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>> reporter: detectives believed that someone was jose moya, the ranch hand. the cellmate also had other information that had not been reported in the news. >> mr. fayed's cellmate 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 pamela fayed at a party in malibu on july 4th? >> yes, she was. and that led to his credibility. so at that time we decided to try to get this conversat...

Salaam abdul-rahman was investigating the murder of a woman in a parking garage. then he learned that not only was pam fayed locked in a bitter divorce with her husband jim, but that the gold trading company that had generated all the money they were fighting over was now under federal investigation and that pam was going to turn on her husband and cooperate with prosecutors. >> she was probably going to be a witness against him and he was pretty pissed off about that. >> what potentially were the penalties for mr. and mrs. fayed in that federal case? >> well, potentially they could have had t...

That's 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 goldfinger's books to scrutiny by the federal government. pam decided she was not going to allow jim to roll the dice on their business, the business that had let pam live the life she'd always wanted. >> pamela was a girl scout. she wanted to do it right. pamela knew that they were making plenty of money. they as a family, the fayed family...

A brutal attack on pamela fayed. xrmd begin to examine closely her life and marriage, hoping to find any clues which would lead to her murderer and a motive. here again is josh mankiewicz. >> reporter: pam fayed was dead, stabbed to death in a century city parking garage. lapd detective salaam abdul rahman has seen enough cases to know, in his line of work, murder and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. the ongoing fayed divorce therefore got his attention. >> acrimonious, nasty. mr. fayed was very upset with his wife, mrs. fayed. >> so that marriage would bear much more scrutiny. ...

Years. together they ran a gold trading business called goldfinger. and together it had made them rich. but what had been a good marriage had deteriorated even as the money came in. now it was no secret that pam fayed and her husband were involved in a nasty, high-stakes divorce. it was also no secret that jim fayed could not have committed the murder. >> when mrs. fayed was killed it was impossible that he was holding a knife because he was with his attorney at that moment. >> in the same building. >> in the same building. >> he couldn't have gotten away from them long enough to get down to t...