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. 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.
matter what. and the relationship was over. jim fayed s attorney, mark werksman, 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 werksman 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.
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. 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
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 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
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 s an individual that was 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 called goldfinger and together it had made them rich. b