after goldfinger, indicting both jim and pam fayed because their company didn t have those money transmitter licenses. when the indictment came down, pamela fayed was in contact with her lawyer very quickly. she immediately indicated that she wanted to cooperate with the authorities. that was the position that she was taking. i want to cooperate. i want to do whatever i can to help out the investigation. i didn t do anything wrong, according to pam. what can i do to help? did james fayed know that his wife was going to cooperate? that s the $64,000 question. coming up, a suspect in the case and soon an arrest. he wasn t someone that i would ever think could be involved in something like this. but police had only just begun to solve the puzzle. when dateline continues.
coin collecting. together the couple started buying and selling gold and silver coins. soon that grew into an internet based company they could paening from their home and it started bringing in money. they called their business goldfinger, coin and bouillon. the year was 2001. and there was a new gold rush in americ america. the faye yesterdays found their way to a get rich quick scheme that worked. as investigators would discover, what tripped them up were many of the same human frailtys that so bedevilled those 49ers who panned for gold instead of click on it. lawlessness, pride and simple greed and so here s another question if money is the root of all evil, then what is gold? someone else had a close eye on this lucrative business and
guilty. at the same time, detective abdul rahman continued his investigation into pam s murder, starting not just with the videotape of jim fayed at the time of the murder but also with some security video of the parking garage exit. what we did was that we narrowed it down to the time around when mrs. fayed was killed and the vehicles that were leaving the parking structure. in the minutes after the attack, this red suzuki pulls up to the garage exit, the wrong exit. a man holding what seems to be a black hooded sweatshirt gets out of the back seat to check the exit gate before jumping back in. we ran the vehicle license check and found that one of the vehicles leaving the garage was associated with mr. fayed and goldfinger. mr. fayed s business. yes. detectives traced that red suzuki suv to an avis rental car
the state of california decided to try him for capital murder. prosecutors alan jackson and eric harmon laid out their case. it s a love story where boy meets gold. it s that greed, that love of gold that caused this man to have his wife murdered for financial gain. prosecutors offered this snapshot of the fayeds riches during the short time their ran their business. he found a niche which is transferring money for an only 2% fee which was highly competitive and lucrative. that s approximately $20 million in fees that went to goldfinger between 2001 and 2008. the good times didn t last. the company was under indictment. pam was cooperating with federal investigators and the couple were getting divorced.
center in camarillo. the car was leased by goldfinger. jim fayed s company. one of jim s nephews had recently relocated to california and had driven the car for about a month until just a few days before the murder. after that, the car was in the care of the fayeds ranch hand, a man named josé moya. investigators say it was moya who was behind the wheel, but on the tape there seemed to be three people in the vehicle. who were they? a month later josé moya was arrested and charged with pam s murder. he pleaded not guilty. it turns out josé moya knew pam. not only did he work on their ranch, he even had his own living quarters on the property. moya knew about the fayeds gold. he knew where they stored it. he was trusted to transport the gold back and forth from the business to the home in moorpark. how well did you know josé moya? i knew him pretty well. he was actually he was a really nice guy to me. he was a character.