340. The Shocking Murder of Fahim Saleh

On this episode, Payton and Garrett dive into the case of Fahim Saleh, a brilliant tech CEO whose life was cut tragically short when he was found brutally murdered inside his Manhattan apartment. Links: Netflix Video Every Monday @11am PST, 12pm MST, 2pm EST 1pm CST https://www.netflix.com/murderwithmyhusband Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/murderwithmyhusband NEW MERCH LINK: https://mwmhshop.com Discount Codes: https://mailchi.mp/c6f48670aeac/oh-no-media-discount-codes Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themwmh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murderwithmyhusband/ Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@murderwithmyhusband Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-dark/id1662304327 Listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36SDVKB2MEWpFGVs9kRgQ7?si=f5224c9fd99542a7 Case Sources: CNN.com - https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/us/new-york-tech-ceo-murder-conviction BuisnessInsider.com - https://www.businessinsider.com/fahim-saleh-death-beheading-tyrese-haspil-murder-trial-new-evidence-2023-8 PIX11.com - https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/nyc-tech-ceo-murderer-sentenced-to-40-years-to-life-in-prison-da/ TheIndependent.com - https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/fahim-saleh-murder-assistant-tyrese-haspil-new-york-condo-tech-ceo-a9625796.html BuzzFeedNews.com - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/tyrese-haspil-charged-murder-fahim-saleh-death Forbes.com - https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielcassady/2020/10/13/grand-jury-indicts-former-assistant-for-the-brutal-murder-of-ceo-fahim-saleh/ ABC7.com - https://abc7.com/post/ex-personal-assistant-arrested-in-tech-ceos-murder/6322254/ NYPost.com - https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/us-news/tech-ceo-fahim-salehs-ex-assistant-convicted-in-grisly-dismemberment-murder/ ManhattanDA.org - https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-announces-all-count-trial-conviction-of-tyrese-haspil-in-murder-of-tech-ceo-fahim-saleh/ BBC.com - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53452034 People.com - https://people.com/fahim-saleh-killing-tyrese-haspil-sentenced-8710505 Wikipedia.org - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahim_Saleh People.com - https://people.com/fahim-saleh-killing-tyrese-haspil-sentenced-8710505 Radiche.com - https://www.radiche.com/retail-blog/themanbeforehistime TBSNews.com - https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/crime/fahims-app-prankdial-used-nj-jail-honcho-illegal-wiretapping-case-106900 New York Homicide Season 3 Episode 20 - https://www.youtube.com/show/SCRHp1T6xlYvfkTGMvPV8KJQ?season=3&sbp=CgEz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:02Speaker 00

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• 1:01Payton Moreland?

  You're listening to an Ono Media Podcast. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. This is Murder with my husband. I'm Payton Moreland.

• 1:08Garrett Moreland?

  And I'm Garrett Moreland.

• 1:10Payton Moreland?

  And he's the husband.

• 1:10Garrett Moreland?

  And I'm the husband. Hello. I feel like I haven't recorded for a while. I don't know why.

• 1:15Payton Moreland?

  Wait, before you get into your 10 seconds, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has come in to see us at the Bagel Shop. But also, there have been quite a few people who have gifted us things or made us things that have come in and given them to us at the Bagel Shop. And it's such a surreal thing. And so I just, I wanted to make sure to, like, not all of you guys leave a way for me to contact you. So if you have, thank you so much for just being so thoughtful and for caring. And it is a really unique and like, to have strangers to us

• 2:00Payton Moreland?

  who take the time out of their day to like, show us that they care. And so I just want, I just want to say thank you.

• 2:08Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, we don't have a peel box, but if you do have something that you want to give us and you come into the Bagel Shop, if I'm not there, the employees know to take it and put it to the side. So it's actually been pretty fun because we've gotten quite a few things. So awesome.

• 2:28Payton Moreland?

  Also.

• 2:28Garrett Moreland?

  Some really cool stuff, not gonna lie.

• 2:30Payton Moreland?

  Yeah, from the very beginning, I've saved like all the projects or art things or even just letters that we've gotten. And I have them all in a box and I like to just keep them. So it's just, it's just surreal. It's cool and I just love you guys. And I just want to say that we are really grateful and thank you.

• 2:48Garrett Moreland?

  Thank you.

• 2:49Payton Moreland?

  What do you got for your 10 seconds?

• 2:51Garrett Moreland?

  Honestly, I don't have too much for my 10 seconds because we have just been getting ready for this baby.

• 3:00Payton Moreland?

  Why don't you tell them the baby prep that you worked on that just all got here today?

• 3:05Garrett Moreland?

  What got here today?

• 3:07Payton Moreland?

  All the research you did and what you got.

• 3:08Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, just like the baby cameras and the nanits and.

• 3:13Payton Moreland?

  I asked Garrett because like, he's a lot better at the technology side. So I've been, you know, ordering the diapers for me and the baby.

• 3:22Garrett Moreland?

  The nanits, the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

• 3:24Payton Moreland?

  And I had Garrett do all the research and try to figure out what to get as far as like, systems go, so.

• 3:31Garrett Moreland?

  No, it's been good. We've just been prepping for baby. We're getting ready for baby. Baby's coming soon. We're gonna have a baby. We've just been working, yeah. We've just been kind of getting ready for her, huh?

• 3:42Payton Moreland?

  Yeah, last night, I was like, I'm a little scared. And Garrett was like, why? And I was like, because you, like, we have to take her home after.

• 3:50Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, it's true. Can't have her and be like, alright, I mean, I guess we could, but.

• 3:55Payton Moreland?

  Well, like, because in my head, it's like, okay, I just got to get through this first trimester. Okay, I just got to get through second. Okay, I just got to get through this pregnancy. Okay, just got to get through delivery.

• 4:02Garrett Moreland?

  And now it's like, oh, shoot, I have to deliver this baby and then take her home.

• 4:06Payton Moreland?

  And then the hard part actually starts. You know what I mean? That's a little scary. That ride home with like a baby in the car seat.

• 4:14Garrett Moreland?

  I'm gonna freaking put her in a carrier and just start making bagels. And take her around.

• 4:19Payton Moreland?

  She has to get her license.

• 4:20Garrett Moreland?

  What, you owe her food handler's license? They're not gonna care.

• 4:25Payton Moreland?

  Oh, she's smart. She'll have your brain. She can just wing it.

• 4:27Garrett Moreland?

  Can be fun. We're excited. So that's my 10 seconds. We've just been getting ready for, did I say her name?

• 4:33Payton Moreland?

  No.

• 4:34Garrett Moreland?

  We do get that question a lot. We do have a name. We're just not going to announce it until she's here.

• 4:42Payton Moreland?

  Or maybe never.

• 4:43Garrett Moreland?

  Okay, we're gonna tell you what the name is, but we're just not gonna announce it.

• 4:46Payton Moreland?

  Her name's Baby.

• 4:48Garrett Moreland?

  Until she's here. We just don't want too many unnecessary opinions until she's here.

• 4:54Payton Moreland?

  Even after she's here.

• 4:56Garrett Moreland?

  It's true. Honestly, 99% of you are amazing and we love you so much. But then we somehow have, sometimes have this 1% of people who feel like they need to tell us what to do, which I get, that's fine. But I just know we're gonna tell, we're gonna tell everyone what her name is. And then we're gonna have like a couple thousand people that are like, oh, my gosh, this is the dumbest. I don't care. So anyways, we're just waiting to say her name. We have about four weeks left and everyone will know her name. We're really, really excited. We're excited to share it with you guys.

• 5:26Payton Moreland?

  Which they shouldn't say it's a dumb name because it's a family name. So anytime you look at a baby and you say.

• 5:32Garrett Moreland?

  I find it's Garrett.

• 5:34Payton Moreland?

  Yeah, Garrett. Her name's Garrett.

• 5:35Garrett Moreland?

  We should just name her Garrett.

• 5:37Payton Moreland?

  Every time you look at a baby and you think, what a dumb name. Or you look at a parent, why would they name that? Sometimes names really have meaning. Sometimes they're not just like, the parents thought it was cute.

• 5:48Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, like.

• 5:48Payton Moreland?

  And even if it's the parents thought it was cute.

• 5:50Garrett Moreland?

  Garrett's a family name. King Garrett. True.

• 5:55Payton Moreland?

  You're funny.

• 5:56Garrett Moreland?

  Okay, that's all we got. We're gonna hop into this week's case. Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting. Seriously, we love you all. Thank you for saying hi to us. Thank you for following, liking, subscribing, all of that. Let's do it.

• 6:12Payton Moreland?

  Our sources for this episode are CNN.com, Business Insider.com, Pix11.com, TheIndependent.com, BuzzFeed News, Forbes, ABC7.com, NewYorkPost.com, ManhattanDA.org, BBC.com, People.com, TBSNews.com, New York Homicide, Season 3, Episode 20. And as always, our case sources are always listed in our episode notes if you ever want to check them out. When we think about extreme wealth and success in this country, America, we usually think about the people who climbed the ladder to the top. After all, some of the world's biggest companies are synonymous with their founders.

• 6:56Payton Moreland?

  Steve Jobs and Apple, Elon Musk and Tesla, Richard Branson and Virgin. But getting to that level of success comes at a cost. It is hard to build an empire without stepping on a few necks along the way, without putting your own interests above that of others. But I think about what the world would look like if success didn't have to come with that level of selfishness and greed. What if everyone used their ambition to lift people up instead? Well, that is how I actually came across the story of Fahim Saleh. In 2020, Fahim was a young entrepreneur living in Manhattan.

• 7:39Payton Moreland?

  His goal was to use his technologies to help create more opportunities in developing countries. Fahim was described as one of those selfless entrepreneurs who really was looking out for others and those who worked for him. But unfortunately, that kindness and generosity he showed was also the thing that ended up sealing his fate. So let me start by introducing you to Fahim. Because what he accomplished in his 33 years of life is truly something to be proud of. Fahim was actually born in Saudi Arabia, but both of his parents were from Bangladesh.

• 8:20Payton Moreland?

  His father worked in computer sciences and they moved around a lot when Fahim and his two sisters were young. But eventually, as a family, they all actually landed in Rochester, New York, in the United States. Now, around the time Fahim was in middle school, this was the late 90s, he became very interested in computer programming. And just being in middle school, he decides to build his first website on the World Wide Web. And it is called SalehFamily.com. It was a little AOL site that his dad would have people click on at parties.

• 9:05Garrett Moreland?

  AOL, did you use? No, you were too young. You never used AIM, did you?

• 9:09Payton Moreland?

  No.

• 9:10Garrett Moreland?

  You know what AIM is?

• 9:11Payton Moreland?

  Yes.

• 9:12Garrett Moreland?

  Loved A I M.

• 9:14Payton Moreland?

  So this was just an AOL site that his dad would have people click on at parties so he could get his view count up, coming to a grand total of a dozen or so visitors. It was tiny, but it sparked something even bigger in the teenage Fahim. Fahim's favorite thing to do on a weekend night was actually sit in his pajamas at home, just creating new websites. It's the nineties, he is loving it. When he was 15, he went on to build actually an early social media type platform called teenhangout.com. It was a blogging forum where his friends and classmates could go on and just post their thoughts.

• 9:58Payton Moreland?

  And he actually learned how to monetize it all the way back then. He was making $3 a month. But by high school, his website collection was growing. He created aimedude.com and MSN dolls.com, among others, that offered online avatars for people's chat profiles, which was a pretty big deal at a time when AOL Messenger and other chat tools were becoming a pretty big part of teen culture. Now Fahim said his parents didn't really get it at first, and it did get him in trouble sometimes, claiming, quote, "I would stay up super late and would be worried my dad would catch me. He thought it would hinder my schoolwork, which it didn't."

• 10:44Garrett Moreland?

  It's actually so true. I feel like all parents thought, like if you were talking on A I M all night.

• 10:51Payton Moreland?

  Worldwide web.

• 10:52Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, they're like, what are you doing? Like, I don't know, it's just so funny.

• 10:56Payton Moreland?

  But get this, he gets his first paycheck from Google for $500 as a teenager.

• 11:02Garrett Moreland?

  Whoa.

• 11:03Payton Moreland?

  Shows it to his dad and his dad says, okay, let's open an account. Around 2005, Fahim set off for college at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, pursuing a degree in computer information systems. But Fahim himself said he was kind of a bit of a lone wolf in college, too. Being a shy kid, he still preferred to spend his free time working on his websites rather than actually like going to parties with other students. Though, he eventually roped his roommate into one of his side hustles, a plugin for

• 11:43Payton Moreland?

  Facebook that allowed local students to order food for delivery, which is so crazy that in 2005, he figures out how to use Facebook to basically make DoorDash.

• 11:56Garrett Moreland?

  I mean, that's pretty, pretty insane.

• 11:58Payton Moreland?

  Yeah, so Fahim actually went to a bunch of restaurants around Boston, collected their takeout menus, uploaded them one by one to a server. But after his server crashed one afternoon and all his data was lost, Fahim just decided to move on to the next adventure. But like I said, he still essentially made an early version of DoorDash.

• 12:18Garrett Moreland?

  That's crazy.

• 12:19Payton Moreland?

  Now unfortunately, after graduating in 2009, the job market was tough to break into, even for Fahim. He had a hard time finding work, so he continued just developing one of the websites he had created back in high school, one he believed would be a lucrative way to make some quick cash in the meantime. It was a site called prankdial.com.

• 12:44Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 12:44Payton Moreland?

  Which is still around, by the way, and it is full of pre-recorded prank calls that you can send from a disguised number, which is freaking creative because I used to prank call a lot.

• 12:57Garrett Moreland?

  Star 67 was my best friend.

• 12:59Payton Moreland?

  And it would have been nice if I was as smart as Fahim and just knew that I could go to prankdial.com to prank call these people. But it was a huge success. By 2012, Fahim was actually making about $2 million annually.

• 13:15Garrett Moreland?

  Oh my gosh.

• 13:17Payton Moreland?

  On prankdial.com. So he was.

• 13:20Garrett Moreland?

  That's insane, actually.

• 13:22Payton Moreland?

  And this was kind of a jumping off point for his next big move. A ride share, again, more in 2012, a ride share and food delivery app called Pato, which he launched in 2015. So riding on the heels of Uber, which came about in 2010 and DoorDash, which was started in 2013, it's now 2015. And Pato was an early pioneer that combined the two concepts, but like Eric just said, he was making it and operating it in Bangladesh and Nepal.

• 13:58Garrett Moreland?

  Which is interesting. A lot of people might not know this, but there's actually a lot of tech companies that will take something that had been started in the U S or the U K and they'll, they'll see that it's being done there very early and they'll just take it to another country and they'll make tons of money off of it. Pretty crazy.

• 14:17Payton Moreland?

  Yeah, so for Fahim, it was about bringing opportunities to these underdeveloped countries. It was considered a gig platform, which basically means it gives users some agency.

• 14:31Garrett Moreland?

  Like kind of like Fiverr or Freelancer.

• 14:34Payton Moreland?

  They can make their own hours, work as little or as much as they desired. What's interesting about Fahim, though, was that he didn't believe he was a very good leader. He wasn't sure he had what it took to motivate people, which is why in an interview, he said this quote, "As a CEO, the best thing to do is to have thinkers on the team, not employees, but partners who are co-sharing your vision and success." But the truth was, there was a lot of people Fahim inspired and motivated in his life, who felt he actually was the epitome of what they actually wanted in a leader. Someone who was selfless, thoughtful, who led with their heart, maybe not leading with

• 15:18Payton Moreland?

  what's best for making money. So his personality, this kindness he has, is actually kind of how he managed to get over $5 million in funding for his next project. It was a motorbike ride share app called Goketa, which he launched in Nigeria in 2018. Now, the location was a strange choice for Fahim, who really knew nothing about Nigeria or how their transportation system worked at the time, but.

• 15:49Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 15:50Payton Moreland?

  He found success anyways. For him, it was just about bringing whatever we were basically using here in America and getting it to underserved communities, which was why he goes on to not only mentor other young entrepreneurs, he became an angel investor in other companies he believed in, too. Now, don't get me wrong, Fahim also treated himself with the money he made. In fact, by 2020, he was living in a brand new multimillion dollar condo in the Lower East Side. It was a really nice place on the corner of Houston and Suffolk, where he had the entire floor to himself and an elevator that opened right up into his condo.

• 16:35Payton Moreland?

  It was something Fahim deserved after the years of hard work and dedication, and despite the world being swept by COVID at the time, Fahim was already making plans for the future. He's an entrepreneur. He's ready to grow his businesses even more once the storm of the pandemic passed. But unfortunately, Fahim would never get that chance. All right, you guys, I don't know if you're like me, but fall definitely for me feels like a time to reset, just as much as January.

• 17:02Garrett Moreland?

  I'm so ready for fall.

• 17:04Payton Moreland?

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• 17:42Garrett Moreland?

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• 17:49Payton Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 17:50Garrett Moreland?

  And she's got pretty freaking awesome hair.

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• 18:21Payton Moreland?

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• 19:03Payton Moreland?

  My favorite part, though, for every item you buy, Bombas donates an essential clothing item to someone facing housing insecurity. One purchased, one donated, over 200 million donations and counting. Head over to bombas.com/audio and use audio for 20% off your first purchase. That's B O M B A S dot com slash audio. Load audio at checkout. So now that you have his background, it is Tuesday, July 14th, 2020. And Fahim's cousin is getting a bit worried. She and Fahim are super close since she lives in the city as well, New York. And they speak every day, but she hadn't heard from him in over 24 hours.

• 19:48Payton Moreland?

  He's not answering his phone, which is really unlike him. So she decides to head over to his condo on the lower east side in person. A little after 3:30 PM, she hits the intercom to see if Fahim is there to page her up. But there's no response. Now luckily, she was one of the only people who had access to his place. He had given her a key fob that she could use in the elevator to access his apartment. So she eventually gets in, she swipes, she hits his floor and she heads up. Surveillance footage shows her exiting the elevator directly into Fahim's condo.

• 20:31Payton Moreland?

  And then minutes later, you can see her on video footage rushing back into the elevator with the phone to her ear. Now we know at that point she was dialing 911 and she's hysterical. Because she had just found her 33 year old cousin Fahim Saleh dead on the floor of his condo. She races back down to the lobby, waits there for police to arrive. And when officers get there, they can barely get a word out of Fahim's cousin. And rightfully so, because she didn't just stumble upon Fahim passed out on the floor.

• 21:13Payton Moreland?

  This crime scene was enough to make the seasoned NYPD detectives look away. Because when they get up to his condo, Fahim's body is laying in the middle of his living room on a tarp. His head, his arms and the lower half of his legs have all been removed.

• 21:34Garrett Moreland?

  Oh my gosh, these type of murders are always, just I can't comprehend.

• 21:41Payton Moreland?

  There's an electric saw laying right next to his chopped up body.

• 21:47Garrett Moreland?

  Freak.

• 21:48Payton Moreland?

  And bloody scissors on the couch, a bunch of big demolition bags. So one of the detectives.

• 21:57Garrett Moreland?

  You're telling, I mean, so you're telling me we're not hearing an electric saw in New York City?

• 22:03Payton Moreland?

  Yeah, I mean, that's gonna be kind of loud.

• 22:05Garrett Moreland?

  I mean, I guess.

• 22:06Payton Moreland?

  Unless they make quieter ones now.

• 22:08Garrett Moreland?

  I guess that's what people just get used to it like, oh, my neighbor's just doing something weird.

• 22:11Payton Moreland?

  Yeah, that's true. Like it's New York.

• 22:14Garrett Moreland?

  Everyone's doing something. Yeah, I don't know.

• 22:16Payton Moreland?

  I guess it could depend on what neighborhood, but sometimes it's a little loud there. So they have all these demolition bags sitting everywhere. The detectives peek inside and see that these bags are actually full of some of Fahim's remains. And this was the scene his cousin walked into, which is actually devastating. What's confusing is there's actually not a lot of blood around the condo. With something like this, you would imagine there would be blood spatter everywhere. But whoever did this was clearly very calculated, was pretty careful with the cleanup. So the fact that they left the crime scene half finished, like it looks like

• 22:59Payton Moreland?

  they were cleaning up, but then they just left everything out on display. It makes police wonder if maybe the killer had to make a run for it. Maybe they were interrupted literally by Fahim's cousin or by someone else. Because they also find a bunch of cleaning supplies in the kitchen that are still sitting out. There's a plastic bag with three holes poked through, almost like the killer might have been wearing it like during cleanup. So while one team stays in the condo gathering evidence, a few officers actually go back down to the lobby to speak with Fahim's cousin, who has now since been joined by Fahim's sister.

• 23:44Payton Moreland?

  And his cousin explains, I just, I hadn't heard from him. We normally talk every day. I decided to come over and check on him and that's how I found his body. So they take the cousin and Fahim's sister down to the station for additional questioning. And meanwhile, other detectives start looking at the cameras from inside Fahim's building. And here's what they find. Around 1:30 PM or so Fahim comes back from a run and enters the lobby. He goes over to the elevators, he presses the button and a man in a black suit approaches on this video. I'm talking a fancy suit, like one you could wear to a cocktail party.

• 24:26Payton Moreland?

  However, you can't see the man's face because he has a COVID type mask on. And over that, his face is covered by a face shield, which is kind of somewhat normal in 2020. He is also wearing gloves, these snake skin cowboy boots, and he's carrying a black leather duffel bag. And just to like, help you understand how like jarring this image is. Some sources have compared him to looking like Slenderman in this footage. He's just so covered and dressed so oddly, it's eerie. And honestly, I don't think they're that far off.

• 25:09Payton Moreland?

  So you can understand why Fahim looks a little uneasy when he and this suited figure enter the elevator alone together because he walks over to get on the same elevator as Fahim. Now after Fahim swipes up to his floor, the man in the footage appears to do the same thing. But when the elevator doors open on Fahim's floor and he steps out, video footage shows that the masked figure follows. And before he can even leave the view of the camera, you can clearly see this figure use a taser on Fahim and it immediately knocks him to the ground.

• 25:54Payton Moreland?

  So this attack is caught on camera. And then in the footage, you see Fahim trying to crawl away. The doors of the elevator closes and the rest is left to the imagination. Cause the camera isn't in Fahim's condo, it's from the point of the elevator. So once the doors close, that's all you have. And we obviously know what probably came next, considering that we've seen the crime scene. Now obviously police are like, wow, how often do you actually catch a perpetrator like on camera? Basically attacking. But what's also disturbing is as they continue going through this footage, you can see that in the lobby of Fahim's complex,

• 26:38Payton Moreland?

  this masked figure had just been sitting there on a bench. In fact, he was there for five hours before the attack that morning. So literally it seems like he went to the lobby, sat down and was waiting patiently for Fahim to just come in, get back from a morning run, his chance to basically attack. But the problem is this guy, like I said, is concealed from head to toe. There's no way you could, you can't even tell his skin color.

• 27:09Garrett Moreland?

  You can't figure anything out.

• 27:10Payton Moreland?

  And he seems calm and poised the entire time he's captured on that surveillance camera, which is five hours long. By the way, he doesn't seem to be showing an ounce of nerves, which is why police suspect they feel like this guy's done this before. This might be a professional hit, a hired hit, something, because this just seems a little too out there, a little too movie like, if you will.

• 27:34Garrett Moreland?

  Okay, yep.

• 27:35Payton Moreland?

  And this theory doesn't even seem that far fetched, especially when detectives learn more about Fahim's background. Because as they dig deeper into his rideshare business in Nigeria, they learn Fahim was having some pretty big issues with GoKata, that's the business. It turns out Fahim had actually been butting heads with the Nigeria government for some time now, trying to keep this app in business over there. Recently, the state of Lagos, where his company primarily ran out of, had banned commercial motorbikes in the city, which obviously causes a lot of issues for Fahim's company.

• 28:19Payton Moreland?

  Police also claim there was some corruption within the business itself that Fahim was trying to resolve. So they start to wonder if maybe this was a professional hit related to the issues he was actually having with business in Nigeria. But if that was the case, police felt catching our suspect now might be hopeless because they could be halfway across the Atlantic at this point, likely hopped on a plane, immediately got out of New York. And detectives find more evidence this is maybe the case because it appears Fahim's every move was actually being watched, leading up to his murder.

• 28:54Garrett Moreland?

  Interesting, which is crazy because he was so young. I mean. Yeah, I mean, he was 31, which is crazy.

• 29:00Payton Moreland?

  Yeah. So while police were looking at more footage, they noticed that the masked figure had actually visited another building, too. He was seen going to another apartment complex directly adjacent from Fahim's building that he lived in. So detectives contact that superintendent and they tell them something interesting. The building has a few vacancies, but because of social distancing, the real estate agent has just been giving prospective renters the code to a lockbox, which gives them a key to go look in around them, like inside themselves. So when they speak to the real estate agent, they say about 10 days before the murder, a man had contacted them about seeing an apartment.

• 29:44Payton Moreland?

  So officers go take a look and they find that this specific unit faces out to the street. In fact, it looks directly at Fahim's building. You can even see inside some of his windows from this apartment. But that's not all. Detectives also noticed this Nest cam that had been set up and points out towards Fahim's condo from this other condo across the street that's for rent. And once they learn that neither the super nor the real estate agent had installed this camera, they're like, oh, so this guy who came to show himself this condo alone, put a camera to watch Fahim's windows?

• 30:27Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 30:28Payton Moreland?

  They're like, this is even more evidence of a targeted hit. Like this feels professional. They suspect the masked man had been using this apartment as a sort of headquarters to watch Fahim and they could even access the Nest cam from their phone to monitor any activity when they weren't in the apartment watching. This would allow the killer to get familiar with Fahim's exact routine, what time he left for work, when he ran his errands, even when he went for a jog. Now they figure surveillance cameras have carried them this far. Let's try and access everything we can in the area until we find more. And they do, because they pull more footage from outside of Fahim's building, presumably from the day of the murder.

• 31:10Payton Moreland?

  And they find the figure in the black suit, passing pretty close to another camera, only this time before he's stepped into the lobby, he is not wearing that face shield.

• 31:22Garrett Moreland?

  Okay, I mean, I figured it would come off at some point.

• 31:24Payton Moreland?

  He is wearing a COVID mask and sunglasses, but enough of his skin is showing for them to tell they are definitely looking at a dark skinned male.

• 31:33Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 31:34Payton Moreland?

  So they take a screenshot and they show it to Fahim's family. They're like, by chance, do you recognize this guy at all? And when his cousin and sister see the photo from police, their jaw drops because they do know this guy. He is not some international assassin spy. They say, no, his name is Tyrese Haspel.

• 32:03Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 32:04Payton Moreland?

  And he's Fahim's.

• 32:06Garrett Moreland?

  No fricking, get out of here.

• 32:08Payton Moreland?

  Former assistant.

• 32:11Garrett Moreland?

  Oh my gosh.

• 32:12Payton Moreland?

  So let's talk about Tyrese, because now police have a name.

• 32:17Garrett Moreland?

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• 35:01Payton Moreland?

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• 35:44Payton Moreland?

  Though he and Fahim were still seemingly on speaking terms. Now, once Fahim's sister and cousin confirm it's Tyrese, police realize, okay, we've obviously got to track him down. So they visit his apartment in Brooklyn, but Tyrese isn't there, which is why they continue to collect evidence and see if any of it leads back to Tyrese while they try to find him. And as they play those elevator videos over and over, they spot something critical. They notice that at one point, the masked figure actually vacuumed the elevator.

• 36:21Garrett Moreland?

  The freak?

• 36:22Payton Moreland?

  Again, we know that there was like cleanup going on and they're like, why though? Like why start cleaning, like why ring the elevator back up and vacuum it as well? But then it hits them. The suspect used a taser on Fahim first.

• 36:39Garrett Moreland?

  Ah.

• 36:40Payton Moreland?

  And that could lead to a pretty big clue because tasers eject hundreds of these little pieces of paper about the size of confetti when they are used. And each of them has a serial number on it so you can track it back to the buyer.

• 36:53Garrett Moreland?

  I had no idea.

• 36:54Payton Moreland?

  It's kind of like, because it's a weapon.

• 36:56Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, it's the same thing like when you're shooting a gun.

• 36:57Payton Moreland?

  Yes.

• 36:58Garrett Moreland?

  Yes.

• 36:58Payton Moreland?

  And so the suspect had to have known this and was trying to vacuum up all these confetti pieces or what's known as AFI tabs. That's what they're called. So that's when they head back to Fahim's building, they shut the elevator down completely. They call out emergency service workers. They're like, can you please scan the entire elevator shaft to see if one of these little chips fell through the cracks? But it's not even completely necessary because while detectives are back in Fahim's apartment that day, they spot something, a tiny pink piece of paper sitting along the floor molding. One little piece of confetti the suspect missed with the vacuum. With the serial number printed on it, they call the taser company and they learn who

• 37:43Payton Moreland?

  it's registered to. Both the taser and the cartridge were purchased by Tyrese Haspel.

• 37:51Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, so I mean, at this point, it's open and shut. It's not even, yeah, it's not even, not even a question.

• 37:58Payton Moreland?

  So with this evidence, they're like, well, if we, we still don't know where he is, we can at least subpoena his phone records now.

• 38:04Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, I mean, they have him on camera.

• 38:05Payton Moreland?

  Yeah, there's enough evidence.

• 38:06Garrett Moreland?

  It's open and shut, yeah.

• 38:08Payton Moreland?

  And they find that the day after he killed Fahim, he ordered an Uber down to Jersey City. And again, video surveillance near his drop off point shows exactly what he was up to. He gets out of the Uber, again, video surveillance in 2020 and later, it's going to get you every time, especially in a place like New York City where cameras are inevitable.

• 38:33Garrett Moreland?

  A million, so many cameras.

• 38:35Payton Moreland?

  So they literally tracked down where he took this Uber to. They check the cameras. You can see him get out of the Uber, walk towards the Hudson River and drop a bag into the water.

• 38:45Garrett Moreland?

  Oh my gosh.

• 38:45Payton Moreland?

  So detectives send a scuba team over there. They're like, maybe we can find the bag. Now they don't find it, but they do track his credit cards, the ones Fahim was supposedly still paying for. And they see that on Fahim's dime, Tyrese bought an electric saw and cleaning supplies.

• 39:07Garrett Moreland?

  Oh my gosh.

• 39:09Payton Moreland?

  From a Home Depot on 23rd Street, just a few days before the murder, which yes, literally means Fahim's own money was used to buy the murder weapon.

• 39:21Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 39:22Payton Moreland?

  Now they also discovered security footage that proves Tyrese made those purchases himself. They're like, yeah, we're not just going to show it was on the card. We're also going to show it was him. And they hear back from the real estate agent too, the one who gave out that lockbox code to the apartment. And the agent confirms, yep, it was someone by the name of Tyrese that inquired about and went and looked at the apartment. So please have plenty of evidence against Tyrese Haspel, more than enough to get an arrest warrant. But like me and his family, you're probably wondering.

• 39:57Payton Moreland?

  Why?

• 39:58Garrett Moreland?

  I mean, yeah, I'm wondering why, but he's obviously disgruntled. There's obviously some beef going on. Yeah.

• 40:05Payton Moreland?

  It didn't take long for police to figure it out because Tyrese had some text messages from Fahim that told an interesting story. Turns out Tyrese had been stealing money from Fahim. A lot of it. And when Fahim caught him, again, this is his assistant. He gives him a chance to repay it. And here's what happened. Fahim hired Tyrese in May 2018. By the fall of that year, Tyrese was coming up with some pretty creative ways to scheme his boss out of cash. How? Well, because Tyrese had access to a lot of Fahim's financial accounts and was in charge of paying some of their vendors. He created some fake PayPal accounts.

• 40:47Payton Moreland?

  And then Tyrese would send himself the money, pretending the accounts belonged to people that needed to be paid by Fahim. He got so good at it that by December, he dialed it up a notch. He created a corporate entity and a bank account instead of just a PayPal account. And he was funneling cash right into his own wallet.

• 41:06Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, my God.

• 41:07Payton Moreland?

  Now, it does take about five more months for Fahim to catch on, figure out what's going on and make a move. In May 2019, Fahim sent an email to Tyrese saying, quote, "This is quite disconcerting, Tyrese. I put my full trust in you." Now, at that point, he allowed Tyrese to resign from the company rather than firing him, which is why.

• 41:30Garrett Moreland?

  And he got to keep all the money he stole.

• 41:32Payton Moreland?

  Which is why Fahim's family was like, oh, he just quit randomly one day.

• 41:38Payton Moreland?

  Now Fahim told Tyrese, he was just gonna let him walk away so he could keep his dignity. But instead of walking away and calling it a day, Tyrese somehow managed to continue stealing from him.

• 41:50Garrett Moreland?

  Gosh, what?

• 41:51Payton Moreland?

  By January of 2020, Tyrese had embezzled about $400,000.

• 41:56Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, my freak.

• 41:58Payton Moreland?

  And even then Fahim catches him once again, shows him grace, doesn't press charges. Says, listen, you've got to pay me back at this point. Here's a payment plan. I don't need it all at once. This is how much money has been stolen. How much have you spent? And he had spent a lot of it, mostly on gifts for his new French girlfriend. That's what he was stealing the money for. But instead of taking it on the chin and chalking it up to a dodged bullet, like, okay, he's not pressing charges. I messed up. Tyrese was like, I can't pay this back. I'm just gonna plot to murder my former boss.

• 42:35Garrett Moreland?

  I'm just gonna cut him up and kill him.

• 42:37Payton Moreland?

  And that July attack was not the first time he'd attempted it. Apparently, the first one was in March 2020, when he followed Fahim to Nigeria with a knife. Nothing happened, but then he did the same thing around New York City. He also talked about burning down Fahim's condo. And it wasn't until May of 2020 that he really upped the ante. He began researching weapons, tasers, cleaning supplies. He bought the clothes that he would need to conceal his identity. He began tracking Fahim on social media. He set up the camera in the vacant apartment across the street. And then on July 13th, he made his move. And this just goes to show you, like, someone who's smart enough to like, figure out how to embezzle that much money from

• 43:22Payton Moreland?

  a pretty smart person. And then also have the time and energy to like, come up with this plan, rent. Like, imagine if he just put that to use. He probably could have made $400,000. So here's what ended up happening. At around 8:30 a.m. that morning, Tyrese followed another tenant into the building and waited in the lobby for the right moment to strike. And then around 1:30 p.m., Fahim came back into the building and Tyrese followed him into the elevator completely disguised. Fahim didn't question it because it was COVID. He then tasered him into his condo and stabbed his former boss several times in the neck and torso. And then around 3 p.m., after cleaning up some of the crime scene,

• 44:07Payton Moreland?

  Tyrese just left the building, took an Uber to Jersey City where he disposed of that bag of evidence. And then the following day, he actually goes back to Fahim's apartment and he begins dismembering the body and cleaning up the rest of the crime scene. So it becomes a two-day job.

• 44:24Garrett Moreland?

  It's just crazy because like, did you? I don't know. It's just crazy to me that people think they can get away with this stuff.

• 44:31Payton Moreland?

  I don't know. So like.

• 44:34Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, I don't know. It's just, it's horrible.

• 44:36Payton Moreland?

  But here's how we get to the, it's only half cleaned up because when he's there, he runs into a problem. He forgot the charger to his electric saw, so he left to go get one. And during the time he was gone, Fahim's cousin came and discovered the body. When Tyrese got back to the building, he saw the police and he obviously booked it out of there. So finally, on July 17th, 2020, three days later, police tracked down Tyrese. Again, this is a pretty quick-moving investigation. He had been staying at a Manhattan Airbnb, which he rented for his French girlfriend's birthday. It was costing him $1,000 a night, which he was paying for with Fahim's stolen money.

• 45:21Payton Moreland?

  So still spending the money after killing him. That day, he was taken into custody in front of his girlfriend, who was also brought in for questioning. She's like, I have no idea about any of this. In fact, he actually told her he was still working for Fahim. And he was getting up every single day and pretending to go into the office. She's released that night. Tyrese faces a handful of charges, including murder in the second degree that's later upgraded to first degree.

• 45:47Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, seriously. Second degree is crazy.

• 45:49Payton Moreland?

  Grand larceny in second degree, burglary in the second degree, tampering with physical evidence, concealment of a human corpse. Tyrese pleads not guilty despite the massive amount of evidence against him. Thanks to COVID restrictions, he doesn't go to trial until May of 2024. And during his month-long trial, his defense attorney actually allows him to take the stand, during which he states that the reason he killed Fahim was out of, quote, "unconditional love for his girlfriend." That he was afraid she was gonna leave him if she found out he'd been stealing his money from his boss. So the only thing left to do was kill him.

• 46:27Payton Moreland?

  Finally, in June of 2024, the jury deliberates. They return with a verdict. Tyrese is guilty as charged on all counts. He's given 40 years to life.

• 46:35Garrett Moreland?

  Okay. Holy crap.

• 46:38Payton Moreland?

  He must have been trying to do a, it didn't really clarify, but my thought was like, a defense of like, reason of insanity due to love.

• 46:47Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 46:48Payton Moreland?

  Type thing. Anyways, Fahim's friends and family are now working hard to make sure that his horrible death does not become the only thing about him because he's amazing.

• 47:01Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, yeah.

• 47:01Payton Moreland?

  They want him.

• 47:02Garrett Moreland?

  Incredible thing.

• 47:03Payton Moreland?

  Yes, they want him to be remembered as the kind and generous person that he set out to be, the one who bought computers and devices for schools in Bangladesh when they didn't have the budget for them. Who started businesses in underdeveloped countries to give people opportunity and agency over their own income. The brilliant entrepreneur whose career was just getting started. He was so young, who knows what he would have went on to do. And obviously, the man who believed in second chances, even when people around him didn't deserve them. And that is the murder of Fahim Saleh.

• 47:42Garrett Moreland?

  Insane. It's, again, it just blows my mind. People will kill people.

• 47:47Payton Moreland?

  You know.

• 47:47Garrett Moreland?

  Like, not just kill somebody, he is dismembering somebody's body.

• 47:51Payton Moreland?

  And like, came back a day later.

• 47:53Garrett Moreland?

  How can you, like, how? How? Oh, my gosh. I hate people. Like, what in the world?

• 48:02Payton Moreland?

  Also, like.

• 48:04Garrett Moreland?

  Oh.

• 48:05Payton Moreland?

  Fahim was so nice. Gave him a thousand chances, like.

• 48:09Garrett Moreland?

  Pointless. It was completely utterly pointless.

• 48:12Payton Moreland?

  Every person in Fahim's life talked, like, literally talks about him, like.

• 48:16Garrett Moreland?

  It's crazy.

• 48:16Payton Moreland?

  He's the kindest, he's the most generous, like, no wonder he gave him two chances after finding out he'd stole hundreds of thousands.

• 48:24Garrett Moreland?

  Dude was disgruntled for no reason.

• 48:26Payton Moreland?

  Exactly. It's not like you were.

• 48:28Garrett Moreland?

  What in the world? What's wrong with people? Ugh. Annoyed. Annoyed.

• 48:33Payton Moreland?

  All right, you guys. Thank you for listening or watching today's episode. We will be back with another one. I love it.

• 48:42Garrett Moreland?

  I hate it.

• 48:42Payton Moreland?

  Goodbye.

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