indictment. pam was cooperating with federal and the couple were getting divorced they were going to be divorced. so the marriage was over no matter and the relationship was over. jim fayed s attorney, mark worksman, says none of that was a motive for murder. but they did have a business that was a viable lucrative business, and it was worth maintaining, and if she hadn t been murdered presumably they would have come to some settlement over the assets and some division of the property involved in the business jim fayed did not testify. and he didn t make worksman s defense any easier. the prosecution s smoking gun was that tape, made by police and a cooperative cellmate. i told you, she news her she she she ran her mouth too much. she she ran out of control. she started running her mouth. about your business. if she d kept her mouth shut yeah. on the tape jim describes how he hired someone to kill pam and set up several scenarios to make that happen. but he says
suzuki suv to an avis rental car the car was leased by goldfinger. jim fayed s company. one of jim s nephews had recently relocated to california and had driven the car for about a month until just a few days before the murder. after that, the car was in the care of the fayeds ranch hand, a man named josé moya. investigators say it was moya who was behind the wheel, but on the tape there seemed to be three people in the vehicle. who were they? a month later josé moya was arrested and charged with pam s he pleaded not guilty. it turns out josé moya knew pam. not only did he work on their ranch, he even had his own living quarters on the property. moya knew about the fayeds gold. he knew where they stored it. he was trusted to transport the gold back and forth from the business to the home in moorepark.
the year was 2006. desiree says as jim became harder to get along with it started to push away pam s attempts to be more involved with the company while her husband was i heard them bickering about the business on a daily basis. specifically? nothing specific but just little things here and there that needed to be changed. their disagreements grew daily and festered. to the point where the couple separated. jim started spending more and more time at the ranch home in moorpark. and while the fayed marriage was crumbling, federal prosecutors were taking a look at the booming online gold trading business. they were looking for evidence of fraud, of tax evasion, and of the transferring of money without the proper government license. pam s friend carol did not want to see pam caught in a federal net. i called her to warn her. i told her she needed to get the money transmitter s licenses. and you have to start that
process. once you start that process, the feds can t touch you. carol says pam agreed. all she ever wanted was for a 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 he appears to have been adamantly opposed to a move that would have essentially opened goldfinger s books to scrutiny by the federal 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 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
into pam s murder, starting not just with the videotape of jim fayed at the time of the murder but also with some security video of the parking garage exit. what we did was that we narrowed it down to the time around when mrs. fayed was killed and the vehicles that were leaving the parking structure. in the minutes after the attack, this red suzuki pulls up to the garage exit, the wrong a man holding what seems to be a black hooded sweatshirt gets out of the back seat to check the exit gate before jumping back in. we ran the vehicle license check and found that one of the vehicles leaving the garage was associated with mr. fayed and goldfinger. mr. fayed s business. yes. detectives traced that red