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If hes anything, he wants to be in control at all times, which is why he didnt 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 wifes murder. he focused, they believe, on a particular fear of pams. >> 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 ...

For sound, and they heard jim fayed talking about how he had tried to kill his wife but how it just hadnt worked out that time. prosecutor alan jackson. >> james fayed describes in detail how he told the killers about a party that pamela was going to be attending in malibu. according to him, they were simply supposed to carjack 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 f...

Company. so we knew we had three additional suspects besides mr. fayed. now, the only question is how do we tie those three to mr. fayed? and that was done through cell phone searches and also cell site coordination. >> it would take more than a year to gather enough evidence to charge two more suspects with murder. in june 2010 steven simmons and gabriel marquez were arrested. prosecutors say jim didnt know them, that moya hired them. investigators say steven was the alleged stabber and gabriel...

After the brutal attack on pamela fayad, investigators started to look very closely at her life and her marriage, hoping to find any clues that would lead them to her killer and a motive. returning to "the goldfinger mystery," here again is josh mankiewicz. pam fayed was dead. stabbed to death in a century city parking garage. lapd detective salaam abdul-rahman has seen enough cases to know that, in his line of work, murder and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. the ongoing fayed ...

>> james fayed is a control freak. if hes anything, he wants to be in control at all times, which is why he didnt 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 wifes murder. he focused, they believe, on a particular fear of pams. >> it was discovered that she had a phobia about knives. and she had believed that she -- if she...

And you have to start that process. once you start that process, the feds cant touch you. >> carol says pam agreed. >> all she ever wanted was for a legitimate company. thats all. you know, she just wanted to be on the up and up, and 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 goldfingers books to scrutiny by the federal government. pam decided she wa...

Then detective abdul-rahmans phone rang. >> the assistant u.s. attorney tells us that mr. fayeds cellmate wants to talk to whoever is handling the investigation of mrs. fayeds death. >> and what does the cellmate tell you? >> well, the cellmate tells us that mr. fayed had confessed to him that he had hired someone to kill his wife. >> detectives believe that someone was josé moya, the ranch hand. the cellmate also had other information that had not been reported in the news. >> mr. fayeds cellm...

He actually drew out a map that was never found depicting where he can find the ranch hand to actually carry out this murder. and what he wanted to do was have the ranch hand tortured so he can actually tell his cellmate -- or tell the hit man where the other two individuals were. >> 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 be...

Money transfer business without a license, and he pleaded not guilty. at the same time, detective abdul rahman continued his investigation into pams 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 pull...

Fayeds vehicle. >> so blocking her. >> blocking her so she cant move her car from the parking spot. the killer gets out of the back passenger seat and approaches mrs. fayed from behind. >> how long did the attack take start to finish? >> from start to finish i would say anywhere from one to three minutes. >> police found no eyewitnesses to the actual stabbing, but there were people close by. >> theres an individual that was in a building across the street from where mrs. fayed was killed. that i...