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. reporter: 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 found one of the vehicles leaving the garage was associated with mr. fayed and goldfinger. mr. fayed s business. yes. reporter: detectives traced that red suzuki suv to an avis car rental in camarillo. the car was leased by goldfinger, jim fayed s company. one of jim s nephews had recently relocated to california
reporter: detectives believed that someone was jose 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. reporter: 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 pamela was going
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 and 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 and that was huge. if they had their assets seized, mr. fayed wouldn t have been able to conduct business. reporter: 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 invest
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 d 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. and 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,
a brutal attack on pamela fayed. xrmd begin to examine closely her life and marriage, hoping to find any clues which would lead to her murderer and a motive. here again is josh mankiewicz. reporter: pam fayed was dead, stabbed to death in a century city parking garage. lapd detective salaam abdul rahman has seen enough cases to know, 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. mr. fayed was very upset with his wife, mrs. fayed. 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