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Homicide New York Season 3 Episode 3
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16:49He went to
17:19He also mentioned
17:49Got to the
17:52He said, he said,
18:03He said, she was in the
18:37He said, he said,
18:42He said, I don't know exactly
19:15He said, he said, I should
19:42that night so i was bars closing and i kind of was still in party mode so i stopped
19:50down at the front desk a guy got off the elevator and he said to the attendant he was like
19:56um i'm
19:56kind of looking for a place to have a drink and the bars goes upstairs you know anywhere i could
19:59have a drink the guy behind the desk just looked at me and looked at him and said well he's
20:03going
20:04out for a drink let's go with him with the bar and i was like okay do you want to
20:07go and he goes yeah
20:14sure we got to the bar and we're having a drink and chatting and he proceeded to tell me about
20:21his
20:21girlfriend and chatted with me about his undying love for her and he told the story of the fire
20:26in the apartment and he said his girlfriend she was sleeping in the in the hotel room he said i
20:32really should call my girlfriend to make sure she's okay he called the number and he rang and
20:39rang and he goes oh she's not answering she's not answering and i went well of course she's not
20:43answering because she's sleeping but he said he was gonna leave and we said good night and he walked
20:50out the door i mean it was nothing unusual it kind of confirmed nicholas brooks story at least it made
20:57it seem like that part of what he was telling us was the truth and there's still a possibility that
21:03this is a suicide i need to know who sylvie cachet was what was her state of mind i interviewed
21:16sylvie
21:17cachet's family and friends and i knew on the other side that they were emotional they told me that she
21:25had been depressed i knew sylvie cachet in 2009 because she hired me as an intern at ann cole swimwear
21:36when sylvie hired me we immediately got along we would go and you know split a bottle of wine and
21:42just just chit chat sylvie to me was a friend a boss a mentor i looked up to her i
21:50thought she was brilliant
21:52in 2006 she launched her own swimwear she was featured in vogue in style sports illustrated
22:00our family celebrated every achievement we were very proud of her to launch your own line as a
22:07designer is like a dream come true sadly sylvie had to dissolve her company because of the 2008 2009
22:16economic crash the investment that was funding her had other investments in the world and people
22:21were being very cautious with new investments she had to go back to work at ann cole and she loved
22:28working at ann cole we actually you know we had a great time but you know you're you personally feel
22:32like you're taking a step down from where you had gotten and i think that every day it was on
22:37her mind
22:38i think she did have a lot of stress she had a lot of anxiety and so she was on
22:43medication that was
22:43working to improve her life and make her more productive they asked if sylvie was suicidal the
22:50answer would be a hard immediate no absolutely not the setback of celia closing it caused some
22:57depression and sadness but never you know in an incapacitating way for her there was always a plan
23:03for the future while we were working during the day at ann cole we'd go to a print studio and
23:09select
23:10prints for ann cole we'd also be collecting some for celia it was never dead to her it was just
23:15paused
23:17interviewing her intern heather was very interesting she was able to give me some
23:22very specific information about sylvie's relationships and who she was seeing
23:29around 2008 sylvie had broken off an engagement she ended up ending her relationship with her fiance
23:37because it was too much to deal with along with what she was also dealing with with her business
23:43after that sylvie was dating a little bit and she first met nicholas in june of 2010
23:52when she was going out hanging out with friends doing the nightlife scene
23:58not long after they were going on a walk near her house and so her dog pepper had gotten hit
24:05by a car
24:08nick had to scoop her up off the ground and wrap her in the coat he was there for her
24:14in that moment
24:15she was devastated
24:18i really think that that became like a trauma bond for her otherwise i don't think that she would have
24:23ended up dating him outside of that because he was really young she was 33 and i think he was
24:2924.
24:30they just started spending almost every day together he was spending the night
24:34you know essentially like one of those like quick move-in situations where he's always sleeping over
24:40but there were red flags popping up probably month two
24:46the fact that he didn't have a job was just baffling to her she was just getting sick of him
24:51smoking weed all day long not working i remember her complaining about the fact that she was always
24:57paying for everything she called him the child her friends we were saying dude you gotta lose this guy
25:03break this off it's dimming your light and she did break up with him i think that was hard for
25:09her
25:13the last memory i have of her was on the morning before she died she's like he's asking me to
25:21see him
25:22i'm just going to meet him at my house and we're going to sit on this stoop apparently he has
25:27a letter
25:27for me but i'm not even going to let him up knowing nicholas brooks and sylvie cachet met up at
25:37her
25:37apartment and how turbulent the relationship was i felt more like there's something wrong here
25:46so it's important for us to go to that apartment see what happened during the night there
25:52when we went inside in the apartment there was clear evidence that there was a fire
25:58you smell the smoke the bed was was really burnt up there was a little clump of hair burnt hair
26:05on the bed
26:06what nicholas brooks was telling tommy actually did happen that night
26:13and then we discovered the notes they left to each other she was telling him that if you don't
26:20start being more romantic you know you're not going to be in my life anymore she had a long list
26:26of
26:27requests simple things like cuddle me after sex take me on dates if you use something replace it
26:36don't smoke pot all day don't drink all day she basically was almost like a mother telling him
26:43that you better get yourself all straightened out or else you know this isn't going to work
26:49the letters from nicholas were asking for forgiveness promising to do better asking her
26:56not to give up on me it gave us an example of what she was falling for over and over
27:03there was also
27:05another note that she wrote that basically stated that she suspected him of stealing money from her
27:11we found sylvie cachet's bank statements he had ordered prostitutes using her credit card
27:20he had complete nerve in my eyes thinking about you know getting a prostitute and using her money to pay
27:27for it
27:29and then we find an email and we call it the fuck you email she wrote to nick and she
27:39was very upset
27:40he said i found out about you i know what you've been doing and i'm turning you into the police
27:46and the credit card companies
27:49it definitely leads to a certain type of motive
27:53that could have been the catalyst that caused him to make the decision that he has to take her out
28:01we did a canvas of her apartment building to try to get a picture of if anybody heard anything going
28:06on
28:07that night we had one of the neighbors stating that they heard an argument they heard someone crying
28:12and they heard a lot of banging like someone falling to the floor or something going on you have
28:17fighting and arguing fire a few hours later sylvie cachet is found deceased a picture is starting to emerge
28:26we're thinking well this might be a homicide but we can't charge a person with half of a picture painted
28:33we still have to turn over every stone make sure we find out exactly what happened we started to look
28:39into nick's background it put a little bit more color into the picture we learned that he was a trust
28:47fund baby his father a writer composer named joseph brooks he had written the song and the movie you light
28:56up my life and it won academy awards it was a well-known song
29:06i think it's one of the worst songs of all time it was on the radios on every station 24
29:137
29:14you light up my life i'm like oh god
29:20and although he was known for that there was also a dark side that he was known for
29:26around 2008 i'm in the 19th grayson i'm number two guy in the detective squad part of my job is
29:35to
29:35review all the complaints that came in joe brooks name starts coming across my desk
29:44i'm seeing a lot of complaints for rape special victim squad handles those cases
29:51i finally called the special victim squad i'm like do we have a mad rapist running loose in the
29:58confines of the 19th precinct that i should be concerned about they were like this guy's a serial
30:04rapist this is part of an ongoing investigation the manhattan district attorney indicted joseph brooks
30:12on 91 counts of rape joseph brooks was putting ads on craigslist he was trying to get up and coming
30:18female
30:18uh actresses come be coached by a academy award winner he convinced them to come to his house
30:28he drugged them and then would have you know his way with them joseph brooks was charged with sexual
30:35assault on numerous women and he was awaiting trial knowing joseph brooks background made me wonder
30:44if i was dealing with the same type of individual in nicholas brooks character wise the apple may not fall
30:53too far from the tree during the background check we also learned that nicholas's father had set him
31:03up with an apartment when he was in high school his father used to get him escorts he learned from
31:09his dad
31:10how to pick these prostitutes up because his dad had been doing that it painted a very strange
31:16relationship between him and the father but we also found out that his father was somewhat controlling
31:23him through the money joseph brooks stipulations to nicholas was that he could not make contact with
31:31his mother or his sister and the minute that he found out that nicholas contacted his mother joseph
31:39brooks cut him out of the will and took him off the trust fund right around 2009 2010 so here
31:47is a young
31:48man out in the world without any of the financial means that he's used to living with so now if
31:57he
31:57wanted money he needed to want either work or mooch off somebody but he met sylvie she had money and
32:04she was cutting him off he may have felt like the gig was up and that he had to do
32:10something because
32:11she actually threatened to go to the police
32:20adrenaline's going with cases like this i'm probably up you know a good 24 hours if not more
32:27you don't feel tired it's really the momentum of the case that keeps you going
32:31we all returned to the sixth precinct we have to look at all the evidence so we started to look
32:38at
32:38the surveillance footage again and started to really look at the timeline
32:44but there's something we missed something we're not seeing we confirmed that nicholas brooks left the
32:52hotel room at 218 and then went down into the lobby and met david raleigh until the manager came to
33:01check on the leak at 251 no one else had entered the room or exited the room
33:11we need evidence that when sylvie died nicholas was still inside the room so we got access to the
33:19hotel phone records and nicholas brooks alibi falls apart
33:25once we started to look into the call records to the front desk we started to realize that it wasn't
33:31that he just left at 218 before he left there was a call coming into the front desk that was
33:37very
33:38interesting we saw that the phone call about the leak from the hotel room below came in at 211
33:49we checked the card swipes into the room which tells us that nicholas brooks was in the room
33:57when the leak was occurring there was water overflowing it was already on the floor it was
34:04already seeping into other apartments so he was there when she was in the tub he's been lying to us
34:12the
34:13whole time so in this case with the autopsy we're going to know a lot more about what happened to
34:21sylvie
34:21the significant findings on this autopsy were finger marks on the neck bruises and she had
34:30particular hemorrhages under the eyelids that means that she had to have obstruction of blood flow at the
34:38neck in some way and then lungs full of water indicating she was alive when she drowned and of
34:48course when toxicology came back it shows that each of those medications in her system were at
34:54therapeutic levels was prescribed medication there was nothing there that could have killed her in an
35:00overdose so that tells me definitely not suicide definitely not an accident a matter of death it's a
35:07homicide we had also gotten the dna reports back dna was found on the tub and it did come back
35:15to
35:16nicholas brooks dna profile on the tub could mean nothing he's in the room he could have used the tub
35:23but he specifically denied ever going near the tub
35:32what we believe happened is when they finally got to the soho house there was some sort of
35:38fight between them one thing led to another and then he snapped brooks grabbed her by the neck
35:46pushed her into the bathtub held her under water she inhaled the water she drowned and she was strangled
35:58nicholas did you strangle your girlfriend did you kill sylvie
36:05we arrested nicholas brooks and we transport him down to our central booking facility
36:12and he said to me that you know i have money so i'm thinking was he trying to bribe me
36:16here or
36:17something so i go what do you mean you have money he goes well yeah but i i can't get
36:22to it until the
36:23morning and i go well you don't really need money now and he goes well i needed to pay for
36:28protection
36:30and i go what kind of protection you're talking about he says well the white supremacists i said why
36:36would you say that he goes well i'm a big fan of oz i guess he's talking about the tv
36:41show oz
36:41and i was like well you're not going to oz you know we're going to the new york city
36:47central booking you know i definitely realized that he really didn't know how life was or how
36:53life worked i just thought it was odd and at that point corrections took control of him and it was
36:58the
36:58last time i spoke with him after the arrest of nicholas brooks we found out that his father was
37:11coming up for trial however he committed suicide joseph brooks attorney took on nicholas brooks's case
37:28the defense's position was that sylvie suffered from depression she was on medication she overdosed
37:36on that medication after she got into the tub and drowned her mother and father flew in from their
37:41home in virginia to look nicholas brooks in the eye i didn't see any remorse he didn't look at me
37:48or my
37:48husband he didn't face us he didn't care my sister was an incredible person and her life was taken
37:56uh absolutely inexplicably by uh this parasite to society he has to pay for my daughter's life for
38:07her beautiful life we got a call from the da's office at the trials was over nicholas brooks
38:17was found guilty and given 25 years to life
38:25i feel very sorry for the cachet family she should not have died people should be wearing her
38:34swimsuits she should be big in the fashion industry new york loves her and she is new york
38:41my sister added to the fun of life myself and others around her were better off and didn't
38:49greater things because she was around i miss the happiness and the light that she brought
38:56she just was so sweet and just a soul level beautiful human she will forever be my mentor
39:06sylvie's case was my last case as a detective i retired shortly after this and i have two girls
39:15it just sits home to take someone's life and be so stone cold about it afterwards it could be his
39:23upbringing but it was no excuse to kill somebody especially somebody that you loved
39:44in april of 89 we had the infamous central park jogger case it was a jogger that was raped and
39:51seriously
39:51assaulted it was a huge case because it was central park and because of the horrendousness of the crime
39:58five young males were convicted these boys were known as the central park five the injustice that
40:04was perpetrated needed to be undone but that's not the whole story there are other victims of what we
40:12now put under the umbrella of the central park jogger case he made her choose your eyes or your kids
40:19your eyes or your kids is something that i've never heard any other perpetrator say before
40:24he started cutting under and above my eyes he was just all about the violence it was just a beautiful
40:33afternoon you just don't think it will happen then anybody talks about the case that haunts you
40:38that's the case that haunted me
40:41so
41:10so
41:27you
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