if you re 50 years or older, josh mankiewicz: on may 4th, 2011, jim fayed found himself in a los angeles courtroom found himself in a los angeles courtroom, accused of being the mastermind behind the plot to kill his wife. his federal charges involving financial crimes were dropped when the state of california decided to try him for capital murder. prosecutors alan jackson and eric harman laid out their case. it s not your typical love story or boy meets girl, but instead it s 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. prosecutors offered this snapshot of the fayeds riches during the short time they ran their business. so mr. fayed found a niche,
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 would know anything the
josh mankiewicz: on may 4th, 2011, jim fayed found himself in a los angeles courtroom fayed found himself in a los angeles courtroom, accused of being the mastermind behind the plot to kill his wife. his federal charges involving financial crimes were dropped when the state of california decided to try him for capital murder. prosecutors alan jackson and eric harman laid out their case. it s not your typical love story or boy meets girl, but instead it s 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. 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
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 particular fear of pam s. it was discovered that she had a phobia about knives. and she had believed that she if she was killed, that she was going to be killed by someone
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. police had only just begun to solve the problem. when dateline continues! when dateline continues! icy hot pro starts working instantly. with two max-strength pain relievers, so you can rise from pain like a pro. icy hot pro. introducing astepro allergy. now available without a prescription. astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid-free spray. while flonase takes hours, astepro starts working in 30 minutes. so you can [ spray, spray ] astepro and go.