she just wanted to be an 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. get the money licensing.
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 fayed s riches during the short time they ran their business. so, mr. fayed transferred 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 2008, making a lot of money. but the good times didn t last. the company was under indictment. pam was cooperating with federal investigators. and the couple were getting divorced. they were going to be divorced, so, the marriage was over, no matter what. and the relationship was over. jim fayed s attorney, mark worksman, says that none of that was a motive for murder. but they did have a business
according to him, they were simply supposed to car-jack 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 josé 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. the first thing we noticed was that there was three individuals in the vehicle that was registered to mr. fayed s company. so we knew we had three additional suspects besides mr. fayed. the question was how to tie the three to mr. fayed. that was done through cellphone
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 exit. a man eholding what seems to bea 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 suzuki suv to an avis rental car center. the car was leased by goldfinger. jim fayed s company. one of jim s nephews had recently located to california and had driven the car for about
fayed. he doesn t seem interested. is it your belief that at the time surveillance cameras capture mr. fayed sort of walking around the cort court yard area that he knew his wife was being killed at that exact moment? yes. mr. fayed, when he walks out of the builder everyone is interested on what s going on in the parking structure except mr. fayed because he knows what had just transpired. but that apparent disinterest in pam s screams wasn t enough to charge jim with murder. in fact, there was little evidence he had anything to do with it. then detective abdul-rahman phone rang. the assistant u.s. attorney tells us that mr. fayed s cell mate wants to talk to whomever is handling the investigation of mrs. fayed s death. what does the cell mate tell you? the cell mate tells us that mr. fayed had confessed to him that he had hired someone to kill his wife. detectives believe that