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 described in detail how he told the killers about a party pamela was going to be attending in malibu. according to him, he was 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. reporter: 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. the first thing we noticed was there was three individuals in
when the state of california decided to try him for capital murder. prosecutors alan jackson and eric harmon lay out their case. it s not a typical love story where boy meets girl but instead a love story where boy meets gold. it s that greed, that love of gold, that caused this man, james michael fayed, to have his wife murdered for financial gain. reporter: prosecutors offered this snapshot of the fayeds riches during the short time they ran their business. so mr. fayed found a niche, which is transferring money for only a 2% fee, which was highly, highly competitive and lucrative. so those of you who are good at math, you ll know that that s approximately $20 million in fees that went to goldfinger between 2001 and 2008. making a lot of money. reporter: but the good times didn t last. the company was under indictment and pam was cooperating with
reporter: and soon there would be another problem. what pam fayed had worried about would come true. federal investigators would come after goldfinger, indicting both jim and pam fayed because their company didn t have those money transmitter licenses. when the indictment came down, pamela fayed was in contact with her lawyer very quickly. she immediately indicated that she wanted to cooperate with the authorities. that was the position that she was taking, i want to cooperate, i want to do whatever i can to help out the investigation, 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.
prosecutor allen jackson and eric harman laid out their case. it s not your typical love story where boy meets girl. but a love story where boy meets gold. it s that greed, that love of gold that caused this man, james michael fayed, to have his wife murdered for financial gains. prosecutors offered this snapshot of the fayed s riches during the short time they ran their business. so mr. fayed found an itch, which is transferring money for only a 2% fee, which was highly, highly contagious and lucrative. you ll know that s approximately $20 million in fees between 2001 and 2008, making a lot of money. but the good times didn t last. the company was under indictment. pam was cooperating with federal investigators, and the couple were getting divorced. they were going to be divorced, so the marriage was
that someone was jose moya, the ranch hand. the cell mate also had other information that had not been reported in the news. mr. fayed s cell mate 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 fourth of july. was pamela fayed in malibu on the fourth of july? yes, she was. and that led to his credibility. so at that time we decided to try to get this conversation on tape. reporter: so they wired the cell mate 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 described in detail how he told the killers about a party pamela was going