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
brutal. vicious. pamela was completely defenseless. she was attacked, i believe, from behind first, with a knife. somebody much larger than her, somebody much stronger than her, who had an absolute mission, and that was to cut her throat, to kill her. on the video you can see people in the complex starting to walk toward the sound of pam fayed toward the sound of pam fayed screaming. one man ran to the scene and saw a tall man in a black hooded sweatshirt jump into the back seat of a red suv that was parked behind pam s car and be driven that witness then tried to help pam fayed. and then, as he walked around to where the attack took place, that s when he first saw pamela. he said that when she looked at him he went into a little shock because the only thing that was not covered in blood was the whites of her
pam s best friend carol recalls how pam talked during the divorce. i was on the phone with pamela, and she was really upset. she felt like someone was following her in a truck she did not recognize. i said, are you sure? she says, it s been following me for quite some time. i said, who is it? she goes, i don t know, it s a guy. she kept looking and watching, and they turned off into a parking lot. at that point she could see that it was josé. she says, why is josé following me? and i said, i don t know, pam. what the hell is going on? you need to call the cops and tell the cops. tina holland s last visit with pam was a week and a half before she was killed. and i just walked in, and she was out in the back yard, and she was smoking like a train. and she honestly looked like she had lost 15 pounds
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