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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 didn't know them, moya hired them. they say steven was the alleged stabber and gabriel was the lookout. both pleaded not guilty. amazingly jim wasn't 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 was never found depicting where he can find the ranch hand to actually carry out this murder. wha...

Someone was josé moya, the ranch hand. the cell mate also had other information that had not been reported in the news. >> mr. fayed's 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. so at that time we decided to try to get this conversation on tape. >> so they wired the cell mat...

No cameras? >> yeah, such as walking out of a july 4th party down in malibu at a friend's house with 100 other people. >> they [ bleep ] couldn't 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. >> jim's attorney says that conversation is all just play acting. >> jim would contend that he was conned into playing along with this cell mate in order to avoid appearing weak or vulnerable and that he was simpl...

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 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 started running her mouth. >> about your business. >> if she'd just kept her mouth shut, yeah. >> ...

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 fayed's killing was $25,000. he was bankrolling it. >> no question. he commissioned this crime, and that's where the investigation began to lead us. that's where the evidence began to lead us. we knew clearly that he had an alibi for the actual stabbing. he's not the stabber. he's not the actual killer. >> you also knew he had probably a bigger motive than an...