not about someone you love. alan jackson: she was completely defenseless. she reached out her arms and simply said help me. desiree fayed: my heart dropped. i want to know why? why? craig melvin: it s a baffling case of murder, millions, and a mystifying piece of tape. natalie morales in this is dateline. about a couple who made it big in a way you almost never hear about these days. they made a fortune in but as the saying goes, money did not buy them happiness. in fact, it just might have been a motive for a murder. now, pay close attention to the security camera video that starts our report because you just may see the key to this mystery. here s josh take a look at this security video, and tell me what you see. a woman walks alone to her car in a parking garage in century city, is she in danger? same building different angle. a man focuses on his cellphone. oblivious to those around him. who is he calling? you are, in fact, watching scenes from a marriage, the final sce
defenseless. she reached out and somerset, help me. my heart dropped. i want to know why. why? it is a baffling case of murder. a mystifying piece of tape. at the center? husband and wife. self made millionaires. he was very caring and loving. she had a personality that such a win. together, they meet the cold business. that, someone else made a killing two. it was to make sure she was dead. his wife, ambushed by a shadowy man in black, with someone after their fortune? i called her to run her. was the answer on this table? was his wife been killed at that exact moment? a kind of greeting gold. where detectives hunting for a killer strike gold? something i don t think could be involved in this. welcome to dateline. down on their luck california couple bound up making a fortune in gold. golden not by them happiness. in fact, it just might have been a motive for murder. here is josh mankiewicz. take a look at this security video, and tell me what you see
mrs. fayed and bring her back into the parking and at that time he didn t see fayed any longer. that was the killer. that was the killer. police combed the crime scene looking for answers and they also started looking at the victim, pam fayed, and her husband, jim. the couple had been married nine together they ran a gold trading business called goldfinger and together it had made them rich. but what had been a good marriage had deteriorated even as the money came in. now it was no secret that pam fayed and her husband were involved in a nasty, high stakes it was also no secret that jim fayed could not have committed the murder. when mrs. fayed was killed, it was impossible that he was holding a knife because he was with his attorneys at that moment. in the same building. in the same building. he couldn t have gotten away from them long enough to get down to the parking garage and kill his wife. no. and also, after mrs. fayed was murdered there was video footage that pu
he said absolutely not. but pam moved forward anyway and withdrew a large sum of cash to apply for the licenses. and for jim fayed that may have been the last straw. he called her names that i cannot and will not repeat on your horrible, horrible accusations about pamela fayed, the mother of his own child. and he was doing this in order to set the stage for what i believe was his ultimate goal, was to take all the money and to crush her during the divorce proceeding. in california it s pretty hard to crush somebody and take all the money in a divorce proceeding. i would say so. she helped build the company. she was an officer in the company. she held half of the company s proceeds. i mean, she was half owner. it s as simple as that. and soon there would be another problem, what pam fayed had worried about would come true. federal investigators would come after goldfinger, indicting both jim and pam fayed because their company didn t have those money transmitter licenses.
which is transferring money for only a 2% fee, which was highly, highly competitive and lucrative so those of you who are good at math, you ll know that that s approximately $20 million in fees that went to goldfinger between 2001 and 2008. making a lot of money. but the good times didn t last. the company was under indictment. pam was cooperating with federal and the couple were getting divorced they were going to be divorced. so the marriage was over no matter and the relationship was over. jim fayed s attorney, mark worksman, says none of that was a motive for murder. but they did have a business that was a viable lucrative business, and it was worth maintaining, and if she hadn t been murdered presumably they would have come to some settlement over the assets and some division of the property involved in the business jim fayed did not testify. and he didn t make worksman s defense any easier. the prosecution s smoking gun was