NY - Fahim Saleh, 33, millionaire tech entrepreneur, dismembered, Manhattan, 15 July 2020 *Arrest*

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CocoChanel said:
MOD NOTE -

PLEASE DO NOT DISCUSS OR DEBATE SPECIFIC PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS AT THIS TIME. THERE IS NO INDICATION FROM MSM OR LE THAT THE SUSPECT HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ONE. WHILE YOU MAY SPECULATE THAT HE MIGHT SUFFER FROM A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE IN GENERAL, YOU MAY NOT SUGGEST A SPECIFIC DISORDER. WITHOUT SUBSTANTIATION, THAT WILL ONLY PROMPT DEBATE OF SUCH CONDITIONS, WHICH WILL DERAIL THIS THREAD. THIS DISCUSSION IS ABOUT THE CRIME, NOT THE SUSPECT’S POTENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. THAT MAY BECOME PART OF THIS STORY AT SOME POINT, BUT NOT AT THIS TIME. UNTIL THEN, DISCUSSION ABOUT BIPOLAR DISORDER, SCHIZOPHRENIA, AND OTHER SPECIFIC CATEGORIES OF THE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ARE OFF THE TABLE.

Thank you for your efforts to post respectfully and responsibly as members of Websleuths.

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I appreciate this note. I wasn't a fan of where I saw that conversation going.
 
CharlestonGal said:
I wonder what he did with the $100,000 he stole from poor Fahim? What happened to that?
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It was reported that there was a load of designer bags being carted out of Haspil’s apartment by police. He had also had some items for sale on designer resale sites. MOO, but it’s possible that he was buying items with a credit card to resell for cash. JMO, not an accusation. Just a theory.
 
Starkville said:
It was reported that there was a load of designer bags being carted out of Haspil’s apartment by police. He had also had some items for sale
on designer resale sites. MOO, but it’s possible that he was buying items with a credit card to resell for cash. JMO, not an accusation. Just a theory.
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I had the same theory.
 
Haspil is accused of killing and decapitating his boss and has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.

Haspil, a native New Yorker, has had no prior contact with the criminal justice system before his alleged involvement in the grisly murder, said his Legal Aid Society attorneys with the Homicide Defence Task Force.

"We are in the very earliest stages of ferreting out the truth. The life of this case promises to be long and complex," they said in a statement. "As the attorneys for Mr Haspil, we urge the public to keep an open mind."

According to the medical examiner, Saleh was stabbed five times in his neck and torso, had multiple incise wounds to his arms and left hand and a contusion to his left forehead, the criminal complaint says.

The multiple wounds to his arms and left hand may be defensive wounds IMO.

Assistant pleads not guilty over US CEO's grisly murder
 
Haspil is a 21-year-old Hofstra University student. He is being held without bail.

He worked as Saleh’s personal assistant but was fired after Saleh discovered he embezzled approximately $90,000. Hapsil had no previous criminal record and Saleh chose not to press charges.

His lawyers said, “There is much more to this narrative than the accusations, an arrest by the police and a charge by the district attorney.”

I’d love to know what that last para. is all about.

Assistant pleads not guilty in slaying of tech CEO Fahim Saleh
 
JudgeJudi said:
Haspil is a 21-year-old Hofstra University student. He is being held without bail.

He worked as Saleh’s personal assistant but was fired after Saleh discovered he embezzled approximately $90,000. Hapsil had no previous criminal record and Saleh chose not to press charges.

His lawyers said, “There is much more to this narrative than the accusations, an arrest by the police and a charge by the district attorney.”

I’d love to know what that last para. is all about.

Assistant pleads not guilty in slaying of tech CEO Fahim Saleh
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When this goes to trial, since he's pleading not guilty, they need to keep an objective jury. All the media surrounding this is going to appear 100% guilt so they're doing their defense jobs by trying to tell the media/city to keep an open mind. It's the best they got given the situation.
 
JudgeJudi said:
Haspil is a 21-year-old Hofstra University student. He is being held without bail.

He worked as Saleh’s personal assistant but was fired after Saleh discovered he embezzled approximately $90,000. Hapsil had no previous criminal record and Saleh chose not to press charges.

His lawyers said, “There is much more to this narrative than the accusations, an arrest by the police and a charge by the district attorney.”

I’d love to know what that last para. is all about.

Assistant pleads not guilty in slaying of tech CEO Fahim Saleh
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With the talk of 'narrative' I think the plan is to go for Extreme Emotional Disturbance and hope that he gets found guilty of Manslaughter rather than murder.
 
Starkville said:
It was reported that there was a load of designer bags being carted out of Haspil’s apartment by police. He had also had some items for sale on designer resale sites. MOO, but it’s possible that he was buying items with a credit card to resell for cash. JMO, not an accusation. Just a theory.
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I'm curious on when he was fired and if the embezzlement never stopped, like if this was a secondary CC rather than one stolen off FS as there was no reported theft with the murder.
 
Manwel said:
When this goes to trial, since he's pleading not guilty, they need to keep an objective jury. All the media surrounding this is going to appear 100% guilt so they're doing their defense jobs by trying to tell the media/city to keep an open mind. It's the best they got given the situation.
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I doubt he, or his lawyers, actually want to go to trial. They might just be angling for a good plea bargain. jmo
 
Haspil reportedly ordered a Taser online using his own credit card and even signed for it when it arrived – a “rookie mistake,” one investigator said. When the Taser was fired in Saleh’s apartment, a burst of anti-felon identification confetti came out as well.

It was this confetti – which contains tiny serial numbers that identify which Taser was fired – that was used to ID Haspil.

Moreover, he reportedly used a credit card on July 14 to take a car to a Home Depot hardware store on 23rd Street in Manhattan. There, he was captured on surveillance video buying the electric saw and supplies later found at Saleh’s apartment.

What we know about the death of Fahim Saleh, the 33-year-old tech millionaire who was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan condo

Dumb and dumber. He's definitely a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
 
Normal gun manufacturers use various techniques to make every barrel unique. When a bullet passes through the barrel, it produces individual markings and these can be used to analyse whether the bullet was fired from a particular gun.

Unlike regular gun bullets, the Taser probes are not able to leave an identifying mark that would lead investigators back to the person that fired them.

So in 1993 the AFID system was created. Now, when many Taser guns are fired, they disperse dozens of colourful anti-felon identification (AFID) tags, which resemble confetti and are printed with tiny serial numbers. It would be very time-consuming to pick all the tags up and so inevitably the police are able to find some and trace the gun that was used.

Huge swathes of LE officers also carry this variety of Taser, which helps in determining overall accountability when the gun is used in the line of duty, although it’s mainly used to trace personal Taser use.

Taser Vice President said, "What it is doing is preventing people from doing crimes. It tells the owner, if you do, you're putting twenty to thirty [business cards] out there."

"There's a ninety-eight per cent chance that when you deploy this, good luck, because we're going to catch you."

Why Is There Confetti In So Many Taser Guns?
 
Apparently the accused had cleanup supplies and a handheld vacuum. Given Covid-19, he probably thought no one would be coming to the apt and he had plenty of time to totally clean up everything and make it look like FS just disappeared. Without a body and crime scene he probably figured he would be in the clear. If the sister (or cousin?) hadn’t shown up, he could have finished the cleanup. BUT he didn’t take into account the elevator video. JMO

https://nypost.com/2020/07/17/ex-personal-assistant-arrested-in-murder-of-tech-ceo-fahim-saleh/
 
Sleuth2u said:
Apparently the accused had cleanup supplies and a handheld vacuum. Given Covid-19, he probably thought no one would be coming to the apt and he had plenty of time to totally clean up everything and make it look like FS just disappeared. Without a body and crime scene he probably figured he would be in the clear. If the sister (or cousin?) hadn’t shown up, he could have finished the cleanup. BUT he didn’t take into account the elevator video. JMO

https://nypost.com/2020/07/17/ex-personal-assistant-arrested-in-murder-of-tech-ceo-fahim-saleh/
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I mean, this kid didn't take into account a LOT of video. Is Generation Z just not watching TV or movies anymore, no matter how Hollywood gloss, that at the very least tell you you are on camera, you are traceable, and such a thing as witnesses exist?
 
Sleuth2u said:
Apparently the accused had cleanup supplies and a handheld vacuum. Given Covid-19, he probably thought no one would be coming to the apt and he had plenty of time to totally clean up everything and make it look like FS just disappeared. Without a body and crime scene he probably figured he would be in the clear. If the sister (or cousin?) hadn’t shown up, he could have finished the cleanup. BUT he didn’t take into account the elevator video. JMO

https://nypost.com/2020/07/17/ex-personal-assistant-arrested-in-murder-of-tech-ceo-fahim-saleh/
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And he also failed to consider how incriminating it would look, purchasing a taser and buying clean up supplies from Home Depot. Parts of what he did (attempted disposal) appear well thought through, while others (taser, Home Depot) are just plain stupid.
 
Even if this had been a totally random crime by someone who did not know Fahim, I believe LE would have quickly tracked down the killer through all the forensic clues he sloppily left behind. However, the fact that he was very close to the victim in the months/years prior to that terrible afternoon put him near the center of the circle of suspicion from the get go. This perp seemed to be operating with a lot of magical thinking, apparently for quite some time.
 
Hannah3105 said:
And he also failed to consider how incriminating it would look, purchasing a taser and buying clean up supplies from Home Depot. Parts of what he did (attempted disposal) appear well thought through, while others (taser, Home Depot) are just plain stupid.
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Yeah, JMO... he was probably banking on this- if there’s no dead body and there’s no crime scene, then you can’t prove there was murder. So he didn’t think LE would get as far as looking into his credit card charges. And if he was using FS’s credit card he may have thought that that would make people think FS was still alive?? Stores have video tho, so he would be ID’d.
 
The Handyman said:
Not sure you're going to get very far with this. From what I've seen, WebSleuths is pretty anti-defendant. The defendant is the bad guy, plain and simple.
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They're not going to get far with that because they don't understand the law. Even if you have a laundry list of DSM-V diagnosis that's not itself a legal defense as the legal requirements are rather specific. In fact they seemed to put down what could be a component of an insanity defense. If TH went back not to cover-up the killing but instead because they enjoyed it would go towards overcoming a huge hurdle. An insanity defense - as opposed to a mere DSM diagnosis - requires an inability to appreciate one is engaged in criminality where trying to cover-up the killing basically ends that. I do think mental health will play a role in the defense to try to get it down to a lesser charge (and maybe succeed), but the chances are low of succeeding in being found not guilty by reason of insanity even if TH has multiple documented mental illnesses.
 
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