Patrick Radden Keefe

And we should acknowledge that Akbar Shamji, the supposedly high-flying businessman, just prior to meeting Zak for the first time, had declared bankruptcy.

In fact, he was kind of a charlatan who was being chased by creditors.

And Varinder Sharma, who...

pretended that he was this kind of businessman in retirement, kind of living out his days in this posh apartment overlooking the Thames.

Fatherly presence.

Kind of an avuncular figure in Zach's life.

He actually was a semi-retired gangster, leg breaker, extortionist, debt collector.

He was the guy who would dangle you off a building if you owed money to unsavory people.

Yeah, I mean, Verinder had a pretty rich criminal history.

He was known locally as Indian Dave.

That was his kind of nom de guerre.

And there was at least one, and I think probably more than one, murder that he was linked to in a pretty credible way.

Yeah, listen, it took days in part because you had this kind of strange left-hand, right-hand problem where the cops in one part of the city had a John Doe.

They had a body that they'd found and they didn't know the identity.

And the cops in another part of the city had a missing person.

And it took them days before they realized, four or five days, that they were one and the same person.

At that point, the police finally go into this apartment in Riverwalk, at which stage Verinda Sharma has had the place professionally cleaned.

They get in there.

Even after it's been professionally cleaned, they notice some strange anomalous things.

There were blood smears on the wall, which the police, for one reason or another, did not check.