The ex-wife of a Tucson businessman who was killed in 1996 when a bomb planted in his car exploded has been returned to Tucson
Pamela Phillips was taken to the Pima County jail late Friday. A sheriff’s spokesman said Phillips was brought to Tucson by U.S. Marshals. She didn't say anything to reporters as she was led out of the sheriff's headquarters to be taken to jail.
She was arrested in December 2009 in Austria on a warrant charging her in the slaying of Gary Triano.
Triano was killed Nov. 1, 1996, when someone remotely detonated a pipe bomb placed inside a canvas bag on the passenger seat of the his car at La Paloma Country Club.
In 2008, Pima County sheriff’s detectives and prosecutors gathered enough evidence to obtain an indictment against Phillips and Ronald Young, a former boyfriend of Phillips, charging them with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
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They said Phillips hired Young to kill Triano for a $2 million life insurance policy.
Young was arrested immediately in California. Phillips, was living in Aspen, Colo., at the time, but had flown to Europe before she could be arrested.
Young was convicted in April of Triano’s murder and sentenced to two life terms.
