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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
20:31He said, I asked him, he said, I said, I said, I said, I should call my girlfriend and make
20:33sure she's okay
20:37He called the number and it rang and rang and he goes, no, she's not answering, she's not answering
20:41And I went, well, of course she's not answering because she's sleeping.
20:46But he said he was going to leave, and we said goodnight, and he walked out the door.
20:50I mean, it was nothing unusual.
20:53It kind of confirmed Nicholas Brooke's story.
20:56At least it made it seem like that part of 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, and 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 because she hired me as an intern at Ann Cole Swimwear.
21:36When Sylvie hired me, we immediately got along.
21:39We would go and, you know, split a bottle of wine and just chit-chat.
21:44Sylvie, to me, was a friend, a boss, a mentor.
21:48I 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 because 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.
22:25She 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, you personally feel like
22:32you're taking a step down from where you had gotten, and I think that every day it was on her
22:37mind.
22:38I think she did have a lot of stress.
22:40She had a lot of anxiety, and so she was on medication that was working to improve her life
22:45and make her more productive.
22:47They asked if Sylvie was suicidal.
22:50The answer would be a hard, immediate no, absolutely not.
22:53The setback of Selah closing, it caused some depression and sadness,
22:59but never, you know, in 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, we'd go to a print studio and select prints for
23:10Ann Cole.
23:11We'd also be collecting some for Selah.
23:13It was never dead to her.
23:15It was just paused.
23:17Interviewing her intern, Heather, was very interesting.
23:20She was able to give me some very specific information about 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.
24:12He 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, because 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-moving situations where he's always sleeping
24:38over.
24:40But 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.
24:59Her friends, we were saying, dude, you've got to lose this guy.
25:03Break this off.
25:04It'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.
25:28I'm not even going to let him up.
25:32Knowing Nicholas Brooks and Sylvie Cachet met up at her apartment, and 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, 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.
26:00The bed 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, you know, you're not going to be in
26:23my life anymore.
26:24She had a long list of requests, simple things like cuddle me after sex, take me on dates.
26:33If you use something, replace it.
26:35Don't smoke pot all day, don't drink all day.
26:39She basically was almost like a mother telling him that you better get yourself all straightened out or else, you
26:45know, this isn't going to work.
26:48The letters from Nicholas were asking for forgiveness, promising 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 that 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, 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.
27:36She wrote to Nick, and she was very upset.
27:40He said, I found out about you.
27:42I know what you've been doing, and 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 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 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, like someone falling to the floor or something going
28:16on.
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, 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.
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, he had written the song and the movie,
28:56You Light Up My Life, and it won Academy Awards.
28:59It was a well-known song.
29:06I think it's one of the worst songs of all time.
29:09It was on the radios, on every station, 24-7.
29:15You light up my life.
29:18I'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 prison.
29:31I'm number two guy in the detective squad.
29:33Part of my job is to review all the complaints that came in.
29:39Joe 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.
29:53And I'm like, do we have a mad rapist running loose in the confines of the 19th prison that I
30:00should 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 on 91 counts of rape.
30:13Joseph Brooks was putting ads on Craigslist.
30:16He was trying to get up-and-coming female actresses come be coached by an Academy Award winner.
30:24He convinced them to come to his house.
30:28He drugged them and then would have, you know, his way with them.
30:32Joseph Brooks was charged with sexual assault on numerous women, and he was awaiting trial.
30:40Knowing Joseph Brooks' background made me wonder if 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 had set him up with an apartment when he was
31:04in high school.
31:06His father used to get him escorts.
31:08He learned from his dad how to pick these prostitutes up, because his dad had been doing that.
31:13It painted a very strange relationship between him and the father, but we also found out that his father was
31:22somewhat controlling him through the money.
31:26Joseph Brooks' stipulations to Nicholas was that he could not make contact with his mother or his sister.
31:35And 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 right around 2009, 2010.
31:46So here is a young man out in the world without any of the financial means that he's used to
31:54living with.
31:56So now, if he wanted money, he needed to want either work or 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, and that he had to do something because she actually threatened
32:12to go to the police.
32:20Adrenaline'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 and started to really look at the timeline.
32:44Is there something we missed?
32:46Something we're not seeing?
32:49We confirmed that Nicholas Brooks left the hotel room at 218 and then went down into the lobby and met
32:57David Raleigh until the manager came to check on the leak.
33:03At 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.
33:17So we got access to the hotel phone records, and Nicholas Brooks' alibi falls apart.
33:25Well, once we started to look into the call records to the front desk, we started to realize that it
33:31wasn't that he just left at 218.
33:32Before he left, there was a call coming into the front desk that was very interesting.
33:39We saw that the phone call about the leak from the hotel room below came in at 211.
33:49We check the card swipes into the room, which tells us that Nicholas Brooks was in the room when the
33:58leak was occurring.
34:01There was water overflowing.
34:03It 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, we're going to know a lot more about what happened to Sylvie.
34:22The significant findings on this autopsy were finger 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 at the neck in some way.
34:41And then, lungs full of water, indicating she was alive when she drowned.
34:47And of course, when toxicology came back, it shows that each of those medications in her system were at therapeutic
34:54levels.
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, definitely not an accident.
35:05A matter of death.
35:07It's a homicide.
35:08We 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.
35:21He 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, there was some sort of fight between
35:39them.
35:40One thing led to another, and then he snapped.
35:42Brooks grabbed her by the neck, pushed her into the bathtub, held her underwater, she inhaled the water, she drowned,
35:53and she was strangled.
35:58Nicholas, did you strangle your girlfriend?
36:01Did you kill Sylvie?
36:05We arrested Nicholas Brooks, and we transport him down to our central booking facility.
36:11He 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, 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.
36:42And I was like, well, you're not going to Oz, you know, you're going to the New York City central
36:47booking, you know.
36:48So I definitely realized that he really didn't know how life was or how life worked.
36:54I just thought it was odd.
36:55And at that point, corrections took control of him, and 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.
37:13However, he committed suicide.
37:18Joseph Brooks' attorney took on Nicholas Brooks' case.
37:28The defense's position was that Sylvie suffered from depression.
37:33She 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.
37:45I 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 by 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 trials 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 because she was around.
38:51I miss the happiness and the light that she brought.
38:55She 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, especially 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. You just don't think it will happen then.
40:36Everybody talks about the case that haunts you, that's the case that haunted me.
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