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Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

DetroitThrow wrote: post #156
huntermeyer wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't a common practice for serial killer coverage to be limited? I thought this was intentional to not influence copy-cats and other mis/dis-information which muddy the investigation.

While withholding some details happens in murder cases, this is the first I've heard of there being voluntary editorial standards that restrict information about the murders of serial killers. In fact, you'd generally think there'd be a voluntary policy to do the opposite given their prevalence in modern media.

My understanding is that it's more of the cops withholding information than it is the media exercising restraint.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by umeshunni »

alpha_squared wrote: post #183

> Condos in the building feature Italian marble kitchens and master baths, white oak floors and asking prices in the $2 million to $2.5 million range, according to the real estate website StreetEasy. The website Curbed noted in a 2017 article that access to the building’s units was via a private, keyed elevator. This is such a strange paragraph to read in an article like this. I see the relevance of the last sentence…

I think the author is trying to set context that this is an upscale neighborhood and access to the building is difficult, so this is unlikely to be a random robbery or assault and more likely to a planned murder.

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Post by chrisin2d »

AlexandrB wrote: post #97
stanfordkid wrote: post #87

What a tragedy. If this has ties to any foreign business or government entity, I truly hope that the U.S government and military forces take swift and lethal action. Sometimes I feel like this is the sort of thing where the justice system and public media just don't work... send some SEALS to knock out whoever did this. It reminds me of the type of thing that happens with central american drug lords. I wish the artic…

1. Are you advocating for committing an act of war in response to this? 2. Jamal Khashoggi was similarly butchered and there's little doubt about the perpetrator's identity, yet we still trade with them and accept their VC money for our tech startups. I wouldn't hold my breath for a serious response unless the perpetrator turns out to be a government we already don't like.

I think that the FBI and our government should use every tool at their disposal to find the killer(s) and their sponsor and bring them to justice. If the perpetrators are sheltered by an uncooperative country, then we should apply diplomatic pressure.

All murder is tragic and horrible. I think that assassination—of journalists, entrepreneurs, activists, and so on—to be an especially abhorrent category of murder, because it is intellectual terrorism and has an outsized impact. A single murder is a tragedy to a family, a community — but a single assassination is a tragedy to all of society. The plausible fear of being killed for challenging an industry incumbent, a corrupt politician, or an unscrupulous business places a sword of Damocles above any would-be upstart. It pre-emptively silences voices and minds and reduces a society's capacity for progress.

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

ihattendorf wrote: post #182
ed25519FUUU wrote: post #103

> Inside the man's living room, sources say it appeared the killer worked hard to cover their tracks, but was perhaps interrupted or got spooked before getting rid of the evidence. Uh, those luxury apartments have cameras everywhere . Why would they think they could cover anything?

The camera probably doesn't matter too much if you have a mask. It's probably more important to remove physical evidence than to worry about additional video evidence.

And wearing a mask in public is perfectly normalized in New York right now, so it doesn't even draw any unwanted attention.

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Post by Liquix »

alpha_squared wrote: post #183

> Condos in the building feature Italian marble kitchens and master baths, white oak floors and asking prices in the $2 million to $2.5 million range, according to the real estate website StreetEasy. The website Curbed noted in a 2017 article that access to the building’s units was via a private, keyed elevator. This is such a strange paragraph to read in an article like this. I see the relevance of the last sentence…

Perhaps meant to give readers a sense of how wealthy he was? The fact that he was a young millionaire entrepreneur adds a layer of depth to the story.

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Post by KingOfCoders »

Twirrim wrote: post #25
classified wrote: post #4

So police don't even know the cause of death, or anything else, but they do know they have video of the "killer"? I wish I were clairvoyant like this, but otherwise, may I never come under investigation from those people.

I hope if I'm ever murdered, those investigating similarly don't just accept the obvious, and try to figure out what _actually_ happened vs what _appears_ to have happened.

The police wants to close cases.

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Post by ithinkso »

yardie wrote: post #174
marcinzm wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>that'd be geopolitical suicide Saudi Arabia seems to be doing fine last I checked.

Saudi Arabia carried out an extrajudicial killing in a small, neighboring state. This was carried out in the US. And for all intents and purposes could be considered an act of war against a state that has an unlimited war chest.

Turkey has the second largest military in NATO (after US) and by quite a margin

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Post by throw03172019 »

alpha_squared wrote: post #183

> Condos in the building feature Italian marble kitchens and master baths, white oak floors and asking prices in the $2 million to $2.5 million range, according to the real estate website StreetEasy. The website Curbed noted in a 2017 article that access to the building’s units was via a private, keyed elevator. This is such a strange paragraph to read in an article like this. I see the relevance of the last sentence…

The extra details of the kitchen and bathroom is strange. As far as the price point, they may be trying to show he was not living in a run down neighborhood with higher crime?

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by agustif »

chubot wrote: post #104

Uh wow, I never heard of this company or person, but this is horrible and tragic. However I just read "The Upstarts", the 2017 book about AirBNB and Uber. It specifically mentions that 2 rideshare leaders felt their lives were threatened by local competition. I believe it was the original founder of Seamless in NYC, and an early executive at Uber, I believe when they were launching in NYC. Apparently it's not uncommo…

Escobar owned all taxis in Medellin

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Post by dopamean »

Naac wrote: post #180
flyingfences wrote: post #166

> The condos in the building are full-floor and the keyed elevator opens right into the apartment. Doesn't this mean that anybody with the [widely, publicly known] FDNY elevator override key can get right into the apartment? I've seen far too many physical pentesting talks (i.e. any at all) to trust a setup like that for my home in a city.

Probably not. There is most likely another door once the elevator opens, that also require some sort of key.

I have several friends who live in these types of apartments and all of them have apartments where the elevator opens directly into the unit. This is a common setup.
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