in control at all times, which is why he didn t want his wife, pamela, doing anything having to do with transfer licenses. the same m.o. is what drove this contract killing. and investigators believe that jim fayed exhibited that need for control as he planned his wife s murder. he focused, they believe, on a particular fear of pam s. it was discovered that she had a phobia about knives. and she had believed that she if she was killed, that she was going to be killed by someone with a knife. who expresses a belief that if they re killed, they re going to be killed with a knife? that sounds like somebody who almost is foretelling their own death. it s also my belief that mr. fayed knew that knew of his wife s phobia with knives, and that was one of the reasons that
tape. so they wired the cellmate 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. former pr former prosecutor alan jackson. james fayed describes in detail how he told the killers about a party that pamela was ing be atnding in malibu. according to him, they were simply supposed to carjack her and kill her, anevybody 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,
lapd detective salaam abdul-rahman was investigating the murder of a woman in a parking garage. then he learned that not only was pam fayed locked in a bitter divorce with her husband, jim, but that the gold trading company that had generated all the money they were fighting over was now under federal investigation, and that pam was going to turn on her husband and cooperate with prosecutors. she was probably going to be a witness against him. he was pretty pissed off about that. what potentially were the penalties for mr. and mrs. fayed in that federal case? well, potentially they could have had their assets seized, and that was huge. if they had their assets seized, mr. fayed wouldn t have been able to conduct business. after a long investigation, federal agents took jim into custody just days after pam was killed. he was charged with operating a
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 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.
i called her to warn her. i told her she needed to get the money transmitter licenses. and you have to start that 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.