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Searches and site coordination. >> it would take more than a year to identify and charge two more suspects with murder. in june 2010 steven simmons and gabriel marquez were arrested. prosecutors say jim didnt know them, moya hired them. they say steven was the alleged stabber and gabriel was the lookout. both pleaded not guilty. amazingly jim wasnt done with the idea of murder. he believed his cell mate had connections and wanted to hire a new hitman from jail. >> he actually drew out a map that...

Someone was josé moya, the ranch hand. the cell mate also had other information that had not been reported in the news. >> mr. fayeds cell mate had told us that mr. fayed had tried to set his wife up to be killed four different times. and what was interesting about that was that on one of these occasions he said that mr. fayed had set up a time when she was at a party in malibu on the fourth of july. >> was pam fayed at a party in malibu on july 4th? >> yes, she was. that led to his credibility...

No cameras? >> yeah, such as walking out of a july 4th party down in malibu at a friends house with 100 other people. >> they [ bleep ] couldnt vus -- >> yeah, it was a rural area. i even had the times, the dates, everything. the location. all he had to do was sit there, wait for her to get in the car and jack it. and everybody at the party would have said, oh, yeah, she went home. >> jims attorney says that conversation is all just play acting. >> jim would contend that he was conned into playi...

That was a viable, lucrative business and it was worth maintaining and if she hadnt 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 didnt make worksmans defense any easier. the prosecutions smoking gun was that tape, made by police and a cooperative cell mate. >> i told her, she knew her boundaries, she -- she ran her mouth too much. chef went out of control. she st...

Actually carry out this murder. and what he wanted to do was have the ranch hand tortured so he could actually tell his cell mate or tell the hit man where the other two individuals were. >> reporter: prosecutors say the price tag for pam fayeds killing was $25,000. he was bankrolling it. >> no question. he commissioned this crime, and thats where the investigation began to lead us. thats where the evidence began to lead us. we knew clearly that he had an alibi for the actual stabbing. hes not t...

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. >> reporter: jim fayeds attorney mark werksman said that 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 hadnt been murder, presumably they would have ce to some settlement over the assets and division of the property in the busines...

Says mr. fayeds cellmate wants to talk to whoever is handling the investigation of mrs. fayeds death. >> and 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. >> reporter: detectives believed that someone was jose moya, the ranch hand. the cell mate also had other information that had not been reported in the news. >> mr. fayeds cell mate had told us that mr. fayed had tried to set his wife up to be killed ...

Appear tough in order to survive. >> reporter: but on the tape jim told his cell mate how he wish he could have done the deed himself. >> i was waiting and waiting and waiting to figure something out. i wanted -- i just wanted to do it myself, but i knew id never [ bleep ] be able to get away with it. never. know what i mean? >> reporter: and prosecutors played the tape of what they said was jim trying to hire that second hit man to murder the first one and anyone else that might have been in on...

Talking. >> we had another young lady that was getting out of jail and she came to us and said that dawn had been talking about the murder. >> but that could have been just gossip, mind you. from a jailhouse snitch who couldnt back it up. but dawn did have a cell mate. >> she was kind of in a jam herself. she wanted us to try to help her. we can put a word into the d.a. or into the jail. >> that was enough to get cooperation from her. >> right. >> the objective was simple. get dawn talking, wran...

>> such as? no cameras? >> yeah. such as walking out of a july 4th party down in malibu at a friends house with 100 other people. >> they [ bleep ] -- >> yeah. it was a rural area. i even had the times, the dates, everything, the location. all he had to do was sit there, wait for her to get in the car, and jack it. and everybody at the party would have said, oh, yeah, she went home. >> reporter: jims attorney says that conversation is all just playacting. >> jim would contend that he was conned ...