i could hear them bickering about the business on a daily basis. specifically? nothing in specific, but just little things here and there that needed to be changed. their disagreements grew daily and festered. to the point where the couple separated. jim started spending more and more time at the ranch home in moorpark. and while the fayed marriage was crumbling, federal prosecutors were taking a look at the booming online gold trading business. they were looking for evidence of fraud, of tax evasion, and of the transferring of money without the proper government license. pam s friend carol did not want to see pam caught in a federal net. i called her to warn her. i told her she needed to get the money transmitter licenses. and you have to start that process. once you start that process, the feds can t touch you. carol says pam agreed. all she ever wanted was for a legitimate company. that s all.
worksman, says none of that was a motive for murder. but they did have a business that was a viable, lucrative business, and it was worth maintaining. and if she hadn t been murdered, presumably they would have come to some settlement over the assets and some division of the property involved in the business. jim fayed did not testify. and he didn t make worksman s defense any easier. the prosecution s smoking gun was that tape made by police and a cooperative cellmate. i told you, she knew her boundaries. she she she ran her mouth too much. she she ran out of control. she started running her mouth. about your business. if she d kept her mouth shut yeah. on the tape jim describes how he hired someone to kill pam and set up several scenarios to make that happen. but he says it was one missed opportunity after another. there were four different other opportunities where i had it so it was perfectly clean.
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 s 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 licen
before the murder. after that, the car was in the care of the fayeds ranch hand, a man named josé moya. investigators say it was moya who was behind the wheel, but on the tape there seemed to be three people in the vehicle. who were they? a month later josé moya was arrested and charged with pam s murder. he pleaded not guilty. it turns out josé moya knew pam. not only did he work on their ranch, he even had his own living quarters on the property. moya knew about the fayeds gold. he knew where they stored it. he was trusted to transport the gold back and forth from the business to the home in moorpark. how well did you know josé moya? i knew him pretty well. he was actually he was a really nice guy to me. he was a character. every time he d come into the office, we d always joke around with each other. he was he wasn t someone that i would ever think could be
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 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 we found that one of the vehicles that were leaving the garage was associated with mr. fayed and goldfinger. mr. fayed s business. yes. detectives traced that red suzuki suv to an avis rental car center in camarillo. the car was leased by goldfinger, jim fayed s company. one of jim s nephews had recently relocated to california and had driven the car for about a month until just a few days