Decapitated, dismembered body of tech CEO found in NYC apartment, sources say

By artappraiser on Wed, 07/15/2020 - 9:42pm |

By Joe Marino, Jason Beeferman, Larry Celona & Jorge Fitz-Gibbon @ NYPost.com, July 14 with video, pics and slideshow of 9 pics of the scene

The body of a decapitated, dismembered tech CEO was found inside a Lower East Side apartment on Tuesday afternoon — sorted in plastic bags right next to a power saw, sources told The Post.

Police came upon the grisly scene shortly after 3:30 p.m., after a cousin of the dead man requested a welfare check at the man’s East Houston Street building and called police, the sources said.

An electric saw was found near the body, which was described as that of a 33-year-old man. The victim’s arms and legs below the knees were removed, and body parts were found in plastic bags found in the apartment, the sources said.

Police sources believe the victim was Fahim Saleh, a venture capitalist and CEO of the Nigeria-based motorbike startup Gokada.

Saleh is listed as the owner of the apartment, which he purchased last year for $2.25 million, records show [....]

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Follow-up story today written in good old tyme crime tabloid style

Tech CEO’s killer may have been scared off by visiting relative: cops

By Joe Marino ,Larry Celona and Aaron Feis @ NYPost.com, July 15, 2020 | 2:52pm

The black-clad killer who murdered and dismembered tech CEO Fahim Saleh inside his Lower East Side apartment may have been scared off by the unexpected arrival of the victim’s cousin — fleeing shortly before their hellish handiwork was uncovered, police sources said Wednesday.

Concerned because she hadn’t been able to get in touch with him since Monday, Saleh’s cousin went to his posh apartment building at the corner of East Houston and Suffolk streets on Tuesday afternoon.

When she buzzed Saleh’s seventh-floor apartment, the killer may still have been inside, sending the fiend fleeing down a flight of stairs exiting onto Suffolk Street while the cousin was riding the elevator up, sources said, outlining one theory.

The cousin entered to find a scene of abject carnage.

The torso of Saleh, 33, was found decapitated, with all four limbs severed with surgical precision arms at the shoulders, legs below the knees — and stuffed into plastic bags, sources said [....]

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/15/2020 - 9:47pm

Bangladeshi Muslim wunderkind - awful. The intro of new products/services to 3rd world Is terribly needed, including next gen's electric conversion.

Strange & (almost) perfect hit job - would the saw bit be a Saudi angle (where He was born, potentially a bit of his investment)?

Meanwhile another "Karen" story from the Post - a bare ass isnt a bare ass, and It's the boys fault for not being well-raised.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/15/bikini-clad-woman-says-karen-called-her-na...

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 1:37am

I admit the Saudi angle did cross my mind, that's why I posted it. Then there's just the ninja-in-black thing too, right out of the movies: assassin stereotype.

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 1:55am

Detectives Suggest Possible Motive Behind Brutal Murder, Dismemberment of Tech CEO in NYC

By Alberto Luperon @ LawandCrime.com, Jul 16th, 2020, 4:27 pm

Who killed 33-year-old tech CEO Fahim Saleh, and why? Detectives with the New York Police Department have not pointed to any suspects but say they believe the grisly killing happened because of a financial dispute. That’s according to reporting in The Daily Beast. Detectives say Saleh’s attacker could have been a person with a direct dispute with Saleh or could have been a hired hitman.

Police said that surveillance footage from the Saleh’s Manhattan building showed the victim entering the elevator at 1:40 p.m. Monday. In the building, elevators lead directly to apartments, and Saleh’s unit was on the seventh floor. In any case, the suspect — a man in all black, including a mask and hood — followed Saleh into the elevator, the police said. The victim used a key fob in the elevator to reach his floor [....]

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 7:34pm

Idiot ungrateful asst arrested

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/tyrese-haspil-charged...

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/17/2020 - 4:57pm

One thing I see is that he gambled on not getting any law enforcement authorities involved. Gambled and lost:

The New York Times reported that Haspil began working for Saleh when he was 16 years old, and had recently stolen nearly $100,000 from his boss. According to the Times, Saleh did not report Haspil to authorities, instead setting up a repayment plan.

Because: some people just have criminal minds. All through human history. While scientists work on a cure for this: we have to have law enforcement as feeble and unfair as it is.

Then there's that these low level criminal minds, they have inspiration out there of much higher level criminal minds getting away with very similar things and not suffering for it.

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/17/2020 - 5:59pm

He bought power tools with a credit card, used Uber to & from scene of the crime. Message trail pointed to caught embezzling motive. Yet the black suit, taser, fast precision cuts speak to skill. Was he expecting to be out of the country before anyone noticed? Maybe they were lovers, but there was a payback plan. How evil was this guy, and why?

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/17/2020 - 8:43pm

Yes, there are two threads here,

one mundane, where the angry guy without a moral compass imitates things he has seen potentates get away with and imitates assassins he has seen in movies

and the other a great movie plot, wherein the potentate seeks out a disgruntled underling to make him an agent in executing a plot.

But I keep thinking of all the times we in the blogosphere-iat chastised and made fun of the FBI doing pretty much the latter in seeking out "terrorists" in the U.S. and encouraging guys that were just basically disgruntled with moral compass issues into doing grander stuff.

So I am staying on the mundane side right now unless further evidence turns up.

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/17/2020 - 9:37pm

Idk, seems like there's more to the story of their relationship. Or not. But there are certainly enough intriguing knowns there to build an interesting episode of Law and Order SVU on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

by EmmaZahn on Fri, 07/17/2020 - 6:22pm

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