arms and simply said help me. it was too late for anyone to help pam. paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. century city is only 176 acres. its gleaming office towers and high-dollar townhomes lying entirely within the city of los and what makes this place run is money, because century city is home to agents, film producers and 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 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.
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 you think her husband deliberately not just had her killed but had her killed in the way 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 the evidence that was collected. they would hear from witnesses and, of course, from jim fayed himself, in his own words, in what his attorney would claim was simply a performance for an audience of one. and now you re about to hear the tapes too. she ran her mouth too much. she ran out of control. she started running her mouth
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 4th of july. was pam 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 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
of work, murder and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. the ongoing fayed divorce, therefore, got his a tension. acrimonious, nasty, bitter. mr. fayed was really 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 carol neve was pam s best front. she was always happy. she had a personality that just sucked you in and kept you there. carol met pam 22 years ago. we were neighbors and we did become best friends, to the tune of every day we talked. every single day. that was long before jim came into the picture, of course. good morning, baby desiree. first christmas. pam was a single mom. she and carol babysat for each
josh mankiewicz: on may 4th, 2011, jim fayed found himself in a los angeles courtroom fayed found himself in a los angeles courtroom, accused of being the mastermind behind the plot to kill his wife. his federal charges involving financial crimes were dropped when the state of california decided to try him for capital murder. prosecutors alan jackson and eric harman laid out their case. it s not your typical love 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