ASPEN, Colo.—An Aspen home owned by a woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her ex-husband in Arizona has been sold for $4.4 million in a foreclosure auction.
Wells Fargo Bank was the sole bidder in the Wednesday auction of the home owned by 52-year-old Pamela Phillips.
Phillips was arrested in Austria last year. She faces a murder charge in the 1996 death of Gary Triano, a real estate broker and developer. His car exploded at a country club.
Prosecutors allege Phillips hired Ronald Young to kill Triano to get a $2 million life insurance benefit. Young is scheduled to go on trial on a murder charge next month.
Authorities believe Phillips left the United States in 2008 and had also been in Britain, Italy and Switzerland.
