century city is only 176 acres. its gleaming office towers and high-dollar town homes lie 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. was to kill her. that was the only purpose of the crime, was to get rid of her and make sure she was dead. he says the murder was carefully planned. ms. fayed comes out about 6:30 at night. that s correct.
reporter: 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 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 is. and it s also my belief mr. fayed knew of his wife s phobia with wives and that s one of the reason why s a knife was used. you think that 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 commit murder. if convicted, he was facing the death penalty. the jury would learn about all
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 because 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. reporter: 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? the cellmate tells us that mr. fayed had confessed to him that he had hired someone to kill his wife.
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. reporter: 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. the first thing we noticed was 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. the only question was, how do we tie those three to mr. fayed? and that was done through cell
it s not your typical love story, where 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. reporter: 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. reporter: 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