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. reporter: 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 one of the vehicles leaving the garage was associated with mr. fayed and goldfinger. mr. fayed s business. yes. reporter: detectives traced that red suzuki suv to an avis car rental in camarillo. the car was leased by goldfinger, jim fayed s company. one of jim s nephews had recently relocated to california
let s dot our is, let s get the money licensing. her husband said absolutely not. he said absolutely not. reporter: 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 camera, 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. reporter: and soon there would be another problem. what pam fayed had worried about would come true. federal investigators would come after gol
years. 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 divorce. 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 attorney 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 put mr. fayed in the courtyard, so it was impossible for him to be in two places at one time. that security video shows jim fayed trying to make a cell phone call at exactly the moment you see people reacting to pam s screams. not only that, but a tall man
her husband said absolutely not. he said absolutely not. 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 camera. 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. 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
instead, it s a love story where boy meets gold. it s that greed, that love of gold that caused this man, james michael fayed, to have his wife murdered for financial gain. prosecutors offered this snapshot of the fayed s riches during the short time they ran their business. so, mr. fayed transferred 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 investigators. and the couple were getting divorced. they were going to be divorced, so, the marriage was over, no matter what. and the relationship was over. jim fayed s attorney, mark worksman, says that none of that was a motive for murder. but they did have a business