On the evening of November 1st, 1996, more than 100 people were waiting at Gary Triano's Sabino Canyon home to surprise him for his upcoming 53rd birthday. He never arrived.

Gary Lee Triano was a larger-than-life figure who served on hospital boards, and earned a Medal of Merit from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Task Force. He was also a man whose financial life had left a trail of lawsuits, failed casino deals, and angry creditors stretching from Tucson to Las Vegas to Hong Kong.

At approximately 5:30 p.m. that Friday evening, as Triano got into a borrowed Lincoln Town Car, a pipe bomb detonated. It was the first fatal vehicle explosion in the city of Tucson's history. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik called it an assassination at the scene.

What followed was one of the most complex investigations in Tucson history. And no clear answers. Sheriff Dupnik said it best: it was like a game of Clue.

The case would go cold. The task force would disband. And for nearly a decade, whoever killed Gary Triano would go about their life while his family waited for answers.

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