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This was something new to us.

A bombing in broad daylight in a resort country club.

It was shocking.

A violent explosion.

He suffered a traumatic injury

from the shrapnel in the shockwave.

His death was instantaneous.

A dark mystery with multiple suspects.

Emotions flare. She has a temper.

She's mad at Gary,

and it's alleged that she might have a weapon.

Gary had lots of enemies.

There were millions of dollars owed to different people.

He said, "I'm gonna kill Gary Triano

because he ripped me off."

He may have had dealings with the mob,

and he ends up killed in a car bombing.

Those two things could go together.

The truth will be revealed.

This is like the dogs in the chase.

It's a trail that we can't not follow.

That was the smoking gun to show

that they had committed this murder.

Every day in North America,

dozens of people are murdered.

The key to solving the toughest of these homicides

lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life.

To crack the case,

detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline,

the minutes and hours containing evidence

that can help unlock the mystery

and catch the killer.

In the Arizona desert lies the city of Tucson,

a pleasure seeker's oasis blessed with

beautiful landscapes and year-long sunshine.

Tucson does have its upper class areas that are designed

around recreation and relaxation,

you know, the country clubs, the plush golf courses.

Years ago, real estate was booming.

They were building resort destinations.

You had celebrities coming here just to vacation because

they wanted to stay at those kind of places.

That type of luxury lifestyle was really growing in Tucson.

But on November 1, 1996,

the upscale world of the city's rich and famous

is brutally shattered.

The 911 calls came in about 5:40 P.M.

There'd been an explosion.

There was one person deceased.

I could see even before I walked up

that the car was completely destroyed.

The roof has been torn off of it.

All the doors were blown open from the shockwave.

The glass obviously is shattered out of the vehicle.

The windshield had flown south over 100, 150 feet,

and had landed in the swimming pool of the country club.

It was something we hadn't seen before.

Tucson, like any community, has

some awful murders that go on,

but we'd never seen a bombing

in broad daylight at, you know, a resort country club.

This was something new to us.

It was shocking.

The victim is local business tycoon,

52-year-old Gary Triano.

Gary Triano, he started out as just

a working businessman trying to make a living,

and he went from that to

being a multi-millionaire land developer.

Gary was really kind of an amazing person.

He was a high flyer in the sense of he had

this ability to raise large amounts of money for different

investment ventures.

He had five children, two from his first marriage,

two from his second marriage,

and then he also had a fifth child

with his ex-girlfriend, Robin.

Gary Triano was larger than life.

He was so charismatic.

I knew him personally,

and, um,

always a gentleman and always the life of the party.

Tasked with investigating

the murder of Gary Triano

are detectives James gamber and Keith St. John.

They start by surveying the crime scene,

looking for evidence.

Mr. Triano was still very intact.

He suffered a lot of blast injury to his right hand

and his right arm, and to the right side of his face.

A lot of it was thermal injury where

it's burning from the heat of the explosion,

and there was a lot of traumatic

injury from the shrapnel and the shock waves.

His death was instantaneous.

We relied on our bomb technicians to

tell us where the explosion took place.

They pointed to the right front passenger seat,

said the device was sitting right here.

It was very easy to determine from his injuries that he had

been essentially leaning

over towards the front passenger seat and had been picking

something up when the device detonated.

The bomb techs also discovered some burnt material,

and it was from a gym bag.

Detectives determine the killer likely put the bomb

in the gym bag and then placed it

on the front seat of Gary's vehicle.

The bomb techs amaze me again, because they actually

recovered the radio crystal from the remote control device,

and they find parts of the servo in the blast scenes.

And now we know it's a remotely detonated device.

We learned that the radio waves had to be line of sight.

That gave us the best clue that the killer

was in the parking lot when the device went off.

This was someone sitting there watching,

and then they pushed the button and made it go off.

The mindset of somebody that could

sit there and just calmly switch

a button on a remote control and blow him up,

that's pretty perverse.

It's devoid of any sort of human feeling,

when you can just calmly

switch a button and snuff out another human life.

That a person would sit and wait for the precise

time to set the explosion off

indicated it was somebody that was stalking,

someone that had planned the murder.

It just wasn't random.

Time of death in a lot of

homicide investigations is a real open question.

In this case, the explosion was so powerful

that it stopped Gary Triano's watch

at the precise time of the explosion.

It stopped at exactly 5:38 P.M.

To catch the killer, detectives will need to unravel

the last 24 hours of Gary Triano's life.

Gary had been golfing with a friend that afternoon,

and they golfed 2:30 to 4:30-ish,

and after, they'd gotten some drinks,

a bite to eat in the country club.

His golf partner had indicated that it was right around 5:30

that the two of them walked to the parking lot.

They chatted, and the golf partner

then walked away from Gary's car.

And it was just shortly after that

that the explosion occurred.

As investigators interview the employees

of the country club, they learn something unsettling.

Quarter after four, someone had called

the clubhouse asking about Gary Triano.

And the caller's not identified,

so this unidentified person says,

"is he playing golf today?" And the pro shop says, "yes."

And given the fact that a little over an hour

later, he's in the parking lot and the car explodes,

clearly, we wanted to know who was making that phone call.

Could it have been the killer? Absolutely.

That's something that we have to look into.

But we couldn't trace the phone call

back to its source.

After all the different interviews,

I didn't see that we had any concrete evidence that

anybody saw the killer in the parking lot that night.

So we knew we were in for hard work.

Looking for information that could point

them in the direction of the killer, detectives

speak with Gary's girlfriend, Donna.

Gary's current girlfriend,

Donna, was at the scene when I got there,

and I interviewed her,

and obviously, she is upset.

This was a horrifying incident.

Donna and his family members,

they want to know what happened, who did this,

and I don't have any answers.

Donna tells detectives that while Gary

was an optimistic man,

the downturn in the economy hit him hard.

From '92 to '93, Gary Triano

went from $1.7 million

to $107,000.

A 93% loss in his income.

He wasn't able to meet his financial obligations.

I mean at the country club, he was behind on his dues,

but he always had that belief,

the next deal is going to work.

But given the amount of debt that he had accumulated

in his recent past,

that plus the added pressure of who Gary Triano was

and his status in the community,

there was a lot of stress during that time for Gary.

Gary's financial downfall started to wear on him.

Gary had become a little bit paranoid.

He thought he was being followed,

and so he became a little wary.

It was some tough times there.

I was told by a friend of Gary Triano's that

a couple of months prior to the murder that he had told

her that

he knew somebody was following him, and it was real evident,

and he was scared. He didn't know why.

But Donna says she has a good idea who this stalker is.

She told law enforcement,

"hey, you might want to be looking at

the former girlfriend, because there was some animosity there."

Robin is a young lady who is the ex-girlfriend.

We learned that she had a baby with Gary.

The baby wasn't very old at the time of the murder.

Robin reportedly was angry because she had

Gary's child, and there was no wedding in the future.

Donna was able to provide us with a recording

of a phone message that was left for Gary,

and it has Robin saying, "you're going to pay.

Some day, you're going to pay."

With suspicion swirling around

Gary's ex-girlfriend, Robin,

detectives dig deeper and learn that a year before

the murder, police responded

to a domestic violence call at their home.

There was an incident between the two of them

where she throws a vase at Gary.

And it's alleged that she might have a weapon.

In any murder investigation,

you obviously look at people that are close to the victim.

Who is mad at him, who was angered by him?

So when you look at Robin, she has a temper.

She's mad at Gary.

And after the birth of the child, you know,

emotions flare.

Jealousy, anger.

Could this anger carry over into murder?

Believing Gary Triano's former girlfriend,

Robin, may have wanted to kill him,

detectives track her down at her home.

They confront Robin about her angry encounters with Gary.

She says it wasn't a happy separation.

There were some

angry phone calls, and there was maybe

plates broken and things like that.

There was animosity when she first became pregnant.

However, after paternity was decided

and Gary knew that he was the father,

their relationship had gotten better.

Robin tells detectives that she has moved on

since Gary and is now married.

I spoke to her current husband, who says, "yeah, she has...

She has a temper,"

but her grudges didn't last long.

When she's mad, it's gonna happen right here, right now,

and it's gonna be over right here and right now.

Detectives ask Robin about her activities

on the day Gary was killed.

They learn she was home taking care of her child.

Robin's point of view is he's a guy

who has always made a comeback,

and he is a good father to the child,

so she has no benefit in eliminating him.

Any future income that might come from him would be gone.

And when detectives look into Robin's alibi

on the day of the murder,

it checks out, and she's eliminated as a suspect.

So the evidence doesn't take us to Robin, and her personal

history doesn't support her

being involved in a long-term plot to kill Gary.

Searching for new leads,

detectives look deeper into

Gary's personal life and turn their focus to another ex,

his former wife, Pam Phillips.

They track Pam down at her home in Aspen, Colorado.

Pam was very attractive.

She knew how to socialize.

She was an up-and-comer financially.

She was working in the commercial real estate market.

Pam tells detectives she met Gary

when he was married, but they fell madly in love.

Gary divorced his wife and married Pam in 1986,

less than a year after they first met.

They got married in San Diego on a boat.

I believe Donald Trump was at the wedding

and people, like, major actors.

So it was, you know, champagne-flowing,

spare-no-expense type of relationship.

It's been reported that the wedding ring that Pamela got

from Gary was valued at $250,000,

a quarter of a million dollars.

Pam tells detectives

they were very happy.

They went on to have two children together.

But eight years later, when Gary lost their money,

he changed... His moods were up and down,

and their relationship suffered.

In 1994, after Gary Triano lost his money,

his marriage collapsed, as well.

There was a lot of tension there,

and it was a very contentious divorce.

Pam talked about bringing $2 million of her own money

into the relationship when they got married,

and she found out that that was gone.

There were a lot of fights about custody issues

with respect to who was gonna get the children,

Gary's financial responsibility.

So Pam Phillips moves to Aspen and takes

the children with her to start her new life.

But when you have that kind of acrimonious divorce

between Gary and Pam Phillips,

it's something that makes you a little concerned

about Pam's potential involvement.

But, you know, nothing is making sense yet.

Detectives ask Pam about her whereabouts

on the day Gary was violently killed.

Pam told us that she was in Aspen that Friday night,

and we talked to people that were with her.

So we were comfortable

that she was in Aspen at the time of the murder.

Having ruled out Pam as a suspect,

detectives turn back to the crime scene,

looking for new leads.

The atf was reconstructing the bomb from

the parts gathered out of the parking lot,

and there were a couple things that

were interesting about the bomb reconstruction.

The battery supplies were way more energy than

it really needed to detonate the device.

That was an indication that perhaps

the person was not familiar with making bombs,

they were a novice at making bombs.

The nature of the bomb itself,

18-inch pipe bomb stuffed with a pound

of gunpowder rigged up to this remote control,

was not sophisticated,

and it was really more indicative of someone that

may have learned this

from people that were making bombs in

the '70s or the '80s...

And gave an indication that maybe this was

an older individual.

Armed with new information about the killer,

detectives take another look at Gary Triano's close

friends and associates.

Detectives are looking into various

financial motives.

Gary had lots of business partners, and he had enemies.

Former business partners were suing him.

I mean, there were millions of dollars,

at least alleged, that Gary owed to different people.

Could one of them have been responsible for Gary's death?

Are any of these people saying, "I'm giving up"

"on ever getting my money back,

"so I'm gonna exact some form of retribution,

and kill Gary Triano."

Believing real estate mogul Gary Triano

could have been murdered by someone

he owed money to, detectives shift their focus

to his business associates.

People talked about a man by the name of Neil mcneese.

Mcneese hated Gary Triano.

Mcneese is an actual billionaire

who lived here in Tucson, his family had some uranium

mines in northern Arizona, and they made a lot of money.

Gary had borrowed some money from

this guy, mcneese... He'd borrowed $80,000,

and as collateral,

Gary had given mcneese what he claimed to be

a quarter-million-dollar diamond ring

that belonged to the ex-wife, Pam.

But according to mcneese, the diamond was fake.

It was a cubic zirconium.

It was worth, at best, a few thousand dollars.

Could mcneese have been responsible for the murder

because of the $80,000 that Gary hadn't paid him back?

But it turns out the information is a dead end.

Mcneese was suspicious, but that doesn't really get you

anywhere because there was no evidence at that point in time

mcneese had anything to do with the murder at all.

Having exhausted yet another lead,

the investigation into Gary Triano's murder stalls.

As an investigator, you want to do the best you can for both

the case and especially

the family who has just lost a loved one.

They're looking to you for answers,

and then when you add Gary Triano

was well known in the community,

there was a lot of stress during that time

the difficult part of this case was just the sheer number of

potential suspects that had to be looked at,

the number of leads that had to be gone through

and basically triaged.

You had to look at them and say,

well, is this something that really could fit?

Not only could it fit,

but is there evidence to back up the theory?

No, so you've moved on to the next one.

Searching for new leads,

detectives dig deeper into Gary Triano's business

connections, looking for someone

angry enough to want to kill him in such a ruthless way.

Gary was really good at getting

people to invest money in his projects.

Some of the people weren't the kind of

people that most of us would seek money from.

I mean, there were mobsters back on

the east coast that Gary was indebted to.

And so our thought was, was this mob-related?

Because you just don't see people

getting killed in car bombings in Tucson.

Detectives learn one of the people

Gary Triano owes money to is Gary fears,

a gangster from Florida.

Gary Triano was marketing building a casino on

a small island that belonged to the republic of China,

and Gary purported that he had permission from

the Chinese government to run a casino there.

Gary fears fronted a lot of money toward that endeavor.

But the endeavor fell through.

China wasn't going to allow the gaming.

A lot of people felt that Gary had

misrepresented the approval from the people's republic

of China.

They only had local officials' approval to do this.

Gary fears is angry.

He lost tens of thousands of dollars in total.

He was somebody that had to be looked at.

He was not the nicest guy.

Word on the street,

what people told us is that Gary fears

had a shady background,

and he was someone to be feared,

someone that you should... You know,

you put yourself at risk if you crossed him.

Believing Gary Triano may have been killed

as retribution for double-crossing fears,

investigators track him down.

Gary fears is of interest to us,

and you have to evaluate the person.

Were they capable of it?

Did they have the means, motive, and opportunity?

When police question fears,

he admits that he was furious with Gary Triano about being

misled over the China deal.

He says, "yeah, I lost tens of thousands of dollars."

But Gary fears was suing Gary Triano to get

money back from him,

and Gary dissolved all his debts by declaring bankruptcy.

It's almost an automatic reflex when

your business ventures

overwhelm your capital, is you file bankruptcy

and absolve your debt.

Gary fears was greatly frustrated

by Gary's financial dealing.

Maybe his anger over the money,

the financial loss, overrode his common sense.

After a business deal gone bad,

police believe mobster Gary fears may have something

to do with the brutal killing of Gary Triano.

They ask him point blank

if he's responsible for Triano's death.

He goes very stone cold,

absolute, looked at us and said,

"I'm not gonna kill somebody for several thousand dollars."

Thomas: The mob complicates an investigation, because it's

a tight-knit group that doesn't make mistakes easily,

and also, they are gonna have no problem

lying when it comes to police investigations.

Doubtful fears is being honest with them,

detectives ask him to take a polygraph test.

Mr. Fears agreed to be polygraphed

and was asked again point blank in the polygraph,

did you kill Gary Triano?

Did you cause Gary Triano's death?

Mr. Fears passed the polygraph.

And in addition to the polygraph,

Gary fears provides alibi that he was at

a family wedding, and there's, you know, credible witnesses

who can place him at the wedding at the time of the murder.

We talked to as many people as we could.

We found no direct link between Gary fears

and the bombing.

Nine years pass,

and just when it looks like the case will never be solved,

detectives get a surprising new lead from police in

Aspen, Colorado.

The explosion here in Tucson made national news,

and so I received a call from detective crowley in Aspen.

He talked about his fraud investigation,

where a person by the name of Ron young was a suspect,

and according to detective crowley,

he had a connection with Pam Phillips,

Gary's ex-wife.

Ron young apparently had scammed

several people in Aspen.

Pam was one of the victims.

Detective Jim crowley says,

"there's something really odd here."

Pam Phillips was alleging that Ron defrauded her

for tens of thousands of dollars,

and she was very vocal about it within the community.

But when we as law enforcement approach her and say,

"hey, we need to include you in our case,

"along with these other fraud victims," she just never

makes herself available.

It's almost as if she's

distancing herself from law enforcement.

It was interesting.

Detective crowley outlines

Ron young's scam for the investigators.

Ron young would befriend people and profess

he was a professional,

somebody who knew finances for small businesses.

And he would become involved in that business

and then take money from the business.

He's defrauding people under the guise of

you'll end up with more money in the bank.

You let me handle your financial matters.

And he convinced people to let him do it,

and the whole time, he's skimming your money.

He's taking it and putting it in his pocket.

When Aspen police go to arrest Ron for fraud,

they discover he has fled the state.

They track down his Van in California.

Ron is nowhere to be found,

but what they find in the Van turns the investigation

on its head.

Jim crowley looks at Ron young's Van

and finds Gary Triano's divorce paperwork.

There's a list of people who would know Gary Triano,

and there's also a map of Tucson.

What they find next raises

detectives' suspicions to the next level.

We find a receipt for a local hotel

that puts Ron young in a hotel that's essentially halfway

between where Gary Triano's living

and the la Paloma country club where he was killed.

He's there for about 18 days in the month of July 1996.

So does that coincide with when

Gary felt like he was being followed?

We were exploring every possibility.

Certainly we're starting to think,

did Ron young have something to do with Gary Triano's death?

Was there some sort of

relationship beyond this fraudulent activity

between Pam Phillips and Ron young?

Detectives gamber and St. John

take another look at Pam Phillips

and find something that raises a red flag.

Even though the divorce had been finalized

for quite some time,

Pam continued to carry a $2 million

life insurance policy on Gary's life.

That catches your eye.

The life insurance policy pays

the money to Gary and Pam's two children.

Since the children are below the age

of 18, the $2 million goes directly to Pam.

So in January of 1997, Pam Phillips

gets $2.1 million because of Gary's death.

But it's what detectives learn next

that puts the spotlight directly on Pam.

Up till that point in time, Pam had been living in a duplex.

Within a few months of getting the money, Pam has moved from

that duplex into what I can only describe as a beautiful,

beautiful home that she has now purchased with the proceeds

from the life insurance policy.

That raised some concerns with investigators because

the children were the primary beneficiaries,

and now this money is being used to buy

this really lavish home.

So when you follow the money,

Pam has a $2 million reason for Gary to die.

Believing Pam Phillips and Ron young

may have conspired to kill Gary Triano,

investigators pay another visit to Pam in Aspen.

When they ask her about Ron young, there's an audible

"gulp! Where did that come from?"

Kind of reaction from her,

which immediately caught our attention.

She maintained that she had hired him

to help her business.

That's all it was.

She claimed that although she didn't want to prosecute that,

you know, he had taken some money from her,

and she didn't know where he was.

People lie to the police all the time,

and a lot of times, it's good to have those lies,

because if you can prove a lie,

that's even more important than a confession.

I felt Pam was definitely

minimizing her relationship with Ron young.

Investigators speak to Pam's circle of friends,

hoping to uncover the truth about her relationship

with Ron.

The nanny that worked for Pam in Aspen,

he describes a very intimate, ongoing relationship.

Ron young would come over for dinner.

There'd be candlelight, there'd be wine,

and the two of them would disappear

to the upstairs bedroom for the night.

So their relationship goes well beyond

the scope of what she had described to us.

There's a growing concern about what Pam

and Ron young did.

Could they have been responsible for Gary's death?

Could one of them have been the bomber?

We're pretty sure it's not Pam because,

you know, she has an alibi.

She was in Aspen at the time,

but could Pam have hired Ron young or got him

in some way to commit the murder?

This is like the dogs in the chase.

It's a trail that we can't just not follow.

Working the theory that Gary Triano's ex-wife,

Pam Phillips, could be the mastermind

behind his brutal murder in 1996, detectives focus on

finding her missing accomplice, Ron young.

We're thinking, if we could get Ron young,

we might be able to fill in a lot of the blanks

that are here, because we...

Something is really fishy about what's going on.

There's an arrest warrant for Ron young,

but no one can find him. This guy is gone.

He is off the face of the earth.

Detectives turn to a different strategy,

hoping to get a lead.

We go to "america�s most wanted" and say,

would you feature this guy?

We want to find him.

We have the fraud case,

and we have the fact that we think he's directly involved

in a homicide in Tucson.

So "america�s most wanted" ultimately does the TV show,

and they feature Ron young.

Detectives soon get their big break

from a caller in Florida.

A caller says, "I'm Ron young's chiropractor.

"I know him as Kelly young, but that's

definitely the same guy."

And he says, "he has an appointment with me tomorrow."

Because of this TV show,

we know where Ron young is, we know where to find him.

We know where he's gonna be at 10 o'clock the next morning.

This is a huge break in the case.

The broward county sheriff's department sends

their fugitive team out to the chiropractor's.

And sure enough, right on time at the appointment,

here comes Ron young.

And he's taken into custody.

Ron young is arrested on fraud charges,

then flown to Arizona to be interrogated by Tucson police.

Ron young is a con man.

He's confident. He's relaxed, he's amiable.

He'll talk to you about everything and anything.

But he won't ever answer a direct question.

With Ron in their crosshairs,

investigators press him for answers.

What's your relationship with Pam Phillips?

Do you know Gary Triano?

For hours, we sat there and talked to him.

He says he knows nothing about Gary's insurance policy.

He has never been to Tucson.

Just hours and hours of long, roundabout denials.

But while Ron young doesn't give up any information,

his belongings do.

Atf agents search his hotel room,

his apartment, and his storage locker.

There's a box of stuff.

In that box are about 15 microcassettes.

It was a mother lode of information.

There were years and years of

correspondence between Pam Phillips and Ron young,

and although they don't get specific,

you know, that "I went out and killed Gary Triano for you,"

he says things that are more sort of shaded,

like, "I did something for you that"

"nobody else would have done in the world.

I took care of the problem that you were having."

From the recordings, investigators learn Pam had

an arrangement with Ron where she'd pay him $400,000 out of

the life insurance money to kill her ex-husband,

Gary Triano,

but it seems she was late on her payments.

That was chilling... When I heard that,

that was absolutely chilling.

By keeping audio recordings, it implicates himself,

but at the same time, it's a bargaining chip to ensure

that if he were to ever go down,

he was gonna make sure that she went down with him.

That was, in fact, the smoking gun to show

that the two of them had committed this murder.

This is incredible.

I mean, this is just this side of a confession.

Based on all the evidence,

detectives now believe Pam orchestrated

Gary Triano's murder.

Pam Phillips stood to gain

a lot by having Gary dead... $2 million.

Pam Phillips was coming down to her last

few thousand dollars.

She didn't have any immediate prospects of marrying

another millionaire,

and she needed to do something.

She had this life insurance policy there,

and in Ron young, she found someone that she could

manipulate, and she was using him

with this sexual relationship.

So she was able to convince him with

the promise of payment into killing her ex-husband.

In this case, is this some kind of an archetype of

a black widow who is motivated to maintain relationships

for their own monetary gain?

I see, perhaps, Pam as somebody who felt entitled,

both in terms of a particular lifestyle, not just finances,

and so perhaps she felt that she was owed

and deserved more and went after what she thought

was rightfully hers.

Prosecutors charge Pam Phillips and Ron young

with the murder of Gary Triano.

When we go to arrest Pam, we find out approximately a week

prior to the warrants being issued,

she had left the United States.

She's gone.

Working with different law enforcement

agencies, eventually,

and we find out Pam is in lugano, Switzerland.

We have details down to the apartment

that she's staying at, we know

what car she's driving, who she's dating,

and where she has lunch most every day.

We have that locked down.

But we went to arrest Pam in Switzerland,

and she wasn't there.

That was a huge disappointment.

Eventually, through Interpol,

she's ultimately found in a hotel in Austria.

We extradite her back to the United States.

One of the things we had to do because the European Union does

not have the death penalty,

we had to agree that we would not seek the death penalty

in her case.

Back in the United States,

Pam Phillips refuses to cooperate with law enforcement.

Pam never gave us a statement.

I more expected that Ron young would give us a statement

implicating Pam, and he never said a word.

Neither one of them would talk against the other.

But we have all this evidence

about what might have happened here.

Detectives are now able to reconstruct

the final 24 hours of Gary Triano's life.

November 1, 1996, Gary went to lunch with a friend.

They had their lunch at one in the afternoon.

Then Gary proceeded over to la Paloma country club.

2:30 to 4:30, he's out golfing with a friend.

During that period of time,

when he went to the golf course that afternoon,

Ron young was stalking him.

Ron young had the bomb that would end his life.

At 3:30, while Gary's on the golf course,

Ron young walks up to his car.

He has the bag that conceals the bomb.

Than Ron young places it on

the front passenger seat of Gary's car

and walks away.

At the end of golfing,

around 5:30,

Gary pays his bill, and he walks out into the parking lot.

Then at 5:38, Ron young flips a switch

on the remote control.

The device detonates, and the car explodes,

killing Gary Triano.

The family put up with a lot from us... all our failings,

they put up with those.

And then finally, I was able to call Gary's

oldest daughter,

she was the family representative,

and I got her on the phone, and I was able to tell her,

"we found the killers."

In October 2008, Ron young and Pam Phillips

are charged with conspiracy and first-degree murder.

They're both sentenced to life in prison with no parole.

After Pam Phillips is convicted of killing

looks at the audience,

and in the front row

were Gary Triano's family.

She looks at them,

and she says, "I did not do this.

"I did not kill Gary.

"I am not responsible.

"He is the father of my children.

I did not do this."

But investigators are convinced they finally

brought Gary Triano's killers to justice.

It was important to us to hold accountable

the people that we had no doubt committed this murder.

This was not a rage killing.

This was not a spur-of-the-moment killing.

This took lots and lots of planning.

So when you think about the fact that Pam's

carrying on with her life,

she's raising her children and, at the same time, for months,

she's planning that her ex-husband is gonna die...

That's cold, that's cruel,

and that's what stands out to me.

All homicides are sad.

But in this case, I knew the victim,

and I knew the persons involved

and how the Triano family was devastated.

I don't think there's ever closure.

So while they may have closure with the persons responsible

are now

in prison and will never hurt anybody again,

it still doesn't bring Gary back.