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 that was huge. if they had their assets seized, mr. fayed wouldn t have been able to conduct business. 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 investigation into pam s murder, starting not just with the videotape of jim fayed at the 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
if he s anything, he wants to be in control at all times, which is why he didn t want his wife, pamela, doing anything having to do with transfer licenses. the same m.o. is what drove this contract killing. 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
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 better. 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. and the first thing we noticed was that 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. now, the only question is how do we tie those three to mr. fayed? and that was done through cell phone searches and also cell site coordination. it would take more than a year to gather enough evidence to charge two more suspects with murder. in june 2010 steven simmons and gabriel marquez were arrested. prosecutors say jim didn t know them, that moya hired them. investigators say steven was the alleged stabber and gabriel was the lookout. both pleaded not guilty. but amazingly, jim fayed wasn t done with the idea of murder. he apparently believed his cellmate had connections, and he wanted to hire a new hit man from jail. he wants the ranch hand taken care of. he actually drew out a map that was never found depicting where he can find the ranch hand to
after the brutal attack on pamela fayad, investigators started to look very closely at her life and her marriage, hoping to find any clues that would lead them to her killer and a motive. returning to the goldfinger mystery, here again is josh mankiewicz. 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