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 better. 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. and the first thing we noticed was that there was three individuals in the vehicle that was registered to mr. fayed s
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, doing anything having 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 murder. 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 with a knife. who expresses a belief that if they re killed, they re going to be killed with a knife? that sounds like somebody who almost is foretelling their own death. it s also my belief that mr. fayed knew that knew of his
he actually drew out a map that was never found depicting where he can find the ranch hand to actually carry out this murder. and what he wanted to do was have the ranch hand tortured so he can actually tell his cellmate or tell the hit man where the other two individuals were. prosecutors say the price tag for pam fayed s killing was $25,000. 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 stabbing. he s not the stabber. he s 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?
i mean, she was half owner. it s as simple as that. 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
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. former 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 better. 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.