Sylvie Cachay thought her layabout boyfriend needed to change a few things. She asked him to “Hold me after sex and say sweet things . . . Do not overuse paper towels . . . Show me that I should be with you.” Apparently, the letter did not go over well with Nicholas Brooks, who is now standing trial for her murder.
"Take me on dates!” she asked Brooks, then 24, who was almost a decade younger than Cachay. “No random over drinking or drug use . . . Every now and then spray bug spray.” She implored him to get a job and to stop using her credit card. And only a few days after she wrote the letter, she was found dead in a bathtub in a high-end hotel,
Now Brooks is standing trial for her murder, and the prosecution is rolling out the final personal correspondences between the two. The hard-partying Brooks, who was the son of songwriter Joseph Brooks (who killed himself after a sexual assault charge in 2011), and the fashion designer Cachay had a turbulent six-month relationship, that ended with a reconciliation shortly before Cachay's death.
"Why don’t you come over and get in bed with me and we can hold each other?” she texted Brooks. “Think about it,”she said. “I love you and just know everything will be alright.”
Mr. Brooks apparently ate a steak in the hotel lobby while Cachay was expiring upstairs, and only when he returned to the hotel in the morning was he brought in for questioning
Cachay had asked him in the "to-do" list to help with cleaning around her apartment, cut back on drinking, and stop smoking marijuana.
“If you can’t do all these things, then this likely won’t work,” Cachay wrote, finishing her letter to Brooks.