A Money Murder Mystery

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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After golf, millionaire Gary Triano puts the keys into the ignition and is killed instantly by a car bomb, uncovering a bizarre murder-for-hire plot hatched by his ex-wife and her lover that's revealed in a series of recorded conversations. (Original television broadcast: 02-05-15) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	This is the American Greed podcast presented by CNBC.
0:04.1	I'm Stacey Keach.
0:10.1	In this episode of American Greed, Pam Phillips and Gary Triano, their charmed life makes others green with envy.
0:19.2	The public saw them as a power couple. They saw her as beautiful.
0:22.6	They saw him as charismatic.
0:25.6	He's a mega-millionaire developer.
0:27.6	She's a social life.
0:29.6	But don't envy them because the money isn't his.
0:32.6	He owed a lot of people a lot of money and declared bankruptcy.
0:36.6	So Gary had a lot of enemies.
0:38.8	And when greed takes hold of their marriage, is there anything they won't do for money?
0:43.9	I am very serious about this.
0:46.0	You're going to be very serious when you sit in a women's prison for murder. In Tucson, Arizona, it seems like every swing of the hammer or pull of the slot machine lever has something to do with Gary Triano.
1:09.4	Triano is a developer and Bingo Hall pioneer back in Tucson's Go-Go days of the 1980s.
1:16.6	Rusty Sands is Trio's good friend and former partner.
1:21.6	At that time, he was very, very, very successful.
1:24.6	He was one of the originators of bingo on Indian reservations.
1:30.3	Bingo!
1:31.3	They started making a lot, a lot of money every month.
1:35.3	Triano is well known around Tucson for his wealth and his larger-than-life personality.
1:41.3	Very self-assured, very flamboyant, like the center of attention,
1:46.0	but could typically back it up.
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