process. once you start that process, the feds can t touch you. carol says pam agreed. all she ever wanted was for a legitimate company. that s all. you know, she just wanted to be on the up and up, and she was going to tell jim, even though they were separated. pam urged jim to apply for the licenses. he appears to have been adamantly opposed to a move that would have essentially opened goldfinger s books to scrutiny by the federal government. pam decided she was not going to allow jim to roll the dice on their business. the business that had let pam live the life she s always wanted. pamela was a girl scout. she wanted to do it right. pamela knew that they were making plenty of money. they as a family, the fayed family, were flush. they didn t need to worry about nickels and dimes here and there. she was also aware, i believe, that at some point the federal government was going to start looking very closely at them. they couldn t continue building
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 the 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 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 wearing a black hooded sweatshirt clearly was not a description of jim fayed. a woman murdered, a bitter divorce. but certainly the husband wasn t
for sound, and they heard jim fayed talking about how he had tried to kill his wife but how it just hadn t worked out that time. prosecutor alan jackson. james fayed describes in detail how he told the killers about a party that pamela was going to be attending in malibu. according to him, they were simply supposed to carjack her and kill her, and everybody would think that it was just a random act of violence. nobody would know anything the better. now with a confession on tape, both jim fayed and jose moya were charged with pam s murder. but there was more work to be done in order to track down the others involved. it seems like you pretty quickly fixed on mr. fayed as the only suspect here. and the only question was, since it wasn t his hand on the knife, whose hand was it, and how do you connect that person to him?
it s the moment of pam s murder in the parking garage next door, and everyone in the frame starts to react, to move toward the sound of pam fayed s screams. everyone, that is, except jim fayed. he doesn t seem interested. is it your belief that at the time surveillance cameras capture mr. fayed sort of walking around the courtyard area, that he knew his wife was being killed at that exact moment? yes. the reason i base my belief on that is mr. fayed, when he walks out of the building everyone is interested in what s going on in the parking structure except mr. fayed, because he knows what had just transpired. but that apparent disinterest in pam s screams wasn t enough to charge jim with murder. in fact, there was little evidence he had anything to do with it.
then detective abdul-rahman s phone rang. the assistant u.s. attorney tells us that mr. fayed s cellmate wants to talk to whoever is handling the investigation of mrs. fayed s death. and what does the cellmate tell you? well, the cellmate tells us that mr. fayed had confessed to him that he had hired someone to kill his wife. detectives believe that someone was josé moya, the ranch hand. the cellmate also had other information that had not been reported in the news. mr. fayed s cellmate had told us that mr. fayed had tried to set his wife up to be killed four different times. and what was interesting about that was that on one of these occasions, he said that mr. fayed had set up a time when she was at a party in malibu on the fourth of july. was pamela fayed at a party in malibu on july 4th? yes, she was. and that led to his credibility. so at that time we decided to try to get this conversation on tape. so they wired the cellmate