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| Date Added: August 06, 2008 07:40:05 AM |
Source: http://www.knbc.com/news/17095392/detail.html Estranged Husband's Credit Card Linked To Car In Stabbing Death LOS ANGELES -- A credit card belonging to the estranged husband of a Ventura County woman fatally stabbed in a Century City parking garage last week was used to rent her killer's car, a federal prosecutor said on Monday. James Michael Fayed, 45, who is facing a federal charge related to the international gold trading company he owned with his late wife, was granted $500,000 bail at his initial appearance at U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Monday. However, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ralph Zarefsky stayed his decision until 4:30 p.m. Wednesday to give prosecutors time to appeal. Monday's hearing was only supposed to deal with the single charge of operating an unlicensed money business. James Fayed has not been charged with his wife's murder, although he is a prime suspect in that case and could face the death penalty if charged and convicted. The FBI arrested Fayed Friday night at the family home near Moorpark, in a rural section of Ventura County, on a federal charge related to the international gold trading company he owned with his late wife, 44-year-old Pamela Fayed. At James Fayed's court hearing on Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Aveis said surveillance cameras taped his wife's killer leaving a car whose license plate matched a vehicle that had been rented using her husband's credit card. The credit card was later found in James Fayed's wallet during a search, Aveis said. Pamela Fayed told a close friend that her husband once told her "I could have you killed and my hands would be clean," Aveis said. Pamela Fayed, the co-owner of Goldfinger Coin and Bullion Sales and an associated Internet firm, E-Bullion, was murdered July 28 at about 6:35 p.m. after a meeting with her husband and their respective attorneys, Aveis said. The killer was lying in wait for her and there was no evidence of carjacking, the prosecutor said. Witnesses said the woman was repeatedly stabbed by a slender man in his 20s who fled in a sport utility vehicle as she screamed for help. She died a short time later at UCLA Medical Center. POSTED: 11:21 pm PDT August 4, 2008
UPDATED: 11:27 pm PDT August 4, 2008
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