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Homicide: New York - Season 3 - Episode 03: Soho Horror
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10:12The show also shows
10:42He's leaving the
11:10He came walking right
11:15There in the middle of the
11:38He's in the middle of the crime scene
12:16He never got upset
12:19He's in the middle of the night
12:46He's in the middle of the night
13:27He's in the middle of the night
13:36He's in the middle of the night
13:42He's in the middle of the night
14:27He's in the middle of the night
14:28He's in the middle of the night
14:34He's in the middle of the night
15:05He's in the middle of the night
15:47He's in the middle of the night
16:28Nicholas told me
16:34He's in the middle of the night
17:03He's in the middle of the night
17:41He's in the middle of the night
18:00According to the night
18:10Nicholas, he's in the middle of the night
18:37He's in the middle of the night
19:08He's in the middle of the night
19:33He's in the middle of the night
20:00He's in the middle of the night
20:30He said, he said, he's in the middle of the night
20:39And he rang and rang, and he goes,
20:40oh, she's not answering, she's not answering.
20:42And I went, well, of course she's not answering
20:43because she's sleeping.
20:47But he said he was gonna leave,
20:48and we said goodnight, and he walked out the door.
20:50I mean, it was nothing unusual.
20:53It kind of confirmed Nicholas Brooks' story.
20:56At least it made it seem like that part
20:58of what he was telling us was the truth.
21:00And there's still a possibility that this is a suicide.
21:09I need to know who Sylvie Cachet was.
21:13What was her state of mind?
21:15I interviewed Sylvie Cachet's family and friends,
21:19and I knew on the other side that they were emotional.
21:24They told me that she had been depressed.
21:28I knew Sylvie Cachet in 2009
21:32because she hired me as an intern at Ann Cole Swimwear.
21:36When Sylvie hired me,
21:37we immediately got along.
21:39We would go and, you know, split a bottle of wine
21:42and just chit-chat.
21:44Sylvie, to me, was a friend, a boss, a mentor.
21:49I looked up to her.
21:50I thought she was brilliant.
21:52In 2006, she launched her own swimwear.
21:55She was featured in Vogue, InStyle, Sports Illustrated.
22:00Our family celebrated every achievement.
22:03We were very proud of her.
22:05To launch your own line as a designer is, like, a dream come true.
22:11Sadly, Sylvie had to dissolve her company
22:13because of the 2008-2009 economic crash.
22:17The investor that was funding her had other investments in the world,
22:20and people were being very cautious with new investments.
22:24She had to go back to work at Ann Cole, and she loved working at Ann Cole.
22:28We actually, you know, we had a great time, but, you know, you're...
22:31You personally feel like you're taking a step down from where you had gotten,
22:35and I think that every day it was on her mind.
22:37I think she did have a lot of stress, she had a lot of anxiety, and so she was on
22:42medication
22:43that was working to improve her life and make her more productive.
22:47They asked if Sylvie was suicidal, the answer would be a hard, immediate no, absolutely not.
22:53The setback of Scylla closing, it caused some depression and sadness, but never, you know,
23:00in an incapacitating way for her.
23:02There was always a plan for the future.
23:03While we were working during the day at Ann Cole,
23:07we'd go to a print studio and select prints for Ann Cole,
23:11we'd also be collecting some for Scylla.
23:13It was never dead to her, it was just paused.
23:17Interviewing her intern, Heather, was very interesting.
23:20She was able to give me some very specific information
23:24about Sylvie's relationships and who she was seeing.
23:29Around 2008, Sylvie had broken off an engagement.
23:33She ended up ending her relationship with her fiancé because it was too much to deal with,
23:39along 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.
24:12So he was there for her in that moment.
24:15She was devastated.
24:18I really think that that became, like, a trauma bond for her.
24:21Otherwise, I don't think that she would have ended up dating him outside of that,
24:25because he was really young.
24:27She was 33, and I think he was 24.
24:30They just started spending almost every day together.
24:32He was spending the night, you know, essentially like one of those, like, quick-move-in situations,
24:37where he's always sleeping over, but there were red flags popping up probably a month, two.
24:45The fact that he didn't have a job was just baffling to her.
24:48She was just getting sick of him smoking weed all day long, not working.
24:54I remember her complaining about the fact that she was always paying for everything.
24:58She called him the child.
25:00Her friends, we were saying,
25:01Dude, you got to lose this guy. Break this off. It's dimming your light.
25:06And she did break up with him.
25:08I think that was hard for her.
25:13The last memory I have of her was on the morning before she died.
25:19She's like, he's asking me to see him.
25:22I'm just going to meet him at my house, and we're going to sit on this stoop.
25:26Apparently, he has a letter for me, but I'm not even going to let him up.
25:32Knowing Nicholas Brooks and Sylvie Cachet met up at her apartment
25:37and how turbulent the relationship was,
25:41I felt more like there's something wrong here.
25:46So it's important for us to go to that apartment,
25:49see what happened during the night there.
25:52When we went inside in the apartment,
25:55there was clear evidence that there was a fire.
25:58You smell the smoke.
26:00The bed was, was really burnt up.
26:03There was a little clump of hair, burnt hair on 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.
26:18She was telling him that if you don't stop being more romantic,
26:21you know, you're not going to be in my life anymore.
26:24She had a long list of requests,
26:28simple things like cuddle me after sex,
26:32take me on dates, if you use something, replace it.
26:36Don't smoke pot all day, don't drink all day.
26:39She basically was almost like a mother,
26:42telling him that you better get yourself all straightened out or else,
26:45you know, this isn't going to work.
26:48The letters from Nicholas were asking for forgiveness,
26:53promising to do better, asking her not to give up on me.
26:58It gave us an example of what she was falling for over and over.
27:04There was also another note that she wrote
27:06that basically stated that she suspected him of stealing money from her.
27:11We found Sylvie Cachet's bank statements.
27:15He had ordered prostitutes using her credit card.
27:20He had complete nerve, in my eyes,
27:24thinking about, you know, getting a prostitute
27:26and using her money to pay for it.
27:29And then we find an email,
27:32and we call it the fuck you email.
27:36She wrote to Nick, and she was very upset.
27:40He said, I found out about you, I know what you've been doing,
27:44and I'm turning you into the police and the credit card companies.
27:49It definitely leads to a certain type of motive.
27:53That could have been the catalyst that caused him
27:56to make the decision that he has to take her out.
28:00We did a canvas of her apartment building to try to get a picture
28:05of if anybody heard anything going on that night.
28:07We had one of the neighbors stating that they heard an argument.
28:10They heard someone crying, and they heard a lot of banging,
28:13like someone falling to the floor or something going on.
28:16You have fighting and arguing, fire.
28:20A few hours later, Sylvie Cachet is found deceased.
28:24A picture is starting to emerge.
28:26We're thinking, well, this might be a homicide,
28:28but we can't charge a person with half of a picture painted.
28:33We still have to turn over every stone,
28:35make sure we find out exactly what happened.
28:37We started to look into Nick's background.
28:41It put a little bit more color into the picture.
28:45We learned that he was a trust fund baby.
28:48His father, a writer-composer named Joseph Brooks,
28:53he had written the song and the movie You Light Up My Life,
28:57and it won Academy Awards.
28:59It was a well-known song.
29:00You light up my life
29:06I think it's one of the worst songs of all time.
29:09It was on the radios, on every station, 24 hours.
29:15You light up my life.
29:18I'm like, oh, God.
29:20And although he was known for that,
29:23there was also a dark side that he was known for.
29:27Around 2008, I'm in the 19th Grayson.
29:31I'm number two guy in the detective squad.
29:33Part of my job is to review all the complaints that came in.
29:37Joe Brooks' name starts coming across my desk.
29:44I'm seeing a lot of complaints for rape.
29:48Special Victim Squad handles those cases.
29:51I finally called the Special Victim Squad.
29:54I'm like, do we have a mad rapist running loose in the confines
29:59of the 19th Precinct that I should be concerned about?
30:02They were like, this guy's a serial rapist.
30:05This is part of an ongoing investigation.
30:08The Manhattan District Attorney indicted Joseph Brooks
30:11on 91 counts of rape.
30:13Joseph Brooks was putting ads on Craigslist.
30:16He was trying to get up-and-coming female actresses
30:21come be coached by an Academy Award winner.
30:24He convinced them to come to his house.
30:27He drugged them and then would have, you know, his way with them.
30:32Joseph Brooks was charged with sexual assault on numerous women,
30:37and he was awaiting trial.
30:40Knowing Joseph Brooks' background made me wonder
30:44if I was dealing with the same type of individual in Nicholas Brooks.
30:50Character-wise, the apple may not fall too far from the tree.
30:58During the background check, we also learned that Nicholas's father
31:02had set him up with an apartment when he was in high school.
31:06His father used to get him escorts.
31:08He learned from his dad how to pick these prostitutes up
31:11because his dad had been doing that.
31:14It painted a very strange relationship between him and the father,
31:19but we also found out that his father
31:22was somewhat controlling him through the money.
31:25Joseph Brooks' stipulations to Nicholas was that
31:30he could not make contact with his mother or his sister.
31:34And the minute that he found out that Nicholas contacted his mother,
31:39Joseph Brooks cut him out of the will and took him off the trust fund
31:43right around 2009, 2010.
31:45So here is a young man out in the world
31:49without any of the financial means that he's used to living with.
31:56So now, if he wanted money, he needed to want either work
31:59or mooch off somebody.
32:01When he met Sylvie, she had money, and she was cutting him off.
32:05He may have felt like the gig was up
32:08and that he had to do something
32:11because she actually threatened to go to the police.
32:19The adrenaline's going with cases like this.
32:22I'm probably up, you know, a good 24 hours, if not more.
32:26You don't feel tired.
32:28It's really the momentum of the case that keeps you going.
32:30We all returned to the 6th Precinct.
32:34We have to look at all the evidence.
32:36So we started to look at the surveillance footage again
32:40and started to really look at the timeline.
32:44There's something we missed, something we're not seeing.
32:49We confirmed that Nicholas Brooks left the hotel room at 218,
32:54and then went down into the lobby and met David Raleigh.
32:59Until the manager came to check on the leak at 251,
33:04no one else had entered the room or exited the room.
33:11We need evidence that when Sylvie died,
33:14Nicholas was still inside the room.
33:17So we got access to the hotel phone records,
33:20and Nicholas Brooks' alibi falls apart.
33:25Once we started to look into the call records to the front desk,
33:29we started to realize that it wasn't that he just left at 218.
33:33Before he left, there was a call coming into the front desk
33:36that was very interesting.
33:40We saw that the phone call about the leak
33:43from the hotel room below came in at 211.
33:49We checked the card swipes into the room,
33:52which tells us that Nicholas Brooks was in the room
33:57when the leak was occurring.
34:01There was water overflowing. It was already on the floor.
34:04It was already seeping into other apartments.
34:06So he was there when she was in the tub.
34:11He's been lying to us the whole time.
34:15So in this case, with the autopsy,
34:18we're gonna know a lot more about what happened to Sylvie.
34:21The significant findings on this autopsy were
34:25finger marks on the neck, bruises.
34:28And she had petechial hemorrhages under the eyelids.
34:32That means that she had to have obstruction of blood flow
34:37at the neck in some way.
34:41And then, lungs full of water,
34:44indicating she was alive when she drowned.
34:47And of course, when toxicology came back,
34:50it shows that each of those medications in her system
34:53were at therapeutic levels.
34:55It was prescribed medication.
34:56There was nothing there that could have killed her in an overdose.
35:00So that tells me, definitely not suicide,
35:03definitely not an accident.
35:06A matter of death. It's a homicide.
35:09We had also gotten the DNA reports back.
35:12DNA was found on the tub, and it did come back to Nicholas Brooks.
35:17DNA profile on the tub could mean nothing.
35:20He's in the room. He could have used the tub.
35:22But he specifically denied ever going near the tub.
35:32What we believe happened is when they finally got to the Soho house,
35:36there was some sort of fight between them.
35:40One thing led to another, and then he snapped.
35:43Brooks grabbed her by the neck, pushed her into the bathtub, held her underwater.
35:50She inhaled the water, she drowned, and she was strangled.
35:58Nicholas, did you strangle your girlfriend?
36:00Did you do it here? Smile.
36:02Did you do it here?
36:02Did you kill Sylvie?
36:05We arrested Nicholas Brooks, and we transport him down
36:08to our central booking facility.
36:12He said to me that, you know, I have money.
36:14So I'm thinking, was he trying to bribe me here or something?
36:17So I go, well, what do you mean you have money?
36:20He goes, well, yeah, but I can't get to it until the morning.
36:24And I go, well, you don't really need money now.
36:26And he goes, well, I needed to pay for protection.
36:30And I go, what kind of protection are you talking about?
36:33He says, well, the white supremacists.
36:36I said, why would you say that?
36:37He goes, well, I'm a big fan of Oz.
36:39I guess he's talking about the TV show Oz.
36:41And I was like, well, you're not going to Oz, you know?
36:44You're going to the New York City Central Booking, you know?
36:48I definitely realized that he really didn't know how life was or how life worked.
36:54I just thought it was odd, and at that point, corrections took control of him,
36:58and it was the last time I spoke with him.
37:07After the arrest of Nicholas Brooks, we found out that his father was coming up for trial.
37:12However, he committed suicide.
37:17Joseph Brooks' attorney took on Nicholas Brooks' case.
37:27The defense's position was that Sylvie suffered from depression.
37:32She was on medication.
37:34She overdosed on that medication after she got into the tub and drowned.
37:39Her mother and father flew in from their home in Virginia to look Nicholas Brooks in the eye.
37:44I didn't see any remorse.
37:46He didn't look at me or my husband.
37:49He didn't face us.
37:51He didn't care.
37:52My sister was an incredible person, and her life was taken absolutely inexplicably
37:59by this parasite to society.
38:03He has to pay for my daughter's life, for her beautiful life.
38:11We got a call from the DA's office that the trial was over.
38:16Nicholas Brooks was found guilty and given 25 years to life.
38:25I feel very sorry for the Cachet family.
38:29She should not have died.
38:32People should be wearing her swimsuits.
38:35She should be big in the fashion industry.
38:37New York loves her, and she is New York.
38:41My sister added to the fun of life.
38:45Myself and others around her were better off and did greater things
38:50because she was around.
38:51I miss the happiness and the light that she brought.
38:56She just was so sweet and just a soul-level beautiful human.
39:00She will forever be my mentor.
39:06Sylvie's case was my last case as a detective.
39:10I retired shortly after this, and I have two girls.
39:15It just hits home to take someone's life and be so stone cold about it afterwards.
39:22It could be his upbringing, but it was no excuse to kill somebody,
39:26especially somebody that you loved.
39:44In April of 89, we had the infamous Central Park jogger case.
39:49It was a jogger that was raped and seriously assaulted.
39:52It was a huge case because it was Central Park and because of the horrendousness of the crime.
39:58Five young males were convicted.
40:00These boys were known as the Central Park Five.
40:03The injustice that was perpetrated needed to be undone, but that's not the whole story.
40:09There are other victims of what we now put under the umbrella of the Central Park jogger case.
40:15He 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.
40:29He was just all about the violence.
40:32It was just a beautiful afternoon.
40:34You just don't think it will happen then.
40:36Anybody talks about the case that haunts you, that's the case that haunted me.
40:46So
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