A Socialite Scorned: The Murder of a Tucson High-Roller
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ISBN: 0312541252 / Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime, January 2012
Details the investigation into the murder by pipe bomb of Tucson real estate developer Gary Triano, a crime that went unsolved for ten years until new evidence revealed the culprit to be his ex-wife, Pamela Phillips.
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A Socialite Scorned Kerrie DrobanThe victim was Gary Triano, a Tucson real estate developer with influential friends--and enemies. After finishing a round of golf at a country club, he went to the parking lot and found a gift in his car: a crudely made pipe-bomb that blew him to pieces.The bomb-maker was Ron Young, a Colorado "bad guy" wanted on weapons and fraud charges. The prosecution claimed that the woman he was dating at the time promised to pay him $400,000 to murder her ex-husband.Her name was Pamela Phillips, an Aspen socialite, divorcée, and mother of Triano's two children. She received two million dollars upon his death but evaded suspicion for more than a decade. Finally, halfway across the globe in Austria, authorities caught up with the blonde bombshell--igniting one of the most explosive cases in Arizona history.
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