Patrick Radden Keefe

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Akbar Shamji talked and talked and talked and talked, but lied about his movements.

And so he told all kinds of stories about what had happened that night that just didn't match up with the data the police had.

He was in the apartment, and then he left.

And rather than go home, which is what he told the police he did, he sort of drove around and around in the area quite late at night, as if he was nervous to go too far because he was worried that something bad might be going to happen to Zach.

And after Zach jumped, he clearly had had some indication something was going to go badly because he got a call from Indy and Dave, started racing back to the building, arrived back right around the moment when Zach jumped, went up to the apartment, went back down, and then surveillance cameras capture Akbar Shamji moments after Zach has jumped, walking out to the river.

going to the precise spot where Zak has just plunged into the water, craning his body over the river wall and looking into the water, then straightening up, going back to his car and driving home.

No, they were both arrested on suspicion of murder, but ultimately neither of them was charged.

Well, he would sometimes dangle people off of buildings.

He would threaten people.

There's a terrifying story about a guy who he essentially kidnapped and beat and kind of poked a knife into his neck and then stuck his fingers into the knife wound and kind of pressed in.

He would also do this thing I learned from a friend of his where he would, if he needed something from you, he would take a knife and he would go over to the stove and he would turn on the stove and he would slowly heat the knife over the stove.

And sometimes when the knife was hot, he would come over and actually press it into your flesh.

But most of the time that wasn't required because long before he even approached you with the hot knife, you had told him what he needed to know or given him what he was demanding.

Well, there were text messages that Akbar Shamji sent to a third man, to another man who wasn't in the flat that night.

But during the time when Akbar was in the flat with Zach and Indian Dave, he texted a friend and said, things are getting really bad here.

I'm heating up knives and clearing up blood.

I mean, the circumstances were quite mysterious, and for a long time, it wasn't entirely clear what had happened.

The Brettlers one day got a call from the lead detective saying there's something you need to know.

Verinda Sharma, our lead suspect in the case, has died in the same apartment, actually, that Zach did, or in the same apartment Zach left and leapt to his death.