Patrick Radden Keefe on a Double Life, a Gilded City and a Mysterious Death
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London, November 29th, 2019. At 2.23 in the morning, a CCTV camera picks up movement on the fifth floor of a luxury apartment building overlooking the Thames. The building is dark, asleep, but one apartment, 504, is awash with light. And on the balcony of that apartment, stands a slender figure, a young man.
He moves to one corner and peers down into the rushing river. He moves to the other corner and pauses. Then he steps back to the center of the balcony and jumps. The next thing the camera captures, someone inside the apartment turns off the lights. I'm Caleb Bissinger.
And I'm Rufus Chriscom. And this is the next big idea. Today, the mystery of Zack Brettler, a 19-year-old who fell to his death from a luxury apartment that wasn't his, and the parents who set out to discover what really happened. They have to do the legwork that the police wouldn't do, and that takes them into this underworld. And they are having these really chilling moments where they realize there are people in their own community who might know more about Zack's death.
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