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

[Anonymous]

If they left the US it wasn't immediately b/c flights were grounded and NYC was in chaos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most logical explanation is that she was at breakfast at Windows-she had said she wanted to check it out.

I think Windows was closed that day to diners in order to host a conference, though.

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Anonymous wrote:If they left the US it wasn't immediately b/c flights were grounded and NYC was in chaos.

Yes, they probably laid low for a while and then left the area. I can't imagine her remaining in NYC for long with her husband and family talking to local reporters about her disappearance. It's a big city but someone would have recognized her.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most logical explanation is that she was at breakfast at Windows-she had said she wanted to check it out.

I think Windows was closed that day to diners in order to host a conference, though.

Yes, I came across that info on a search that I did. It's why they knew precisely who was inside the restaurant that day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most logical explanation is that she was at breakfast at Windows-she had said she wanted to check it out.

I think Windows was closed that day to diners in order to host a conference, though.

Yes, I came across that info on a search that I did. It's why they knew precisely who was inside the restaurant that day.

Also, the source was a grief stricken mother, not exactly reliable.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems hard to fathom the planes hitting and she suddenly comes up with the idea to start a new life. Something like that takes a lot of planning and most Americans were shocked and grief stricken in the days after the attack. It shoes to seem possible to snap your fingers and decide to run away right then. It seems more likely she died... but how and when are the questions.

If her personal problems had been making her miserable and she saw no way of overcoming them, she may have been thinking for a long time about just getting up and walking out of her life. She had just had a court date (and possibly a big argument with her husband), she was floundering professionally, not sure what her finances were like. And it sounds like she may have had a substance abuse problem.

Sneha maybe had some issues, but Sneha was also smart. Maybe she had been devising a plan to disappear and 9/11 just happened to present her with an easy opportunity to do just that.

She left behind ID (although I guess that makes sense if she had a fake ID with a new identity) and they didn't find anything on her computer indicated an affair, plans to move etc. It's really a puzzle. If she had substance abuse problems it seems like she would have surfaced at some point due to that...getting sent to jail, or getting drunk and blabbing about who she really is etc. Even if she were in a different country, it seems unlikely an educated drunk could remain hidden this long.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The most logical explanation is that she was at breakfast at Windows-she had said she wanted to check it out.

I think Windows was closed that day to diners in order to host a conference, though.

Yes, I came across that info on a search that I did. It's why they knew precisely who was inside the restaurant that day.

Also, the source was a grief stricken mother, not exactly reliable.

I know, her poor mom breaks my heart. How awful that she will likely never know what happened to her daughter.

But, honestly, if they find a piece of jewelry or Sneha's DNA in the Trade Center rubble, I will be shocked. I really do not think that she was in those towers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most logical explanation is that she was at breakfast at Windows-she had said she wanted to check it out.

I think Windows was closed that day to diners in order to host a conference, though.

Yes, I came across that info on a search that I did. It's why they knew precisely who was inside the restaurant that day.

Also, the source was a grief stricken mother, not exactly reliable.

I know, her poor mom breaks my heart. How awful that she will likely never know what happened to her daughter.

But, honestly, if they find a piece of jewelry or Sneha's DNA in the Trade Center rubble, I will be shocked. I really do not think that she was in those towers.

The restaurant was open for breakfast, but because of calls out, people were accounted for. One of the last was the falling man who worked there, Norberto Hernandez. the PI probably would have done better to have tracked down the two women living or staying somewhere at the very least the night before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems hard to fathom the planes hitting and she suddenly comes up with the idea to start a new life. Something like that takes a lot of planning and most Americans were shocked and grief stricken in the days after the attack. It shoes to seem possible to snap your fingers and decide to run away right then. It seems more likely she died... but how and when are the questions.

If her personal problems had been making her miserable and she saw no way of overcoming them, she may have been thinking for a long time about just getting up and walking out of her life. She had just had a court date (and possibly a big argument with her husband), she was floundering professionally, not sure what her finances were like. And it sounds like she may have had a substance abuse problem.

Sneha maybe had some issues, but Sneha was also smart. Maybe she had been devising a plan to disappear and 9/11 just happened to present her with an easy opportunity to do just that.

She left behind ID (although I guess that makes sense if she had a fake ID with a new identity) and they didn't find anything on her computer indicated an affair, plans to move etc. It's really a puzzle. If she had substance abuse problems it seems like she would have surfaced at some point due to that...getting sent to jail, or getting drunk and blabbing about who she really is etc. Even if she were in a different country, it seems unlikely an educated drunk could remain hidden this long.

She might still have a drinking problem and be educated, but that doesn't exactly make her more recognizable to who she was before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems hard to fathom the planes hitting and she suddenly comes up with the idea to start a new life. Something like that takes a lot of planning and most Americans were shocked and grief stricken in the days after the attack. It shoes to seem possible to snap your fingers and decide to run away right then. It seems more likely she died... but how and when are the questions.

If her personal problems had been making her miserable and she saw no way of overcoming them, she may have been thinking for a long time about just getting up and walking out of her life. She had just had a court date (and possibly a big argument with her husband), she was floundering professionally, not sure what her finances were like. And it sounds like she may have had a substance abuse problem.

Sneha maybe had some issues, but Sneha was also smart. Maybe she had been devising a plan to disappear and 9/11 just happened to present her with an easy opportunity to do just that.

She left behind ID (although I guess that makes sense if she had a fake ID with a new identity) and they didn't find anything on her computer indicated an affair, plans to move etc. It's really a puzzle. If she had substance abuse problems it seems like she would have surfaced at some point due to that...getting sent to jail, or getting drunk and blabbing about who she really is etc. Even if she were in a different country, it seems unlikely an educated drunk could remain hidden this long.

She might still have a drinking problem and be educated, but that doesn't exactly make her more recognizable to who she was before.

If she is still alive I doubt pretty seriously that she is still practicing medicine or making it obvious to the people around her that she is so highly educated. Sneha thought that her career was pretty much over so that would have made it easier to walk away and assume a completely different identity.

[Anonymous]

She likely stayed out overnight with some random person as she had before, then headed home, saw or heard the plane hit, went to check it out or help and died.

Or her brother murdered her (the one who found her in bed with his girlfriend, was angry at her and lied about having spoken to her on the morning of 9-11)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She likely stayed out overnight with some random person as she had before, then headed home, saw or heard the plane hit, went to check it out or help and died.

Or her brother murdered her (the one who found her in bed with his girlfriend, was angry at her and lied about having spoken to her on the morning of 9-11)

Then why wouldn't her friend in the store video come forward to help fill in the timeline? It's possible one young Indian American woman went missing b/c she was buried in the rubble, but two? Another family would have come forward. This is why I don't think she was murdered--at least by anyone from her family. Maybe the woman in the store video did, but more likely they went off together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She likely stayed out overnight with some random person as she had before, then headed home, saw or heard the plane hit, went to check it out or help and died.

Or her brother murdered her (the one who found her in bed with his girlfriend, was angry at her and lied about having spoken to her on the morning of 9-11)

Then why wouldn't her friend in the store video come forward to help fill in the timeline? It's possible one young Indian American woman went missing b/c she was buried in the rubble, but two? Another family would have come forward. This is why I don't think she was murdered--at least by anyone from her family. Maybe the woman in the store video did, but more likely they went off together.

There is no "other Indian woman" in the store surveillance video. The video only showed Sneha, shopping by herself. The "other woman" comment came from a store clerk who claimed Sneha was shopping with another woman. That theory has never been corroborated by actual evidence. Frankly, I think the store clerk was confusing Sneha for another female South Asian customer. Many thousands of people shop in that Century 21 location everyday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She likely stayed out overnight with some random person as she had before, then headed home, saw or heard the plane hit, went to check it out or help and died.

Or her brother murdered her (the one who found her in bed with his girlfriend, was angry at her and lied about having spoken to her on the morning of 9-11)

Then why wouldn't her friend in the store video come forward to help fill in the timeline? It's possible one young Indian American woman went missing b/c she was buried in the rubble, but two? Another family would have come forward. This is why I don't think she was murdered--at least by anyone from her family. Maybe the woman in the store video did, but more likely they went off together.

There is no "other Indian woman" in the store surveillance video. The video only showed Sneha, shopping by herself. The "other woman" comment came from a store clerk who claimed Sneha was shopping with another woman. That theory has never been corroborated by actual evidence. Frankly, I think the store clerk was confusing Sneha for another female South Asian customer. Many thousands of people shop in that Century 21 location everyday.

This is my thought as well. I was at Trader Joe's the other day, and a woman and I were commenting on a new item we were both interested in trying, having a fun little conversation. A stocker came over and joined in, and the two of us walked away together, still talking. She even ended up behind me in line, and we talked there until she moved over to the open line next to me. We even walked out at the same time!

I'm sure the original stock employee, and maybe even the checkout clerk could have thought we were together, by the way we were chatting.

I can see this happening with the employee at Century 21.

[Anonymous]

I think it's unlikely that she ran toward the WTC to help the injured. No one had smart phones back then, so when the planes first crashed, she wouldn't have necessarily known what happened or where it happened. Also, there weren't that many people who were injured, and those who were injured would have been trying to flee too (to the extent they had mobility). Further, if she was an alcoholic who had been out socializing all night, she probably would have been tired and hungover that morning; acting as a first responder might not have been at the forefront of her mind.