every time he d come into the office, we would always joke around with each other. he wasn t someone i would ever think could be involved in something like this. you liked him. i did. your mom liked him. she was very fond of joey. had moya charmed his way into the fayeds life as a way to gain their trust? was this all part of a bigger plot to kill each of the owners and steal their gold? 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. and she says, why is jose
more scrutiny. investigators set out to talk to friends and family to solve the mystery of the death. they needed to start with the story of her life. pamela had a spirit that was infectious. reporter: carol nee was pam s best friend. she was always happy. she had a personality that just sucked you in and kept you there. carol met pam decades ago. we were neighbors and we did become best friends to the tune of every day we talked, every single day. that was long before jim came into the picture, of course. good morning, baby des re. first christmas. pam was a single mom. she and carol baby sat kids, walked their babies toeng, went shopping, shared recipes, hung out during the holidays. pamela was very much family to me. pam was the most caring,
minutes earlier f. fayeds have just had a meeting with their lawyers. they re in the midst of a bitter divorce. it s 6:30 p.m.. the meet secretary over. pamela hurries to catch the elevator, gets off at the 3rd floor. she walks to her car and reaches for the keys inside her purse. that s when she was attacked. then los angeles prosecutor allen jackson would spend many hours scrutinizing that video. tell me about the attack. brutal. vicious. heart stopping. 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. reporter: on the video, you can see people in the complex
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 i mean, that sounds like somebody who is almost foretelling their own death. it s also my belief that mr. fayed knew that knew of his wife s phobia with knives and that was one of the reasons that a knife was used.
legitimate company. that s all. she just wanted to be on the up and up. she was going to tell jim, even though they were separated. pam urged jim to apply for the licenses. he appears to have been adamantly opposed to a move that would have essentially opened goldfinger s books to scrutiny by the federal government. pam decided she was not going to allow jim to roll the dice on their business. the business that had let pam live the life she had always wanted. pamela was a girl scout. she wanted to do it right. pamela knew that they were making plenty of money. they as a family, the fayed family, were flush. they didn t need to worry about nickels and dimes here and there. she was also aware, i believe, that at some point the federal government was going to start looking very closely at them. they couldn t continue building this business on this international scale without someone taking a look. and so pamela s idea was, let s do it right. let s cross our ts, let s dot our is.