Dr Sneha Philip mystery - did she die in 9/11 attacks?

[Anonymous]

Depending on what account you believe:

Sneha had argued with her husband at the courthouse that morning (her husband denies that)

Sneha's brother had walked in on Sneha and his former girlfriend having sex (her brother denies ever telling police that).

Sneha had been charged with making a false accusation to police (she accused a man of groping her) and had been in court the morning of her disappearance.

Sneha was known to frequent gay bars and to stay out all night at her friends' places w/o letting her husband know where she was.

Sneha did not come home on 9/10 after her shopping trip at a store to buy lingerie and bedding. And those shopping bags have never been recovered.

Some questions:

What were Sneha's finances like? Did she have large student loan payments? If she had been convicted of giving a false statement to police would would her punishment have been and what would the consequences have been to her professional career?

As far as what happened to Sneha. I am leaning towards her taking the opportunity to disappear and go somewhere to start her life over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depending on what account you believe:

Sneha had argued with her husband at the courthouse that morning (her husband denies that)

Sneha's brother had walked in on Sneha and his former girlfriend having sex (her brother denies ever telling police that).

Sneha had been charged with making a false accusation to police (she accused a man of groping her) and had been in court the morning of her disappearance.

Sneha was known to frequent gay bars and to stay out all night at her friends' places w/o letting her husband know where she was.

Sneha did not come home on 9/10 after her shopping trip at a store to buy lingerie and bedding. And those shopping bags have never been recovered.

Some questions:

What were Sneha's finances like? Did she have large student loan payments? If she had been convicted of giving a false statement to police would would her punishment have been and what would the consequences have been to her professional career?

As far as what happened to Sneha. I am leaning towards her taking the opportunity to disappear and go somewhere to start her life over again.

I believe this is the truth. There's a very large network of people who help abused women do this kind of disappearing.

I'm not saying she was one, but maybe she hated her life enough to lie to get the resources available to help. Or perhaps it was some kind of LGBTQ+ group who helped. The date could have just been a total coincidence.

I just don't think she perished on 9/11 in the towers as a hero. There are too many missing gaps in accounting for her whereabouts on 9/10 and the early morning of 9/11 for that to be a good explanation.

Someone earlier mentioned she could have met her demise on 9/10 as the victim of foul play. That is so eerie to think about and it also makes me wonder, could there be others? Were there other people killed on 9/11 or even in the days following that we just don't know about? Since communication systems were all down that day and even some the next day, could relatives have assumed a lack of communication from their loved ones in the city meant that they'd perished in the towers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depending on what account you believe:

Sneha had argued with her husband at the courthouse that morning (her husband denies that)

Sneha's brother had walked in on Sneha and his former girlfriend having sex (her brother denies ever telling police that).

Sneha had been charged with making a false accusation to police (she accused a man of groping her) and had been in court the morning of her disappearance.

Sneha was known to frequent gay bars and to stay out all night at her friends' places w/o letting her husband know where she was.

Sneha did not come home on 9/10 after her shopping trip at a store to buy lingerie and bedding. And those shopping bags have never been recovered.

Some questions:

What were Sneha's finances like? Did she have large student loan payments? If she had been convicted of giving a false statement to police would would her punishment have been and what would the consequences have been to her professional career?

As far as what happened to Sneha. I am leaning towards her taking the opportunity to disappear and go somewhere to start her life over again.

I believe this is the truth. There's a very large network of people who help abused women do this kind of disappearing.

I'm not saying she was one, but maybe she hated her life enough to lie to get the resources available to help. Or perhaps it was some kind of LGBTQ+ group who helped. The date could have just been a total coincidence.

I just don't think she perished on 9/11 in the towers as a hero. There are too many missing gaps in accounting for her whereabouts on 9/10 and the early morning of 9/11 for that to be a good explanation.

Someone earlier mentioned she could have met her demise on 9/10 as the victim of foul play. That is so eerie to think about and it also makes me wonder, could there be others? Were there other people killed on 9/11 or even in the days following that we just don't know about? Since communication systems were all down that day and even some the next day, could relatives have assumed a lack of communication from their loved ones in the city meant that they'd perished in the towers?

There is no indication that she was abused, is there? It sounds like Sneha pretty much did what she wanted to do. I do think that she had some issues in her personal life that may have seemed extremely overwhelming at the time. I would think that her recent professional problems coupled with the legal issues that she was having would have been pretty stressful - not just on Sneha but on her husband, too. She was going out and staying out as a way to escape her problems. Maybe 9/11 happened and she saw the opportunity to break free of her responsibilities and troubles and start a new worry free life for herself.

[Anonymous]

There was a law and order many years ago with a somewhat similar plot line. A husband tried to cover up murdering his wife by claiming she died in the attacks on 9/11. In the show they found her body in the rubble and the gotcha (spoiler alert!) was that she was carrying an evening bag not her work bag so they figured out she died the evening of 9/10. Now I want to go back and watch that episode to see if it is inspired by this story. For some reason the episode stuck with me because it made me think what else was out there that the attack covered up.

[Anonymous]

I understand that it's most logical to assume that she died as a result of the attacks, perhaps most likely while aiding people in the aftermath. However, that doesn't account for some other potholes. That one that stands out to me the most is - when she returned to the apartment building (if that's her on the tapes), why didn't she have any of her shopping bags? Did she purchase those things to give to someone else? If so, who is that person and why did they never come forth with information? Also - who was the person that the clerk claimed they saw with Sneha at Century 21? Her cousin...I forget her name, but wasn't she supposed to come over for dinner last night? If Sneha wasn't around, why didn't she contact Ron inquiring about her whereabouts, unless she knew something more. Yes, she went out a lot (which could explain why she didn't come home that night), and was a doctor that lived right by the WTC (which could explain how she died), but it's the smaller details that keep me from fully believing that this mystery is a simple one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depending on what account you believe:

Sneha had argued with her husband at the courthouse that morning (her husband denies that)

Sneha's brother had walked in on Sneha and his former girlfriend having sex (her brother denies ever telling police that).

Sneha had been charged with making a false accusation to police (she accused a man of groping her) and had been in court the morning of her disappearance.

Sneha was known to frequent gay bars and to stay out all night at her friends' places w/o letting her husband know where she was.

Sneha did not come home on 9/10 after her shopping trip at a store to buy lingerie and bedding. And those shopping bags have never been recovered.

Some questions:

What were Sneha's finances like? Did she have large student loan payments? If she had been convicted of giving a false statement to police would would her punishment have been and what would the consequences have been to her professional career?

As far as what happened to Sneha. I am leaning towards her taking the opportunity to disappear and go somewhere to start her life over again.

I agree with this also. The previous poster says they knew her - why do you think she bought all that stuff, including three pairs of shoes which someone would presumably not buy for a friend, if she were planning on killing herself?

The husband is super sketchy including the fact that he agreed to the story but would not share what the private investigator found. Then again they obviously had a really odd relationship considering that she often didn't come home overnight and it didn't seem to bother him. It's possible the investigator found she was doing some more sexual stuff and the husband did not want it made public because he knew it would make it less credible and/or cared about that she died in the WTC.

This is an interesting story.

[Anonymous]

Do you think this one will ever be solved?

[Anonymous]

Three pairs of shoes, bed linens, and lingerie would be clunky, heavy bags.

Maybe she took a cab home; as she was arriving home at 8:43am (if that time was correct), she realized she left her bags in the cab, easy to do after a night of partying.

She turned around and left the building to try to stop the taxi from driving away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand that it's most logical to assume that she died as a result of the attacks, perhaps most likely while aiding people in the aftermath. However, that doesn't account for some other potholes. That one that stands out to me the most is - when she returned to the apartment building (if that's her on the tapes), why didn't she have any of her shopping bags? Did she purchase those things to give to someone else? If so, who is that person and why did they never come forth with information? Also - who was the person that the clerk claimed they saw with Sneha at Century 21? Her cousin...I forget her name, but wasn't she supposed to come over for dinner last night? If Sneha wasn't around, why didn't she contact Ron inquiring about her whereabouts, unless she knew something more. Yes, she went out a lot (which could explain why she didn't come home that night), and was a doctor that lived right by the WTC (which could explain how she died), but it's the smaller details that keep me from fully believing that this mystery is a simple one.

These aren't potholes. The woman she was seen on the store video tapes was probably her girlfriend. Buying a dress, bed sheets and lingerie--they were shopping to celebrate their affair or new life together. The shopping bags are wherever this woman lived. The other woman on the tape hasn't been identified or reported missing because she isn't. Sneha is seen on the lobby video tape at her apartment because she was vacillating about leaving her husband.

She used the turmoil of 9/11 to make a clean break. It's the reverse of when a British man who was reported missing after the tsunami in Thailand, but was actually in jail. He lied about a vacation, but his alibi was busted with a disaster. She used a disaster to give her an alibi.

Years ago I watched a segment on 60 Minutes about a married man with a baby and a toddler who seemingly disappeared on a snowy night to buy his wife ice cream. His car was left abandoned on the road. His wife was convinced that it was foul play, but the police were convinced he walked away from his life. He came forward after the interview because watching his kids on tv proved too much on his sense of guilt.

It's absolutely disgusting that her name appears on the tributes because There's zero proof that she was there and a lot of people really did die that day. The Windows on the World scenario was put forth and probably wishful thinking by a grieving mother. Understandably her family wants to believe she died a hero vs. completely cutting them off and selfishly letting them believe the worst. She made that decision then and will not want to come forward now because she would be seen as even more despicable as she's viewed by many now.

[Anonymous]

How can people just disappear? Like ow do you support yourself without a SSN? You can't get a job without a SSN unless its under the table nanny/maid/day laborer and I don't see a former doctor doing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can people just disappear? Like ow do you support yourself without a SSN? You can't get a job without a SSN unless its under the table nanny/maid/day laborer and I don't see a former doctor doing that.

1) a fake SSN will get you a job, not everyone reports it.

2) You are assuming that is she DID in fact try to disappear, she decided to do so by staying in the US...it’s more probably that she left the country altogether if that is what she did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a law and order many years ago with a somewhat similar plot line. A husband tried to cover up murdering his wife by claiming she died in the attacks on 9/11. In the show they found her body in the rubble and the gotcha (spoiler alert!) was that she was carrying an evening bag not her work bag so they figured out she died the evening of 9/10. Now I want to go back and watch that episode to see if it is inspired by this story. For some reason the episode stuck with me because it made me think what else was out there that the attack covered up.

I was just about to post about this L & O episode. I wonder if Sneha's case was the inspiration for this episode?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Three pairs of shoes, bed linens, and lingerie would be clunky, heavy bags.

Maybe she took a cab home; as she was arriving home at 8:43am (if that time was correct), she realized she left her bags in the cab, easy to do after a night of partying.

She turned around and left the building to try to stop the taxi from driving away.

Or maybe she was afraid to go home. After her troubles and the fight at the courthouse. Maybe it was the last straw. Nobody really ever knows what goes on behind closed doors. Maybe someone was helping her start over. Maybe they advised her to NOT return to the apartment for her things. Maybe they suggested she purchase her own shoes and undergarments, and they'd supply clothing at a shelter. Maybe the bed linens were for some sort of shelter hopping she would be doing. Maybe it wasn't her seen in the security video.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can people just disappear? Like ow do you support yourself without a SSN? You can't get a job without a SSN unless its under the table nanny/maid/day laborer and I don't see a former doctor doing that.

1) a fake SSN will get you a job, not everyone reports it.

2) You are assuming that is she DID in fact try to disappear, she decided to do so by staying in the US...it’s more probably that she left the country altogether if that is what she did.

She could be anywhere. Doctors commit fraud or worse crimes all the time, e.g.,:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/doctor-murdered-wife-abused-daughter-stole-identity-book-article-1.2166030
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2706224/Attorney-Fatal-Vision-court-case-continue.html

PPP, it sounds like you don't remember how antiquated things were back then. Visas for the 9/11 hijackers were approved 6 months AFTER the attack:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/12/inv.flight.school.visas/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three pairs of shoes, bed linens, and lingerie would be clunky, heavy bags.

Maybe she took a cab home; as she was arriving home at 8:43am (if that time was correct), she realized she left her bags in the cab, easy to do after a night of partying.

She turned around and left the building to try to stop the taxi from driving away.

Or maybe she was afraid to go home. After her troubles and the fight at the courthouse. Maybe it was the last straw. Nobody really ever knows what goes on behind closed doors. Maybe someone was helping her start over. Maybe they advised her to NOT return to the apartment for her things. Maybe they suggested she purchase her own shoes and undergarments, and they'd supply clothing at a shelter. Maybe the bed linens were for some sort of shelter hopping she would be doing. Maybe it wasn't her seen in the security video.

Oh for Pete's sake--her purchases telegraph that she was having sex with someone other than her husband not at all that she was abused. Battered women's shelters don't have a dress code and don't make you bring your own sheets. It's not camp.

There's also no way shelter employees would keep silent this long a family think some had died in 9/11 even if it were a breach of protocol.