1 00:00:03,046 --> 00:00:04,395 [tense music] 2 00:00:04,439 --> 00:00:06,615 - 33-year-old Fahim Saleh was 3 00:00:06,658 --> 00:00:09,096 brutally murdered at his multi-million dollar 4 00:00:09,139 --> 00:00:11,446 Lower East Side condo. 5 00:00:11,489 --> 00:00:16,320 - Fahim Saleh was a celebrated young entrepreneur. 6 00:00:16,364 --> 00:00:19,019 - Sources say Saleh's head and limbs 7 00:00:19,062 --> 00:00:23,240 were placed in plastic bags near an electric saw. 8 00:00:23,284 --> 00:00:25,982 - Who could have done this to him? 9 00:00:26,026 --> 00:00:28,289 - During COVID it's not easy when somebody is wearing a mask 10 00:00:28,332 --> 00:00:31,118 to get 100% identification. 11 00:00:31,161 --> 00:00:33,685 - Was this a targeted assassination attempt? 12 00:00:33,729 --> 00:00:37,515 - He was having some trouble with the government in Nigeria. 13 00:00:37,559 --> 00:00:38,821 ♪ 14 00:00:38,864 --> 00:00:40,779 - We see this haunting figure of somebody 15 00:00:40,823 --> 00:00:41,998 that looks like Slenderman. 16 00:00:44,044 --> 00:00:46,655 The full suit, black mask. 17 00:00:46,698 --> 00:00:51,138 ♪ 18 00:00:51,181 --> 00:00:54,663 This was something diabolical. 19 00:00:54,706 --> 00:00:57,535 It was like out of a season of "Dexter." 20 00:00:57,579 --> 00:01:00,103 - But he's dealing with the NYPD. 21 00:01:00,147 --> 00:01:01,713 We don't skip anything. 22 00:01:04,890 --> 00:01:07,850 [tense bassy music] 23 00:01:07,893 --> 00:01:14,770 ♪ 24 00:01:19,862 --> 00:01:22,865 [sirens wailing] 25 00:01:22,908 --> 00:01:25,607 [suspenseful music] 26 00:01:25,650 --> 00:01:27,522 - During that time with COVID, 27 00:01:27,565 --> 00:01:29,176 you know, a lot of things were different 28 00:01:29,219 --> 00:01:31,134 as far as investigations go. 29 00:01:31,178 --> 00:01:34,659 Nothing really prepares you for something like that. 30 00:01:34,703 --> 00:01:37,358 - As people were dying, unfortunately, 31 00:01:37,401 --> 00:01:40,709 we as detectives, we would get a call 32 00:01:40,752 --> 00:01:42,667 every time somebody passes away 33 00:01:42,711 --> 00:01:45,409 to make sure that there wasn't a crime committed. 34 00:01:47,281 --> 00:01:50,197 We would have to enter in full Tyvek suit, 35 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,548 gloves, helmet, everything. 36 00:01:53,591 --> 00:01:56,464 - No matter what we did, we had to be careful. 37 00:01:56,507 --> 00:01:59,293 I know firsthand my daughter was born-- 38 00:01:59,336 --> 00:02:00,729 she was a COVID baby. 39 00:02:00,772 --> 00:02:04,167 So every interaction I had, in the back of my head 40 00:02:04,211 --> 00:02:07,518 is like, oh, my God, I got to maintain my distance, you know. 41 00:02:07,562 --> 00:02:10,086 But this is what we do, and we continued on 42 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:11,218 even through COVID. 43 00:02:14,134 --> 00:02:16,310 - For months, New York City remained on lockdown, 44 00:02:16,353 --> 00:02:18,616 but that didn't mean crime stopped. 45 00:02:18,660 --> 00:02:21,880 That summer, a brilliant young tech CEO was found murdered 46 00:02:21,924 --> 00:02:23,404 in his penthouse apartment. 47 00:02:23,447 --> 00:02:26,058 And detectives were faced with a gruesome investigation 48 00:02:26,102 --> 00:02:29,105 made all the more challenging by the global pandemic. 49 00:02:29,149 --> 00:02:35,329 ♪ 50 00:02:35,372 --> 00:02:38,941 - I worked out of the 7th detective squad. 51 00:02:38,984 --> 00:02:42,597 It covers the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 52 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:46,470 I'm inside my office, and the call came in. 53 00:02:48,951 --> 00:02:50,213 - So I pick up the phone, 54 00:02:50,257 --> 00:02:52,650 and it's the responding patrol car. 55 00:02:52,694 --> 00:02:55,218 And they told us that they have a torso on the floor. 56 00:02:58,265 --> 00:02:59,788 I'm like, this has to be a joke. 57 00:02:59,831 --> 00:03:01,529 This is not real, right? 58 00:03:01,572 --> 00:03:04,967 But sure enough, he's like, no, I'm dead serious. 59 00:03:05,010 --> 00:03:07,796 - The initial 911 call came in from a young woman 60 00:03:07,839 --> 00:03:11,191 who discovered her cousin's body in his luxury condo 61 00:03:11,234 --> 00:03:13,497 on the city's Lower East Side. 62 00:03:13,541 --> 00:03:18,198 - So we got up, got our stuff together, and we responded-- 63 00:03:18,241 --> 00:03:20,548 265 East Houston Street. 64 00:03:22,506 --> 00:03:24,595 - The Lower East Side is definitely a hub 65 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,076 for, like, artists and music. 66 00:03:27,119 --> 00:03:30,645 There's nice restaurants, lots of bars, 67 00:03:30,688 --> 00:03:32,734 a lot of, like, fun nightlife is there. 68 00:03:34,605 --> 00:03:37,260 - Recently, it's also become part of a vibrant startup 69 00:03:37,304 --> 00:03:41,395 in tech scene known as Manhattan's Silicon Alley. 70 00:03:41,438 --> 00:03:44,006 - 265 East Houston is situated on the corner 71 00:03:44,049 --> 00:03:45,703 of Suffolk and East Houston. 72 00:03:45,747 --> 00:03:51,361 It is an extremely posh, very expensive residential building. 73 00:03:51,405 --> 00:03:53,885 - The building, it's one of the newer buildings 74 00:03:53,929 --> 00:03:55,800 in the Lower East Side. 75 00:03:55,844 --> 00:03:58,586 You have an intercom in the front to get in, 76 00:03:58,629 --> 00:04:01,545 and you also need a key fob to get into the lobby. 77 00:04:04,374 --> 00:04:08,378 - The responding uniform told us where the witness was. 78 00:04:08,422 --> 00:04:10,075 She was sitting in the lobby. 79 00:04:10,119 --> 00:04:11,860 She was visibly upset. 80 00:04:11,903 --> 00:04:15,690 That's a human being that just lost a loved one, 81 00:04:15,733 --> 00:04:17,692 so I put myself in their position. 82 00:04:17,735 --> 00:04:19,215 Like, if this was a family member of mine 83 00:04:19,259 --> 00:04:20,651 that I'd want to talk to, 84 00:04:20,695 --> 00:04:22,610 I'd want to give them as much time as they needed. 85 00:04:24,438 --> 00:04:26,309 So we went up to the scene first 86 00:04:26,353 --> 00:04:29,704 before we spoke to the witness. 87 00:04:29,747 --> 00:04:33,708 - The super of the building let the first responders 88 00:04:33,751 --> 00:04:37,712 up from the lobby to the 7th floor. 89 00:04:37,755 --> 00:04:39,844 - Every floor was its own apartment. 90 00:04:39,888 --> 00:04:42,064 You couldn't go to another floor. 91 00:04:42,107 --> 00:04:45,546 - You need a key fob in order to operate the elevator, 92 00:04:45,589 --> 00:04:47,809 'cause once you get to the floor, the doors open up, 93 00:04:47,852 --> 00:04:49,419 and you're inside the apartment already. 94 00:04:51,595 --> 00:04:54,816 - The apartment is owned by 33-year-old Fahim Saleh, 95 00:04:54,859 --> 00:04:58,515 a young tech executive and programmer. 96 00:04:58,559 --> 00:05:00,952 - First, we noticed that there wasn't any forced entry. 97 00:05:00,996 --> 00:05:03,477 Somebody had to have a key fob, 98 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,915 or somebody followed Fahim into the building. 99 00:05:06,958 --> 00:05:11,006 - So it's not just a random, you know, type of crime. 100 00:05:11,049 --> 00:05:12,921 The victim is targeted. 101 00:05:12,964 --> 00:05:15,140 - The apartment wasn't ransacked. 102 00:05:15,184 --> 00:05:19,449 It didn't look like it was a robbery or a burglary. 103 00:05:21,843 --> 00:05:25,194 - Everything was well taken care of, well-maintained, 104 00:05:25,237 --> 00:05:29,329 and then you see the torso of Fahim Saleh on a tarp. 105 00:05:31,505 --> 00:05:34,638 - A torso with a missing head, missing arms, 106 00:05:34,682 --> 00:05:37,815 and missing legs below the knees. 107 00:05:39,817 --> 00:05:43,038 I've worked on thousands of cases, probably. 108 00:05:44,518 --> 00:05:47,390 It was very disturbing, even to me. 109 00:05:47,434 --> 00:05:49,740 And I've seen almost everything. 110 00:05:51,829 --> 00:05:53,614 - Right at where his feet would have been, 111 00:05:53,657 --> 00:05:56,921 there was several, like, demolition bags. 112 00:05:58,532 --> 00:06:00,447 And peeking inside one of the bags, 113 00:06:00,490 --> 00:06:02,362 I saw a body part in there. 114 00:06:03,841 --> 00:06:06,496 - Near the body, only a couple feet away, 115 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:09,369 we noticed a battery-operated 116 00:06:09,412 --> 00:06:13,982 cordless Sawzall with blood on the blade. 117 00:06:14,025 --> 00:06:16,158 And a couple of feet away from there, 118 00:06:16,201 --> 00:06:18,639 there was a scissor on a couch. 119 00:06:18,682 --> 00:06:20,684 It had some blood on that too. 120 00:06:23,470 --> 00:06:26,211 - And it seemed like someone had left in the middle 121 00:06:26,255 --> 00:06:28,692 of disassembling the body. 122 00:06:30,215 --> 00:06:32,435 - The first thought in my mind was 123 00:06:32,479 --> 00:06:35,177 how clean the crime scene was. 124 00:06:35,220 --> 00:06:37,005 Not a lot of blood. 125 00:06:37,048 --> 00:06:39,224 You would think that there would be blood splatter 126 00:06:39,268 --> 00:06:41,183 on the ceiling, blood everywhere, 127 00:06:41,226 --> 00:06:43,098 a real mess of a crime scene. 128 00:06:44,447 --> 00:06:46,318 In the kitchen area was all tarp 129 00:06:46,362 --> 00:06:48,843 with all cleaning supplies. 130 00:06:48,886 --> 00:06:50,540 And next to the cleaning supplies 131 00:06:50,584 --> 00:06:53,021 was a black plastic bag with three holes, one for the head 132 00:06:53,064 --> 00:06:55,719 and two for the arms, as if they were covering themselves 133 00:06:55,763 --> 00:06:58,853 with this black plastic bag while they were doing 134 00:06:58,896 --> 00:07:01,290 what they were doing to the body. 135 00:07:01,333 --> 00:07:02,465 - We said to ourselves, this guy 136 00:07:02,509 --> 00:07:04,032 is trying to cover his tracks. 137 00:07:04,075 --> 00:07:07,644 He's trying to clean up the crime scene. 138 00:07:07,688 --> 00:07:08,863 - This was very clean. 139 00:07:08,906 --> 00:07:12,257 This was very calculated, very planned out. 140 00:07:12,301 --> 00:07:15,478 This was something diabolical. 141 00:07:15,522 --> 00:07:19,917 It was like out of a "Dexter"-- season of "Dexter," you know. 142 00:07:21,615 --> 00:07:23,007 - After walking through the crime scene, 143 00:07:23,051 --> 00:07:24,879 detectives head down to the lobby 144 00:07:24,922 --> 00:07:27,403 to meet with the witness, Fahim's cousin, 145 00:07:27,447 --> 00:07:30,537 who is now being comforted by the victim's sister. 146 00:07:30,580 --> 00:07:31,886 - They were distraught. 147 00:07:31,929 --> 00:07:34,541 They were hysterical, you know, 148 00:07:34,584 --> 00:07:37,239 just like anybody else would be, 149 00:07:37,282 --> 00:07:41,069 a family member being killed in that way. 150 00:07:41,112 --> 00:07:44,202 - The cousin of the victim had come over to check on him 151 00:07:44,246 --> 00:07:46,727 because I don't believe they had heard from him in a day, 152 00:07:46,770 --> 00:07:48,903 and they were very close. 153 00:07:48,946 --> 00:07:51,035 - So she decided to go to the apartment 154 00:07:51,079 --> 00:07:52,472 which she had access to. 155 00:07:56,780 --> 00:08:00,262 She stated that she went upstairs... 156 00:08:00,305 --> 00:08:04,092 [elevator dings] 157 00:08:04,135 --> 00:08:06,442 And that she walked through the apartment 158 00:08:06,486 --> 00:08:09,619 and noticed a body on the ground. 159 00:08:13,231 --> 00:08:16,670 She immediately started screaming, 160 00:08:16,713 --> 00:08:19,542 and she called 911. 161 00:08:25,330 --> 00:08:28,290 - Born in Saudi Arabia to a Bangladeshi family 162 00:08:28,333 --> 00:08:31,467 and raised in upstate New York, Fahim eventually 163 00:08:31,511 --> 00:08:33,251 chose Manhattan as the home base 164 00:08:33,295 --> 00:08:36,298 for his worldwide tech ventures. 165 00:08:36,341 --> 00:08:40,955 - Fahim was a celebrated young entrepreneur 166 00:08:40,998 --> 00:08:44,872 who championed other young entrepreneurs 167 00:08:44,915 --> 00:08:49,790 to start their own businesses in the developing world. 168 00:08:49,833 --> 00:08:52,619 - Fahim, as much as he was a CEO, 169 00:08:52,662 --> 00:08:56,231 he was very much a tech startup guy, 170 00:08:56,274 --> 00:09:02,237 but not in a overly tech bro-y capitalistic way. 171 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,850 - I met Fahim Saleh, and we bonded together. 172 00:09:06,894 --> 00:09:11,376 He was always sort of trying something new. 173 00:09:11,420 --> 00:09:13,814 That was sort of refreshing. 174 00:09:13,857 --> 00:09:16,904 Fahim thought that, hey, you have all of these 175 00:09:16,947 --> 00:09:20,560 big businesses out in the West, tech businesses, 176 00:09:20,603 --> 00:09:24,999 can we create something in other places? 177 00:09:25,042 --> 00:09:27,741 For him, it was, I want to give back. 178 00:09:27,784 --> 00:09:29,743 And he actually put money where his mouth is. 179 00:09:31,092 --> 00:09:34,574 - I worked with Fahim in two ventures. 180 00:09:34,617 --> 00:09:36,967 I would call him my angel investor. 181 00:09:37,011 --> 00:09:40,667 Whenever I would face difficult situations, 182 00:09:40,710 --> 00:09:42,886 he would be my go-to guide. 183 00:09:42,930 --> 00:09:45,802 Whenever I needed him, I could get him in, like, 184 00:09:45,846 --> 00:09:48,239 literally five to ten minutes. 185 00:09:48,283 --> 00:09:53,680 I have always seen him motivating, confident, 186 00:09:53,723 --> 00:09:58,641 and his energetic smile, happy face. 187 00:09:58,685 --> 00:10:00,034 Fahim has always been that. 188 00:10:00,077 --> 00:10:04,081 - Fahim was, obviously, a New Yorker. 189 00:10:04,125 --> 00:10:08,782 If not by birth, then by his soul he was a New Yorker. 190 00:10:08,825 --> 00:10:11,436 He knew everyone. He knew everything. 191 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,309 That's what it felt like. 192 00:10:14,352 --> 00:10:16,746 [tense music] 193 00:10:16,790 --> 00:10:18,705 - At that time, what we decided to do 194 00:10:18,748 --> 00:10:23,710 was have patrol transport the sister and the cousin 195 00:10:23,753 --> 00:10:26,887 back to the 7th Precinct squad 196 00:10:26,930 --> 00:10:29,585 where they could be interviewed. 197 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:32,066 - While investigators speak with Fahim's family, 198 00:10:32,109 --> 00:10:34,546 Detective Hahn gains access to the building's 199 00:10:34,590 --> 00:10:36,200 security cameras. 200 00:10:36,244 --> 00:10:39,421 - So you had to work back to, well, where's the victim? 201 00:10:39,464 --> 00:10:42,554 When was the last time we had him enter the building? 202 00:10:42,598 --> 00:10:44,078 And that would be the previous date from the day 203 00:10:44,121 --> 00:10:46,646 that the body was discovered. 204 00:10:49,518 --> 00:10:50,867 - Poring over the footage, 205 00:10:50,911 --> 00:10:53,696 detectives notice something chilling. 206 00:10:53,740 --> 00:10:56,090 - We see this haunting figure of somebody 207 00:10:56,133 --> 00:10:57,700 that looks like Slenderman. 208 00:11:00,572 --> 00:11:05,403 Full suit, black mask, every aspect of his body is covered. 209 00:11:05,447 --> 00:11:08,668 Just hanging out in the lobby of his building. 210 00:11:10,408 --> 00:11:12,193 - The person looked like a ninja, the way 211 00:11:12,236 --> 00:11:15,370 he was dressed, all in black. 212 00:11:15,413 --> 00:11:19,983 I know it was during COVID, but even with COVID, 213 00:11:20,027 --> 00:11:24,422 he was dressed very different than most people. 214 00:11:24,466 --> 00:11:27,687 His face was covered with a shield. 215 00:11:27,730 --> 00:11:29,471 His head was covered. 216 00:11:29,514 --> 00:11:31,952 He had a beautiful suit on. 217 00:11:31,995 --> 00:11:34,781 He appeared to have gloves on also 218 00:11:34,824 --> 00:11:37,000 and some strange-looking boots. 219 00:11:39,742 --> 00:11:42,310 - And then we see our victim, Fahim Saleh, 220 00:11:42,353 --> 00:11:45,008 coming back from a morning run and enter the building. 221 00:11:46,923 --> 00:11:48,664 He goes into the elevator, and enters 222 00:11:48,708 --> 00:11:51,319 behind him is our suspect. 223 00:11:51,362 --> 00:11:58,282 ♪ 224 00:11:59,893 --> 00:12:02,330 And they take the elevator up. 225 00:12:02,373 --> 00:12:05,812 You see Fahim Saleh looking at the perpetrator. 226 00:12:05,855 --> 00:12:09,337 - As the elevator hit the 7th floor, 227 00:12:09,380 --> 00:12:11,905 the doors opened. 228 00:12:11,948 --> 00:12:14,690 Fahim starts to walk into his apartment, 229 00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:19,521 and then this perpetrator pulls something out of his jacket, 230 00:12:19,564 --> 00:12:21,218 which appears to be a Taser. 231 00:12:23,612 --> 00:12:27,094 You could see the light on Fahim's back light up, 232 00:12:27,137 --> 00:12:29,923 and you could see him immediately fall to the ground. 233 00:12:32,795 --> 00:12:34,579 And then the elevator door closes. 234 00:12:34,623 --> 00:12:41,456 ♪ 235 00:12:41,499 --> 00:12:42,849 - Coming up... 236 00:12:42,892 --> 00:12:44,459 - It looked like this was scripted. 237 00:12:44,502 --> 00:12:46,026 It looked professional. 238 00:12:46,069 --> 00:12:49,159 - We find that a Nest cam across the street 239 00:12:49,203 --> 00:12:52,641 was pointed directly at Fahim's apartment. 240 00:12:52,684 --> 00:12:56,210 - There was a shot in the video where he could see his profile. 241 00:12:56,253 --> 00:12:58,865 - I slide over a picture of the person 242 00:12:58,908 --> 00:13:01,258 who we believe is the perpetrator, 243 00:13:01,302 --> 00:13:03,870 and they both let out a gasp. 244 00:13:05,785 --> 00:13:08,875 [tense bassy music] 245 00:13:12,443 --> 00:13:15,316 [tense bassy music] 246 00:13:16,883 --> 00:13:21,191 [sirens wailing] 247 00:13:21,235 --> 00:13:25,239 - Detectives investigating the murder of 33-year-old tech CEO 248 00:13:25,282 --> 00:13:27,850 Fahim Saleh have recovered surveillance footage 249 00:13:27,894 --> 00:13:30,548 showing his final moments. 250 00:13:30,592 --> 00:13:32,986 [tense music] 251 00:13:33,029 --> 00:13:35,292 ♪ 252 00:13:35,336 --> 00:13:38,948 - That's where we started our investigation. 253 00:13:38,992 --> 00:13:41,037 We had at least a clothing description 254 00:13:41,081 --> 00:13:43,126 of this perpetrator. 255 00:13:43,170 --> 00:13:44,824 - The medical examiner confirms 256 00:13:44,867 --> 00:13:46,216 that after being tased, 257 00:13:46,260 --> 00:13:50,307 Fahim Saleh was stabbed to death with a knife. 258 00:13:50,351 --> 00:13:52,962 - We checked all over the place, 259 00:13:53,006 --> 00:13:55,486 but we couldn't find the knife that he used 260 00:13:55,530 --> 00:14:00,100 to stab Fahim, the Taser, or some other items 261 00:14:00,143 --> 00:14:02,102 like Fahim's cell phone. 262 00:14:02,145 --> 00:14:04,060 [indistinct radio chatter] 263 00:14:04,104 --> 00:14:05,496 - Detectives continue to comb through 264 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:08,325 the surveillance footage looking for any clues 265 00:14:08,369 --> 00:14:11,024 that might reveal the killer's identity. 266 00:14:12,634 --> 00:14:14,201 - I was talking to the super, and he says, 267 00:14:14,244 --> 00:14:15,985 yeah, we have video throughout the whole building. 268 00:14:16,029 --> 00:14:18,335 So that was the role I primarily took, 269 00:14:18,379 --> 00:14:19,902 getting the video up and running 270 00:14:19,946 --> 00:14:22,513 to see what we could find. 271 00:14:22,557 --> 00:14:24,646 - The more video we obtained, 272 00:14:24,689 --> 00:14:28,563 the more we learned about our suspect's movements. 273 00:14:31,435 --> 00:14:35,657 On the 13th in the morning, he enters the lobby 274 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:37,789 and stands in the corner. 275 00:14:37,833 --> 00:14:40,140 And you just barely see him. 276 00:14:41,576 --> 00:14:43,491 This person is hanging out in this small lobby 277 00:14:43,534 --> 00:14:48,191 for many hours, waiting for Fahim. 278 00:14:51,107 --> 00:14:53,501 - We're learning that this was a planned-out event, 279 00:14:53,544 --> 00:14:55,895 that this was not a spur of the moment thing. 280 00:14:57,940 --> 00:14:59,550 He didn't look nervous. 281 00:14:59,594 --> 00:15:03,293 It looked like he--this is something he's done before. 282 00:15:03,337 --> 00:15:05,382 And that's what also made us believe that this 283 00:15:05,426 --> 00:15:07,036 could have been a professional job. 284 00:15:09,343 --> 00:15:10,953 We don't know Fahim. 285 00:15:10,997 --> 00:15:12,999 We wanted to know from the family, 286 00:15:13,042 --> 00:15:14,957 who do you think-- who do you believe 287 00:15:15,001 --> 00:15:16,393 could have done this to him? 288 00:15:18,569 --> 00:15:20,702 - While Detective Hahn continues scouring 289 00:15:20,745 --> 00:15:23,531 surveillance footage, Detectives Tedisco and Stiller 290 00:15:23,574 --> 00:15:24,967 head back to the 7th Precinct 291 00:15:25,011 --> 00:15:27,970 to speak with Fahim's family. 292 00:15:28,014 --> 00:15:33,323 - While talking to the sister of Fahim Saleh and the cousin, 293 00:15:33,367 --> 00:15:36,718 we started getting more information about Fahim. 294 00:15:36,761 --> 00:15:39,808 - They told us they were puzzled because 295 00:15:39,851 --> 00:15:41,201 Fahim is such a great guy. 296 00:15:41,244 --> 00:15:43,420 Fahim was loved by everybody. 297 00:15:46,467 --> 00:15:50,384 - Talking to the family, he was a very smart guy. 298 00:15:50,427 --> 00:15:53,039 He had a couple of tech companies. 299 00:15:53,082 --> 00:15:56,216 He wasn't given these opportunities. 300 00:15:56,259 --> 00:15:58,087 He made the opportunities himself. 301 00:15:58,131 --> 00:16:01,482 He was self-made. 302 00:16:01,525 --> 00:16:07,183 - He knew what he was good at, which was taking an idea 303 00:16:07,227 --> 00:16:10,186 and bringing it to life. 304 00:16:10,230 --> 00:16:13,276 I think that's what gave Fahim a lot of joy, 305 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,497 just the act of creation. 306 00:16:18,673 --> 00:16:21,719 - His first real company was Prank Dial, 307 00:16:21,763 --> 00:16:25,114 which was a service that you could use to prank 308 00:16:25,158 --> 00:16:26,898 phone call your friends. 309 00:16:26,942 --> 00:16:28,639 - Was a big success. 310 00:16:28,683 --> 00:16:31,729 And literally, that product gives a sense of what 311 00:16:31,773 --> 00:16:33,470 kind of person Fahim is. 312 00:16:33,514 --> 00:16:37,779 Like, he's funny, he's energetic, he's passionate. 313 00:16:37,822 --> 00:16:42,653 Fahim had a great do it, just do it attitude. 314 00:16:42,697 --> 00:16:44,960 - When we started the Pathao ride-sharing product, 315 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:48,703 similar to Uber, there was nothing like it in Bangladesh. 316 00:16:50,357 --> 00:16:52,837 After Pathao was getting successful, 317 00:16:52,881 --> 00:16:56,450 Fahim went to Nigeria, and he started a very similar business 318 00:16:56,493 --> 00:16:59,235 called Gokada, ride-sharing company. 319 00:16:59,279 --> 00:17:02,064 - He saw that ride sharing could be 320 00:17:02,108 --> 00:17:04,240 a good opportunity in Nigeria. 321 00:17:05,981 --> 00:17:11,943 For Fahim, success was making impacts in people's lives. 322 00:17:11,987 --> 00:17:13,684 - Hey, guys. 323 00:17:13,728 --> 00:17:17,036 If you don't already know me, I'm Fahim Saleh, 324 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:19,386 the CEO of Gokada. 325 00:17:19,429 --> 00:17:21,953 This is not my country. 326 00:17:21,997 --> 00:17:25,261 It's a country that I feel has amazing potential 327 00:17:25,305 --> 00:17:28,395 and has amazing people. 328 00:17:28,438 --> 00:17:30,266 - Despite his passion for Gokada, 329 00:17:30,310 --> 00:17:32,268 in the months before his death, 330 00:17:32,312 --> 00:17:34,488 Fahim Saleh had run into problems. 331 00:17:36,229 --> 00:17:39,188 - We were told he was having some trouble 332 00:17:39,232 --> 00:17:42,148 with the government in Nigeria 333 00:17:42,191 --> 00:17:45,455 as far as with his company. 334 00:17:45,499 --> 00:17:48,110 - They were not particularly pleased with the fact that 335 00:17:48,154 --> 00:17:52,593 he was encroaching on their taxi services with his app, 336 00:17:52,636 --> 00:17:56,597 that there was some friction there between this American 337 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,730 businessman coming in with this idea to do 338 00:17:59,774 --> 00:18:01,863 a ride-sharing app and sort of encroaching 339 00:18:01,906 --> 00:18:04,431 on a government-run entity. 340 00:18:04,474 --> 00:18:07,825 - You know, we had information that the business 341 00:18:07,869 --> 00:18:11,046 he was involved in had some type of corruption 342 00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:12,613 that he was trying to root out. 343 00:18:12,656 --> 00:18:15,877 So was this a targeted assassination attempt on him 344 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,706 because he was trying to clean up 345 00:18:18,749 --> 00:18:20,664 something that he was involved in 346 00:18:20,708 --> 00:18:22,884 and somebody didn't want that? 347 00:18:22,927 --> 00:18:26,801 - You know, you learn about the problems in Nigeria, 348 00:18:26,844 --> 00:18:29,020 and rumors start flying-- 349 00:18:29,064 --> 00:18:31,327 this could be a Nigerian hit. 350 00:18:33,199 --> 00:18:36,289 And we were concerned about that. 351 00:18:36,332 --> 00:18:38,334 These guys are probably good at what they do. 352 00:18:38,378 --> 00:18:41,642 He's probably already gone at JFK Airport. 353 00:18:43,209 --> 00:18:46,473 So a notification was made to all the airports, 354 00:18:46,516 --> 00:18:50,085 and we got a photo of the perpetrator 355 00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:53,262 out there with the clothing description. 356 00:18:53,306 --> 00:18:55,482 We had to get something out there. 357 00:18:57,048 --> 00:18:59,050 - While a team works the Nigerian lead, 358 00:18:59,094 --> 00:19:00,617 back at the crime scene, 359 00:19:00,661 --> 00:19:02,315 detectives continue to scrutinize 360 00:19:02,358 --> 00:19:03,446 the surveillance footage. 361 00:19:03,490 --> 00:19:06,623 And their efforts pay off. 362 00:19:06,667 --> 00:19:09,800 - Some of the other video we obtained, 363 00:19:09,844 --> 00:19:14,718 you could see the suspect across the street 364 00:19:14,762 --> 00:19:17,504 from the building. 365 00:19:17,547 --> 00:19:19,636 He goes into this other building 366 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,509 directly across from 265 East Houston Street. 367 00:19:24,337 --> 00:19:26,295 - We spoke to the super over there, 368 00:19:26,339 --> 00:19:28,384 and he had mentioned that there were some inquiries 369 00:19:28,428 --> 00:19:30,995 about a vacant apartment. 370 00:19:31,039 --> 00:19:33,302 - The most recent inquiry came from a man 371 00:19:33,346 --> 00:19:36,653 just ten days before Fahim's murder. 372 00:19:36,697 --> 00:19:39,003 - So because it's COVID, real estate agents 373 00:19:39,047 --> 00:19:42,529 don't have face-to-face interactions with people 374 00:19:42,572 --> 00:19:43,834 looking for apartments. 375 00:19:43,878 --> 00:19:47,751 So they have a key code on a lock. 376 00:19:47,795 --> 00:19:49,492 There's a key inside, and they will look 377 00:19:49,536 --> 00:19:50,885 at the apartment themselves. 378 00:19:52,930 --> 00:19:55,281 We find that a Nest cam was set up 379 00:19:55,324 --> 00:20:01,678 inside that apartment pointed directly at Fahim's apartment. 380 00:20:01,722 --> 00:20:05,334 With a Nest cam, you can set it up and then just 381 00:20:05,378 --> 00:20:06,944 remotely watch it on your phone. 382 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:12,863 - He was able to see and track the movements of Fahim 383 00:20:12,907 --> 00:20:15,257 and know exactly when he leaves for work 384 00:20:15,301 --> 00:20:16,998 or when he goes on his morning runs. 385 00:20:17,041 --> 00:20:20,567 And you could actually see into the apartment also. 386 00:20:20,610 --> 00:20:22,264 This was out of a movie. 387 00:20:22,308 --> 00:20:23,657 It looked like this was scripted. 388 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:26,964 It looked like a professional hit. 389 00:20:27,008 --> 00:20:28,488 - We weren't sure what was going on. 390 00:20:28,531 --> 00:20:30,272 This is not your usual homicide. 391 00:20:33,971 --> 00:20:36,844 [tense bassy music] 392 00:20:40,587 --> 00:20:43,459 [tense bassy music] 393 00:20:44,895 --> 00:20:47,158 [sirens wailing] 394 00:20:47,202 --> 00:20:50,423 - Hours after Fahim Saleh was found murdered, 395 00:20:50,466 --> 00:20:51,989 surveillance footage leads detectives 396 00:20:52,033 --> 00:20:54,078 to a vacant apartment across the street 397 00:20:54,122 --> 00:20:56,603 where they find startling new evidence. 398 00:20:56,646 --> 00:20:59,780 - So we retrieved a Nest cam. 399 00:20:59,823 --> 00:21:01,956 And we asked the building owner, 400 00:21:01,999 --> 00:21:03,523 would you send us the information 401 00:21:03,566 --> 00:21:06,830 for the real estate agent to try and get a name. 402 00:21:06,874 --> 00:21:09,703 This guy really tried to think of everything. 403 00:21:09,746 --> 00:21:13,010 But he's dealing with the NYPD. 404 00:21:13,054 --> 00:21:14,185 We don't skip anything. 405 00:21:14,229 --> 00:21:15,796 [tense music] 406 00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:17,798 - As detectives work into the night, 407 00:21:17,841 --> 00:21:20,975 the case quickly hits the evening news. 408 00:21:21,018 --> 00:21:23,630 - Police confirming it was 33-year-old 409 00:21:23,673 --> 00:21:25,762 Fahim Saleh who was brutally murdered 410 00:21:25,806 --> 00:21:29,157 at his multi-million-dollar Lower East Side condo. 411 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,420 Sources say Saleh's head and limbs 412 00:21:31,464 --> 00:21:35,772 were placed in plastic bags near an electric saw. 413 00:21:35,816 --> 00:21:40,124 - The media coverage started right away around the world. 414 00:21:40,168 --> 00:21:42,866 The media ran with it. 415 00:21:46,087 --> 00:21:48,655 - I was locked down in Bangladesh. 416 00:21:48,698 --> 00:21:52,659 It was a very confusing and scary time, 417 00:21:52,702 --> 00:21:56,315 brutally murdered in the middle of COVID. 418 00:21:56,358 --> 00:22:00,884 There is no rule book for when something like this happens. 419 00:22:03,060 --> 00:22:07,848 - I got the news, and initially I didn't actually believe it. 420 00:22:09,502 --> 00:22:14,942 It's hard to convey and even put words about those feelings, 421 00:22:14,985 --> 00:22:15,986 to be honest. 422 00:22:16,030 --> 00:22:19,773 For me, Fahim was an individual 423 00:22:19,816 --> 00:22:22,689 who literally changed my life. 424 00:22:22,732 --> 00:22:24,212 Obviously, it was an unnatural death, 425 00:22:24,255 --> 00:22:27,171 so who could have done it? 426 00:22:27,215 --> 00:22:30,784 The different theories were going through my head as well. 427 00:22:30,827 --> 00:22:35,354 I was paranoid, so I felt maybe he has enemies in Nigeria. 428 00:22:35,397 --> 00:22:37,878 His business was facing issues with government. 429 00:22:37,921 --> 00:22:40,184 - The first thing that came into my mind 430 00:22:40,228 --> 00:22:47,061 was that maybe he got in with some wrong people, right? 431 00:22:47,104 --> 00:22:49,368 I knew that he was working in Nigeria, 432 00:22:49,411 --> 00:22:52,893 and the first thought was that, would-- 433 00:22:52,936 --> 00:22:54,764 would that-- it has something to do 434 00:22:54,808 --> 00:22:56,810 with those problems. 435 00:22:56,853 --> 00:23:00,117 How is a ride-sharing related with a professional hit man? 436 00:23:00,161 --> 00:23:03,033 Maybe it is something else, right? 437 00:23:03,077 --> 00:23:05,122 Maybe it's something that we don't know. 438 00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:09,562 - Detectives continue probing Fahim's connections 439 00:23:09,605 --> 00:23:10,824 in Nigeria, 440 00:23:10,867 --> 00:23:12,782 but it's a lead closer to home 441 00:23:12,826 --> 00:23:14,697 on the building surveillance footage 442 00:23:14,741 --> 00:23:16,220 that shows the most promise. 443 00:23:18,135 --> 00:23:21,791 - One of the cameras, it's like a eye-level camera, 444 00:23:21,835 --> 00:23:26,187 which just faces out into East Houston Street. 445 00:23:26,230 --> 00:23:28,276 So if somebody is walking by, you'll just 446 00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:30,713 get a quick glimpse of them. 447 00:23:30,757 --> 00:23:34,848 Somebody notices that there was a person that 448 00:23:34,891 --> 00:23:37,764 matched the clothing description that we found 449 00:23:37,807 --> 00:23:39,635 in the elevator video. 450 00:23:42,159 --> 00:23:46,512 At this point, he's not wearing the full face mask. 451 00:23:46,555 --> 00:23:50,472 We determined that it's the same person 452 00:23:50,516 --> 00:23:51,995 that was in the elevator. 453 00:23:54,171 --> 00:23:57,479 We took the video from the exterior camera 454 00:23:57,523 --> 00:24:00,177 and made a still photo of it. 455 00:24:02,223 --> 00:24:03,616 - At that point, you could say, okay, 456 00:24:03,659 --> 00:24:05,095 this is a male Black. 457 00:24:05,139 --> 00:24:06,793 We have a little bit more information to go on. 458 00:24:06,836 --> 00:24:08,272 [indistinct radio chatter] 459 00:24:08,316 --> 00:24:10,840 - We still had a mask on, sunglasses to cover up 460 00:24:10,884 --> 00:24:14,496 his eyes, and we weren't able to use any kind 461 00:24:14,540 --> 00:24:17,847 of a facial identification. 462 00:24:17,891 --> 00:24:20,763 - During COVID times, it was very difficult. 463 00:24:20,807 --> 00:24:23,984 It's not easy when somebody is wearing a mask to get 464 00:24:24,027 --> 00:24:26,203 a 100% identification on somebody. 465 00:24:29,032 --> 00:24:31,339 - And we're still interviewing the sister and the cousin 466 00:24:31,382 --> 00:24:34,516 in the 7th squad that night, 467 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,694 so I decided to see if they recognized this person. 468 00:24:40,261 --> 00:24:45,962 And I slide over a side profile of a picture of the person 469 00:24:46,006 --> 00:24:48,704 who we believe is the perpetrator... 470 00:24:50,750 --> 00:24:54,797 And they let out a gasp, like...[gasps] 471 00:24:54,841 --> 00:24:57,017 You know, that's Tyrese. 472 00:24:59,802 --> 00:25:03,893 We get his full name, Tyrese Haspil. 473 00:25:03,937 --> 00:25:08,332 We learned that he was an ex-employee of Fahim Saleh. 474 00:25:08,376 --> 00:25:09,725 He was his assistant. 475 00:25:11,858 --> 00:25:14,643 - My first response was to just throw it in Google, 476 00:25:14,687 --> 00:25:17,080 throw his name in there just to see what we get. 477 00:25:17,124 --> 00:25:18,473 And one of the things that I found 478 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:21,215 was a YouTube video of Tyrese Haspil 479 00:25:21,258 --> 00:25:23,391 doing some sort of fitness activity. 480 00:25:24,305 --> 00:25:26,525 And there was a shot in the YouTube video 481 00:25:26,568 --> 00:25:28,875 where he turned, and you could see his profile. 482 00:25:32,269 --> 00:25:33,967 - He calls me over. 483 00:25:34,010 --> 00:25:39,233 We kind of enlarged it and compared it to the side profile 484 00:25:39,276 --> 00:25:44,151 we had from the video from 265 East Houston Street, 485 00:25:44,194 --> 00:25:47,720 and Detective Stiller immediately said, 486 00:25:47,763 --> 00:25:49,286 that's the same ear. 487 00:25:51,767 --> 00:25:52,942 And I was a little stunned. 488 00:25:52,986 --> 00:25:55,075 I was still a little taken aback. 489 00:25:55,118 --> 00:25:58,818 I looked at it myself and I said, you're right. 490 00:26:00,646 --> 00:26:03,213 But we can't go just by an ear. 491 00:26:03,257 --> 00:26:06,695 So then we started looking into his background. 492 00:26:06,739 --> 00:26:09,045 What can we find out about Tyrese Haspil? 493 00:26:11,874 --> 00:26:14,964 [tense bassy music] 494 00:26:18,794 --> 00:26:21,362 [tense bassy music] 495 00:26:22,885 --> 00:26:24,757 [sirens wailing] 496 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,848 - Detectives investigating the murder of tech CEO Fahim Saleh 497 00:26:28,891 --> 00:26:31,154 have a new suspect in their sights, 498 00:26:31,198 --> 00:26:35,506 Fahim's former assistant, 21-year-old Tyrese Haspil, 499 00:26:35,550 --> 00:26:38,422 so they begin digging into his background. 500 00:26:38,466 --> 00:26:40,599 [tense music] 501 00:26:40,642 --> 00:26:46,387 - Tyrese went to a public high school in Long Island. 502 00:26:46,430 --> 00:26:52,436 And he was, by all accounts, a very bright young person. 503 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,005 - Tyrese was also a very entrepreneurial, 504 00:26:56,049 --> 00:26:58,573 ambitious young man. 505 00:26:58,617 --> 00:27:02,098 He also had some business ventures 506 00:27:02,142 --> 00:27:04,884 that he started when he was young. 507 00:27:04,927 --> 00:27:08,539 He was someone who wanted to make it in this town. 508 00:27:08,583 --> 00:27:12,848 - In May of 2018, Tyrese got his first big break when Fahim 509 00:27:12,892 --> 00:27:14,981 hired him to be his assistant. 510 00:27:15,024 --> 00:27:17,984 - From the information we got from the family, 511 00:27:18,027 --> 00:27:21,465 Tyrese would do tasks for him, run errands. 512 00:27:21,509 --> 00:27:25,034 He had access to his financial accounts 513 00:27:25,078 --> 00:27:28,429 so he could purchase items for Fahim. 514 00:27:28,472 --> 00:27:32,955 - I think that Fahim saw Tyrese as his protégé, 515 00:27:32,999 --> 00:27:35,305 so he continued to entrust him with more 516 00:27:35,349 --> 00:27:38,657 and more responsibility as time went on. 517 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:44,314 - Tyrese was responsible for official documents for me 518 00:27:44,358 --> 00:27:46,360 early 2019. 519 00:27:46,403 --> 00:27:51,234 By then I had found him an individual who doesn't 520 00:27:51,278 --> 00:27:53,846 take his work very seriously. 521 00:27:53,889 --> 00:27:55,674 - As detectives are discovering more 522 00:27:55,717 --> 00:27:58,241 about Fahim and Tyrese's working relationship, 523 00:27:58,285 --> 00:28:00,983 they learn of a troubling detail. 524 00:28:01,027 --> 00:28:04,857 - Tyrese had been stealing money for quite some time. 525 00:28:07,250 --> 00:28:12,778 Tyrese was making fake PayPal accounts for over a year that 526 00:28:12,821 --> 00:28:16,564 were mimicking vendors to make it seem like he was paying 527 00:28:16,607 --> 00:28:19,567 those people that they owed money to, but actually then 528 00:28:19,610 --> 00:28:22,309 keeping the money for himself. 529 00:28:22,352 --> 00:28:27,793 - Fahim noticed some accounts that were named almost 530 00:28:27,836 --> 00:28:30,578 identical to his business accounts, 531 00:28:30,621 --> 00:28:35,278 but a couple of letters were changed. 532 00:28:35,322 --> 00:28:40,327 - Fahim learned the amount was $95,000. 533 00:28:42,677 --> 00:28:46,376 - When Fahim found out about Tyrese stealing from him, 534 00:28:46,420 --> 00:28:48,161 Fahim fired Tyrese. 535 00:28:50,380 --> 00:28:52,034 - He could have easily went to the police. 536 00:28:52,078 --> 00:28:54,558 He could have easily had Haspil arrested. 537 00:28:54,602 --> 00:28:56,473 - From what I heard, his reasoning was, 538 00:28:56,517 --> 00:28:59,128 you know, like, Tyrese is a young individual. 539 00:28:59,172 --> 00:29:01,783 If he reports it to police, 540 00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:06,788 then his life will be ruined. 541 00:29:06,832 --> 00:29:10,313 - Instead, Fahim made his lawyer draw up a payment plan. 542 00:29:10,357 --> 00:29:14,883 But Tyrese never paid Fahim back. 543 00:29:14,927 --> 00:29:17,799 - That gave us our motive, so an I-Card 544 00:29:17,843 --> 00:29:20,149 was issued for Tyrese Haspil. 545 00:29:21,542 --> 00:29:24,327 An I-Card is an investigation card, 546 00:29:24,371 --> 00:29:27,809 somebody that we want to talk to. 547 00:29:27,853 --> 00:29:29,811 It's not an arrest warrant, 548 00:29:29,855 --> 00:29:31,987 but we wanted to speak to him 549 00:29:32,031 --> 00:29:34,511 about the homicide of Fahim Saleh. 550 00:29:34,555 --> 00:29:36,513 [sirens wailing] 551 00:29:36,557 --> 00:29:40,126 - So myself and two detectives from my unit 552 00:29:40,169 --> 00:29:43,216 responded to Tyrese's address, 553 00:29:43,259 --> 00:29:45,871 but Tyrese wasn't there. 554 00:29:49,526 --> 00:29:51,354 - The next morning, detectives go back 555 00:29:51,398 --> 00:29:53,748 through all the evidence they've collected so far 556 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:56,229 searching for a smoking gun. 557 00:29:56,272 --> 00:29:58,927 - We're watching the video again, 558 00:29:58,971 --> 00:30:02,017 and we see the perpetrator 559 00:30:02,061 --> 00:30:05,020 vacuuming the elevator, 560 00:30:05,064 --> 00:30:07,501 which was very strange. 561 00:30:07,544 --> 00:30:09,198 What is he vacuuming? 562 00:30:09,242 --> 00:30:12,680 - I'd never had any experience with a Taser at that point, 563 00:30:12,723 --> 00:30:14,856 but the supervisors see the video too. 564 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:18,555 They're like, yeah, that's the AFID tabs. 565 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:20,775 When you shoot a Taser, it shoots out 566 00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:25,388 numerous little almost like hole-punch size, even smaller, 567 00:30:25,432 --> 00:30:27,477 pieces of paper, colorful pieces of paper, 568 00:30:27,521 --> 00:30:30,567 anti-felony identification disks. 569 00:30:30,611 --> 00:30:34,876 And on each one is microprinted the serial number 570 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,575 for that Taser. 571 00:30:38,619 --> 00:30:40,839 The suspect, he had some kind of awareness 572 00:30:40,882 --> 00:30:45,017 that this occurred, and that he knows that he's 573 00:30:45,060 --> 00:30:46,888 cleaning up evidence. 574 00:30:46,932 --> 00:30:50,196 - If detectives can recover one of these disks, 575 00:30:50,239 --> 00:30:52,589 it will show where the Taser was purchased, 576 00:30:52,633 --> 00:30:55,636 and more importantly, could reveal who bought it. 577 00:30:58,291 --> 00:31:00,380 - We shut the elevator down in the building, 578 00:31:00,423 --> 00:31:04,775 and emergency service unit guys went into the shaft. 579 00:31:04,819 --> 00:31:08,518 And they started checking the shaft up and down 580 00:31:08,562 --> 00:31:10,433 from the basement all the way up 581 00:31:10,477 --> 00:31:13,088 to see if maybe one of these tabs had fallen. 582 00:31:14,481 --> 00:31:18,877 And we wound up back in Fahim's apartment. 583 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,662 And while we were there, we looked down on the floor 584 00:31:21,705 --> 00:31:23,794 and found one sitting in there, like, 585 00:31:23,838 --> 00:31:25,231 the corner by the molding. 586 00:31:27,407 --> 00:31:29,322 - This is another piece of the puzzle, 587 00:31:29,365 --> 00:31:31,150 and it just gets even weirder. 588 00:31:34,980 --> 00:31:38,070 [tense bassy music] 589 00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:44,467 [tense bassy music] 590 00:31:46,034 --> 00:31:50,386 [sirens wailing] 591 00:31:50,430 --> 00:31:52,867 - After 24 hours of nonstop police work, 592 00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:55,870 detectives investigating the murder of Fahim Saleh 593 00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:58,612 have a piece of evidence that could tie their prime suspect 594 00:31:58,655 --> 00:32:00,135 to his death. 595 00:32:00,179 --> 00:32:05,140 - We were able to find one microscopic little confetti 596 00:32:05,184 --> 00:32:06,750 from the Taser. 597 00:32:06,794 --> 00:32:08,622 [tense music] 598 00:32:08,665 --> 00:32:11,233 - We were able to photograph it and blow it up a bit 599 00:32:11,277 --> 00:32:13,061 and get the serial number off of it. 600 00:32:16,456 --> 00:32:20,373 - We contacted Axon, the company who manufactures it. 601 00:32:22,201 --> 00:32:24,290 - Once the manufacturer had done their 602 00:32:24,333 --> 00:32:26,553 check on the serial number, they came back to us 603 00:32:26,596 --> 00:32:30,905 and told us that that Taser and that cartridge 604 00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:32,776 was purchased by Tyrese Haspil. 605 00:32:34,474 --> 00:32:36,824 - We learned that this was a delivery that was made 606 00:32:36,867 --> 00:32:38,913 a month prior, in June, 607 00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:43,309 to Tyrese Haspil's home address in Brooklyn, 608 00:32:43,352 --> 00:32:46,747 which gave us the smoking gun. 609 00:32:48,096 --> 00:32:49,532 This is it. 610 00:32:49,576 --> 00:32:50,794 This is him. 611 00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:56,757 - The Taser tab was the nail in the coffin, so to speak. 612 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:03,590 ♪ 613 00:33:03,633 --> 00:33:06,810 - So we subpoenaed Tyrese's phone records. 614 00:33:06,854 --> 00:33:11,728 It would give us access to where his whereabouts are. 615 00:33:11,772 --> 00:33:15,341 And once we have his cell site movements, 616 00:33:15,384 --> 00:33:19,693 we discovered something which was very strange. 617 00:33:19,736 --> 00:33:22,696 The day after he committed the crime, 618 00:33:22,739 --> 00:33:25,655 he takes an Uber to Jersey City. 619 00:33:27,918 --> 00:33:31,052 We send detectives over to Jersey City. 620 00:33:31,096 --> 00:33:35,578 We were able to obtain video from a building which showed 621 00:33:35,622 --> 00:33:39,626 him get out of an Uber and walk toward the water 622 00:33:39,669 --> 00:33:41,758 on the Jersey side of the Hudson. 623 00:33:43,325 --> 00:33:46,633 It appeared that he dropped something, which appeared 624 00:33:46,676 --> 00:33:50,289 to be a bag, in the water. 625 00:33:50,332 --> 00:33:52,813 - We believed that he might have 626 00:33:52,856 --> 00:33:56,730 taken evidence and disposed of it in the river. 627 00:33:56,773 --> 00:34:01,996 So we had had our harbor team with scuba divers go out there 628 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,565 and do a search for evidence. 629 00:34:05,608 --> 00:34:07,741 Unfortunately, we weren't able to recover anything. 630 00:34:07,784 --> 00:34:11,005 [sirens wailing] 631 00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:13,834 Then we were contacted by a real estate agent where 632 00:34:13,877 --> 00:34:16,663 the Nest camera was discovered, and she 633 00:34:16,706 --> 00:34:20,319 had stated that Tyrese Haspil had contacted her 634 00:34:20,362 --> 00:34:23,365 and requested to view the apartment. 635 00:34:23,409 --> 00:34:26,020 This is one more really good piece of evidence. 636 00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:29,371 - Detectives also track Fahim's credit cards, 637 00:34:29,415 --> 00:34:32,505 which remain active even after his death. 638 00:34:32,548 --> 00:34:36,291 - We got some credit card information that Tyrese, 639 00:34:36,335 --> 00:34:38,337 he's using Fahim Saleh's credit card 640 00:34:38,380 --> 00:34:40,817 to buy balloons for his girlfriend 641 00:34:40,861 --> 00:34:43,777 and rent an Airbnb at that time 642 00:34:43,820 --> 00:34:46,475 on Crosby Street in the Soho area 643 00:34:46,519 --> 00:34:48,956 of Manhattan for $1,000 a night 644 00:34:48,999 --> 00:34:50,958 so he could celebrate her birthday. 645 00:34:54,831 --> 00:34:58,444 So we had surveillance on Crosby Street. 646 00:34:58,487 --> 00:35:00,272 - Tyrese and his girlfriend, 647 00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:02,622 they seemed to just be, like, strolling around arm in arm, 648 00:35:02,665 --> 00:35:05,973 walking around Crosby Street and the area 649 00:35:06,016 --> 00:35:09,585 with gold balloons that said 22. 650 00:35:09,629 --> 00:35:13,067 Just, like, having a great time together. 651 00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:15,504 - It was two to three days where you were getting 652 00:35:15,548 --> 00:35:17,158 all of this information together, 653 00:35:17,202 --> 00:35:21,815 and that got us to the point where everyone said, 654 00:35:21,858 --> 00:35:24,296 now we're at the time to make an arrest. 655 00:35:24,339 --> 00:35:31,259 ♪ 656 00:35:31,303 --> 00:35:32,739 - I'm in my office. 657 00:35:32,782 --> 00:35:36,786 I get a call from the Violent Felonies squad. 658 00:35:36,830 --> 00:35:39,833 They were in front of 172 Crosby Street. 659 00:35:43,315 --> 00:35:46,535 And he was taken into custody, 660 00:35:46,579 --> 00:35:48,320 and his girlfriend was transported also 661 00:35:48,363 --> 00:35:50,409 to the 7th Precinct detective squad. 662 00:35:53,499 --> 00:35:55,762 We conduct all the arrest processing, 663 00:35:55,805 --> 00:35:59,069 and we remove his clothes for evidence. 664 00:35:59,113 --> 00:36:04,379 He's given a Tyvek suit, and he's ready to be transported 665 00:36:04,423 --> 00:36:05,380 to central booking. 666 00:36:05,424 --> 00:36:08,253 [indistinct chatter] 667 00:36:08,296 --> 00:36:12,779 As we're walking toward the car, all the media is outside 668 00:36:12,822 --> 00:36:14,563 asking him, why did you do it? 669 00:36:14,607 --> 00:36:15,869 Why do you have to chop him up? 670 00:36:17,479 --> 00:36:18,828 - He kept his head down. 671 00:36:18,872 --> 00:36:21,222 And he was very quiet, very poised. 672 00:36:21,266 --> 00:36:23,529 Didn't seem nervous. 673 00:36:23,572 --> 00:36:28,142 - In the end, he's a monster, a greedy monster. 674 00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:30,797 - The more information we get, the more 675 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,582 we got a picture of Tyrese. 676 00:36:33,626 --> 00:36:35,323 And it was very creepy. 677 00:36:38,065 --> 00:36:40,981 [tense bassy music] 678 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,553 [tense bassy music] 679 00:36:48,858 --> 00:36:51,644 [sirens wailing] 680 00:36:51,687 --> 00:36:54,212 [tense music] 681 00:36:54,255 --> 00:36:56,997 - Police have just arrested Tyrese Haspil 682 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,521 and charged him with the murder of his former boss, 683 00:36:59,565 --> 00:37:00,914 Fahim Saleh. 684 00:37:02,872 --> 00:37:05,266 - He requested an attorney. 685 00:37:05,310 --> 00:37:07,399 I can't ask him anything else. 686 00:37:08,965 --> 00:37:12,708 - So detectives turn their attention to his girlfriend. 687 00:37:12,752 --> 00:37:15,624 - Myself and Detective Zeppeli from Homicide 688 00:37:15,668 --> 00:37:17,713 conducted an interview with her. 689 00:37:17,757 --> 00:37:23,502 She believed that he was still employed by Fahim. 690 00:37:23,545 --> 00:37:27,201 He would get up every day and pretend to go to work. 691 00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:31,771 She just thought he made really good money. 692 00:37:31,814 --> 00:37:34,426 - Do I think she suspected anything? 693 00:37:34,469 --> 00:37:36,079 I can't say that. 694 00:37:36,123 --> 00:37:41,911 I think that it is unusual for a 21-year-old man to have 695 00:37:41,955 --> 00:37:44,305 so much money to spend on you. 696 00:37:44,349 --> 00:37:49,136 I think that that should have maybe raised some red flags. 697 00:37:49,179 --> 00:37:51,921 - Tyrese is held in custody, but his girlfriend 698 00:37:51,965 --> 00:37:54,184 is released without charge. 699 00:37:54,228 --> 00:37:58,754 Meanwhile, word of the arrest reaches Fahim's colleagues. 700 00:37:58,798 --> 00:38:00,321 - It was upsetting 701 00:38:00,365 --> 00:38:03,411 the way he made the stealings and everything. 702 00:38:03,455 --> 00:38:06,762 Why was he not jailed by that time? 703 00:38:06,806 --> 00:38:09,939 But after a while, it kind of 704 00:38:09,983 --> 00:38:13,247 made sense to me because Fahim was a kind individual. 705 00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:15,597 And for a kind individual, it is always possible 706 00:38:15,641 --> 00:38:17,904 to show kindness to wrong people. 707 00:38:19,645 --> 00:38:24,040 - Where you have embezzlement, where you have someone trying 708 00:38:24,084 --> 00:38:28,131 to cover their tracks and commits a callous murder, 709 00:38:28,175 --> 00:38:30,438 you're always going to think about the possibility 710 00:38:30,482 --> 00:38:32,135 of psychopathy. 711 00:38:32,179 --> 00:38:34,964 And the thing that's characteristic with psychopath 712 00:38:35,008 --> 00:38:39,795 is they're unempathic, lacking in remorse. 713 00:38:39,839 --> 00:38:44,060 They tend to be highly exploitative or parasitic, 714 00:38:44,104 --> 00:38:47,281 and they tend to view people that they're interacting with 715 00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:51,590 as a tool to achieve whatever they're going after. 716 00:38:53,635 --> 00:38:55,811 - Even though we have him in custody, 717 00:38:55,855 --> 00:38:58,814 we still conducted more investigation 718 00:38:58,858 --> 00:39:01,904 to gather as much as we could. 719 00:39:01,948 --> 00:39:06,779 And it was learned that Tyrese didn't steal $100,000. 720 00:39:06,822 --> 00:39:09,738 He stole about $400,000 from him 721 00:39:09,782 --> 00:39:12,698 that Fahim wasn't aware of. 722 00:39:14,264 --> 00:39:19,748 And we found that he Googled a lot of disturbing stuff 723 00:39:19,792 --> 00:39:23,186 like how to get away with murder, 724 00:39:23,230 --> 00:39:26,886 how to talk to detectives, how to dismember a body. 725 00:39:29,062 --> 00:39:34,502 - Tyrese had already started planning to kill Fahim 726 00:39:34,546 --> 00:39:38,288 even before he was fired. 727 00:39:38,332 --> 00:39:41,727 He seemed to have been plotting this for over a year. 728 00:39:43,729 --> 00:39:46,558 - Envy here was a big factor. 729 00:39:46,601 --> 00:39:49,561 In any intimate type of theft 730 00:39:49,604 --> 00:39:51,476 from somebody that you know, 731 00:39:51,519 --> 00:39:55,044 they might have the thought, why him and not me? 732 00:39:55,088 --> 00:39:59,222 Why does his person have success and not me? 733 00:39:59,266 --> 00:40:01,703 - I truly believe he thought once he disposed 734 00:40:01,747 --> 00:40:04,924 of the body, that was it. 735 00:40:04,967 --> 00:40:07,405 Nobody was going to care about Fahim. 736 00:40:07,448 --> 00:40:08,841 He was ultimately wrong. 737 00:40:12,018 --> 00:40:15,717 - In October of 2020, Tyrese pleads not guilty 738 00:40:15,761 --> 00:40:17,066 to first-degree murder. 739 00:40:18,894 --> 00:40:20,548 But due to COVID-related delays, 740 00:40:20,592 --> 00:40:24,944 he doesn't have his day in court until May of 2024. 741 00:40:24,987 --> 00:40:27,729 - The evidence in general, not just the murder 742 00:40:27,773 --> 00:40:30,471 but the financial crimes, was overwhelming. 743 00:40:30,515 --> 00:40:33,474 - There are various aspects of the case that are going to be 744 00:40:33,518 --> 00:40:36,782 really hard for a defendant-- 745 00:40:36,825 --> 00:40:40,176 the stalking and planning, 746 00:40:40,220 --> 00:40:42,614 the fact that there's a clear motive. 747 00:40:42,657 --> 00:40:44,267 This is not a crime of passion. 748 00:40:47,357 --> 00:40:49,447 - The jury did a great job in finding 749 00:40:49,490 --> 00:40:53,276 Tyrese guilty for murder. 750 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,453 - Everything he'd done was premeditated. 751 00:40:55,496 --> 00:40:57,977 And I believe that's what the judge took into consideration, 752 00:40:58,020 --> 00:41:00,632 and he gave him 40 to life. 753 00:41:00,675 --> 00:41:03,939 - I think people understood that Tyrese 754 00:41:03,983 --> 00:41:06,289 doesn't have much of a remorse for what he has done. 755 00:41:09,336 --> 00:41:11,860 - It's about having closure for the family. 756 00:41:11,904 --> 00:41:13,296 That's what it's about. 757 00:41:13,340 --> 00:41:18,084 It was good to close the case out. 758 00:41:18,127 --> 00:41:23,959 - I felt very proud to be a part of the investigation. 759 00:41:24,003 --> 00:41:26,309 We really came together and made sure that 760 00:41:26,353 --> 00:41:28,921 we would have justice for Fahim. 761 00:41:31,271 --> 00:41:35,536 - In his 33 years, Fahim Saleh made the world a better place. 762 00:41:35,580 --> 00:41:39,845 And his legacy continues to inspire. 763 00:41:39,888 --> 00:41:42,456 - Fahim did impact a lot of people's lives. 764 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:47,417 I have learned he would buy computers and devices 765 00:41:47,461 --> 00:41:51,421 for the schools in Bangladesh and intentionally 766 00:41:51,465 --> 00:41:54,207 keep them secret because the kind of person he was. 767 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,298 - Fahim started a lot of different businesses 768 00:41:58,341 --> 00:42:02,520 that provides employment to the unemployed, the underemployed. 769 00:42:02,563 --> 00:42:05,827 Those are some of the legacies that will actually last. 770 00:42:05,871 --> 00:42:10,179 - People like me who remembers him, at least tries to live up 771 00:42:10,223 --> 00:42:13,574 to the standard Fahim has taught us, 772 00:42:13,618 --> 00:42:17,447 I think we are also the part of the legacy of Fahim. 773 00:42:17,491 --> 00:42:19,798 - He was just an amazing individual. 774 00:42:19,841 --> 00:42:26,021 And we were all sort of robbed of that energy and his ability 775 00:42:26,065 --> 00:42:30,548 to even create something even bigger and better. 776 00:42:30,591 --> 00:42:34,726 ♪