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
marriage, the final scenes, as it turns out. the woman is pamela fayed, and the man is her husband, jim. at the time this video was recorded, one of them had just minutes to live. rewind the video to just a few minutes the fayeds have just had a meeting with their lawyers. they re in the midst of a bitter divorce. it s 6:30 p.m. the meeting is over. pamela hurries to catch the elevator and gets off at the shr > that los angeles prosecuton jackson would spend s tell me about the attack. brutal. vicious. pamela was completely defenseless. she was attacked, i believe, from behind first, with a knife. somebody much larger than her, somebody much stronger than her, wh that was to cut her t kill h. on the video you can see people in the complex starting to wal toward the sound one mae and saw a tall man in a black hooded sweatshirt jump into t od fortune in but as the saying goes, money did not buy them happiness. in fact, it just might have been a motive to this mystery. here s josh