ASPEN — Aspen socialite-turned-fugitive Pamela Phillips has been captured.
Phillips, who had been wanted since October 2008, was arrested Thursday in Austria, officials said. Authorities believe she was behind the car-bombing death of her ex-husband, Gary Triano, in Arizona in 1996.
Phillips, 52, is in the process of being extradited to Pima County, Ariz., authorities said. She is expected to be charged in the murder of Triano, who was killed when his Lincoln Town Car exploded in the parking lot at the La Paloma Country Club in Tucson on Nov. 1, 1996. He was 52.
Authorities believe Phillips paid Ronald Young $400,000 to kill Triano, so she could collect on a $2 million life insurance policy. Phillips and Triano, who was a real estate investor and developer, divorced in 1993.
Phillips moved to Aspen after the divorce.
Young, 67, was arrested in October 2008 in California. He pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. He is awaiting trial.
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