fayed, because he knows what had just transpired. >> reporter: but that apparent disinterest in pam's charge jim with murder. in fact, there was little evidence he had anything to do with it. then detective abdul-rahman's phone rang. >> the assistant u.s. attorney says mr. fayed's cellmate wants to talk to whoever is handling the investigation of mrs. fayed's death. >> and what does the cell mate tell you? >> the cell mate tells us that mr. fayed had confessed to him that he had hired someone to kill his wife. >> reporter: detectives believed that someone was jose 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 pamela fayed in malibu on the fourth of july? >> yes, she was. and that led to his credibility. so at that time we decided to try to ge