. and the defense argued, doctor d antonio
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 forget it. it was the story that everyone talked about. the explosive end of a man who had been larger than life. gary had a presence, he had charisma. and the beginning of a mystery that would span nearly two decades. never, ever felt that it wouldn t be solved. a tucson native, gary triano was a successful real estate developer and entrepreneur and he was known around tucson for his big spending ways.