pamela fayed. did he just give this hit man that he hired the money and say, go kill my wife? james fayed is a control freak. if he s anything, he wants to be 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
whose hand was it, and how do you connect that person to him? correct. and the first thing we noticed was that there was three individuals in the vehicle that was registered to mr. fayed s company. so we knew we had three additional suspects besides mr. fayed. now, the only question is how do we tie those three to mr. fayed? and that was done through cell phone searches and also cell site coordination. it would take more than a year to gather enough evidence to charge two more suspects with murder. in june 2010 steven simmons and gabriel marquez were arrested. prosecutors say jim didn t know them, that moya hired them. investigators say steven was the alleged stabber and gabriel was the lookout. both pleaded not guilty. but amazingly, jim fayed wasn t done with the idea of murder. he apparently believed his cellmate had connections, and he wanted to hire a new hit man
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 werksman s defense any easier. the prosecution s smoking gun was that tape made by police and a cooperative cellmate. i told you, she knew her boundaries. she she she ran her mouth too much. she she ran out of control. she started running her mouth. about your business. if she d kept her mouth shut, yeah. on the tape, jim describes how he hired someone to kill pam and set up several scenarios to make that happen. but he says it was one missed opportunity after another. there was four different other occasions where i had it so it was perfectly clean. such as? no cameras? yeah.
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 money transfer business without a license, and he pleaded not 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
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? correct. and the first thing we noticed was that there was three individuals in the vehicle that was registered to mr. fayed s company. so we knew we had three additional suspects besides mr. fayed. now, the only question is how do we tie those three to mr. fayed? and that was done through cell phone searches and also cell