not about someone you love. alan jackson: she was completely defenseless. she reached out her arms and simply said help me. desiree fayed: my heart dropped. i want to know why? why? craig melvin: it s a baffling case of murder, millions, and a mystifying piece of tape. natalie morales in this is dateline. about a couple who made it big in a way you almost never hear about these days. they made a fortune in but as the saying goes, money did not buy them happiness. in fact, it just might have been a motive for a murder. now, pay close attention to the security camera video that starts our report because you just may see the key to this mystery. here s josh take a look at this security video, and tell me what you see. a woman walks alone to her car in a parking garage in century city, is she in danger? same building different angle. a man focuses on his cellphone. oblivious to those around him. who is he calling? you are, in fact, watching scenes from a marriage, the final sce
defenseless. she reached out and somerset, help me. my heart dropped. i want to know why. why? it is a baffling case of murder. a mystifying piece of tape. at the center? husband and wife. self made millionaires. he was very caring and loving. she had a personality that such a win. together, they meet the cold business. that, someone else made a killing two. it was to make sure she was dead. his wife, ambushed by a shadowy man in black, with someone after their fortune? i called her to run her. was the answer on this table? was his wife been killed at that exact moment? a kind of greeting gold. where detectives hunting for a killer strike gold? something i don t think could be involved in this. welcome to dateline. down on their luck california couple bound up making a fortune in gold. golden not by them happiness. in fact, it just might have been a motive for murder. here is josh mankiewicz. take a look at this security video, and tell me what you see
he was bankrolling it. no question. he commissioned this crime. and that s where the investigation began to lead us. that s where the evidence began to lead us. we knew clearly that he had an alibi for the actual he is not the stabber. he is not the actual killer. you also knew he had probably a bigger motive than anybody else. there were always in my mind dual motives for james fayed to contract the murder of his wife. one was the divorce. but one was to silence who he thought was going to be a witness against him. pamela fayed. did he just give this hit man that he hired the money and say go kill my wife? james fayed is a control freak. if he s anything, he wants to be in control at all times. which is why he didn t want his wife, pamela, having anything 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 he focused, they believe, on a particula
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 violence. nobody
position that she was taking. i want to cooperate. i want to do whatever i can to help out the i didn t do anything wrong, according to pam. what can i do to help? did james fayed know that his wife was going to cooperate? that s the $64,000 question. coming up, a suspect in the case and soon an arrest. he wasn t someone that i would ever think could be involved in something like this. but police had only just begun to solve the puzzle. when the