According to the account in the LATimes, a man suspected of masterminding the fatal stabbing of his estranged wife at a Century City parking garage confessed to a jail cellmate that he had arranged the slaying and then plotted from behind bars to kill other participants in the crime, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Eric Harmon said James Fayed told the inmate, who was cooperating with authorities, that the people who carried out the killing passed up several better opportunities he had arranged before striking in the busy Westside area of the city.
The prosecutor said Fayed organized the killing because he was embroiled in a bitter -– and potentially expensive –- divorce with his estranged wife, Pamela, and feared she would cooperate with a federal investigation into Goldfinger, Inc., their international gold trading business.
Harmon played excerpts of the inmate’s recorded conversation in which Fayed expressed contempt for his “money-grubbing” wife and said she would not listen to reason. Fayed, 48, is on trial for murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the July 28, 2008, killing and could face the death penalty if convicted…..
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/05/man-arranged-wife-killed-plotted-hitmen-prosecutors.html
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