Patrick Radden Keefe

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Today in Focus · The mysterious death of the teenager who posed as a Russian billionaire · 11 May 2026 podcast

And Zach goes out onto the balcony and goes off the balcony.

there was actually video captured from MI6 headquarters, there's a CCTV camera, that Zach was alone on the balcony.

So he jumped, he wasn't pushed, but that Sharma was in the apartment.

And in fact, even more intriguingly, that video captures after Zach goes off the balcony, the lights go out in the apartment.

So what exactly transpired is a big and mysterious question and one that I kind of get into at great length in the book.

So the next morning there is somebody discovers a body on the foreshore of the Thames.

They're right in front of that building, right where he fell.

But the authorities aren't able to identify this body.

And so...

Days pass before the Brettlers, who are frantically searching for their missing son, realize that, in fact, he had died several days earlier.

Yeah, I mean, the police never actually ruled that Zach's death was a suicide.

They kind of intimated that.

They sort of hinted at it, but they never actually concluded it.

That's the reason that you got to... The reason that you had the inquest was because there was uncertainty about the nature of the death.

So I think part of the frustration for the Brettlers was that over the course of several years of dealing with the Metropolitan Police, on the front end, what the police said was, listen, we have all the resources in the world.

We...

are going to leave no stone unturned.

We will get to the bottom of this."

The Bretlers would have these long conversations with the lead detective and they would, with his permission, they would record those conversations.

And they found that the police, once they knew that Zack was alone on the balcony,

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