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 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
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 had 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. 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, let s dot our is. let s get the money licensing. her husband said absolutely not. he said absolutely not. but pam moved forward anyway and withdrew a
well, the killer pulled up in the burgundy suv behind mrs. fayed s vehicle. so blocking her. blocking her so she can t move her car from the parking spot. the killer gets out of the back passenger seat and approaches mrs. fayed from behind. how long did the attack take start to finish? from start to finish i would say anywhere from one to three minutes. police found no eyewitnesses to the actual stabbing but there were people close by. there was an individual in a building across the street from where mrs. fayed was killed. that individual observed her grab the railing and then observed an arm come around mrs. fayed and bring her back into the parking structure. and at that time he didn t see mrs. fayed any longer. that was the killer. that was the killer. police combed the crime scene looking for answers and they also started looking at the victim, pam fayed, and her husband, jim. the couple had been married nine years. together they ran a gold trading business cal
violence. nobody would know anything the better. now, with a confession on tape, both jim fayed and josé 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 was how do we tie those three to mr. fayed? that was done through cell phone searches and also cell site coordination. it would take more than a year to identify and charge two more suspects with murder.
i m dara brown with the hour s top stories. we re following a developing story out of california. the lapd bomb squad spent some of tonight investigating a suspicious package apparently addressed to treasury secretary steven mnuchin. the lapd says someone else in the bel air neighborhood received the box which was wrapped in christmas paper. the package was cleared, and multiple law enforcement sources tell nbc it contained manure. the secret service is also involved in the investigation. now back to dateline extra. welcome back to dateline: extra. i m craig melvin. pamela fayed seemed ready to expose her husband s questionable business practices. could that have led to her murder? she was probably going to be a witness against him. he was pretty pissed off about that. what potentially were the penalties for mr. and mrs. fayed in that federal case? potentially they could have had their assets seized. that was huge. if they have their assets seized mr. fayed wouldn t be able