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 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
pam fayed was dead. stabbed to death in a century city parking garage. lapd detective salaam abdul-rahman has seen enough cases to know that, in his line of work, murder and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. the ongoing fayed divorce, therefore, got his attention. acrimonious, nasty, bitter. mr. fayed was really upset with his wife, mrs. fayed. and so that marriage would bear much more scrutiny. investigators set about talking to friends and family to solve the mystery of pam s death. they needed to start with the story of her life. pamela had a spirit that was infectious. carol neve was pam s best friend. she was always happy. she had a personality that just sucked you in and kept you there. carol met pam 22 years ago.
worksman, says none of that was a motive for murder. but they did have a business 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 worksman s defense any easier. the prosecution s smoking gun was that tape, made by police and a cooperative cellmate. i told you, she news 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 opportunities where i had
at the scene. century city is only 176 acres. its gleaming office towers and high-dollar townhomes lying entirely within the city of los angeles. and what makes this place run is money, because century city is home to agents, film producers and attorneys. usually around here when someone talks about bloody murder, they re talking about a deal that went south. this time it was the real thing. the lead detective for the lapd investigating pam fayed s murder was salaam abdul-rahman. mrs. fayed wasn t robbed. no she wasn t. mrs. fayed wasn t sexually assaulted. no, she was not. so the purpose of that crime was to kill her. it was to kill her. that was the only purpose of the crime, to get rid of her and make sure she was dead. abdul rahman says the murder was carefully planned. mrs. fayed comes out at about 6:30 at night. that s correct. and she s walking to her car, what, alone?