WEBVTT 00:06.005 --> 00:08.007 [ambient street noise] 00:37.829 --> 00:41.750 There are situations you hope to never be in. 00:43.835 --> 00:47.964 What happened in that room, it's not something you can just forget about. 00:49.466 --> 00:54.429 I arrived for my shift as night manager at Soho House 00:54.512 --> 00:58.516 on Thursday, December 9th, 2010. 00:58.600 --> 01:01.603 Soho House is a private members' club, 01:01.686 --> 01:05.815 very exclusive to the arts, and film, and music industry. 01:05.899 --> 01:07.525 Not open to the general public. 01:08.318 --> 01:10.403 A few hours into my shift, 01:10.487 --> 01:14.908 as I'm going through my checklist for the evening… 01:14.991 --> 01:15.825 [phone rings] 01:15.909 --> 01:19.370 …I get a call that a guest is experiencing 01:19.454 --> 01:22.373 a heavy leak of water into their room. 01:22.457 --> 01:25.085 We begin to trace back the origin of the leak, 01:25.168 --> 01:28.755 where eventually it leads me to Sylvie's room. 01:29.339 --> 01:33.009 Sylvie Cachay was a young, rising swimsuit designer 01:33.092 --> 01:37.430 who had worked with the likes of Victoria's Secret and Tommy Hilfiger. 01:37.514 --> 01:40.225 She was up-and-coming, rising, 01:41.976 --> 01:44.187 and heading for great things. 01:44.270 --> 01:48.983 And she was just the perfect member to be a part of Soho House. 01:50.902 --> 01:53.154 We knock. We get no answer. 01:53.238 --> 01:54.781 I'm able to open up the door. 01:58.409 --> 02:03.540 And it's when I see Sylvie in the bathtub, uh, submerged underwater. 02:04.833 --> 02:09.796 My first reaction was just to jump in and remove her out of that tub. 02:11.548 --> 02:13.466 I'm shaking her. I'm talking to her. 02:13.550 --> 02:15.927 I look for a pulse. I feel no pulse. 02:16.010 --> 02:19.013 I then start to perform CPR. 02:20.056 --> 02:22.642 I directed my colleague to call 911 02:23.309 --> 02:26.521 as I continue to try to resuscitate her, 02:26.604 --> 02:30.400 screaming at her to wake up, to wake up. 02:32.193 --> 02:33.194 Um… 02:35.947 --> 02:36.948 Yeah. 02:41.828 --> 02:43.413 [suspenseful music playing] 02:43.496 --> 02:46.791 [Mooney] Our job is to make sure you can go home and sleep at night. 02:48.334 --> 02:51.546 [Rivera] It's so important for a family to know who murdered their relative. 02:52.463 --> 02:56.634 [chief] Compassion for the victims, that's the most important thing. 02:57.135 --> 02:59.387 [Parrino] I've always liked the peek behind the curtain. 03:00.388 --> 03:01.598 What really happened? 03:03.141 --> 03:05.351 [McNeely] You want to find out the truth. 03:05.435 --> 03:07.061 That's what detectives do. 03:07.562 --> 03:10.481 [officer] Your instinct is to help people. 03:11.399 --> 03:14.777 [Titus] In New York City, the NYPD… 03:17.071 --> 03:17.906 this is it. 03:18.948 --> 03:20.450 [suspenseful music trails off] 03:30.084 --> 03:31.085 [phone ringing] 03:32.212 --> 03:34.589 [detective] It was a, uh, chilly night. 03:34.672 --> 03:37.175 It was quiet. There was nothing going on. 03:38.009 --> 03:39.010 The phone rings. 03:40.178 --> 03:43.514 It was a young sergeant from the 6th Precinct on the other end. 03:44.515 --> 03:47.560 He says, "Yeah, lemme give you a heads-up." 03:48.144 --> 03:52.815 "We have a young woman dead in the bathtub at Soho House." 03:53.399 --> 03:55.109 "It looks like she drowned." 03:55.777 --> 03:58.529 I say, "She's pronounced?" "She's pronounced." 03:58.613 --> 04:02.533 And he was like, "Uh, do you think this is a problem?" 04:03.910 --> 04:05.161 I said, "It's a problem." 04:05.244 --> 04:09.457 "Because it's pretty tough to drown yourself in the bathtub." 04:10.541 --> 04:13.002 "We're en route. Just lock it down." 04:13.086 --> 04:14.587 [tense music playing] 04:16.422 --> 04:19.217 The NYPD precinct detective squads operate 04:19.300 --> 04:22.220 from 8:00 in the morning till 1:00 a.m. in two shifts. 04:22.303 --> 04:27.684 But at 1:00 a.m., crime doesn't stop. Crime just rolls 24/7. 04:27.767 --> 04:29.978 So we have what's known as "night watch." 04:30.061 --> 04:35.149 You get to go out and do detective work, but then you pass it off in the morning. 04:35.942 --> 04:39.821 Manhattan's divided into two boroughs, Manhattan North, Manhattan South. 04:39.904 --> 04:42.365 I worked Manhattan South night watch. 04:42.448 --> 04:44.617 I'm a night owl. I was born middle of the night. 04:44.701 --> 04:45.743 I loved it. 04:46.869 --> 04:49.706 The saying is, "Nothing good happens after midnight." 04:49.789 --> 04:52.125 Well, it… That's a true statement. 04:53.876 --> 04:58.506 Soho House is a very exclusive, high-end club. 04:58.589 --> 05:01.467 Not just anybody can walk in and say, "Hey, I wanna become a member." 05:01.551 --> 05:05.054 There's a vetting process, and it comes only with recommendations. 05:05.138 --> 05:07.849 It's high-end. It's very high-end. 05:07.932 --> 05:12.562 Probably not a place I'll be staying in, but it is what it is. 05:15.982 --> 05:20.153 When we get to Soho House, I'm with an ambulance, cop car, and us. 05:20.945 --> 05:22.530 Not many people there. 05:24.824 --> 05:27.076 The room was not a big room. 05:27.660 --> 05:28.870 There was a nice, big bed, 05:29.662 --> 05:31.748 but literally three feet in front of the bed 05:31.831 --> 05:35.043 was this huge, bowl-shaped bathtub. 05:35.710 --> 05:39.589 The hotel manager had removed the woman from the tub. 05:39.672 --> 05:41.507 We learned the identity of the victim. 05:41.591 --> 05:45.845 It was Sylvie Cachay, female, 33 years old. 05:47.221 --> 05:51.267 She was on her back, laid out in front of the tub. 05:51.351 --> 05:54.395 She had a sweater-type top on, 05:55.188 --> 05:58.441 a pair of panties, and a Rolex watch. 05:59.025 --> 06:04.322 Generally not stuff you're going to wear into the bathtub. 06:04.405 --> 06:06.824 And I'm the suspicious type. 06:06.908 --> 06:09.535 I'm never good with dead people in bathtubs to begin with. 06:09.619 --> 06:12.789 And there were a number of pill bottles laid out on the counter. 06:12.872 --> 06:14.582 I think they were antidepressants. 06:14.665 --> 06:18.044 Did this person overdose and drown in the bathtub? 06:18.711 --> 06:19.712 You don't know. 06:20.838 --> 06:23.299 I call the commanding officer of the 6th Precinct. 06:23.383 --> 06:24.342 [ominous music playing] 06:24.425 --> 06:28.805 And the precinct detective squads cover everything in that geographical area. 06:30.014 --> 06:35.561 Tommy Jones, Bobby Moller, solid detectives I know for a long time. 06:35.645 --> 06:37.355 They came right over to the scene. 06:39.273 --> 06:43.277 We had an arrest the night before, and we were working a late night. 06:43.361 --> 06:46.531 So we responded over to the Soho House. 06:46.614 --> 06:47.949 It's very unusual. 06:48.032 --> 06:51.911 The clientele that are there, you don't expect this to happen there. 06:51.994 --> 06:55.039 We're briefed by the night watch sergeant, Pete Panuccio. 06:55.790 --> 06:59.085 It's suspicious, but we don't really know what we have. 06:59.168 --> 07:00.419 You look for blood. 07:00.503 --> 07:02.463 "Is there any blood around?" No blood. 07:02.547 --> 07:07.343 She had what appeared to be a bite wound on her hand, which is odd. 07:09.512 --> 07:12.765 When stuff like this happens, homicide squad's gonna get a phone call. 07:13.641 --> 07:17.645 These guys do a lot of footwork for you, and they help in any way possible. 07:17.728 --> 07:21.524 One in particular, Detective Al Titus, who is a great guy. 07:21.607 --> 07:23.943 I worked on many cases with him before. 07:24.026 --> 07:25.778 He does his due diligence. 07:25.862 --> 07:28.531 We had a whole team of detectives on this case. 07:29.115 --> 07:33.077 It was a big deal because it was a high-end establishment. 07:33.161 --> 07:36.205 There was a celebrity element to the whole case. 07:37.290 --> 07:39.959 So there's gonna be press involved 07:40.460 --> 07:42.503 and a lot of extra pressure 07:42.587 --> 07:45.965 to come up with answers as quickly as possible. 07:46.048 --> 07:47.467 [foreboding music playing] 07:49.135 --> 07:52.513 The crime scene unit started photographing the scene, 07:52.597 --> 07:54.348 fingerprinting the tub, 07:54.432 --> 07:59.228 and taking DNA swabs from the tub and the faucet on the tub. 07:59.812 --> 08:03.316 One of the things I noticed, a pair of wet socks on the floor. 08:05.067 --> 08:11.157 And not the kind of socks a young, fashionable woman would be wearing. 08:11.741 --> 08:13.784 They were gray men's socks. 08:14.410 --> 08:19.498 We were like, "Okay. Now, what happened?" What's going on? Who was she with?" 08:20.708 --> 08:23.920 One of the first people we spoke to was Bryan Alvarez, 08:24.003 --> 08:26.506 who was the night manager of the Soho House Hotel. 08:28.424 --> 08:31.802 The detectives are asking questions of, "What's going on?" 08:31.886 --> 08:34.472 "Who is Sylvie? Is she with a guest?" 08:34.555 --> 08:39.602 And the timeline of me entering the room and seeing Sylvie in the tub. 08:39.685 --> 08:45.441 And we were told that she checked in with her boyfriend, Nicholas Brooks, 08:45.525 --> 08:47.777 at about 12:30 in the morning. 08:47.860 --> 08:53.741 Sylvie and her boyfriend Nick checked into the hotel that evening, 08:53.824 --> 08:56.285 shortly before I started my shift. 08:57.078 --> 08:59.038 [Titus] One of the benefits of the Soho House 08:59.121 --> 09:02.166 was that they have a lot of surveillance cameras. 09:03.042 --> 09:06.128 And we were able to quickly look at the video. 09:06.629 --> 09:10.550 Sylvie seemed a little off her feet. She was a little tired. 09:11.384 --> 09:13.135 [Alvarez] Sylvie did mention to my colleague 09:13.219 --> 09:14.554 that she'd taken a sleeping aid, 09:14.637 --> 09:19.600 and that she wasn't feeling well, and… and needed assistance up to her room. 09:20.142 --> 09:23.187 [Moller] So Nicholas sat and did the check-in, 09:23.271 --> 09:26.566 and the employee of the hotel said, "I'll bring you to the room." 09:27.149 --> 09:32.321 [Titus] The surveillance video shows Sylvie Cachay getting helped upstairs. 09:32.405 --> 09:36.951 It shows Nicholas Brooks coming in and out of the hotel room 09:37.034 --> 09:39.912 several times after they had checked in, 09:39.996 --> 09:41.914 which was kind of strange. 09:42.832 --> 09:44.709 Surveillance video also shows 09:44.792 --> 09:49.338 Nicholas Brooks leaving the hotel room the last time at 2:18. 09:51.048 --> 09:56.554 And then at 2:51, the manager came to check on the leak. 09:56.637 --> 09:58.055 I had asked Bryan Alvarez, 09:58.139 --> 10:02.101 had he seen Nicholas Brooks after he found Sylvie Cachay? 10:02.184 --> 10:07.023 I explained to the detectives that he's no longer here. He stepped out. 10:07.106 --> 10:09.108 [foreboding music playing] 10:10.818 --> 10:13.487 She checked in with somebody, and he's no longer there. 10:14.196 --> 10:16.198 He's leaving the hotel, 10:16.282 --> 10:18.951 which is starting to look like a crime scene. 10:19.910 --> 10:22.496 So, yeah, it is suspicious. 10:22.580 --> 10:25.082 We have to find out why he's not there. Where did he go? 10:25.166 --> 10:27.168 [tense music playing] 10:27.251 --> 10:30.254 [Titus] Our priority was finding the boyfriend. 10:31.088 --> 10:35.343 We were planning to go canvass the bars in the area. 10:35.885 --> 10:40.514 At about 5:30 in the morning, I'm standing in the lobby, 10:42.975 --> 10:45.770 and he came walking right through the front door. 10:45.853 --> 10:47.355 [music halts abruptly] 10:50.107 --> 10:53.361 The hotel manager says, "That's the guy right there." 10:54.904 --> 10:58.491 We look at him, and his eyes are bloodshot red. 10:58.574 --> 11:00.951 He's completely disheveled. 11:01.035 --> 11:05.247 You could tell he is drunk, or high, or both. 11:05.331 --> 11:07.708 Obviously, he went out to go party somewhere. 11:10.002 --> 11:13.631 [Panuccio] I look down, and he's not wearing any socks. 11:15.716 --> 11:18.719 They're in the room, in the middle of a crime scene. 11:19.303 --> 11:20.805 Men's gray socks. 11:22.348 --> 11:24.642 [Jones] I introduced myself to this young gentleman. 11:24.725 --> 11:27.645 I asked him his name, and he said, "My name is Nicholas Brooks." 11:30.481 --> 11:32.233 I said, "Were you the male 11:32.316 --> 11:35.152 that checked into the hotel with Sylvie Cachay?" 11:35.236 --> 11:36.362 He said, "Yeah." 11:36.445 --> 11:39.198 I said, "Okay, I have some bad news." 11:39.281 --> 11:44.829 I said, "We found Sylvie upstairs in the bathtub, unresponsive, 11:45.329 --> 11:46.914 um, and she didn't make it." 11:46.997 --> 11:48.457 He never got upset. 11:48.541 --> 11:51.460 He never said anything like, "What happened?" 11:52.294 --> 11:55.381 But maybe he's acting weird because he's intoxicated. 11:57.007 --> 11:58.718 I said to Nicholas, "We need to talk to you, 11:58.801 --> 12:00.469 find out who your girlfriend is." 12:00.553 --> 12:05.099 "We're gonna need to go back to our office and figure out what's going on here." 12:05.182 --> 12:07.184 [suspenseful music playing] 12:07.727 --> 12:10.229 [Jones] Nicholas Brooks was willing to go with us. 12:10.771 --> 12:12.982 I put Nicholas in an interview room. 12:13.065 --> 12:17.069 I said, "It's important for you to tell me where you were tonight, 12:17.153 --> 12:19.697 for you to tell me what happened tonight." 12:19.780 --> 12:21.824 And he's just… [sputters] 12:21.907 --> 12:24.910 You know, stuttering and this and really out of it, 12:24.994 --> 12:26.454 and his eyes were closing. 12:26.537 --> 12:29.123 I wasn't gonna get straight answers out of this guy. 12:29.206 --> 12:30.332 He's messed up. 12:30.416 --> 12:34.378 So I thought, best for him, "Put your head down for a little while." 12:34.462 --> 12:36.464 You know, "We'll get back to you later on." 12:37.089 --> 12:38.841 I didn't want to interview somebody 12:38.924 --> 12:42.011 that didn't understand what I was trying to ask or say. 12:42.094 --> 12:45.055 And although it does delay the process, it's just better. 12:45.139 --> 12:46.807 And he fell asleep. 12:47.475 --> 12:50.853 If that happened to any one of us, we'd be beside ourselves, 12:50.936 --> 12:52.688 crying, and not able to sleep. 12:52.771 --> 12:53.814 Wasn't like that with him. 12:55.691 --> 12:59.111 The first thing we want to do, obviously, is notify Sylvie's family. 12:59.195 --> 13:02.490 Making a notification is tough enough. 13:02.573 --> 13:06.285 I have daughters, so you're always thinking about the family. 13:07.328 --> 13:10.206 And because they lived in Virginia, I can't do it personally, 13:10.289 --> 13:11.582 which I prefer to do. 13:11.665 --> 13:14.502 So we got in touch with the Virginia police department, 13:14.585 --> 13:15.711 and they went over, 13:15.795 --> 13:19.048 and confirmed that they did make the notification to the family. 13:19.131 --> 13:20.716 [somber music playing] 13:20.800 --> 13:23.010 [man] I received a call from my mother, 13:23.761 --> 13:28.849 just frantic, in tears, telling me that Sylvie had been killed. 13:30.476 --> 13:31.477 Um… 13:33.854 --> 13:35.773 Uh, it was terrible. It was… 13:35.856 --> 13:40.361 completely outside of the realm of anything I was expecting to hear. 13:41.987 --> 13:44.657 My sister and I grew up in McLean, Virginia, 13:44.740 --> 13:47.076 a suburb of Washington, DC. 13:47.576 --> 13:51.539 My stepfather was Peruvian 100%, as was my mother. 13:51.622 --> 13:55.417 So Sylvie was the daughter of two Peruvians. 13:56.210 --> 13:58.629 She was very ambitious, represented the culture, 13:58.712 --> 14:02.299 and tried to bring the culture into her work as much as she could. 14:02.383 --> 14:04.343 I was, you know, working in New York, 14:04.426 --> 14:07.137 and, um, we would spend all our holidays together, 14:07.221 --> 14:09.723 and, you know, we had a great relationship. 14:10.224 --> 14:12.518 I met with the detectives. 14:13.060 --> 14:16.230 I had to identify my sister through photos. 14:16.313 --> 14:19.233 You always have a hope that there's, you know, 14:19.316 --> 14:23.487 some untruth to what you're being told. 14:24.655 --> 14:26.615 Until you actually see it, right? 14:26.699 --> 14:29.159 You… You can't ever really fully recover. 14:33.747 --> 14:36.709 [Moller] As morning got on, it was now the reporters coming, 14:36.792 --> 14:39.878 television cameras, and trucks pulling up everywhere. 14:41.005 --> 14:42.673 [Panuccio] My lieutenant came in. 14:43.757 --> 14:47.511 And he was like, "You got a circus downstairs." 14:47.595 --> 14:48.762 "Go take a look." 14:49.680 --> 14:54.852 And there were news trucks from one end of the block to the other. 14:54.935 --> 14:58.355 When the body is taken by the medical examiner 14:58.439 --> 15:00.107 over to the ME's office, 15:00.691 --> 15:02.234 everybody's out there with cameras. 15:02.318 --> 15:05.571 [reporter] Thirty-three-year-old fashion designer Sylvie Cachay 15:05.654 --> 15:08.073 was found dead in the uber-chic Soho House. 15:08.157 --> 15:09.158 [Panuccio] Think about it. 15:09.241 --> 15:11.785 A successful, attractive young woman 15:11.869 --> 15:14.830 found dead in a bathtub at the Soho House. 15:14.914 --> 15:17.499 It's a public-interest story. I get it. 15:17.583 --> 15:20.669 The tabloids thrive on it. 15:21.253 --> 15:23.422 I went on almost every news channel. 15:23.505 --> 15:25.841 It's an added layer of pressure, and… 15:25.925 --> 15:30.554 I'd rather that they hadn't known for another six or eight hours 15:30.638 --> 15:35.726 to give everybody a leg up on getting the investigation rolling. 15:35.809 --> 15:38.228 [tense music pulsing] 15:39.396 --> 15:43.359 [Jones] Later in the morning, Nicholas finally wakes up. 15:44.985 --> 15:48.364 He came out, and he said, "Detective, can we talk?" I said, "Sure." 15:49.406 --> 15:51.784 Nicholas was telling me that Sylvie and him, 15:51.867 --> 15:53.994 they had been going out six months. 15:54.078 --> 15:56.246 Their relationship was on and off, 15:56.330 --> 15:58.123 and it wasn't a good relationship. 15:59.333 --> 16:01.251 Nicholas told me that 16:01.335 --> 16:05.464 that night he was supposed to meet Sylvie at her apartment to have some dinner. 16:06.131 --> 16:07.424 He went there. 16:08.258 --> 16:09.718 Said they had sex. 16:09.802 --> 16:15.474 After that, he lit some candles on the back of her bed 16:15.557 --> 16:18.852 and placed them on a platform that were right behind it. 16:18.936 --> 16:21.271 [Titus] She had taken her sleep medication. 16:21.355 --> 16:22.940 He went to take a shower. 16:23.023 --> 16:26.026 He heard the smoke alarm going off. 16:26.110 --> 16:28.112 [alarm beeping] 16:28.195 --> 16:31.240 [Titus] When he came out, the place was full of smoke. 16:32.366 --> 16:34.243 The whole bed was on fire. 16:34.326 --> 16:37.162 So he jumped on Sylvie, and he jumped on the bed, 16:37.246 --> 16:39.081 and put it out the best he could. 16:39.164 --> 16:41.333 It actually singed her hair. 16:43.043 --> 16:45.629 She said, "Look, I'm a member of the Soho House." 16:45.713 --> 16:49.633 "We can't stay here. The smell of smoke is not good for us." 16:49.717 --> 16:51.927 [foreboding music playing] 16:52.011 --> 16:55.305 [Titus] He also mentioned that she was having a hard time 16:55.389 --> 16:59.017 going down the stairs from the apartment down to the street 16:59.101 --> 17:02.521 because the medication had started kicking in that she took. 17:03.897 --> 17:06.275 [Jones] They jumped into a cab and left. 17:07.234 --> 17:09.903 I really wanted to know, "What was your demeanor like?" 17:09.987 --> 17:11.238 "Did you guys fight?" 17:11.905 --> 17:15.492 And he said she was agitated, cursing at him the whole way. 17:15.576 --> 17:19.329 "I can't believe you're such a stoner. You lit the whole place on fire." 17:19.413 --> 17:21.081 She was upset. 17:21.165 --> 17:23.000 Got to the Soho House. 17:23.083 --> 17:26.670 He said, "We went up to the room, maître d' put her in bed." 17:26.754 --> 17:29.840 "She had talked about maybe taking a bath." 17:31.050 --> 17:32.760 "I wanted to get something to eat, 17:32.843 --> 17:35.554 so I went upstairs to the restaurant, ordered." 17:35.637 --> 17:39.308 And went back downstairs into his room, told Sylvie he was gonna go out. 17:39.391 --> 17:42.770 I says, "Okay. You told me she was gonna take a bath. Did she?" 17:42.853 --> 17:44.646 He says, "I don't know. I… I left." 17:45.647 --> 17:47.149 "Did you touch the tub?" 17:47.900 --> 17:50.194 "Did you put the water on for her?" 17:50.277 --> 17:52.821 If she was gonna take a bath, maybe you were being a nice guy. 17:52.905 --> 17:55.407 He goes, "No." He goes, "She was in bed still." 18:00.120 --> 18:03.540 According to Nicholas, he left the hotel room. 18:05.209 --> 18:10.506 And then he left the hotel to go partying at a bar nearby, 18:10.589 --> 18:16.887 with a guy he just met downstairs in the lobby named David Raleigh, 18:16.970 --> 18:19.890 until he came back in the hotel when we saw him. 18:21.767 --> 18:25.145 [Jones] I asked him, "Did you do anything to Sylvie 18:25.229 --> 18:27.940 before you left to go out with this guy?" 18:28.023 --> 18:29.108 And he said, "No." 18:30.192 --> 18:34.279 There was no concern in his voice, no concern that he might be in trouble. 18:34.363 --> 18:37.574 He was just straight-laced, stone-cold. 18:37.658 --> 18:40.160 I just felt like he… he did something. 18:41.411 --> 18:44.748 But we don't know exactly what happened in that room yet. 18:46.667 --> 18:50.087 So Nicholas is staying at the precinct for the time being. 18:52.297 --> 18:55.676 Our investigation turns to David Raleigh, 18:55.759 --> 18:58.011 the individual Nicholas Brooks said 18:58.095 --> 19:00.514 he hung out with that particular evening. 19:00.597 --> 19:02.599 [ominous music playing] 19:05.018 --> 19:06.603 [muffled banging] 19:07.437 --> 19:08.897 [man] I hear a banging on my door. 19:08.981 --> 19:10.190 I mean, it was loud. 19:10.274 --> 19:12.401 I jumped out of bed and ran to the door. 19:13.068 --> 19:15.571 And I opened it, and it was two detectives. 19:15.654 --> 19:17.656 And they asked me, "Do you know Nicholas Brooks?" 19:17.739 --> 19:18.866 And I went, "Oh!" 19:18.949 --> 19:22.953 "Yeah, yeah, I met him last night. We had a drink." 19:23.036 --> 19:24.037 And they informed me 19:24.121 --> 19:27.916 that a girl had been found dead in the bathtub at Soho House, 19:28.000 --> 19:32.671 and that her boyfriend was Nicholas Brooks. 19:34.423 --> 19:37.885 The detectives wanted me to come down to the station and talk to them. 19:42.264 --> 19:44.808 That night, the Soho House bar is closing, 19:44.892 --> 19:47.102 and I kinda was still in party mode. 19:47.853 --> 19:51.231 So I stopped down at the front desk. 19:51.315 --> 19:53.150 A guy got off the elevator. 19:54.401 --> 19:57.863 He said to the attendant, "I'm looking for a place to have a drink." 19:57.946 --> 20:00.282 "The bar's closed. Know anywhere I could have a drink?" 20:00.365 --> 20:03.368 Guy behind the desk looked at me, looked at him, and said, 20:03.452 --> 20:05.996 "He's going out for a drink. Go with him." 20:06.079 --> 20:08.624 I was like, "Do you want to go?" He goes, "Yeah, sure." 20:14.671 --> 20:18.175 We got to the bar, and we were having a drink and chatting. 20:19.676 --> 20:21.887 Then he proceeded to tell me about his girlfriend 20:21.970 --> 20:24.973 and chatted with me about his undying love for her. 20:25.057 --> 20:28.143 And he told the story of the fire in their apartment. 20:28.226 --> 20:31.188 And he said his girlfriend, she was sleeping in the hotel room. 20:31.730 --> 20:35.817 He said, "I should call my girlfriend and make sure she's okay." 20:37.027 --> 20:39.863 He called the number, and it rang and rang. 20:39.947 --> 20:42.241 And he goes, "She's not answering." 20:42.324 --> 20:44.785 And I went, "Of course, because she's sleeping." 20:46.912 --> 20:50.332 But he said he was gonna leave, we said good night, and he walked out. 20:50.415 --> 20:52.751 I mean, it was nothing unusual. 20:53.585 --> 20:56.463 [Titus] It kind of confirmed Nicholas Brooks's story. 20:56.546 --> 21:01.009 At least, it made it seem like that part of what he was telling us was the truth. 21:01.093 --> 21:04.429 And there's still a possibility that this is a suicide. 21:04.513 --> 21:06.515 [suspenseful music playing] 21:09.643 --> 21:13.730 [Titus] I need to know who Sylvie Cachay was. 21:13.814 --> 21:15.482 What was her state of mind? 21:15.565 --> 21:19.945 I interviewed Sylvie Cachay's family and friends, 21:20.028 --> 21:23.282 and I knew on the other side that they were emotional. 21:24.366 --> 21:26.868 They told me that she had been depressed. 21:29.079 --> 21:32.416 [woman] I knew Sylvie Cachay in 2009 21:32.499 --> 21:36.211 'cause she hired me as an intern at Anne Cole Swimwear. 21:36.294 --> 21:39.798 When Sylvie hired me, we immediately got along. 21:39.881 --> 21:44.094 We would go and, you know, split a bottle of wine and just chitchat. 21:44.177 --> 21:49.266 Sylvie to me was a friend, a boss, a mentor. 21:49.349 --> 21:51.101 I looked up to her, thought she was brilliant. 21:51.184 --> 21:52.394 [shutter snaps] 21:52.477 --> 21:55.188 In 2006, she launched her own swimwear. 21:55.272 --> 22:00.110 She was featured in Vogue, InStyle, Sports Illustrated. 22:01.111 --> 22:03.488 Our family celebrated every achievement. 22:04.072 --> 22:05.574 We were very proud of her. 22:05.657 --> 22:09.036 To launch your own line as a designer is like a dream come true. 22:11.038 --> 22:13.665 Sadly, Sylvie had to dissolve her company 22:13.749 --> 22:17.210 because of the 2008-2009 economic crash. 22:17.294 --> 22:19.004 [Orlando] The investor that was funding her 22:19.087 --> 22:20.339 had other investments, 22:20.422 --> 22:23.842 and people were being very cautious with new investments. 22:25.052 --> 22:29.056 She had to go back to work at Anne Cole. And she loved working at Anne Cole. 22:29.139 --> 22:30.265 We had a great time, 22:30.349 --> 22:34.144 but, you know, you personally feel like you're taking a step down 22:34.227 --> 22:35.896 from where you had gotten. 22:35.979 --> 22:38.190 I think every day it was on her mind. 22:38.273 --> 22:41.902 [Orlando] I think she did have a lot of stress. She had a lot of anxiety. 22:41.985 --> 22:44.863 She was on medication that was working to improve her life 22:44.946 --> 22:46.323 and make her more productive. 22:47.574 --> 22:50.118 [Hadwen] They asked if Sylvie was suicidal. 22:50.202 --> 22:52.370 The answer would be a hard, immediate no. 22:52.454 --> 22:53.288 Absolutely not. 22:53.872 --> 22:58.710 The setback of Syla closing, it caused some depression and sadness, 22:58.794 --> 23:02.380 but never, you know, in an incapacitating way for her. 23:02.464 --> 23:04.549 There was always a plan for the future. 23:04.633 --> 23:07.511 While we were working during the day at Anne Cole, 23:07.594 --> 23:11.264 we'd go to a print studio and select prints for Anne Cole. 23:11.348 --> 23:13.600 We'd also be collecting some for Syla. 23:14.101 --> 23:15.936 It was never dead to her. It was just "paused." 23:17.187 --> 23:20.690 [Titus] Interviewing her intern Heather was very interesting. 23:20.774 --> 23:24.361 She was able to give me some very specific information 23:24.444 --> 23:28.365 about Sylvie's relationships and who she was seeing. 23:29.533 --> 23:33.161 Around 2008, Sylvie had broken off an engagement. 23:33.245 --> 23:36.873 She ended up ending her relationship with her fiancé 23:36.957 --> 23:39.126 because it was too much to deal with 23:39.209 --> 23:42.838 along with what she was also dealing with with her business. 23:43.839 --> 23:46.716 [Hadwen] After that, Sylvie was dating a little bit. 23:48.093 --> 23:54.224 And she first met Nicholas in June 2010 when she was going out, 23:54.307 --> 23:56.810 hanging out with friends, doing the nightlife scene. 23:58.478 --> 24:03.817 Not long after, they were going on a walk near her house in SoHo. 24:03.900 --> 24:05.819 Her dog Pepper had gotten hit by a car. 24:08.155 --> 24:12.868 Nick had to scoop her up off the ground and wrap her in the coat. 24:12.951 --> 24:14.953 He was there for her in that moment. 24:15.704 --> 24:17.539 She was devastated. 24:18.582 --> 24:22.043 I really think that that became like a trauma bond for her. 24:22.127 --> 24:24.296 Otherwise, I don't think she would've ended up dating him 24:24.379 --> 24:26.465 outside of that, 'cause he was really young. 24:27.132 --> 24:30.510 She was 33, and I think he was 24. 24:30.594 --> 24:32.971 They started spending almost every day together. 24:33.054 --> 24:34.389 He was spending the night. 24:34.473 --> 24:37.100 Essentially one of those quick move-in situations 24:37.184 --> 24:38.727 where he's always sleeping over. 24:40.562 --> 24:44.608 But there were red flags popping up, probably month two. 24:46.193 --> 24:48.361 That he didn't have a job was baffling to her. 24:48.445 --> 24:52.741 She was just getting sick of him smoking weed all day long, 24:52.824 --> 24:54.451 not working. 24:54.534 --> 24:55.785 I remember her complaining 24:55.869 --> 24:58.538 about the fact she was always paying for everything. 24:58.622 --> 25:00.081 She called him "the child." 25:00.165 --> 25:03.460 Her friends were saying, "Dude, you gotta lose this guy." 25:03.543 --> 25:05.545 "Break this off. It's dimming your light." 25:06.254 --> 25:10.008 And she did break up with him. I think that was hard for her. 25:13.678 --> 25:19.059 [Hadwen] The last memory I have of her was on the morning before she died. 25:19.976 --> 25:22.103 She's like, "He's asking me to see him." 25:22.187 --> 25:25.357 "I'm just gonna meet him at my house and we're gonna sit on the stoop." 25:26.191 --> 25:30.028 "Apparently, he has a letter for me. I'm not even gonna let him up." 25:31.780 --> 25:37.953 [Titus] Knowing Nicholas Brooks and Sylvie Cachay met up at her apartment, 25:38.036 --> 25:41.414 and how turbulent the relationship was, 25:41.498 --> 25:45.752 I felt more like, "There's something wrong here." 25:46.586 --> 25:48.922 [Jones] It's important to go to that apartment, 25:49.005 --> 25:50.882 see what happened during the night there. 25:52.801 --> 25:54.928 [Titus] When we went inside the apartment, 25:55.553 --> 25:57.931 there was clear evidence that there was a fire. 25:58.848 --> 26:00.642 [Moller] You smell the smoke. 26:00.725 --> 26:02.727 The bed was… was really burnt up. 26:02.811 --> 26:05.939 There was a clump of hair, burnt hair on the bed. 26:06.022 --> 26:10.986 What Nicholas Brooks was telling Tommy actually did happen that night. 26:13.238 --> 26:16.992 And then we discovered the notes they left to each other. 26:18.326 --> 26:21.997 She was telling him that, "If you don't start being more romantic, 26:22.080 --> 26:24.749 you're not gonna be in my life anymore." 26:24.833 --> 26:27.961 She had a long list of requests, 26:28.044 --> 26:31.673 simple things like "cuddle me after sex," 26:32.382 --> 26:35.927 "take me on dates," "if you use something, replace it." 26:36.428 --> 26:39.347 "Don't smoke pot all day." "Don't drink all day." 26:39.431 --> 26:42.892 She basically was almost like a mother telling him that, 26:42.976 --> 26:47.022 "You better get yourself straightened out, or else this isn't gonna work." 26:49.149 --> 26:53.862 [Titus] The letters from Nicholas were asking for forgiveness, 26:53.945 --> 26:57.949 promising to do better, asking her not to give up on me. 26:58.950 --> 27:03.246 It gave us an example of what she was falling for over and over. 27:04.414 --> 27:07.792 [Moller] There was also another note she wrote that basically stated 27:07.876 --> 27:10.211 she suspected him of stealing money from her. 27:11.588 --> 27:14.257 We found Sylvie Cachay's bank statements. 27:15.925 --> 27:19.179 [Jones] He had ordered prostitutes using her credit card. 27:20.764 --> 27:24.017 He had complete nerve, in my eyes, 27:24.100 --> 27:28.021 thinking about getting a prostitute and using her money to pay for it. 27:30.065 --> 27:32.650 [Titus] And then we find an email, 27:32.734 --> 27:35.236 and we call it the "fuck you" email. 27:37.155 --> 27:40.075 She wrote to Nick, and she was very upset. 27:40.825 --> 27:44.371 She said, "I found out about you, I know what you've been doing, 27:44.454 --> 27:48.249 and I'm turning you in to the police and the credit card companies." 27:49.334 --> 27:53.838 It definitely leads to a certain type of motive. 27:53.922 --> 27:55.799 That could have been the catalyst 27:55.882 --> 28:00.887 that caused him to make the decision that he has to take her out. 28:01.638 --> 28:05.183 We did a canvass of her apartment building to try to get a picture of 28:05.266 --> 28:07.560 if anybody heard anything going on that night. 28:07.644 --> 28:10.605 We had one of the neighbors stating that they heard an argument. 28:10.688 --> 28:13.483 They heard someone crying, and they heard a lot of banging, 28:13.566 --> 28:16.945 like someone falling to the floor or something going on. 28:17.028 --> 28:20.323 [Titus] You have fighting and arguing, fire. 28:20.407 --> 28:24.202 A few hours later, Sylvie Cachay is found deceased. 28:24.285 --> 28:26.663 [Moller] A picture is starting to emerge. 28:26.746 --> 28:28.873 We're thinking, "This might be a homicide, 28:28.957 --> 28:32.752 but we can't charge a person with half of a picture painted." 28:33.670 --> 28:37.382 We still have to turn over every stone, find out exactly what happened. 28:38.258 --> 28:41.010 We started to look into Nick's background. 28:41.094 --> 28:43.555 It put a little bit more color into the picture. 28:45.348 --> 28:48.101 We learned that he was a trust fund baby. 28:48.685 --> 28:53.273 His father, a writer-composer named Joseph Brooks, 28:53.356 --> 28:57.485 he had written the song and the movie You Light Up My Life, 28:57.569 --> 28:58.945 and it won Academy Awards. 28:59.028 --> 29:00.280 It was a well-known song. 29:00.363 --> 29:02.741 ♪ You ♪ 29:02.824 --> 29:07.162 ♪ You light up my life ♪ 29:07.245 --> 29:09.372 I think it's one of the worst songs of all time. 29:09.456 --> 29:14.461 It was on the radios, on every station, 24/7. 29:14.544 --> 29:17.922 ♪ You light up my life ♪ 29:18.006 --> 29:19.716 I'm like, "Oh God." [scoffs] 29:20.884 --> 29:23.178 [Titus] And although he was known for that, 29:23.261 --> 29:26.723 there was also a dark side that he was known for. 29:27.599 --> 29:30.935 [Panuccio] Around 2008, I'm in the 19th Precinct. 29:31.019 --> 29:33.772 I'm the number two guy in the detective squad. 29:33.855 --> 29:38.318 Part of my job is to review all the complaints that came in. 29:39.027 --> 29:42.989 Joe Brooks's name starts coming across my desk. 29:44.532 --> 29:47.452 I'm seeing a lot of complaints for rape. 29:48.161 --> 29:51.331 Special victims squad handles those cases. 29:51.414 --> 29:54.542 I finally called the special victims squad. 29:54.626 --> 29:58.379 I'm like, "Do we have a mad rapist running loose 29:58.463 --> 30:01.925 in the confines of the 19th Precinct that I should be concerned about?" 30:02.008 --> 30:05.094 They were like, "This guy's a serial rapist." 30:05.178 --> 30:08.139 "This is part of an ongoing investigation." 30:08.640 --> 30:11.851 [reporter] The Manhattan District Attorney indicted Joseph Brooks 30:11.935 --> 30:14.020 on 91 counts of rape. 30:14.103 --> 30:16.856 [Moller] Joseph Brooks was putting ads on Craigslist. 30:16.940 --> 30:21.361 He was trying to get up-and-coming female, uh, actresses 30:21.444 --> 30:24.614 to come be coached by a Academy-Award-winner. 30:24.697 --> 30:27.992 He convinced them to come to his house. 30:28.576 --> 30:32.205 He'd drug them, and then would have his way with them. 30:32.789 --> 30:37.919 Joseph Brooks was charged with sexual assault on numerous women, 30:38.002 --> 30:39.546 and he was awaiting trial. 30:39.629 --> 30:42.924 Knowing Joseph Brooks's background 30:43.007 --> 30:45.969 made me wonder if I was dealing with 30:46.052 --> 30:50.682 the same type of individual in Nicholas Brooks. 30:50.765 --> 30:54.519 Character-wise, the apple may not fall too far from the tree. 30:55.019 --> 30:57.021 [mysterious music playing] 30:58.314 --> 31:02.735 [Titus] During the background check, we also learned that Nicholas's father 31:02.819 --> 31:06.406 had set him up with an apartment when he was in high school. 31:06.489 --> 31:08.783 His father used to get him escorts. 31:08.867 --> 31:11.661 He learned from his dad how to pick these prostitutes up 31:11.744 --> 31:13.413 because his dad had been doing that. 31:14.330 --> 31:17.500 [Titus] It painted a very strange relationship 31:17.584 --> 31:19.294 between him and the father, 31:19.377 --> 31:24.340 but we also found out that his father was somewhat controlling him 31:24.424 --> 31:25.800 through the money. 31:25.884 --> 31:29.345 Joseph Brooks's stipulations to Nicholas 31:29.429 --> 31:34.517 was that he could not make contact with his mother or his sister. 31:35.226 --> 31:39.230 [Moller] And the minute that he found out that Nicholas contacted his mother, 31:39.314 --> 31:43.359 Joseph Brooks cut him out of the will and took him off the trust fund 31:43.443 --> 31:46.112 right around 2009, 2010. 31:46.195 --> 31:49.741 So here is a young man out in the world 31:49.824 --> 31:56.039 without any of the financial means that he's used to living with. 31:56.122 --> 31:57.665 So now if he wanted money, 31:57.749 --> 32:01.294 he needed to, one, either work, or mooch off somebody. 32:01.377 --> 32:05.757 When he met Sylvie, she had money, and she was cutting him off. 32:06.257 --> 32:08.509 He may have felt like the gig was up 32:08.593 --> 32:10.928 and that he had to do something 32:11.012 --> 32:13.181 because she threatened to go to the police. 32:19.854 --> 32:22.357 Adrenaline's going with cases like this. 32:22.440 --> 32:26.861 I'm probably up a good 24 hours, if not more. 32:26.945 --> 32:28.196 You don't feel tired. 32:28.279 --> 32:31.074 It's really the momentum of the case that keeps you going. 32:31.157 --> 32:34.077 We all returned to the 6th Precinct. 32:34.994 --> 32:36.704 [Moller] We have to look at all the evidence, 32:36.788 --> 32:40.583 so we started to look at the surveillance footage again, 32:40.667 --> 32:43.503 and started to really look at the timeline. 32:44.837 --> 32:48.841 [Titus] Was there something we missed, something we're not seeing? 32:50.051 --> 32:54.472 We confirmed that Nicholas Brooks left the hotel room at 2:18, 32:54.555 --> 32:58.893 and then went down into the lobby and met David Raleigh. 32:59.560 --> 33:04.524 Until the manager came to check on the leak at 2:51, 33:04.607 --> 33:08.778 no one else had entered the room or exited the room. 33:11.906 --> 33:16.869 We need evidence that when Sylvie died, Nicholas was still inside the room. 33:17.745 --> 33:20.915 [Titus] So we got access to the hotel phone records, 33:20.998 --> 33:23.835 and Nicholas Brooks's alibi falls apart. 33:25.837 --> 33:29.048 Once we started to look into the call records to the front desk, 33:29.132 --> 33:33.261 we started to realize that it wasn't that he just left at 2:18. 33:33.344 --> 33:34.429 Before he left, 33:34.512 --> 33:36.681 there was a call coming in to the front desk 33:36.764 --> 33:38.641 that was very interesting. 33:38.725 --> 33:39.726 [phone ringing] 33:40.476 --> 33:46.899 We saw that the phone call about the leak from the hotel room below 33:46.983 --> 33:49.277 came in at 2:11. 33:49.777 --> 33:52.905 We check the card swipes into the room, 33:52.989 --> 33:57.493 which tells us that Nicholas Brooks was in the room 33:57.577 --> 34:00.038 when the leak was occurring. 34:01.581 --> 34:04.167 [Moller] There was water overflowing. It was already on the floor. 34:04.250 --> 34:06.627 It was already seeping into other apartments. 34:07.128 --> 34:09.714 So he was there when she was in the tub. 34:11.340 --> 34:13.801 He's been lying to us the whole time. 34:15.595 --> 34:18.347 [Jones] So in this case, with the autopsy, 34:18.431 --> 34:21.809 we're gonna know a lot more about what happened to Sylvie. 34:22.393 --> 34:25.605 [examiner] The significant findings on this autopsy were 34:25.688 --> 34:28.191 finger marks on the neck, bruises. 34:28.983 --> 34:33.071 And she had petechial hemorrhages under the eyelids. 34:33.154 --> 34:37.450 That means that she had to have obstruction of blood flow 34:37.533 --> 34:40.119 at the neck in some way. 34:41.370 --> 34:47.251 And then lungs full of water, indicating she was alive when she drowned. 34:47.752 --> 34:50.171 And of course, when toxicology came back, 34:50.254 --> 34:54.967 it shows each of those medications in her system were at therapeutic levels. 34:55.051 --> 34:56.761 It was prescribed medication. 34:56.844 --> 35:00.807 There was nothing there that could have killed her in an overdose. 35:00.890 --> 35:05.228 So that tells me definitely not suicide, definitely not an accident. 35:06.104 --> 35:08.940 The manner of death was a homicide. 35:09.023 --> 35:12.527 [Jones] We had also gotten the DNA reports back. 35:12.610 --> 35:16.614 DNA was found on the tub, and it did come back to Nicholas Brooks. 35:17.448 --> 35:20.159 [Butcher] DNA profile on the tub could mean nothing. 35:20.243 --> 35:23.204 He's in the room. He could have used the tub. 35:23.287 --> 35:27.583 But he specifically denied ever going near the tub. 35:32.296 --> 35:33.798 [Moller] What we believe happened 35:33.881 --> 35:37.051 is when they finally got to the Soho House, 35:37.134 --> 35:39.595 there was some sort of fight between them. 35:40.513 --> 35:43.391 One thing led to another, and then he snapped. 35:43.474 --> 35:45.560 Brooks grabbed her by the neck, 35:46.519 --> 35:50.314 pushed her into the bathtub, held her underwater. 35:50.398 --> 35:52.108 She inhaled the water. 35:52.191 --> 35:53.276 She drowned. 35:53.359 --> 35:55.194 And she was strangled. 35:57.989 --> 35:58.990 [camera shutters snapping] 35:59.073 --> 36:01.033 [reporter 1] Did you strangle your girlfriend? 36:01.117 --> 36:04.162 -[reporter 2] Did you do it? -[reporter 1] Did you kill Sylvie? 36:05.621 --> 36:07.582 [Moller] We arrested Nicholas Brooks, 36:07.665 --> 36:11.294 and we transport him down to our central booking facility. 36:12.003 --> 36:14.797 He said to me, "You know, I have money." 36:14.881 --> 36:17.884 I'm thinking, "Is he trying to bribe me here or something?" 36:17.967 --> 36:20.094 I go, "What do you mean, you have money?" 36:20.178 --> 36:24.098 He goes, "Yeah, but I can't get to it until the morning." 36:24.182 --> 36:26.893 And I go, "Well, you don't really need money now." 36:26.976 --> 36:29.812 And he goes, "Well, I need it to pay for protection." 36:30.313 --> 36:33.482 And I go, "What kind of protection are you talking about?" 36:33.566 --> 36:36.235 He says, "Well, the white supremacists." 36:36.319 --> 36:39.030 I said, "Why would you say that?" He goes, "I'm a big fan of Oz." 36:39.113 --> 36:42.033 I guess he was talking about the TV show Oz. 36:42.116 --> 36:44.368 And I was like, "You're not going to Oz." 36:44.452 --> 36:48.497 "You're going to New York City Central Booking, you know?" 36:48.581 --> 36:52.627 I definitely realized that he really didn't know how life was 36:52.710 --> 36:53.961 or how life worked. 36:54.045 --> 36:55.421 I just thought it was odd. 36:55.504 --> 36:57.840 At that point, Corrections took control of him, 36:57.924 --> 36:59.884 and it was the last time I spoke with him. 37:07.058 --> 37:09.227 [Titus] After the arrest of Nicholas Brooks, 37:09.310 --> 37:13.314 we found out that his father was coming up for trial. 37:13.397 --> 37:15.524 However, he committed suicide. 37:18.194 --> 37:22.990 [Moller] Joseph Brooks's attorney took on Nicholas Brooks's case. 37:28.246 --> 37:33.167 [Titus] The defense's position was that Sylvie suffered from depression. 37:33.250 --> 37:34.877 She was on medication. 37:34.961 --> 37:39.298 She overdosed on that medication after she got into the tub and drowned. 37:39.382 --> 37:42.259 [reporter] Her mother and father flew in from their home in Virginia 37:42.343 --> 37:44.887 to look Nicholas Brooks in the eye. 37:44.971 --> 37:49.058 I didn't see any remorse. He didn't look at me or my husband. 37:49.767 --> 37:52.478 He didn't face us. He didn't care. 37:52.561 --> 37:54.939 [Orlando] My sister was an incredible person, 37:55.022 --> 38:00.319 and her life was taken absolutely inexplicably 38:00.403 --> 38:03.406 by this parasite to society. 38:03.990 --> 38:08.369 He has to pay for my daughter's life, for her beautiful life. 38:11.580 --> 38:15.251 We got a call from the DA's office that the trial was over. 38:15.960 --> 38:20.756 Nicholas Brooks was found guilty and given 25 years to life. 38:25.469 --> 38:28.889 I feel very sorry for the Cachay family. 38:30.224 --> 38:32.268 She should not have died. 38:33.185 --> 38:35.229 People should be wearing her swimsuits. 38:35.313 --> 38:37.606 She should be big in the fashion industry. 38:37.690 --> 38:40.568 New York loves her, and she is New York. 38:41.569 --> 38:45.114 [Orlando] My sister added to the fun of life. 38:45.614 --> 38:48.451 Myself and others around her were better off 38:48.534 --> 38:51.495 and did greater things because she was around. 38:52.288 --> 38:55.708 I miss the happiness and the light that she brought. 38:56.292 --> 39:00.963 She just was so sweet and just a soul-level beautiful human. 39:01.047 --> 39:03.257 She will forever be my mentor. 39:06.427 --> 39:10.264 [Jones] Sylvie's case was my last case as a detective. 39:10.348 --> 39:12.516 I retired shortly after this. 39:12.600 --> 39:14.935 And I have two girls. 39:15.436 --> 39:17.104 It just hits home. 39:18.481 --> 39:22.359 To take someone's life and be so stone-cold about it afterwards… 39:22.443 --> 39:24.320 It could be his upbringing, 39:24.403 --> 39:26.739 but it was no excuse to kill somebody, 39:26.822 --> 39:28.908 especially somebody that you loved. 39:44.673 --> 39:48.677 In April of '89, we had the infamous Central Park jogger case. 39:49.261 --> 39:52.431 It was a jogger that was raped and seriously assaulted. 39:52.515 --> 39:55.017 [detective] It was a huge case 'cause it was Central Park 39:55.101 --> 39:57.478 and because of the horrendousness of the crime. 39:58.479 --> 40:00.689 Five young males were convicted. 40:00.773 --> 40:03.067 These boys were known as the Central Park Five. 40:03.651 --> 40:07.071 The injustice that was perpetrated needed to be undone, 40:07.154 --> 40:08.572 but that's not the whole story. 40:09.406 --> 40:13.202 There are other victims of what we now put under the umbrella 40:13.285 --> 40:15.204 of the Central Park jogger case. 40:15.788 --> 40:19.208 He made her choose, "Your eyes or your kids?" 40:19.291 --> 40:20.835 [Rivera] "Your eyes or your kids" 40:20.918 --> 40:23.879 is something I've never heard any other perpetrator say before. 40:24.547 --> 40:28.592 He started cutting under and above my eyes. 40:29.593 --> 40:31.762 He was just all about the violence. 40:31.846 --> 40:36.267 It was a beautiful afternoon. You just don't think it will happen then. 40:36.350 --> 40:38.269 Everybody talks about the case that haunts you. 40:38.352 --> 40:39.728 That's the case that haunted me. 40:43.149 --> 40:45.151 [dramatic outro music pulsing] .