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He had the capacity and the resources and the henchmen, if you will, to construct the kind of bomb that blew up Gary Triano.
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I mean, anytime you have a crime scene this large and this many witnesses, you have to follow every possible lead.
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And this, of course, sent Detective Gamber down another path of like, OK, is it somebody else who might have wanted, you know, Gary dead?
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Even though she was angry at Gary, it was sort of an anger that had dissipated. There wasn't really a reason to investigate her further.
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And so Neil McNeese did not want to be taken as a fool. And so it was said that he had put Gary on a kill list.
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And it's an unlocked van. And so when police do come and they open the van, they discover some very unusual things inside.
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and they discover something else that's sort of unusual. It's a sawed-off shotgun. I mean, fraud suspects, they're not usually violent.
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Kamala Phillips was a socialite, a beautiful blonde bombshell. She was the quintessential trophy wife.
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Pamela began to realize maybe Gary wasn't all that he was cracked up to be. Like maybe there were little cracks in this armor here. Because Gary started to let her in on some things, like he's indebted to multiple people.
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Pam's chief complaint during this entire relationship is she's not receiving enough child support from Gary and he must be hiding assets. But Ron is still really pissed off that he's not being paid for his services.
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Ron was not her type. She was used to handsome, charismatic, wealthy men, and Ron was nothing like that.
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Pamela Phillips became hysterical. Not hysterical over Gary's death, but hysterical over the fact that the premium had not been paid for the month of November.
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Pam Phillips wastes no time. As soon as she gets this $2 million life insurance proceeds, she goes out and she buys her dream mansion. And it's this home in Meadowood. It has its own ski lift. It's buttressed against the mountains. It's got these massive wooden doors. It has marble all over the floor.
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Right after the America's Most Wanted episode airs, it happens to catch the eye of a chiropractor in Florida whose patient is none other than Ron Young.
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And that's a huge break in the case because now law enforcement, America's Most Wanted, they can all descend on Florida and make the capture.
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He gives them kind of an extraordinary gift. And it's like he's opening up his treasure trove of evidence for law enforcement. And what they discover, like, is a major break in the case.
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In September of 2006, Pima County Sheriff's Department joined forces with the Aspen Police Department and surround her house and they knock on the door and they say, we have a search warrant.
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Pamela Phillips is completely surprised by this. She tells the police, yeah, my lawyer's on the way, and the detective says, you know, I have a search warrant, so they come in, and the way she describes it is like they're scattering across her marble floors like rats.
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She has just picked up where she left off. She's recreated her world over there. She's hobnobbing with the elite. She's off hunting again for a rich, eligible bachelor. In fact, has been spotted with several.
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Some of the challenges that the prosecution faced in Ron's trial was that it was a circumstantial evidence case. They didn't have any direct evidence that linked Ron Young to the bomb.
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For the prosecution, Ron Young's one statement to Andre Mims, how he blew Gary Triano up, might as well have been a confession.
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And Gary, who is so smitten, the story goes that he calls his wife up, who's on vacation in Europe with their two children, and he just announces, you know, I'm leaving you.
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Gary bought Pam a beautiful diamond ring, which he claimed was worth $250,000. They had twin jaguars. They had this beautiful home at the base of the Catalina Mountains.
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Gary is walking towards his Lincoln Town car and he's sliding into the seat and he sees a blue canvas bag on the passenger seat.
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the impact of the explosion was incredible the front windshield flew 200 feet into the air and landed in the swimming pool I'm at home it's after-hours and I get a call from my sergeant and basically he says there's been a car explosion at the La Paloma Country Club Detective James Gamber was a newly minted detective with the Tucson Sheriff's Department, and he was brand new to homicide.
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A bombing sort of has mafia written all over it. Who would want to detonate a bomb at a posh country club in broad daylight with, you know, over 100 witnesses watching?
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It was a house of cards that was crumbling fast. He was promising investors, you know, collateral on property that he didn't own. He was promising Mexican investors money that he didn't have.
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And at one point, Pam got a phone call and picked up the phone and heard on the other line a threat from one of the investors saying, you know, If we don't get paid, we're going to kill you. Gary became extremely paranoid and he starts to sleep with a loaded gun in his bed.
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So Pam's done, and she files for divorce, and she flees, and she heads off to Aspen with her children.
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