Explosive Secrets
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Tonight, a loving father and major real estate developer killed when his car explodes.
A pipe bomb designed to obliterate everything. But could a fresh look at DNA change what we know about the case? An all-new 2020 starts right now.
They killed Gary. They killed Gary.
I still can see it when I close my eyes.
This windshield pops off the car and goes how many feet? 400 feet.
I'm the killer. I got my gym bag, which fits in the country club scenario. Open the door, put it down, close the door. I walk away.
It is one of the most notorious murders in Tucson history.
He was a wonderful father. He was a true gentleman and a true kind person.
They rub shoulders with people in high society.
Everybody thought car bombing has to be a mob hit. Very spectacular. We're sending a message.
Turns out, according to some, who didn't want him dead? A long list of persons of interest. An ex-girlfriend, an ex-wife, ex-business associates.
It was pure obsession. His hatred was pure obsession.
And we're going to reenact the bombing. Everybody's under. To see how it could have been done.
Two, one.
Now we're starting to pick up some heavy components. That you can take what seems like a scene of classic chaos and create any kind of order out of it is remarkable to us. So what specifically did you find as you looked at all that evidence?
And it was titled, To Kill. And right at the top of the list was Gary Treno.
Welcome to Tucson, Arizona, or even on a sweet golf course like this one. The triple digit temperatures and the blue skies above can transform in an instant.
La Paloma Country Club is nestled in the Tucson foothills. It's absolutely beautiful.
You can see the city, you can see the mountains. It's Jack Nicklaus Golf Course.
Typical Friday, very busy golf day. Wednesdays and Fridays were gambler days. And so about 5.15, 5.20, I was standing at the bar and all of a sudden there was this thunderous boom.
I heard this huge bang, and I rushed over there, tried to see if there's something I could do.
Okay, what's going on there? Okay, there's some kind of an explosion in the Country Club parking lot. I'm not sure we have. One of the victims has no pulse. We've begun CPR. I guess it was a massive fire. It was some kind of an explosion.
The building shook. I'd never felt anything like that. I immediately turned. I went out to the parking lot, and there was a car on fire, split open like a sardine can.
I found a man still sitting in his seat, no pulse, pale, blood's gone out of him, just white.
Dr. Sam Buttman had come up alongside the car towards me. He looked at me and he said, damn, he's dead.
Ken Halligan knew who the dead man behind the wheel of the destroyed car was. He was a longtime member of the country club named Gary Triano.
There's a member, and he was playing with Gary, and he was sitting on the floor next to his locker, and he was just sobbing. They killed Gary.
They killed Gary. But the question was, who killed Gary? And why would they do it in such a spectacular way? The blast had stopped Gary's gold Movado watch at 5.38 p.m. End of the line for a Wheeler dealer who was unafraid to gamble on the golf course, or for that matter, in the business world. And according to his lawyer Ron Lehman, a man always ready to bet big on himself.
Gary was a tall person who would command a room when he walked in. Dark hair, always had a nice suntan, always had a smile. He was larger than life.
Starting in the 1980s, this former car salesman, he'd sought to take advantage of the population boom in Tucson by getting into real estate and land development and gaming on a Native American reservation.
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Speakers
28 identified
Detective James Gamber 29 min
Reenactment: The Killer 7 min
Main Host 6 min
Reporter 5 min
Unknown Speaker 4 min
Melissa Triano 3 min
ATF Bomb Expert Anthony May 2 min
Financial Analyst 2 min
Gary Triano Biographer 2 min
Detective James Crowley 2 min
Country Club Witness 1 min
Case Commentator 1 min
Kamala Phillips 1 min
NerdWallet Sponsor Voice 1 min
MeUndies Sponsor Voice 1 min
Shopify Sponsor Voice 1 min
Companion Sponsor Voice
Melaton Flores
Narrator
Golf Club Witness
Anonymous Informant
Bomb Scene Technician
Advertisement Narrator
Emergency Responder
Don Bowles
Finance Insider
Technical Observer
Event Announcer