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Shocking Murder of: Fahim Saleh

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4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Our case this week details the grisly murder of young, up-and-coming tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh At the time of his death this past July, he was only 33 years old, but his companies had amassed millions of dollars already. Given the gruesome nature of his murder, police originally hypothesized that it was the work of a professional hitman or assassin, but it turns out, the murderer was someone much closer to Fahim.


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Researched and Written by: Allison Hauser and Crime Salad

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All the blood left, all the pain, pain up.

0:07.0

All the blood left, all the pain, pain up.

0:16.0

Hey, Crime Sal listeners. Welcome back to another episode of Crime Solid, where we serve you

0:30.4

a healthy portion of fresh, true crime stories, and where your host Ashley and Ricky.

0:36.4

Our case this week details the grisly murder of young up-and-coming tech entrepreneur,

0:42.1

Fahim Saleh. At the time of his death this past July, he was only 33 years old, but his

0:48.3

company had amassed millions of dollars already. Given the gruesome nature of his murder,

0:54.9

police originally hypothesized that it was the work of a professional hitman or assassin,

1:00.7

but it turns out the murderer was someone much closer to Fahim.

1:05.7

Fahim Saleh was born in December of 1986 in Saudi Arabia to two Bengladeshi parents. The

1:13.2

Saleh family moved around often for work, but eventually they settled down in Rochester,

1:18.6

New York. Fahim's father worked for IBM as a software consultant, and the interest

1:24.5

in tech ran in the family. Fahim had two sisters, a younger one named Rief in an older

1:30.2

one Ruby, with whom he was very close to. From an early age, Fahim seemed to have a

1:35.7

knack for business. When he was only in fifth grade, he started to sell candy from a local

1:42.5

dollar store to other kids on the playground. Of course, this little business only lasted

1:47.2

a few weeks before being shut down by the principal, but in that time, Fahim had earned

1:52.4

a profit of $150. By the time he was in, his early teens, Fahim's entrepreneurial spirit

1:59.6

and love for technology had grown even bigger. From his parents' home in upstate New York,

2:05.6

Fahim started to learn how to use computer code and would build various websites and apps.

2:11.5

His most successful project during these early years was a company called Wiz Teen Incorporated,

2:17.6

which he made more than $400,000. And Fahim hadn't even graduated high school yet. It's

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