Detective James Gamber
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Arizona has a past with the mob. In the mid-70s, newspaper reporter Don Bowles, he was investigating organized crime. Getting national attention, covered by Walter Cronkite.
And when Bowles returned to his car, a remote-controlled bomb exploded under the driver's seat. Bowles uttered the word mafia as he lay dying, but police were never able to pin his death on organized crime. Strictly speaking, what killed Gary Triano was not a car bomb. It was a pipe bomb on the passenger seat, detonated by remote control.
And as Detective James Gamber began looking into Gary's murder, the mob was top of mind.
But why would the mob, or anyone else, have it in for Gary Triano? Well, maybe because by the time he was leaving that country club on the first day of November 1996, he was no longer the high-flying millionaire everyone thought he was. In fact, Gary was flat broke.
Gary had owned chunks of undeveloped real estate, he'd invested in a radio station, even financed this misbegotten movie, The Mafu Cage, starring Lee Grant, Carole Kane, Will Gere, and an orangutan.
By the 90s, Gary was on the hook for $27 million. He'd run out of time, he'd run out of ideas and declared bankruptcy.
A bitter divorce and financial ruin left Gary scrambling to stay afloat.
That summit to plummet journey meant it wasn't even his Lincoln Town car that Gary had driven to La Paloma that day. He'd borrowed it from a friend to keep up appearances. And before Gary was even buried, Detective Gamber already had a long list of persons of interest.
And Gamber noticed one particularly interesting absence.
But associates of an eccentric billionaire say he had reasons of his own to want Gary Triano very dead.
And this doctor claims he saw a kill list written in that man's daily plan.
At the Pima County Sheriff's Office, way in the back corner of the impound lot, after 28 years, is Gary Triano's last ride, that 1989 Lincoln Town Car. Detective James Gamber showing up close just how devastating that pipe bomb was on that huge mass of Detroit metal. And this is Gary Triano.
And I know that there's been a lot that's been picked over this, and it's changed over the many years since this crime happened, but you can still see the incredible destruction that took place. This roof is supposed to be flat, essentially, isn't it?
Wow.
And the whole arc of this is the result of that bomb also. Right.
So everybody knew it was Gary's cart. The one thing Gary never did was lock his car.
I walk away. So finding that killer became Detective Gamber's main goal. There was a monumental list of individuals to go through. but only a few on it were known to have explicit feelings of rage against Gary.
For Detective Jim Gamber, one person with hints of rage was an ex-girlfriend whom he'd broken up with while she was pregnant with his child.
And according to investigators, Robin was so angry, she'd thrown a glass phase at his head.
There was no shortage of them to check out. When Gary went bust in May of 94, he left $27 million worth of creditors holding the bag. And that was including those Mexican and Chinese investors. Investigators were able to clear all of them. But there was a man who not only got stiffed by Gary Triano, he got humiliated by Gary too, a Tucson trustafarian named Neil McNeese.
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