Missing Female Internist in NY
Maggie
Woman's 9/10
Disappearance a Mystery
By GREG GITTRICH
Among all the faces on all the missing posters that papered walls and signposts
around the city after Sept. 11, the flyers with Dr. Sneha Ann Philip's photo
stood out for one reason: She vanished the day before the terrorist attacks.
Now, more than four months later, walk down Broadway near where tourists wait
to view the destroyed World Trade Center and Philip's face is still easy to
pick out — because her missing poster is one of the few that remains.
A flyer of Dr. Sneha Ann Phillip, missing since the day before the World Trade
Center attacks
Philip, 31, a beautiful internist with black hair and olive skin, lived a few
blocks from the Trade Center. She was last seen shopping across the street from
the twin towers Sept. 10.
She never came home.
Before her husband, Dr. Ron Lieberman, could report her missing, two kamikaze
jets brought bedlam to the city.
"Hope dwindles as time goes by," Lieberman said, but he and Philip's family
have not given up. They filed reports with the NYPD and FBI, hired a team of
private investigators, contacted all of her friends and acquaintances, and met
with four psychics.
They began hanging new posters last week.
"MISSING since before the World Trade Center attack. Last seen 5:15 p.m.,
Monday 9/10/2001," the flyer says above Philip's name and photo.
"You can't move onto Sept. 11 until you know what happened Sept. 10," Lieberman
said. "That's where all of our efforts are now."
The identity of a mystery woman who was seen shopping with Philip before she
vanished is the latest tip Lieberman is trying to chase down.
"There was a women who sold shoes to my wife that day who knew my wife as
somewhat of a regular customer," he said. "The woman said my wife was there
with another Indian woman. She said the other woman was about 5-feet-2, 30
years old, with short black hair.
"We've contacted every single person who knows my wife. No one knows this
woman."
A security video from the apartment building where Philip and Lieberman lived
shows Philip leaving Sept. 10 at 5:15 p.m. She was wearing a brown,
short-sleeve, button-down dress with a collar, and brown loafers.
The last trace of her are credit card receipts that indicate she went shopping
at Century 21, the discount department store on Church St., a few hours later.
At 11:15 p.m., Lieberman said he got home from his shift at Jacobi Medical
Center in the Bronx. His wife, a resident at St. Vincent's Medical Center on
Staten Island, wasn't in the apartment. He went to bed, assuming she was with
her brother or cousin, who live nearby.
Lieberman maintains his marriage of a year and a half wasn't in trouble.
He has turned over samples of his wife's DNA to the city, and private
investigators continue to look through jewelry recovered from Ground Zero to
see whether any of it resembles what Philip was wearing.
And in the desperate days after Sept. 11, he admitted having concocted a story
about his wife racing into the twin towers, thinking rescuers would look harder
to find her.
"We still have no way to connect my wife to the Trade Center," Lieberman said.
"We haven't found anything yet."
Original Publication Date: 1/19/02
Maggie
"There are no stupid questions. There are, however, many inquisitive idiots."
-- Unknown
JonesieCat
So did the husb do it or what? He told them she went down in the WTC
because he thought they'd look for her *faster*?
JC
Maggie
>So did the husb do it or what? He told them she went down in the WTC
>because he thought they'd look for her *faster*?
***Well, sorta. Here's a story I found in the Oct. 20 Long Island Advance that
explains what happened in a little more depth. And I feel pretty sure the
husband didn't do it. If he did, he had to have done it after 11:15 p.m. on
the 10th and before 6:30 a.m. on the 11th, *and* the security cameras that
caught the Mrs. exiting the apartment had to have somehow missed her return,
*and* the husband had to have failed to use the most logical explanation for
her disappearance ("she told me she had to run back to that store on the
morning of the 11th to return some shoes.").
Too bad it didn't happen in Washington, DC--we could attribute it to the
Chandra Levy/Joyce Something-or-other/petite, ethnic-brunette serial killer.
Without a trace
Island physician vanished one day before the WTC attacks
Saturday, October 20, 2001
By ROBERT GAVIN
Somewhere beneath the tons of soot and twisted metal that used to be the World
Trade Center are the answers to thousands of missing persons cases in New York
City.
But a short distance away, no one can seem to explain the disappearance of
Battery Park City resident Dr. Sneha Ann Philip.
The 31-year-old physician at St. Vincent's Medical Center in West Brighton
vanished the evening of Sept. 10 -- one day before a terrorist attack leveled
the Twin Towers. Still unknown is whether Dr. Philip fell victim to the Trade
Center tragedy, was kidnapped, suffered amnesia, or somehow found safety.
More than five weeks later, authorities remain tight-lipped about their
investigation into the physician's mysterious disappearance. "If she was just
lost, we would have closed the case by now," said one law enforcement source
familiar with the investigation, adding only that investigators are pursuing a
number of leads and have not ruled out foul play.
Relatives of Dr. Philip say they have scoured the city looking for clues and
have even hired private investigators.
"I know something happened to her," said her mother, Ansu Philip, in a
telephone interview from her home in upstate Hopewell Junction. She said her
daughter was deeply in love with her husband of 18 months, belonged to a
tight-knit Indian family, and would never simply run off. "If she's anywhere in
this world alive, she would call me. That's the way she is."
Mrs. Philip fears her daughter, who she said looks "Middle Eastern" and was
shopping next door to the skyscrapers the night she vanished, might have
encountered terrorists scoping out the Trade Center on the eve of the disaster.
Neither the mother nor police have revealed any concrete evidence to support
this scenario, however.
Or perhaps the missing doctor ventured to the chaos at the Trade Center on
Sept. 11 to help those suffering, and when the buildings collapsed Dr. Philip
became trapped like so many others.
But the person closest to her says only a positive DNA test on remains pulled
from the rubble would make him accept that theory.
"My wife did not work in the World Trade Center and she had no business being
there," said Dr. Ron Lieberman, 32, who works at Jacobi Medical Center in the
Bronx. "The hope and the effort is she wasn't by the World Trade Center and
something else happened to her that we can't explain."
The last time Dr. Lieberman said he saw his wife was around 11:30 a.m. on the
day she disappeared. A hospital spokesman at St. Vincent's Medical Center said
the last time Dr. Philip came to work was Sept. 9.
Dr. Lieberman described his wife as a gentle and creative woman, someone who is
a serious painter of pastels when she is not working as a doctor. Photos of the
slender, dark-haired, olive-skinned woman, who is 5 feet 7 inches and weighs
115 pounds, have circulated on fliers and the Internet, even making their way
onto network television.
"Anything is possible," her husband said. "The sky is the limit with what the
possibilities are."
Relatives worry that mass destruction at the Trade Center initially slowed the
police department's progress on the case, allowing the trail to grow cold.
Beyond hiring private investigators, Dr. Lieberman said he went so far as to
ask cops to investigate him in the case, if that would speed the probe. "Of
course the husband is someone you have to check out, but if you can get past
that point, at least they're working," he said.
And Dr. Philip's younger brother outright lied on television, saying she was in
the Trade Center, just to get her story out, the husband explained.
"It's a desperate situation and they wouldn't talk to us," Dr. Lieberman said,
admitting he encouraged his brother-in-law to make up the story.
For the past two weeks, family members have pressured investigators to follow
up on a lead that a shoe saleswoman for Century 21 near the Twin Towers claims
she saw Dr. Philip shopping with another Indian woman with short black hair.
Oddly, this description does not match any of her friends, according to Dr.
Lieberman.
Police would not confirm the existence of this lead. Meanwhile, Dr. Lieberman
wants police to compare the description with their list of missing persons to
try and find out more about the mystery shopping companion. He said he reviewed
surveillance tapes from the store and spotted his wife shopping, but she was
alone.
"There's nothing I won't do to find her," Dr. Lieberman said.
Dr. Lieberman and his wife met six years ago through mutual friends, when both
were students at Chicago Medical Center. He was from Los Angeles, while she was
a native of Kerala, a state at the southernmost part of India. She was brought
to America as a 4-year-old with her family, and grew up in Albany.
They were engaged in Florence, Italy, and nearly eloped after visiting the
Gardonza Castle outside the medieval in Tuscany. But red-tape sent them back to
New York to plan their nuptials -- a ceremony so beautiful it was featured in a
wedding magazine.
Dr. Lieberman said he was in the process of planning a surprise trip to the
Italian castle for his wife's 32nd birthday on Oct. 7 when she disappeared.
As a married couple the two first lived in the Gramercy Park section of
Manhattan, where Dr. Philip completed her first two years as a medical
internist at Cabrini Medical Center. In July, she was assigned to do her third
year residency in the internal medicine rotation at St. Vincent's, West
Brighton, prompting the couple to rent an apartment in Battery Park City. Dr.
Lieberman said it was a convenient place live, offering equidistant commutes.
He traveled north to work in the emergency room at Jacobi Medical Center, while
she hopped a boat to Staten Island.
Dr. Lieberman said he and his wife, despite their hectic schedules, managed to
spend a day together on Sept. 9, and the two just lounged around. She talked
about buying a winter coat. At one point, she arranged some orchids which he
photographed, he recalled.
Dr. Lieberman retraced his wife's activities on the last day he spent with her:
On Monday, Sept. 10, they ate breakfast together in their neighborhood. She was
wearing a brown one-piece shirt-dress, buttoned down the front, and brown
loafers. She seemed "very happy," he recalled. "I told her I loved her and I
gave her a big hug and a kiss. I said, 'I'll see you later tonight.'" They
parted for the day, he for work, she to do some shopping.
At about 11:30 that morning, he rode the No. 5 subway train to Jacobi Medical
Center. Later that day, around 5:15 p.m., security cameras in Battery Park City
captured his wife leaving the couple's apartment, a purse in her hand.
By tracing an American Express credit card, Dr. Lieberman learned that his wife
shopped at Century 21, a department store next door to the World Trade Center.
She made two purchases in the store, including lingerie, panty hose and shoes.
The total amount spent was around $550.
When Dr. Lieberman came home Monday around 11:15 p.m., he noticed his wife was
not home and that there were no shopping bags there, either. He said he assumed
his wife slept at the nearby home of her brother, John Philip, 26, or at the
home of her cousin, Anu Rice, 33, who lives in Brooklyn. He said his wife may
have not called home for fear of waking him. He said he was not overly
concerned at this point.
The next morning, Sept. 11, when his wife still had not come home, Dr.
Lieberman's concerns grew. He went to work at 6:30 a.m., but figured his wife
was still likely at her cousin's home.
At 8:45 a.m., the first hijacked jet hits Tower 1 of the World Trade Center.
Dr. Lieberman watches the horror unfold on a hospital television and prepares
for an onslaught of patients at Jacobi. He called home twice and left messages
for his wife on their answering machine.
Later that day, he tried to volunteer at Saint Vincent's Hospital downtown, but
is not needed. Dressed in surgical scrubs, he borrows a friend's bike and makes
his way to a soot-covered Battery Park City. He finds no evidence that his wife
ever returned home. He also learns that she has not spent the night with family
or even contacted her mother -- an extremely unusual occurrence because the two
are so close. At this point, he is "really getting nervous."
No one has seen or heard from her since.
"It's a nightmare. It's a 24-hour nightmare," said Dr. Lieberman, who cannot
afford to live in Battery Park City alone and is planning to move in with his
in-laws.
"You just cannot fathom what's going on. This is the hardest thing in my life
I've ever had to deal with. This is all I do for the last the last three weeks,
just try to figure out where the hell my wife is."
(Advance staff writer Kati Cornell Smith contributed to this report.)
Patty
here's a picture of her
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/projects/attack/co110901s2.shtml.
One of those shows also covered another man who went missing that day
who should not have been at the World Trade Center, a banker who
worked several blocks away, his wife was the mayor of a small town in
New Jersey or New York state. Haven't heard any more on that case.
Hopewell couple's daughter missing from NYC
November 9, 2001
By Elizabeth Lynch
Poughkeepsie Journal
A Hopewell Junction couple wonder if their daughter is among those
killed at the World Trade Center Sept. 11.
Sneha Ann Philip, 32, who lives about three blocks from the trade
center with her husband, Ron Lieberman, has been missing since the
night of Sept. 10, according to her mother, Ansu Philip.
At least a dozen local or former residents were killed Sept. 11, when
terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon. About 4,500 people are believed to have died
in the attacks.
A credit card purchase puts Sneha Philip in a department store across
the street from the trade center about 7:18 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10.
She didn't come home that night.
The last contact any family member had with Sneha Philip was at 2:30
p.m. Sept. 10.
Ansu Philip works at the Computer Center at Dutchess Community
College, and Philip K. Philip, the missing woman's father, is a
radiologist at St. Francis Hospital.
Sneha Philip also has two brothers, John Kevin and Ashwin.
Radiology Associates of Poughkeepsie has donated money to St. Francis
Hospital and will name a patient room in Sneha Philip's honor, said
hospital spokesman George Prisco.
At DCC, co-workers of Ansu Philip don't know what to say, said her
friend and co-worker, Ansy Varkey.
Initially, Varkey said, there was lots of hope Sneha Philip would be
found quickly because she had been missing since the day before the
attacks.
''Ansu has a lot of friends all over the United States,'' Varkey said.
''We have prayers going.''
Sneha Philip is in her third year of residency at St. Vincent's
Hospital in Staten Island.
She may have helped
She was not scheduled to work Monday through Wednesday the week of the
terrorist attacks. But her family wonders if she was coming home from
staying at a friend's house the morning of Sept. 11 and became a
victim of the attack. Being a doctor, she may have tried to help, her
mother said.
''Who knows,'' Ansu Philip said.
The security system at her daughter's apartment building indicates she
left home about 5:15 p.m. Monday. Credit card records show Sneha
Philip purchased about $550 worth of shoes, linens and lingerie at
Century21, a department store across from the trade center. The credit
card has not been used since.
Sneha Philip didn't call her husband Monday night. And she didn't stay
at her cousin's or her younger brother's home, as she sometimes did
when her husband was working late.
''That's all we know,'' Ansu Philip said.
Patty
Family fears for city woman missing since Sept. 10
By Hugo Kugiya
Newsday (Long Island NY)
September 26, 2001
To help find his missing sister, John Philip negotiated an interview
on the street with a television reporter. He held up a photograph of
his brave and beautiful sister, in the desperate posture taken by so
many others so many times since Sept. 11.
And then he lied.
In its shock and grief, the city had become single-minded, myopic,
selfish even, because it had to be. New York was no longer a city of
five boroughs, but one of 15 acres called Ground Zero. The collapse of
the World Trade Center pollinated a million stories, mostly about
villains and victims and heroes, so John Philip turned his sister into
one.
He told the reporter that Sneha Ann Philip was a doctor who lived a
few blocks from the World Trade Center (this much is true), and that
she ran into the towers to help after the attack. Her photo was
broadcast on TV; the reporter had the story he wanted, and so did the
city. Whatever confusion came from this was worth it, the family
agreed, because Sneha Philip's disappearance had gotten some
attention.
"I had told other reporters my sister was missing," John Philip said.
"But when they found out she had been missing since Monday [the day
before the attack] they lost interest." The truth, sadly, was much
more ordinary.
By all signs, Sneha Philip, 31, is one of dozens, hundreds, thousands
of people who go missing every day of every year for any number of
reasons. She is different because she went missing in lower Manhattan
the night before one of the biggest events in American history. While
the falling buildings might not have killed her, they essentially
erased her.
"I know we live in a random universe, but is it really that random?"
asked her husband, Dr. Ron Lieberman, who has been treating workers at
Ground Zero. "Is what happened to her and what happened on Sept. 11
unlucky timing, or is it connected?
"The police keep trying to lump her in with the missing people from
the World Trade Center," he added. "I don't know if it's because they
don't believe me or if they just don't want to deal with anything
else. We're losing valuable time if she's somewhere we can save her."
Lieberman last saw his wife at lunch on Sept. 10, dressed in a brown
shirt dress and sandals. A resident at St. Vincents Medical Center,
Staten Island, Sneha Philip was off Monday and Tuesday and planned to
relax and do some shopping.
Her mother and John Philip received e-mail messages from her at 2:30
and 3 p.m. on Sept. 10. The surveillance video tape at the apartment
building in Battery Park City where she lives with Lieberman shows she
left at 5:15 p.m. By tracing credit card transactions, Lieberman
discovered she shopped that evening at Century 21, a store near their
apartment, purchasing shoes, lingerie and bed linens. She made two
purchases at 6:40 and 7:18 p.m. She left no other traces.
Lieberman has looked through their apartment, which he has not been
able to reoccupy since the attack, several times and there is nothing
in it to indicate she ever returned. None of her relatives or friends
saw or spoke to her that night.
Lieberman returned home about 11 p.m. Monday. Sneha Philip was not
home, but Lieberman wasn't overly alarmed. After all, the couple live
within the New York Police Department's First Precinct, statistically
one of the safest in the city and where, so far this year, police have
recorded no murders and usually investigate few per year.
What clues might have remained, her family fears, were probably
destroyed in the towers' collapse.
The family has filed two reports with the FBI, a missing person's
report with detectives at the First Precinct and with authorities
investigating the World Trade Center disaster. They've hired a private
investigator, checked hospitals and shelters, posted fliers all over
lower Manhattan, and phoned every person in Sneha Philip's address
book. They've even consulted with a psychic, who told Lieberman his
wife is somewhere safe, unharmed but unable to speak.
"These weeks have been a 24-hour nightmare," Lieberman said. "With all
the people who died, and my wife missing. Just that she would
disappear is so unlikely. And I never dreamed Battery Park City would
be a target of any kind."
Patty
http://www.bridalpromotions.com/Article1.asp?ArticleID=78
Sneha Philip, M.D. and Ronald Lieberman, M.D. — May 13, 2000 Amenia,
NY
Ronald Lieberman first asked Sneha Philip to marry him in Florence,
Italy, while she was taking a leave of absence from medical school to
paint. The couple had visited Gardonza Castle outside the medieval
town of Arrezzo in Tuscany and almost eloped there and then, but were
thwarted by bureaucratic red-tape. Ron returned home to the U.S. for
medical school, but during the intersession, with ring in hand, he
returned to Florence and proposed, on bended knee, on Sneha’s balcony.
Their wedding was at Troutbeck, an upstate New York inn located in a
region reminiscent of Tuscany wine country. Their 240 guests filled
the 45-room inn and overflowed into nearby bed & breakfasts. The
wedding combined elements from the ethnic background of both bride and
groom. Sneha’s Christian family is from Kerela, along the southwest
coast of India, while Ron’s family is Jewish with Spanish cultural
influences.
The night before the ceremony, in an ancient, eight-hour Indian
ritual, temporary designs were painted on the bride’s hands and feet
with henna, symbolizing her new marital status: custom dictates that a
woman remains a new bride as long as the designs can still be seen.
Spanish flamenco guitar music entertained guests before the ceremony,
while classical Indian music, featuring sitar and tabla drums,
provided the backdrop as the couple stood under an outdoor arbor over
which a tallit, or Jewish prayer shawl, was draped.
While a guest sang an Indian song, Ron placed a tiny, teardrop-shaped
gold pendant and cross around Sneha’s neck, symbolizing their
marriage. He then wrapped the bride in a red-silk wedding sari,
elaborately woven with golden thread. The couple drank wine from a
kiddush cup, over which another guest had recited a traditional Jewish
blessing. Ron ended the ceremony by smashing a glass underfoot in the
Jewish tradition.
A former professional musician, Ron composed the music for the
couple’s first dance—a jazz song entitled, “Wow! She’s So Great.”
The formal reception was followed by an impromptu second party...
Chocolic
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Maybe being forced to wearing a Burqa by the Taliban?
Chocolic <okay, okay, that's stretching it
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JonesieCat
> JC said:
> >So did the husb do it or what? He told them she went down in the WTC
> >because he thought they'd look for her *faster*?
>
> ***Well, sorta. Here's a story I found in the Oct. 20 Long Island Advance that
> explains what happened in a little more depth. And I feel pretty sure the
> husband didn't do it. If he did, he had to have done it after 11:15 p.m. on
> the 10th and before 6:30 a.m. on the 11th, *and* the security cameras that
> caught the Mrs. exiting the apartment had to have somehow missed her return,
> *and* the husband had to have failed to use the most logical explanation for
> her disappearance ("she told me she had to run back to that store on the
> morning of the 11th to return some shoes.").
>
> Too bad it didn't happen in Washington, DC--we could attribute it to the
> Chandra Levy/Joyce Something-or-other/petite, ethnic-brunette serial killer.
Their sleeping arrangements sure were peculiar. "He said he "noticed
his wife was not home ... and... assumed [she] slept at the nearby
home of her brother... or at the home of her cousin..." He said he was
not overly concerned at this point." Then: "The next morning, Sept.
11, when his wife still had not come home, Dr. Lieberman's concerns
grew. He went to work at 6:30 a.m...." Sounds odd to me. And no calls
from her...
Yet, if he killed her, he should have claimed she went down in the WTC
and no one would have known. Hm. I wonder if he made any phone calls
the morning of the 11th before the WTC went down, telling about her
"disappearance" (and then couldn't as easily blame it on the WTC). I
wonder how closely his work alibi has been checked, or if he could
have ducked out for a pre-arranged "date" with her somewhere (where
she'd use her new lingerie perhaps? spicing things up since they
didn't see each other as often as they liked?).
In any case, it sounds like the police are quite interested (and don't
believe the WTC angle).
Chandra/Joyce popped into my head first thing actually. Not that far
away.
I'm surprised you're letting the husb off the hook so fast.
JC
JonesieCat
> They covered this one on all the night shows like Dateline, 20/20.
> here's a picture of her
> http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/projects/attack/co110901s2.shtml.
> One of those shows also covered another man who went missing that day
> who should not have been at the World Trade Center, a banker who
> worked several blocks away, his wife was the mayor of a small town in
> New Jersey or New York state. Haven't heard any more on that case.
Gee, she was beautiful. I was wondering if she might have slipped in
and spent the night at one of those relative's homes without them
realizing it. And on her way home the next morning the WTC went down,
and either she was caught in the initial disaster or went to help and
then got caught. But the relatives would have mentioned that to a
reporter if that were a possibility. I'd think. And the cops sound
like they certainly view it as a criminal case.
JC
Maggie
>> JC said:
>> >So did the husb do it or what? He told them she went down in the WTC
>> >because he thought they'd look for her *faster*?
>>
>> ***Well, sorta. Here's a story I found in the Oct. 20 Long Island Advance
>that
>> explains what happened in a little more depth. And I feel pretty sure
>the
>> husband didn't do it. If he did, he had to have done it after 11:15 p.m.
>on
>> the 10th and before 6:30 a.m. on the 11th, *and* the security cameras
>that
>> caught the Mrs. exiting the apartment had to have somehow missed her return,
>> *and* the husband had to have failed to use the most logical explanation
>for
>> her disappearance ("she told me she had to run back to that store on the
>> morning of the 11th to return some shoes.").
>>
>> Too bad it didn't happen in Washington, DC--we could attribute it to the
>> Chandra Levy/Joyce Something-or-other/petite, ethnic-brunette serial killer.
>
>Their sleeping arrangements sure were peculiar. "He said he "noticed
>his wife was not home ... and... assumed [she] slept at the nearby
>home of her brother... or at the home of her cousin..." He said he was
>not overly concerned at this point." Then: "The next morning, Sept.
>11, when his wife still had not come home, Dr. Lieberman's concerns
>grew. He went to work at 6:30 a.m...." Sounds odd to me. And no calls
>from her...
>
>Yet, if he killed her, he should have claimed she went down in the WTC
>and no one would have known. Hm. I wonder if he made any phone calls
>the morning of the 11th before the WTC went down, telling about her
>"disappearance" (and then couldn't as easily blame it on the WTC). I
>wonder how closely his work alibi has been checked, or if he could
>have ducked out for a pre-arranged "date" with her somewhere (where
>she'd use her new lingerie perhaps? spicing things up since they
>didn't see each other as often as they liked?).
>
>In any case, it sounds like the police are quite interested (and don't
>believe the WTC angle).
>
>Chandra/Joyce popped into my head first thing actually. Not that far
>away.
>
>I'm surprised you're letting the husb off the hook so fast.
***I just don't see anything at all to implicate the husband here. I'm also
putting a lot of faith in those videotapes, so I'm assuming they confirm his
story about when he returned from work and when he left the next morning. If
he killed her, it had to be premeditated, with him sneaking out of the
apartment and killing her somewhere else in the middle of the night. It just
doesn't make sense. Where was she--waiting around for him to show up to kill
her? And why kill her anyway? There doesn't seem to be any evidence that
she's an heiress who was about to divorce him. Perhaps it's counter-intuitive,
but the fact that he went ahead to work makes me even more sure of his
innocence. If he had done it, I think he would have made more of a show of
being concerned.
TomKuc48
"Sneha Ann Philip, 32, who lives about three blocks from the trade center with
"A credit card purchase puts Sneha Philip in a department store across the
street from the trade center about 7:18 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10."
linens and lingerie at Century21, a department store across from the trade
center."
Seems like $500 of merchandise from Century21 (up to 50% discounts on designer
stuff were normal; sales discounts greater than 50%) would be a lot of stuff to
carry around. Only a few blocks from home, but she didn't dump the stuff at
home. Was she on her way elsewhere with her purchases (linens and lingerie),
like maybe a bridal shower? On the other hand, it was already dark when she
left the department store, and a small woman burdened down with a lot of
packages could have looked like a choice victim. Still, in that area, even on
a Monday night, the streets would have been crowded enough to be safe, if only
from office workers working late, second shifters going to dinner breaks, etc.
This one is a puzzler.
>a banker who
>> worked several blocks away, his wife was the mayor of a small town in
>> New Jersey or New York state.
I think his wife is the mayor of a Westchester County city, but can't recall
exactly which one. The man's MetroCard had been traced, and he entered the
Lexington Avenue subway at Grand Central, which would have taken him down to
the Wall Street area, but blocks away from the WTC. Haven't heard a resolution
of either case, but they are both interesting.
Tom K
Maggie
***Agreed. The only likely perp I can imagine is a taxi driver. I wonder if
she would have been likely to flag down a cab to take her the three blocks to
her apartment.