well, the killer pulled up in the burgundy suv behind mrs. fayed s vehicle. so blocking her. blocking her so she can t move her car from the parking spot. the killer gets out of the back passenger seat and approaches mrs. fayed from behind. how long did the attack take start to finish? from start to finish i would say anywhere from one to three minutes. police found no eyewitnesses to the actual stabbing, but there were people close by. there s an individual that was in a building across the street from where mrs. fayed was killed. that individual observed her grab the railing and then observed an arm come around mrs. fayed and bring her back into the parking structure. and at that time he didn t see mrs. 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 years. together they ran a gold trading
story or boy meets girl, but 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 fayeds riches during the short time they ran their business. so mr. fayed found a niche, 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 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
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 this business on this international scale without someone taking a look. and so pamela s idea was, let s do it right. let s cross our ts, let s dot our is. let s get the money licen
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. 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 we found that one of the vehicles that were leaving the garage was associated with mr. fayed and goldfinger. mr. fayed s business. yes. detectives traced that red suzuki suv to an avis rental car center in camarillo. the car was leased by goldfinger, jim fayed s company. one of jim s nephews had recently relocated to california and had driven the car for about a month until just a few days
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 a knife was used. you think it s no accident that pamela fayed was killed with a knife. you think her husband deliberately not just had her killed, but had her killed in the way that she was most frightened of? that s my belief. jim fayed was to go on trial for murder and conspiracy to convict murder. if convicted he was facing the death penalty. the jury would learn about all