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I like your breakdown of events, but Dominique was Sharma's daughter, not Shamji's. It does seem very likely that he was caught one way or another and took a di

• thaumasiotes 3y ago
  > He explained that he’d spent Thursday evening with Zac at Riverwalk, along with Dave Sharma, a fifty-five-year-old friend who lived in the apartment. Sharma’s daughter, Dominique Sharma Clarke, who was in her early twenties, was also there. For Dave Sharma's daughter to be named Dominique Sharma Clarke, it sounds like she was married...? > I spoke to Ismailova recently, and she told me that she’d known Zac by yet another fictitious name, Thaimas, and that she’d believed him to be a young Kazakh who lived by himself. A white Londoner is not capable of passing for a Kazakh.
  • alephnerd 3y ago
    > A white Londoner is not capable of passing for a Kazakh. Ever heard of Borat? /s I think they implied ethnic Russian from Kazakhstan, like Arkady Volozh (the founder of Yandex) or Vladimir Zhirinovsky (the proto-Putin of the 90s). They should be called Kazakhstani (the nationality), not Kazakh (as in the ethnic group), but this is the New Yorker, so pathos tends to matter more than logos.
  • rsynnott 3y ago
    > A white Londoner is not capable of passing for a Kazakh. A fairly large fraction of Kazakhstan's population is ethnic Russian.
  • patcon 3y ago
    > For Dave Sharma's daughter to be named Dominique Sharma Clarke, it sounds like she was married...? Common for children of unmarried parents as well