Patrick Radden Keefe

They didn't actually test that blood.

They photographed it.

I've seen the pictures, but they didn't subject it to any tests to figure out whose blood it was.

Verinder Sharma himself had a cut over his nose when the police spoke to him.

They noted that he had the cut over his nose, but didn't ask him how he got it.

And he told them the story that, you know, he had told Zach's parents, which is Zach came over.

The three of us were here in the apartment.

Eventually Akbar left.

Zach had confessed that he was addicted to heroin.

A lot of hugs.

A lot of hugs in the end of the evening.

And then I went to bed and when I woke up, Zach was gone, must have gone off trying to find heroin.

But then, you know, at the point where they realized that there's a body that's been found, he said he must have gone off the balcony and I had no idea.

It was not formally ruled a suicide.

It was kind of hinted by the police that it probably was a suicide, but they would never come out and say it in a full-throated way.

Well, I think that there's a backdrop here, which is that going back two decades, really since the arrival of the Russian oligarchs in London, there have been some two dozen deaths in which people fall off of buildings, they fall off of balconies, they fall in front of tube trains, they fall out of windows.

And the police have consistently kind of come in, taken a quick look around and said, looks like a suicide or looks like an accident and closed the case, including cases in which U.S.

intelligence believes that these were assassinations.

These are very often people who had some connection to Russian interests.

The irony with Zach's story is that he didn't really have connections to Russian interests.