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
i was about 6 years old. they started dating. and slowly, you know, she started introducing this man to me, and i actually i grew attached to him. i looked at him as that father figure that i needed in my life. i kind of get the feeling that he sort of seemed to step up to the job of stepfather, which a lot of guys don t do. he did. he actually did want to take on that responsibility. i think he was proud to do it. we actually got really close to each he was very caring and loving towards me. what did you like most about him? he was funny. i just liked being around him. funny but not nearly as social and outgoing as pam. jim was a gentle soul. very quiet kind of soul. very private back then. she saw jim as someone who would provide for the family, had a good, honest job, doing electrical work. when they learned pam was pregnant, they decided to make it official. jim and pam were
jim fayed was the president. he seemed to like the sound of that, and he apparently loved controlling just about every aspect of the business. he originally was a really humble guy, and i feel like, as the business grew, so do his ego and basically changed the person he was into thinking almost as if he was someone who was invincible. and then one day jim discovered that he wasn t. his health started to slip. he developed rheumatoid arthritis and started taking a lot of pills to dull the pain from and perhaps a different side of jim fayed began to emerge. there became a point where jim was addicted to pain medications. and it wasn t the same jim that pam knew. by this point jim wanted total control of her and the company and her job was to stay home and be a wife. as controlling as jim was,
which is transferring 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 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
fayed in the so it was impossible for him to be in two places at one time. that security video shows jim fayed trying to make a cell phone call at exactly the moment you see people reacting to pam s screams. not only that, but a tall man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt clearly was not a description of jim fayed. a woman murdered, a bitter divorce. but certainly the husband wasn t the killer. so who was? a very rich mystery was under way. coming up, the hunt is on for a motive and a suspect. did the secret to this killing lay hidden in the rush for gold? she wanted to make sure her friends were happy and taken care of, no matter what it took. when the goldfinger when the goldfinger mystery continuesdiabetes can p a lot of questions, like. what is your glucose, and can you have more carbs?