1 00:00:04,395 --> 00:00:06,614 33-year-old Fahim Saleh was 2 00:00:06,615 --> 00:00:09,095 brutally murdered at his multi-million dollar 3 00:00:09,096 --> 00:00:11,445 Lower East Side condo. 4 00:00:11,446 --> 00:00:16,319 Fahim Saleh was a celebrated young entrepreneur. 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,018 Sources say Saleh's head and limbs 6 00:00:19,019 --> 00:00:23,239 were placed in plastic bags near an electric saw. 7 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:25,981 Who could have done this to him? 8 00:00:25,982 --> 00:00:28,288 During COVID it's not easy when somebody is wearing a mask 9 00:00:28,289 --> 00:00:31,117 to get 100% identification. 10 00:00:31,118 --> 00:00:33,684 Was this a targeted assassination attempt? 11 00:00:33,685 --> 00:00:37,514 He was having some trouble with the government in Nigeria. 12 00:00:38,821 --> 00:00:40,778 We see this haunting figure of somebody 13 00:00:40,779 --> 00:00:41,998 that looks like Slenderman. 14 00:00:44,044 --> 00:00:46,654 The full suit, black mask. 15 00:00:51,138 --> 00:00:54,662 This was something diabolical. 16 00:00:54,663 --> 00:00:57,534 It was like out of a season of "Dexter." 17 00:00:57,535 --> 00:01:00,102 But he's dealing with the NYPD. 18 00:01:00,103 --> 00:01:01,713 We don't skip anything. 19 00:01:25,607 --> 00:01:27,521 During that time with COVID, 20 00:01:27,522 --> 00:01:29,175 you know, a lot of things were different 21 00:01:29,176 --> 00:01:31,133 as far as investigations go. 22 00:01:31,134 --> 00:01:34,658 Nothing really prepares you for something like that. 23 00:01:34,659 --> 00:01:37,357 As people were dying, unfortunately, 24 00:01:37,358 --> 00:01:40,708 we as detectives, we would get a call 25 00:01:40,709 --> 00:01:42,666 every time somebody passes away 26 00:01:42,667 --> 00:01:45,409 to make sure that there wasn't a crime committed. 27 00:01:47,281 --> 00:01:50,196 We would have to enter in full Tyvek suit, 28 00:01:50,197 --> 00:01:53,547 gloves, helmet, everything. 29 00:01:53,548 --> 00:01:56,463 No matter what we did, we had to be careful. 30 00:01:56,464 --> 00:01:59,292 I know firsthand my daughter was born-- 31 00:01:59,293 --> 00:02:00,728 she was a COVID baby. 32 00:02:00,729 --> 00:02:04,166 So every interaction I had, in the back of my head 33 00:02:04,167 --> 00:02:07,517 is like, oh, my God, I got to maintain my distance, you know. 34 00:02:07,518 --> 00:02:10,085 But this is what we do, and we continued on 35 00:02:10,086 --> 00:02:11,218 even through COVID. 36 00:02:14,134 --> 00:02:16,309 For months, New York City remained on lockdown, 37 00:02:16,310 --> 00:02:18,615 but that didn't mean crime stopped. 38 00:02:18,616 --> 00:02:21,879 That summer, a brilliant young tech CEO was found murdered 39 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,403 in his penthouse apartment. 40 00:02:23,404 --> 00:02:26,057 And detectives were faced with a gruesome investigation 41 00:02:26,058 --> 00:02:29,104 made all the more challenging by the global pandemic. 42 00:02:35,329 --> 00:02:38,940 I worked out of the 7th detective squad. 43 00:02:38,941 --> 00:02:42,596 It covers the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 44 00:02:42,597 --> 00:02:46,470 I'm inside my office, and the call came in. 45 00:02:48,951 --> 00:02:50,212 So I pick up the phone, 46 00:02:50,213 --> 00:02:52,649 and it's the responding patrol car. 47 00:02:52,650 --> 00:02:55,218 And they told us that they have a torso on the floor. 48 00:02:58,265 --> 00:02:59,787 I'm like, this has to be a joke. 49 00:02:59,788 --> 00:03:01,528 This is not real, right? 50 00:03:01,529 --> 00:03:04,966 But sure enough, he's like, no, I'm dead serious. 51 00:03:04,967 --> 00:03:07,795 The initial 911 call came in from a young woman 52 00:03:07,796 --> 00:03:11,190 who discovered her cousin's body in his luxury condo 53 00:03:11,191 --> 00:03:13,496 on the city's Lower East Side. 54 00:03:13,497 --> 00:03:18,197 So we got up, got our stuff together, and we responded-- 55 00:03:18,198 --> 00:03:20,548 265 East Houston Street. 56 00:03:22,506 --> 00:03:24,594 The Lower East Side is definitely a hub 57 00:03:24,595 --> 00:03:27,075 for, like, artists and music. 58 00:03:27,076 --> 00:03:30,644 There's nice restaurants, lots of bars, 59 00:03:30,645 --> 00:03:32,734 a lot of, like, fun nightlife is there. 60 00:03:34,605 --> 00:03:37,259 Recently, it's also become part of a vibrant startup 61 00:03:37,260 --> 00:03:41,394 in tech scene known as Manhattan's Silicon Alley. 62 00:03:41,395 --> 00:03:44,005 265 East Houston is situated on the corner 63 00:03:44,006 --> 00:03:45,702 of Suffolk and East Houston. 64 00:03:45,703 --> 00:03:51,360 It is an extremely posh, very expensive residential building. 65 00:03:51,361 --> 00:03:53,884 The building, it's one of the newer buildings 66 00:03:53,885 --> 00:03:55,799 in the Lower East Side. 67 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,585 You have an intercom in the front to get in, 68 00:03:58,586 --> 00:04:01,545 and you also need a key fob to get into the lobby. 69 00:04:04,374 --> 00:04:08,377 The responding uniform told us where the witness was. 70 00:04:08,378 --> 00:04:10,074 She was sitting in the lobby. 71 00:04:10,075 --> 00:04:11,859 She was visibly upset. 72 00:04:11,860 --> 00:04:15,689 That's a human being that just lost a loved one, 73 00:04:15,690 --> 00:04:17,691 so I put myself in their position. 74 00:04:17,692 --> 00:04:19,214 Like, if this was a family member of mine 75 00:04:19,215 --> 00:04:20,650 that I'd want to talk to, 76 00:04:20,651 --> 00:04:22,610 I'd want to give them as much time as they needed. 77 00:04:24,438 --> 00:04:26,308 So we went up to the scene first 78 00:04:26,309 --> 00:04:29,703 before we spoke to the witness. 79 00:04:29,704 --> 00:04:33,707 The super of the building let the first responders 80 00:04:33,708 --> 00:04:37,711 up from the lobby to the 7th floor. 81 00:04:37,712 --> 00:04:39,843 Every floor was its own apartment. 82 00:04:39,844 --> 00:04:42,063 You couldn't go to another floor. 83 00:04:42,064 --> 00:04:45,545 You need a key fob in order to operate the elevator, 84 00:04:45,546 --> 00:04:47,808 'cause once you get to the floor, the doors open up, 85 00:04:47,809 --> 00:04:49,419 and you're inside the apartment already. 86 00:04:51,595 --> 00:04:54,815 The apartment is owned by 33-year-old Fahim Saleh, 87 00:04:54,816 --> 00:04:58,514 a young tech executive and programmer. 88 00:04:58,515 --> 00:05:00,951 First, we noticed that there wasn't any forced entry. 89 00:05:00,952 --> 00:05:03,476 Somebody had to have a key fob, 90 00:05:03,477 --> 00:05:06,914 or somebody followed Fahim into the building. 91 00:05:06,915 --> 00:05:11,005 So it's not just a random, you know, type of crime. 92 00:05:11,006 --> 00:05:12,920 The victim is targeted. 93 00:05:12,921 --> 00:05:15,139 The apartment wasn't ransacked. 94 00:05:15,140 --> 00:05:19,449 It didn't look like it was a robbery or a burglary. 95 00:05:21,843 --> 00:05:25,193 Everything was well taken care of, well-maintained, 96 00:05:25,194 --> 00:05:29,329 and then you see the torso of Fahim Saleh on a tarp. 97 00:05:31,505 --> 00:05:34,637 A torso with a missing head, missing arms, 98 00:05:34,638 --> 00:05:37,815 and missing legs below the knees. 99 00:05:39,817 --> 00:05:43,038 I've worked on thousands of cases, probably. 100 00:05:44,518 --> 00:05:47,389 It was very disturbing, even to me. 101 00:05:47,390 --> 00:05:49,740 And I've seen almost everything. 102 00:05:51,829 --> 00:05:53,613 Right at where his feet would have been, 103 00:05:53,614 --> 00:05:56,921 there was several, like, demolition bags. 104 00:05:58,532 --> 00:06:00,446 And peeking inside one of the bags, 105 00:06:00,447 --> 00:06:02,362 I saw a body part in there. 106 00:06:03,841 --> 00:06:06,495 Near the body, only a couple feet away, 107 00:06:06,496 --> 00:06:09,368 we noticed a battery-operated 108 00:06:09,369 --> 00:06:13,981 cordless Sawzall with blood on the blade. 109 00:06:13,982 --> 00:06:16,157 And a couple of feet away from there, 110 00:06:16,158 --> 00:06:18,638 there was a scissor on a couch. 111 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:20,684 It had some blood on that too. 112 00:06:23,470 --> 00:06:26,210 And it seemed like someone had left in the middle 113 00:06:26,211 --> 00:06:28,692 of disassembling the body. 114 00:06:30,215 --> 00:06:32,434 The first thought in my mind was 115 00:06:32,435 --> 00:06:35,176 how clean the crime scene was. 116 00:06:35,177 --> 00:06:37,004 Not a lot of blood. 117 00:06:37,005 --> 00:06:39,223 You would think that there would be blood splatter 118 00:06:39,224 --> 00:06:41,182 on the ceiling, blood everywhere, 119 00:06:41,183 --> 00:06:43,098 a real mess of a crime scene. 120 00:06:44,447 --> 00:06:46,317 In the kitchen area was all tarp 121 00:06:46,318 --> 00:06:48,842 with all cleaning supplies. 122 00:06:48,843 --> 00:06:50,539 And next to the cleaning supplies 123 00:06:50,540 --> 00:06:53,020 was a black plastic bag with three holes, one for the head 124 00:06:53,021 --> 00:06:55,718 and two for the arms, as if they were covering themselves 125 00:06:55,719 --> 00:06:58,852 with this black plastic bag while they were doing 126 00:06:58,853 --> 00:07:01,289 what they were doing to the body. 127 00:07:01,290 --> 00:07:02,464 We said to ourselves, this guy 128 00:07:02,465 --> 00:07:04,031 is trying to cover his tracks. 129 00:07:04,032 --> 00:07:07,643 He's trying to clean up the crime scene. 130 00:07:07,644 --> 00:07:08,862 This was very clean. 131 00:07:08,863 --> 00:07:12,256 This was very calculated, very planned out. 132 00:07:12,257 --> 00:07:15,477 This was something diabolical. 133 00:07:15,478 --> 00:07:19,917 It was like out of a "Dexter"-- season of "Dexter," you know. 134 00:07:21,615 --> 00:07:23,006 After walking through the crime scene, 135 00:07:23,007 --> 00:07:24,878 detectives head down to the lobby 136 00:07:24,879 --> 00:07:27,402 to meet with the witness, Fahim's cousin, 137 00:07:27,403 --> 00:07:30,536 who is now being comforted by the victim's sister. 138 00:07:30,537 --> 00:07:31,885 They were distraught. 139 00:07:31,886 --> 00:07:34,540 They were hysterical, you know, 140 00:07:34,541 --> 00:07:37,238 just like anybody else would be, 141 00:07:37,239 --> 00:07:41,068 a family member being killed in that way. 142 00:07:41,069 --> 00:07:44,201 The cousin of the victim had come over to check on him 143 00:07:44,202 --> 00:07:46,726 because I don't believe they had heard from him in a day, 144 00:07:46,727 --> 00:07:48,902 and they were very close. 145 00:07:48,903 --> 00:07:51,034 So she decided to go to the apartment 146 00:07:51,035 --> 00:07:52,472 which she had access to. 147 00:07:56,780 --> 00:08:00,261 She stated that she went upstairs... 148 00:08:04,092 --> 00:08:06,441 And that she walked through the apartment 149 00:08:06,442 --> 00:08:09,619 and noticed a body on the ground. 150 00:08:13,231 --> 00:08:16,669 She immediately started screaming, 151 00:08:16,670 --> 00:08:19,542 and she called 911. 152 00:08:25,330 --> 00:08:28,289 Born in Saudi Arabia to a Bangladeshi family 153 00:08:28,290 --> 00:08:31,466 and raised in upstate New York, Fahim eventually 154 00:08:31,467 --> 00:08:33,250 chose Manhattan as the home base 155 00:08:33,251 --> 00:08:36,297 for his worldwide tech ventures. 156 00:08:36,298 --> 00:08:40,954 Fahim was a celebrated young entrepreneur 157 00:08:40,955 --> 00:08:44,871 who championed other young entrepreneurs 158 00:08:44,872 --> 00:08:49,789 to start their own businesses in the developing world. 159 00:08:49,790 --> 00:08:52,618 Fahim, as much as he was a CEO, 160 00:08:52,619 --> 00:08:56,230 he was very much a tech startup guy, 161 00:08:56,231 --> 00:09:02,236 but not in a overly tech bro-y capitalistic way. 162 00:09:02,237 --> 00:09:06,849 I met Fahim Saleh, and we bonded together. 163 00:09:06,850 --> 00:09:11,375 He was always sort of trying something new. 164 00:09:11,376 --> 00:09:13,813 That was sort of refreshing. 165 00:09:13,814 --> 00:09:16,903 Fahim thought that, hey, you have all of these 166 00:09:16,904 --> 00:09:20,559 big businesses out in the West, tech businesses, 167 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:24,998 can we create something in other places? 168 00:09:24,999 --> 00:09:27,740 For him, it was, I want to give back. 169 00:09:27,741 --> 00:09:29,743 And he actually put money where his mouth is. 170 00:09:31,092 --> 00:09:34,573 I worked with Fahim in two ventures. 171 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:36,966 I would call him my angel investor. 172 00:09:36,967 --> 00:09:40,666 Whenever I would face difficult situations, 173 00:09:40,667 --> 00:09:42,885 he would be my go-to guide. 174 00:09:42,886 --> 00:09:45,801 Whenever I needed him, I could get him in, like, 175 00:09:45,802 --> 00:09:48,238 literally five to ten minutes. 176 00:09:48,239 --> 00:09:53,679 I have always seen him motivating, confident, 177 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:58,640 and his energetic smile, happy face. 178 00:09:58,641 --> 00:10:00,033 Fahim has always been that. 179 00:10:00,034 --> 00:10:04,080 Fahim was, obviously, a New Yorker. 180 00:10:04,081 --> 00:10:08,781 If not by birth, then by his soul he was a New Yorker. 181 00:10:08,782 --> 00:10:11,435 He knew everyone. He knew everything. 182 00:10:11,436 --> 00:10:14,308 That's what it felt like. 183 00:10:16,746 --> 00:10:18,704 At that time, what we decided to do 184 00:10:18,705 --> 00:10:23,709 was have patrol transport the sister and the cousin 185 00:10:23,710 --> 00:10:26,886 back to the 7th Precinct squad 186 00:10:26,887 --> 00:10:29,584 where they could be interviewed. 187 00:10:29,585 --> 00:10:32,065 While investigators speak with Fahim's family, 188 00:10:32,066 --> 00:10:34,545 Detective Hahn gains access to the building's 189 00:10:34,546 --> 00:10:36,199 security cameras. 190 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,420 So you had to work back to, well, where's the victim? 191 00:10:39,421 --> 00:10:42,553 When was the last time we had him enter the building? 192 00:10:42,554 --> 00:10:44,077 And that would be the previous date from the day 193 00:10:44,078 --> 00:10:46,646 that the body was discovered. 194 00:10:49,518 --> 00:10:50,866 Poring over the footage, 195 00:10:50,867 --> 00:10:53,695 detectives notice something chilling. 196 00:10:53,696 --> 00:10:56,089 We see this haunting figure of somebody 197 00:10:56,090 --> 00:10:57,700 that looks like Slenderman. 198 00:11:00,572 --> 00:11:05,402 Full suit, black mask, every aspect of his body is covered. 199 00:11:05,403 --> 00:11:08,668 Just hanging out in the lobby of his building. 200 00:11:10,408 --> 00:11:12,192 The person looked like a ninja, the way 201 00:11:12,193 --> 00:11:15,369 he was dressed, all in black. 202 00:11:15,370 --> 00:11:19,982 I know it was during COVID, but even with COVID, 203 00:11:19,983 --> 00:11:24,421 he was dressed very different than most people. 204 00:11:24,422 --> 00:11:27,686 His face was covered with a shield. 205 00:11:27,687 --> 00:11:29,470 His head was covered. 206 00:11:29,471 --> 00:11:31,951 He had a beautiful suit on. 207 00:11:31,952 --> 00:11:34,780 He appeared to have gloves on also 208 00:11:34,781 --> 00:11:37,000 and some strange-looking boots. 209 00:11:39,742 --> 00:11:42,309 And then we see our victim, Fahim Saleh, 210 00:11:42,310 --> 00:11:45,008 coming back from a morning run and enter the building. 211 00:11:46,923 --> 00:11:48,663 He goes into the elevator, and enters 212 00:11:48,664 --> 00:11:51,318 behind him is our suspect. 213 00:11:59,893 --> 00:12:02,329 And they take the elevator up. 214 00:12:02,330 --> 00:12:05,811 You see Fahim Saleh looking at the perpetrator. 215 00:12:05,812 --> 00:12:09,336 As the elevator hit the 7th floor, 216 00:12:09,337 --> 00:12:11,904 the doors opened. 217 00:12:11,905 --> 00:12:14,689 Fahim starts to walk into his apartment, 218 00:12:14,690 --> 00:12:19,520 and then this perpetrator pulls something out of his jacket, 219 00:12:19,521 --> 00:12:21,218 which appears to be a Taser. 220 00:12:23,612 --> 00:12:27,093 You could see the light on Fahim's back light up, 221 00:12:27,094 --> 00:12:29,923 and you could see him immediately fall to the ground. 222 00:12:32,795 --> 00:12:34,578 And then the elevator door closes. 223 00:12:41,456 --> 00:12:42,848 Coming up... 224 00:12:42,849 --> 00:12:44,458 It looked like this was scripted. 225 00:12:44,459 --> 00:12:46,025 It looked professional. 226 00:12:46,026 --> 00:12:49,158 We find that a Nest cam across the street 227 00:12:49,159 --> 00:12:52,640 was pointed directly at Fahim's apartment. 228 00:12:52,641 --> 00:12:56,209 There was a shot in the video where he could see his profile. 229 00:12:56,210 --> 00:12:58,864 I slide over a picture of the person 230 00:12:58,865 --> 00:13:01,257 who we believe is the perpetrator, 231 00:13:01,258 --> 00:13:03,870 and they both let out a gasp. 232 00:13:21,191 --> 00:13:25,238 Detectives investigating the murder of 33-year-old tech CEO 233 00:13:25,239 --> 00:13:27,849 Fahim Saleh have recovered surveillance footage 234 00:13:27,850 --> 00:13:30,547 showing his final moments. 235 00:13:35,292 --> 00:13:38,947 That's where we started our investigation. 236 00:13:38,948 --> 00:13:41,036 We had at least a clothing description 237 00:13:41,037 --> 00:13:43,125 of this perpetrator. 238 00:13:43,126 --> 00:13:44,823 The medical examiner confirms 239 00:13:44,824 --> 00:13:46,215 that after being tased, 240 00:13:46,216 --> 00:13:50,306 Fahim Saleh was stabbed to death with a knife. 241 00:13:50,307 --> 00:13:52,961 We checked all over the place, 242 00:13:52,962 --> 00:13:55,485 but we couldn't find the knife that he used 243 00:13:55,486 --> 00:14:00,099 to stab Fahim, the Taser, or some other items 244 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:02,101 like Fahim's cell phone. 245 00:14:04,060 --> 00:14:05,495 Detectives continue to comb through 246 00:14:05,496 --> 00:14:08,324 the surveillance footage looking for any clues 247 00:14:08,325 --> 00:14:11,024 that might reveal the killer's identity. 248 00:14:12,634 --> 00:14:14,200 I was talking to the super, and he says, 249 00:14:14,201 --> 00:14:15,984 yeah, we have video throughout the whole building. 250 00:14:15,985 --> 00:14:18,334 So that was the role I primarily took, 251 00:14:18,335 --> 00:14:19,901 getting the video up and running 252 00:14:19,902 --> 00:14:22,512 to see what we could find. 253 00:14:22,513 --> 00:14:24,645 The more video we obtained, 254 00:14:24,646 --> 00:14:28,563 the more we learned about our suspect's movements. 255 00:14:31,435 --> 00:14:35,656 On the 13th in the morning, he enters the lobby 256 00:14:35,657 --> 00:14:37,788 and stands in the corner. 257 00:14:37,789 --> 00:14:40,140 And you just barely see him. 258 00:14:41,576 --> 00:14:43,490 This person is hanging out in this small lobby 259 00:14:43,491 --> 00:14:48,191 for many hours, waiting for Fahim. 260 00:14:51,107 --> 00:14:53,500 We're learning that this was a planned-out event, 261 00:14:53,501 --> 00:14:55,895 that this was not a spur of the moment thing. 262 00:14:57,940 --> 00:14:59,549 He didn't look nervous. 263 00:14:59,550 --> 00:15:03,292 It looked like he--this is something he's done before. 264 00:15:03,293 --> 00:15:05,381 And that's what also made us believe that this 265 00:15:05,382 --> 00:15:07,036 could have been a professional job. 266 00:15:09,343 --> 00:15:10,952 We don't know Fahim. 267 00:15:10,953 --> 00:15:12,998 We wanted to know from the family, 268 00:15:12,999 --> 00:15:14,956 who do you think-- who do you believe 269 00:15:14,957 --> 00:15:16,393 could have done this to him? 270 00:15:18,569 --> 00:15:20,701 While Detective Hahn continues scouring 271 00:15:20,702 --> 00:15:23,530 surveillance footage, Detectives Tedisco and Stiller 272 00:15:23,531 --> 00:15:24,966 head back to the 7th Precinct 273 00:15:24,967 --> 00:15:27,969 to speak with Fahim's family. 274 00:15:27,970 --> 00:15:33,322 While talking to the sister of Fahim Saleh and the cousin, 275 00:15:33,323 --> 00:15:36,717 we started getting more information about Fahim. 276 00:15:36,718 --> 00:15:39,807 They told us they were puzzled because 277 00:15:39,808 --> 00:15:41,200 Fahim is such a great guy. 278 00:15:41,201 --> 00:15:43,420 Fahim was loved by everybody. 279 00:15:46,467 --> 00:15:50,383 Talking to the family, he was a very smart guy. 280 00:15:50,384 --> 00:15:53,038 He had a couple of tech companies. 281 00:15:53,039 --> 00:15:56,215 He wasn't given these opportunities. 282 00:15:56,216 --> 00:15:58,086 He made the opportunities himself. 283 00:15:58,087 --> 00:16:01,481 He was self-made. 284 00:16:01,482 --> 00:16:07,182 He knew what he was good at, which was taking an idea 285 00:16:07,183 --> 00:16:10,185 and bringing it to life. 286 00:16:10,186 --> 00:16:13,275 I think that's what gave Fahim a lot of joy, 287 00:16:13,276 --> 00:16:16,497 just the act of creation. 288 00:16:18,673 --> 00:16:21,718 His first real company was Prank Dial, 289 00:16:21,719 --> 00:16:25,113 which was a service that you could use to prank 290 00:16:25,114 --> 00:16:26,897 phone call your friends. 291 00:16:26,898 --> 00:16:28,638 Was a big success. 292 00:16:28,639 --> 00:16:31,728 And literally, that product gives a sense of what 293 00:16:31,729 --> 00:16:33,469 kind of person Fahim is. 294 00:16:33,470 --> 00:16:37,778 Like, he's funny, he's energetic, he's passionate. 295 00:16:37,779 --> 00:16:42,652 Fahim had a great do it, just do it attitude. 296 00:16:42,653 --> 00:16:44,959 When we started the Pathao ride-sharing product, 297 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,703 similar to Uber, there was nothing like it in Bangladesh. 298 00:16:50,357 --> 00:16:52,836 After Pathao was getting successful, 299 00:16:52,837 --> 00:16:56,449 Fahim went to Nigeria, and he started a very similar business 300 00:16:56,450 --> 00:16:59,234 called Gokada, ride-sharing company. 301 00:16:59,235 --> 00:17:02,063 He saw that ride sharing could be 302 00:17:02,064 --> 00:17:04,240 a good opportunity in Nigeria. 303 00:17:05,981 --> 00:17:11,942 For Fahim, success was making impacts in people's lives. 304 00:17:11,943 --> 00:17:13,683 Hey, guys. 305 00:17:13,684 --> 00:17:17,035 If you don't already know me, I'm Fahim Saleh, 306 00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:19,385 the CEO of Gokada. 307 00:17:19,386 --> 00:17:21,952 This is not my country. 308 00:17:21,953 --> 00:17:25,260 It's a country that I feel has amazing potential 309 00:17:25,261 --> 00:17:28,394 and has amazing people. 310 00:17:28,395 --> 00:17:30,265 Despite his passion for Gokada, 311 00:17:30,266 --> 00:17:32,267 in the months before his death, 312 00:17:32,268 --> 00:17:34,488 Fahim Saleh had run into problems. 313 00:17:36,229 --> 00:17:39,187 We were told he was having some trouble 314 00:17:39,188 --> 00:17:42,147 with the government in Nigeria 315 00:17:42,148 --> 00:17:45,454 as far as with his company. 316 00:17:45,455 --> 00:17:48,109 They were not particularly pleased with the fact that 317 00:17:48,110 --> 00:17:52,592 he was encroaching on their taxi services with his app, 318 00:17:52,593 --> 00:17:56,596 that there was some friction there between this American 319 00:17:56,597 --> 00:17:59,729 businessman coming in with this idea to do 320 00:17:59,730 --> 00:18:01,862 a ride-sharing app and sort of encroaching 321 00:18:01,863 --> 00:18:04,430 on a government-run entity. 322 00:18:04,431 --> 00:18:07,824 You know, we had information that the business 323 00:18:07,825 --> 00:18:11,045 he was involved in had some type of corruption 324 00:18:11,046 --> 00:18:12,612 that he was trying to root out. 325 00:18:12,613 --> 00:18:15,876 So was this a targeted assassination attempt on him 326 00:18:15,877 --> 00:18:18,705 because he was trying to clean up 327 00:18:18,706 --> 00:18:20,663 something that he was involved in 328 00:18:20,664 --> 00:18:22,883 and somebody didn't want that? 329 00:18:22,884 --> 00:18:26,800 You know, you learn about the problems in Nigeria, 330 00:18:26,801 --> 00:18:29,019 and rumors start flying-- 331 00:18:29,020 --> 00:18:31,327 this could be a Nigerian hit. 332 00:18:33,199 --> 00:18:36,288 And we were concerned about that. 333 00:18:36,289 --> 00:18:38,333 These guys are probably good at what they do. 334 00:18:38,334 --> 00:18:41,642 He's probably already gone at JFK Airport. 335 00:18:43,209 --> 00:18:46,472 So a notification was made to all the airports, 336 00:18:46,473 --> 00:18:50,084 and we got a photo of the perpetrator 337 00:18:50,085 --> 00:18:53,261 out there with the clothing description. 338 00:18:53,262 --> 00:18:55,482 We had to get something out there. 339 00:18:57,048 --> 00:18:59,049 While a team works the Nigerian lead, 340 00:18:59,050 --> 00:19:00,616 back at the crime scene, 341 00:19:00,617 --> 00:19:02,314 detectives continue to scrutinize 342 00:19:02,315 --> 00:19:03,445 the surveillance footage. 343 00:19:03,446 --> 00:19:06,622 And their efforts pay off. 344 00:19:06,623 --> 00:19:09,799 Some of the other video we obtained, 345 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,717 you could see the suspect across the street 346 00:19:14,718 --> 00:19:17,503 from the building. 347 00:19:17,504 --> 00:19:19,635 He goes into this other building 348 00:19:19,636 --> 00:19:22,509 directly across from 265 East Houston Street. 349 00:19:24,337 --> 00:19:26,294 We spoke to the super over there, 350 00:19:26,295 --> 00:19:28,383 and he had mentioned that there were some inquiries 351 00:19:28,384 --> 00:19:30,994 about a vacant apartment. 352 00:19:30,995 --> 00:19:33,301 The most recent inquiry came from a man 353 00:19:33,302 --> 00:19:36,652 just ten days before Fahim's murder. 354 00:19:36,653 --> 00:19:39,002 So because it's COVID, real estate agents 355 00:19:39,003 --> 00:19:42,528 don't have face-to-face interactions with people 356 00:19:42,529 --> 00:19:43,833 looking for apartments. 357 00:19:43,834 --> 00:19:47,750 So they have a key code on a lock. 358 00:19:47,751 --> 00:19:49,491 There's a key inside, and they will look 359 00:19:49,492 --> 00:19:50,885 at the apartment themselves. 360 00:19:52,930 --> 00:19:55,280 We find that a Nest cam was set up 361 00:19:55,281 --> 00:20:01,677 inside that apartment pointed directly at Fahim's apartment. 362 00:20:01,678 --> 00:20:05,333 With a Nest cam, you can set it up and then just 363 00:20:05,334 --> 00:20:06,944 remotely watch it on your phone. 364 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:12,862 He was able to see and track the movements of Fahim 365 00:20:12,863 --> 00:20:15,256 and know exactly when he leaves for work 366 00:20:15,257 --> 00:20:16,997 or when he goes on his morning runs. 367 00:20:16,998 --> 00:20:20,566 And you could actually see into the apartment also. 368 00:20:20,567 --> 00:20:22,263 This was out of a movie. 369 00:20:22,264 --> 00:20:23,656 It looked like this was scripted. 370 00:20:23,657 --> 00:20:26,963 It looked like a professional hit. 371 00:20:26,964 --> 00:20:28,487 We weren't sure what was going on. 372 00:20:28,488 --> 00:20:30,272 This is not your usual homicide. 373 00:20:47,158 --> 00:20:50,422 Hours after Fahim Saleh was found murdered, 374 00:20:50,423 --> 00:20:51,988 surveillance footage leads detectives 375 00:20:51,989 --> 00:20:54,077 to a vacant apartment across the street 376 00:20:54,078 --> 00:20:56,602 where they find startling new evidence. 377 00:20:56,603 --> 00:20:59,779 So we retrieved a Nest cam. 378 00:20:59,780 --> 00:21:01,955 And we asked the building owner, 379 00:21:01,956 --> 00:21:03,522 would you send us the information 380 00:21:03,523 --> 00:21:06,829 for the real estate agent to try and get a name. 381 00:21:06,830 --> 00:21:09,702 This guy really tried to think of everything. 382 00:21:09,703 --> 00:21:13,009 But he's dealing with the NYPD. 383 00:21:13,010 --> 00:21:14,184 We don't skip anything. 384 00:21:15,796 --> 00:21:17,797 As detectives work into the night, 385 00:21:17,798 --> 00:21:20,974 the case quickly hits the evening news. 386 00:21:20,975 --> 00:21:23,629 Police confirming it was 33-year-old 387 00:21:23,630 --> 00:21:25,761 Fahim Saleh who was brutally murdered 388 00:21:25,762 --> 00:21:29,156 at his multi-million-dollar Lower East Side condo. 389 00:21:29,157 --> 00:21:31,419 Sources say Saleh's head and limbs 390 00:21:31,420 --> 00:21:35,771 were placed in plastic bags near an electric saw. 391 00:21:35,772 --> 00:21:40,123 The media coverage started right away around the world. 392 00:21:40,124 --> 00:21:42,866 The media ran with it. 393 00:21:46,087 --> 00:21:48,654 I was locked down in Bangladesh. 394 00:21:48,655 --> 00:21:52,658 It was a very confusing and scary time, 395 00:21:52,659 --> 00:21:56,314 brutally murdered in the middle of COVID. 396 00:21:56,315 --> 00:22:00,884 There is no rule book for when something like this happens. 397 00:22:03,060 --> 00:22:07,848 I got the news, and initially I didn't actually believe it. 398 00:22:09,502 --> 00:22:14,941 It's hard to convey and even put words about those feelings, 399 00:22:14,942 --> 00:22:15,985 to be honest. 400 00:22:15,986 --> 00:22:19,772 For me, Fahim was an individual 401 00:22:19,773 --> 00:22:22,688 who literally changed my life. 402 00:22:22,689 --> 00:22:24,211 Obviously, it was an unnatural death, 403 00:22:24,212 --> 00:22:27,170 so who could have done it? 404 00:22:27,171 --> 00:22:30,783 The different theories were going through my head as well. 405 00:22:30,784 --> 00:22:35,353 I was paranoid, so I felt maybe he has enemies in Nigeria. 406 00:22:35,354 --> 00:22:37,877 His business was facing issues with government. 407 00:22:37,878 --> 00:22:40,183 The first thing that came into my mind 408 00:22:40,184 --> 00:22:47,060 was that maybe he got in with some wrong people, right? 409 00:22:47,061 --> 00:22:49,367 I knew that he was working in Nigeria, 410 00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:52,892 and the first thought was that, would-- 411 00:22:52,893 --> 00:22:54,763 would that-- it has something to do 412 00:22:54,764 --> 00:22:56,809 with those problems. 413 00:22:56,810 --> 00:23:00,116 How is a ride-sharing related with a professional hit man? 414 00:23:00,117 --> 00:23:03,032 Maybe it is something else, right? 415 00:23:03,033 --> 00:23:05,122 Maybe it's something that we don't know. 416 00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:09,561 Detectives continue probing Fahim's connections 417 00:23:09,562 --> 00:23:10,823 in Nigeria, 418 00:23:10,824 --> 00:23:12,781 but it's a lead closer to home 419 00:23:12,782 --> 00:23:14,696 on the building surveillance footage 420 00:23:14,697 --> 00:23:16,220 that shows the most promise. 421 00:23:18,135 --> 00:23:21,790 One of the cameras, it's like a eye-level camera, 422 00:23:21,791 --> 00:23:26,186 which just faces out into East Houston Street. 423 00:23:26,187 --> 00:23:28,275 So if somebody is walking by, you'll just 424 00:23:28,276 --> 00:23:30,712 get a quick glimpse of them. 425 00:23:30,713 --> 00:23:34,847 Somebody notices that there was a person that 426 00:23:34,848 --> 00:23:37,763 matched the clothing description that we found 427 00:23:37,764 --> 00:23:39,635 in the elevator video. 428 00:23:42,159 --> 00:23:46,511 At this point, he's not wearing the full face mask. 429 00:23:46,512 --> 00:23:50,471 We determined that it's the same person 430 00:23:50,472 --> 00:23:51,995 that was in the elevator. 431 00:23:54,171 --> 00:23:57,478 We took the video from the exterior camera 432 00:23:57,479 --> 00:24:00,177 and made a still photo of it. 433 00:24:02,223 --> 00:24:03,615 At that point, you could say, okay, 434 00:24:03,616 --> 00:24:05,094 this is a male Black. 435 00:24:05,095 --> 00:24:06,792 We have a little bit more information to go on. 436 00:24:08,272 --> 00:24:10,839 We still had a mask on, sunglasses to cover up 437 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,495 his eyes, and we weren't able to use any kind 438 00:24:14,496 --> 00:24:17,846 of a facial identification. 439 00:24:17,847 --> 00:24:20,762 During COVID times, it was very difficult. 440 00:24:20,763 --> 00:24:23,983 It's not easy when somebody is wearing a mask to get 441 00:24:23,984 --> 00:24:26,203 a 100% identification on somebody. 442 00:24:29,032 --> 00:24:31,338 And we're still interviewing the sister and the cousin 443 00:24:31,339 --> 00:24:34,515 in the 7th squad that night, 444 00:24:34,516 --> 00:24:38,694 so I decided to see if they recognized this person. 445 00:24:40,261 --> 00:24:45,961 And I slide over a side profile of a picture of the person 446 00:24:45,962 --> 00:24:48,704 who we believe is the perpetrator... 447 00:24:50,750 --> 00:24:54,796 And they let out a gasp, like... 448 00:24:54,797 --> 00:24:57,017 You know, that's Tyrese. 449 00:24:59,802 --> 00:25:03,892 We get his full name, Tyrese Haspil. 450 00:25:03,893 --> 00:25:08,331 We learned that he was an ex-employee of Fahim Saleh. 451 00:25:08,332 --> 00:25:09,725 He was his assistant. 452 00:25:11,858 --> 00:25:14,642 My first response was to just throw it in Google, 453 00:25:14,643 --> 00:25:17,079 throw his name in there just to see what we get. 454 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:18,472 And one of the things that I found 455 00:25:18,473 --> 00:25:21,214 was a YouTube video of Tyrese Haspil 456 00:25:21,215 --> 00:25:23,391 doing some sort of fitness activity. 457 00:25:24,305 --> 00:25:26,524 And there was a shot in the YouTube video 458 00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:28,875 where he turned, and you could see his profile. 459 00:25:32,269 --> 00:25:33,966 He calls me over. 460 00:25:33,967 --> 00:25:39,232 We kind of enlarged it and compared it to the side profile 461 00:25:39,233 --> 00:25:44,150 we had from the video from 265 East Houston Street, 462 00:25:44,151 --> 00:25:47,719 and Detective Stiller immediately said, 463 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,286 that's the same ear. 464 00:25:51,767 --> 00:25:52,941 And I was a little stunned. 465 00:25:52,942 --> 00:25:55,074 I was still a little taken aback. 466 00:25:55,075 --> 00:25:58,818 I looked at it myself and I said, you're right. 467 00:26:00,646 --> 00:26:03,212 But we can't go just by an ear. 468 00:26:03,213 --> 00:26:06,694 So then we started looking into his background. 469 00:26:06,695 --> 00:26:09,045 What can we find out about Tyrese Haspil? 470 00:26:24,757 --> 00:26:28,847 Detectives investigating the murder of tech CEO Fahim Saleh 471 00:26:28,848 --> 00:26:31,153 have a new suspect in their sights, 472 00:26:31,154 --> 00:26:35,505 Fahim's former assistant, 21-year-old Tyrese Haspil, 473 00:26:35,506 --> 00:26:38,421 so they begin digging into his background. 474 00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:46,386 Tyrese went to a public high school in Long Island. 475 00:26:46,387 --> 00:26:52,435 And he was, by all accounts, a very bright young person. 476 00:26:52,436 --> 00:26:56,004 Tyrese was also a very entrepreneurial, 477 00:26:56,005 --> 00:26:58,572 ambitious young man. 478 00:26:58,573 --> 00:27:02,097 He also had some business ventures 479 00:27:02,098 --> 00:27:04,883 that he started when he was young. 480 00:27:04,884 --> 00:27:08,538 He was someone who wanted to make it in this town. 481 00:27:08,539 --> 00:27:12,847 In May of 2018, Tyrese got his first big break when Fahim 482 00:27:12,848 --> 00:27:14,980 hired him to be his assistant. 483 00:27:14,981 --> 00:27:17,983 From the information we got from the family, 484 00:27:17,984 --> 00:27:21,464 Tyrese would do tasks for him, run errands. 485 00:27:21,465 --> 00:27:25,033 He had access to his financial accounts 486 00:27:25,034 --> 00:27:28,428 so he could purchase items for Fahim. 487 00:27:28,429 --> 00:27:32,954 I think that Fahim saw Tyrese as his protégé, 488 00:27:32,955 --> 00:27:35,304 so he continued to entrust him with more 489 00:27:35,305 --> 00:27:38,656 and more responsibility as time went on. 490 00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:44,313 Tyrese was responsible for official documents for me 491 00:27:44,314 --> 00:27:46,359 early 2019. 492 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:51,233 By then I had found him an individual who doesn't 493 00:27:51,234 --> 00:27:53,845 take his work very seriously. 494 00:27:53,846 --> 00:27:55,673 As detectives are discovering more 495 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:58,240 about Fahim and Tyrese's working relationship, 496 00:27:58,241 --> 00:28:00,982 they learn of a troubling detail. 497 00:28:00,983 --> 00:28:04,857 Tyrese had been stealing money for quite some time. 498 00:28:07,250 --> 00:28:12,777 Tyrese was making fake PayPal accounts for over a year that 499 00:28:12,778 --> 00:28:16,563 were mimicking vendors to make it seem like he was paying 500 00:28:16,564 --> 00:28:19,566 those people that they owed money to, but actually then 501 00:28:19,567 --> 00:28:22,308 keeping the money for himself. 502 00:28:22,309 --> 00:28:27,792 Fahim noticed some accounts that were named almost 503 00:28:27,793 --> 00:28:30,577 identical to his business accounts, 504 00:28:30,578 --> 00:28:35,277 but a couple of letters were changed. 505 00:28:35,278 --> 00:28:40,327 Fahim learned the amount was $95,000. 506 00:28:42,677 --> 00:28:46,375 When Fahim found out about Tyrese stealing from him, 507 00:28:46,376 --> 00:28:48,161 Fahim fired Tyrese. 508 00:28:50,380 --> 00:28:52,033 He could have easily went to the police. 509 00:28:52,034 --> 00:28:54,557 He could have easily had Haspil arrested. 510 00:28:54,558 --> 00:28:56,472 From what I heard, his reasoning was, 511 00:28:56,473 --> 00:28:59,127 you know, like, Tyrese is a young individual. 512 00:28:59,128 --> 00:29:01,782 If he reports it to police, 513 00:29:01,783 --> 00:29:06,787 then his life will be ruined. 514 00:29:06,788 --> 00:29:10,312 Instead, Fahim made his lawyer draw up a payment plan. 515 00:29:10,313 --> 00:29:14,882 But Tyrese never paid Fahim back. 516 00:29:14,883 --> 00:29:17,798 That gave us our motive, so an I-Card 517 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:20,149 was issued for Tyrese Haspil. 518 00:29:21,542 --> 00:29:24,326 An I-Card is an investigation card, 519 00:29:24,327 --> 00:29:27,808 somebody that we want to talk to. 520 00:29:27,809 --> 00:29:29,810 It's not an arrest warrant, 521 00:29:29,811 --> 00:29:31,986 but we wanted to speak to him 522 00:29:31,987 --> 00:29:34,510 about the homicide of Fahim Saleh. 523 00:29:36,513 --> 00:29:40,125 So myself and two detectives from my unit 524 00:29:40,126 --> 00:29:43,215 responded to Tyrese's address, 525 00:29:43,216 --> 00:29:45,871 but Tyrese wasn't there. 526 00:29:49,526 --> 00:29:51,353 The next morning, detectives go back 527 00:29:51,354 --> 00:29:53,747 through all the evidence they've collected so far 528 00:29:53,748 --> 00:29:56,228 searching for a smoking gun. 529 00:29:56,229 --> 00:29:58,926 We're watching the video again, 530 00:29:58,927 --> 00:30:02,016 and we see the perpetrator 531 00:30:02,017 --> 00:30:05,019 vacuuming the elevator, 532 00:30:05,020 --> 00:30:07,500 which was very strange. 533 00:30:07,501 --> 00:30:09,197 What is he vacuuming? 534 00:30:09,198 --> 00:30:12,679 I'd never had any experience with a Taser at that point, 535 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,855 but the supervisors see the video too. 536 00:30:14,856 --> 00:30:18,554 They're like, yeah, that's the AFID tabs. 537 00:30:18,555 --> 00:30:20,774 When you shoot a Taser, it shoots out 538 00:30:20,775 --> 00:30:25,387 numerous little almost like hole-punch size, even smaller, 539 00:30:25,388 --> 00:30:27,476 pieces of paper, colorful pieces of paper, 540 00:30:27,477 --> 00:30:30,566 anti-felony identification disks. 541 00:30:30,567 --> 00:30:34,875 And on each one is microprinted the serial number 542 00:30:34,876 --> 00:30:38,574 for that Taser. 543 00:30:38,575 --> 00:30:40,838 The suspect, he had some kind of awareness 544 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:45,016 that this occurred, and that he knows that he's 545 00:30:45,017 --> 00:30:46,887 cleaning up evidence. 546 00:30:46,888 --> 00:30:50,195 If detectives can recover one of these disks, 547 00:30:50,196 --> 00:30:52,588 it will show where the Taser was purchased, 548 00:30:52,589 --> 00:30:55,636 and more importantly, could reveal who bought it. 549 00:30:58,291 --> 00:31:00,379 We shut the elevator down in the building, 550 00:31:00,380 --> 00:31:04,774 and emergency service unit guys went into the shaft. 551 00:31:04,775 --> 00:31:08,517 And they started checking the shaft up and down 552 00:31:08,518 --> 00:31:10,432 from the basement all the way up 553 00:31:10,433 --> 00:31:13,088 to see if maybe one of these tabs had fallen. 554 00:31:14,481 --> 00:31:18,876 And we wound up back in Fahim's apartment. 555 00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:21,661 And while we were there, we looked down on the floor 556 00:31:21,662 --> 00:31:23,793 and found one sitting in there, like, 557 00:31:23,794 --> 00:31:25,231 the corner by the molding. 558 00:31:27,407 --> 00:31:29,321 This is another piece of the puzzle, 559 00:31:29,322 --> 00:31:31,150 and it just gets even weirder. 560 00:31:50,386 --> 00:31:52,866 After 24 hours of nonstop police work, 561 00:31:52,867 --> 00:31:55,869 detectives investigating the murder of Fahim Saleh 562 00:31:55,870 --> 00:31:58,611 have a piece of evidence that could tie their prime suspect 563 00:31:58,612 --> 00:32:00,134 to his death. 564 00:32:00,135 --> 00:32:05,139 We were able to find one microscopic little confetti 565 00:32:05,140 --> 00:32:06,749 from the Taser. 566 00:32:08,622 --> 00:32:11,232 We were able to photograph it and blow it up a bit 567 00:32:11,233 --> 00:32:13,061 and get the serial number off of it. 568 00:32:16,456 --> 00:32:20,373 We contacted Axon, the company who manufactures it. 569 00:32:22,201 --> 00:32:24,289 Once the manufacturer had done their 570 00:32:24,290 --> 00:32:26,552 check on the serial number, they came back to us 571 00:32:26,553 --> 00:32:30,904 and told us that that Taser and that cartridge 572 00:32:30,905 --> 00:32:32,776 was purchased by Tyrese Haspil. 573 00:32:34,474 --> 00:32:36,823 We learned that this was a delivery that was made 574 00:32:36,824 --> 00:32:38,912 a month prior, in June, 575 00:32:38,913 --> 00:32:43,308 to Tyrese Haspil's home address in Brooklyn, 576 00:32:43,309 --> 00:32:46,747 which gave us the smoking gun. 577 00:32:48,096 --> 00:32:49,531 This is it. 578 00:32:49,532 --> 00:32:50,794 This is him. 579 00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:56,756 The Taser tab was the nail in the coffin, so to speak. 580 00:33:03,590 --> 00:33:06,809 So we subpoenaed Tyrese's phone records. 581 00:33:06,810 --> 00:33:11,727 It would give us access to where his whereabouts are. 582 00:33:11,728 --> 00:33:15,340 And once we have his cell site movements, 583 00:33:15,341 --> 00:33:19,692 we discovered something which was very strange. 584 00:33:19,693 --> 00:33:22,695 The day after he committed the crime, 585 00:33:22,696 --> 00:33:25,655 he takes an Uber to Jersey City. 586 00:33:27,918 --> 00:33:31,051 We send detectives over to Jersey City. 587 00:33:31,052 --> 00:33:35,577 We were able to obtain video from a building which showed 588 00:33:35,578 --> 00:33:39,625 him get out of an Uber and walk toward the water 589 00:33:39,626 --> 00:33:41,758 on the Jersey side of the Hudson. 590 00:33:43,325 --> 00:33:46,632 It appeared that he dropped something, which appeared 591 00:33:46,633 --> 00:33:50,288 to be a bag, in the water. 592 00:33:50,289 --> 00:33:52,812 We believed that he might have 593 00:33:52,813 --> 00:33:56,729 taken evidence and disposed of it in the river. 594 00:33:56,730 --> 00:34:01,995 So we had had our harbor team with scuba divers go out there 595 00:34:01,996 --> 00:34:05,564 and do a search for evidence. 596 00:34:05,565 --> 00:34:07,740 Unfortunately, we weren't able to recover anything. 597 00:34:11,005 --> 00:34:13,833 Then we were contacted by a real estate agent where 598 00:34:13,834 --> 00:34:16,662 the Nest camera was discovered, and she 599 00:34:16,663 --> 00:34:20,318 had stated that Tyrese Haspil had contacted her 600 00:34:20,319 --> 00:34:23,364 and requested to view the apartment. 601 00:34:23,365 --> 00:34:26,019 This is one more really good piece of evidence. 602 00:34:26,020 --> 00:34:29,370 Detectives also track Fahim's credit cards, 603 00:34:29,371 --> 00:34:32,504 which remain active even after his death. 604 00:34:32,505 --> 00:34:36,290 We got some credit card information that Tyrese, 605 00:34:36,291 --> 00:34:38,336 he's using Fahim Saleh's credit card 606 00:34:38,337 --> 00:34:40,816 to buy balloons for his girlfriend 607 00:34:40,817 --> 00:34:43,776 and rent an Airbnb at that time 608 00:34:43,777 --> 00:34:46,474 on Crosby Street in the Soho area 609 00:34:46,475 --> 00:34:48,955 of Manhattan for $1,000 a night 610 00:34:48,956 --> 00:34:50,958 so he could celebrate her birthday. 611 00:34:54,831 --> 00:34:58,443 So we had surveillance on Crosby Street. 612 00:34:58,444 --> 00:35:00,271 Tyrese and his girlfriend, 613 00:35:00,272 --> 00:35:02,621 they seemed to just be, like, strolling around arm in arm, 614 00:35:02,622 --> 00:35:05,972 walking around Crosby Street and the area 615 00:35:05,973 --> 00:35:09,584 with gold balloons that said 22. 616 00:35:09,585 --> 00:35:13,066 Just, like, having a great time together. 617 00:35:13,067 --> 00:35:15,503 It was two to three days where you were getting 618 00:35:15,504 --> 00:35:17,157 all of this information together, 619 00:35:17,158 --> 00:35:21,814 and that got us to the point where everyone said, 620 00:35:21,815 --> 00:35:24,295 now we're at the time to make an arrest. 621 00:35:31,259 --> 00:35:32,738 I'm in my office. 622 00:35:32,739 --> 00:35:36,785 I get a call from the Violent Felonies squad. 623 00:35:36,786 --> 00:35:39,833 They were in front of 172 Crosby Street. 624 00:35:43,315 --> 00:35:46,534 And he was taken into custody, 625 00:35:46,535 --> 00:35:48,319 and his girlfriend was transported also 626 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,409 to the 7th Precinct detective squad. 627 00:35:53,499 --> 00:35:55,761 We conduct all the arrest processing, 628 00:35:55,762 --> 00:35:59,068 and we remove his clothes for evidence. 629 00:35:59,069 --> 00:36:04,378 He's given a Tyvek suit, and he's ready to be transported 630 00:36:04,379 --> 00:36:05,379 to central booking. 631 00:36:08,253 --> 00:36:12,778 As we're walking toward the car, all the media is outside 632 00:36:12,779 --> 00:36:14,562 asking him, why did you do it? 633 00:36:14,563 --> 00:36:15,869 Why do you have to chop him up? 634 00:36:17,479 --> 00:36:18,827 He kept his head down. 635 00:36:18,828 --> 00:36:21,221 And he was very quiet, very poised. 636 00:36:21,222 --> 00:36:23,528 Didn't seem nervous. 637 00:36:23,529 --> 00:36:28,141 In the end, he's a monster, a greedy monster. 638 00:36:28,142 --> 00:36:30,796 The more information we get, the more 639 00:36:30,797 --> 00:36:33,581 we got a picture of Tyrese. 640 00:36:33,582 --> 00:36:35,323 And it was very creepy. 641 00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:56,996 Police have just arrested Tyrese Haspil 642 00:36:56,997 --> 00:36:59,520 and charged him with the murder of his former boss, 643 00:36:59,521 --> 00:37:00,914 Fahim Saleh. 644 00:37:02,872 --> 00:37:05,265 He requested an attorney. 645 00:37:05,266 --> 00:37:07,399 I can't ask him anything else. 646 00:37:08,965 --> 00:37:12,707 So detectives turn their attention to his girlfriend. 647 00:37:12,708 --> 00:37:15,623 Myself and Detective Zeppeli from Homicide 648 00:37:15,624 --> 00:37:17,712 conducted an interview with her. 649 00:37:17,713 --> 00:37:23,501 She believed that he was still employed by Fahim. 650 00:37:23,502 --> 00:37:27,200 He would get up every day and pretend to go to work. 651 00:37:27,201 --> 00:37:31,770 She just thought he made really good money. 652 00:37:31,771 --> 00:37:34,425 Do I think she suspected anything? 653 00:37:34,426 --> 00:37:36,078 I can't say that. 654 00:37:36,079 --> 00:37:41,910 I think that it is unusual for a 21-year-old man to have 655 00:37:41,911 --> 00:37:44,304 so much money to spend on you. 656 00:37:44,305 --> 00:37:49,135 I think that that should have maybe raised some red flags. 657 00:37:49,136 --> 00:37:51,920 Tyrese is held in custody, but his girlfriend 658 00:37:51,921 --> 00:37:54,183 is released without charge. 659 00:37:54,184 --> 00:37:58,753 Meanwhile, word of the arrest reaches Fahim's colleagues. 660 00:37:58,754 --> 00:38:00,320 It was upsetting 661 00:38:00,321 --> 00:38:03,410 the way he made the stealings and everything. 662 00:38:03,411 --> 00:38:06,761 Why was he not jailed by that time? 663 00:38:06,762 --> 00:38:09,938 But after a while, it kind of 664 00:38:09,939 --> 00:38:13,246 made sense to me because Fahim was a kind individual. 665 00:38:13,247 --> 00:38:15,596 And for a kind individual, it is always possible 666 00:38:15,597 --> 00:38:17,904 to show kindness to wrong people. 667 00:38:19,645 --> 00:38:24,039 Where you have embezzlement, where you have someone trying 668 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,130 to cover their tracks and commits a callous murder, 669 00:38:28,131 --> 00:38:30,437 you're always going to think about the possibility 670 00:38:30,438 --> 00:38:32,134 of psychopathy. 671 00:38:32,135 --> 00:38:34,963 And the thing that's characteristic with psychopath 672 00:38:34,964 --> 00:38:39,794 is they're unempathic, lacking in remorse. 673 00:38:39,795 --> 00:38:44,059 They tend to be highly exploitative or parasitic, 674 00:38:44,060 --> 00:38:47,280 and they tend to view people that they're interacting with 675 00:38:47,281 --> 00:38:51,590 as a tool to achieve whatever they're going after. 676 00:38:53,635 --> 00:38:55,810 Even though we have him in custody, 677 00:38:55,811 --> 00:38:58,813 we still conducted more investigation 678 00:38:58,814 --> 00:39:01,903 to gather as much as we could. 679 00:39:01,904 --> 00:39:06,778 And it was learned that Tyrese didn't steal $100,000. 680 00:39:06,779 --> 00:39:09,737 He stole about $400,000 from him 681 00:39:09,738 --> 00:39:12,698 that Fahim wasn't aware of. 682 00:39:14,264 --> 00:39:19,747 And we found that he Googled a lot of disturbing stuff 683 00:39:19,748 --> 00:39:23,185 like how to get away with murder, 684 00:39:23,186 --> 00:39:26,886 how to talk to detectives, how to dismember a body. 685 00:39:29,062 --> 00:39:34,501 Tyrese had already started planning to kill Fahim 686 00:39:34,502 --> 00:39:38,287 even before he was fired. 687 00:39:38,288 --> 00:39:41,727 He seemed to have been plotting this for over a year. 688 00:39:43,729 --> 00:39:46,557 Envy here was a big factor. 689 00:39:46,558 --> 00:39:49,560 In any intimate type of theft 690 00:39:49,561 --> 00:39:51,475 from somebody that you know, 691 00:39:51,476 --> 00:39:55,043 they might have the thought, why him and not me? 692 00:39:55,044 --> 00:39:59,221 Why does his person have success and not me? 693 00:39:59,222 --> 00:40:01,702 I truly believe he thought once he disposed 694 00:40:01,703 --> 00:40:04,923 of the body, that was it. 695 00:40:04,924 --> 00:40:07,404 Nobody was going to care about Fahim. 696 00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:08,841 He was ultimately wrong. 697 00:40:12,018 --> 00:40:15,716 In October of 2020, Tyrese pleads not guilty 698 00:40:15,717 --> 00:40:17,066 to first-degree murder. 699 00:40:18,894 --> 00:40:20,547 But due to COVID-related delays, 700 00:40:20,548 --> 00:40:24,943 he doesn't have his day in court until May of 2024. 701 00:40:24,944 --> 00:40:27,728 The evidence in general, not just the murder 702 00:40:27,729 --> 00:40:30,470 but the financial crimes, was overwhelming. 703 00:40:30,471 --> 00:40:33,473 There are various aspects of the case that are going to be 704 00:40:33,474 --> 00:40:36,781 really hard for a defendant-- 705 00:40:36,782 --> 00:40:40,175 the stalking and planning, 706 00:40:40,176 --> 00:40:42,613 the fact that there's a clear motive. 707 00:40:42,614 --> 00:40:44,267 This is not a crime of passion. 708 00:40:47,357 --> 00:40:49,446 The jury did a great job in finding 709 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:53,275 Tyrese guilty for murder. 710 00:40:53,276 --> 00:40:55,452 Everything he'd done was premeditated. 711 00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:57,976 And I believe that's what the judge took into consideration, 712 00:40:57,977 --> 00:41:00,631 and he gave him 40 to life. 713 00:41:00,632 --> 00:41:03,938 I think people understood that Tyrese 714 00:41:03,939 --> 00:41:06,289 doesn't have much of a remorse for what he has done. 715 00:41:09,336 --> 00:41:11,859 It's about having closure for the family. 716 00:41:11,860 --> 00:41:13,295 That's what it's about. 717 00:41:13,296 --> 00:41:18,083 It was good to close the case out. 718 00:41:18,084 --> 00:41:23,958 I felt very proud to be a part of the investigation. 719 00:41:23,959 --> 00:41:26,308 We really came together and made sure that 720 00:41:26,309 --> 00:41:28,921 we would have justice for Fahim. 721 00:41:31,271 --> 00:41:35,535 In his 33 years, Fahim Saleh made the world a better place. 722 00:41:35,536 --> 00:41:39,844 And his legacy continues to inspire. 723 00:41:39,845 --> 00:41:42,455 Fahim did impact a lot of people's lives. 724 00:41:42,456 --> 00:41:47,416 I have learned he would buy computers and devices 725 00:41:47,417 --> 00:41:51,420 for the schools in Bangladesh and intentionally 726 00:41:51,421 --> 00:41:54,207 keep them secret because the kind of person he was. 727 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,297 Fahim started a lot of different businesses 728 00:41:58,298 --> 00:42:02,519 that provides employment to the unemployed, the underemployed. 729 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,826 Those are some of the legacies that will actually last. 730 00:42:05,827 --> 00:42:10,178 People like me who remembers him, at least tries to live up 731 00:42:10,179 --> 00:42:13,573 to the standard Fahim has taught us, 732 00:42:13,574 --> 00:42:17,446 I think we are also the part of the legacy of Fahim. 733 00:42:17,447 --> 00:42:19,797 He was just an amazing individual. 734 00:42:19,798 --> 00:42:26,020 And we were all sort of robbed of that energy and his ability 735 00:42:26,021 --> 00:42:30,547 to even create something even bigger and better.