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Patrick Radden Keefe

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

It's too impossible to pick up, yeah.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

I mean, the footage is at night.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

It's grainy.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

It's taken from a great distance away.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

If you imagine, he's backlit by a brightly lit apartment, so this is really a silhouette of...

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

The way it was described is that he comes out onto the balcony.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

It's quite a shallow balcony, a long, shallow, curved balcony, and that he crosses over to one side and looks over the edge, and then goes all the way over to the other end and looks over the edge.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

Then he crosses back to the middle,

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

And he jumps and he projects outwards toward the river.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

So it's not, you wouldn't, if you jumped right down, you'd hit the pavement.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

You wouldn't hit the river.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

He jumps out and it's about 10 feet.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

And he almost makes it clean into the river, but he clips his hip on the embankment on the way down.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

I can't really speak to the nature of what was happening.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

I think probably when he went from one side to another, he was looking to see if it was possible to get off the balcony and get to the balcony beneath or to get to another of the balconies.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

I think that these were the actions of somebody who wasn't looking to kill himself.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

I think he was looking to escape.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

The Thames is a tidal river.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

So on the night when Zach died, the tide was running high.

Conversations
Inside the mysterious death of a young man posing as the son of a Russian oligarch

But by the following morning, the tide had dropped.