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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she had friends (or even distant relatives) who helped her to get out of the country and start a new life for herself. Maybe she's somewhere else practicing medicine, new husband, raising a family.

She would have left all of her other credit cards and IDs behind because she wasn't going to be Sneha anymore.

Maybe she has even come back to visit people every now and then on the hush, hush....

But for what? Nothing stopping her from divorcing her husband or finding a new job or a new husband or new wife, in NYC or someplace else in US as herself. It is not like she was wanted by the police. She seems close to her family too.
And it costs quite a bit to build a new life especially given her lifestyle and can't be done overnight.

It was a way of putting her legal troubles behind her and maybe even starting afresh with her career (assuming she is now in another country practicing medicine under an assumed identity).

Why would a 31 year old woman who liked to go to bars with friends in the evenings leave her ID behind in the apartment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she had friends (or even distant relatives) who helped her to get out of the country and start a new life for herself. Maybe she's somewhere else practicing medicine, new husband, raising a family.

She would have left all of her other credit cards and IDs behind because she wasn't going to be Sneha anymore.

Maybe she has even come back to visit people every now and then on the hush, hush....

But for what? Nothing stopping her from divorcing her husband or finding a new job or a new husband or new wife, in NYC or someplace else in US as herself. It is not like she was wanted by the police. She seems close to her family too.
And it costs quite a bit to build a new life especially given her lifestyle and can't be done overnight.

The only reason I can think of is that her conservative parents would not accepted the lifestyle she wanted. Perhaps she originally only planned to leave for a few days after her court hearing and fight with her huaband, and then heard the missing story about herself on tv, and saw an opportunity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Could you imagine the reaction from her family or the public if she turned up alive after letting them think she was dead from a horrible national tragedy?

You mean overjoyed?

Her mom maybe. But most of her family and her husband seem to think she died a hero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she had friends (or even distant relatives) who helped her to get out of the country and start a new life for herself. Maybe she's somewhere else practicing medicine, new husband, raising a family.

She would have left all of her other credit cards and IDs behind because she wasn't going to be Sneha anymore.

Maybe she has even come back to visit people every now and then on the hush, hush....

But for what? Nothing stopping her from divorcing her husband or finding a new job or a new husband or new wife, in NYC or someplace else in US as herself. It is not like she was wanted by the police. She seems close to her family too.
And it costs quite a bit to build a new life especially given her lifestyle and can't be done overnight.

It was a way of putting her legal troubles behind her and maybe even starting afresh with her career (assuming she is now in another country practicing medicine under an assumed identity).

Why would a 31 year old woman who liked to go to bars with friends in the evenings leave her ID behind in the apartment?

Carding wasn't that strict. She definitely looked old enough to drink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she had friends (or even distant relatives) who helped her to get out of the country and start a new life for herself. Maybe she's somewhere else practicing medicine, new husband, raising a family.

She would have left all of her other credit cards and IDs behind because she wasn't going to be Sneha anymore.

Maybe she has even come back to visit people every now and then on the hush, hush....

But for what? Nothing stopping her from divorcing her husband or finding a new job or a new husband or new wife, in NYC or someplace else in US as herself. It is not like she was wanted by the police. She seems close to her family too.
And it costs quite a bit to build a new life especially given her lifestyle and can't be done overnight.

The only reason I can think of is that her conservative parents would not accepted the lifestyle she wanted. Perhaps she originally only planned to leave for a few days after her court hearing and fight with her huaband, and then heard the missing story about herself on tv, and saw an opportunity.

This is what I think. I don't think she intended to disappear completely. But the longer she waited the harder it was to go back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she had friends (or even distant relatives) who helped her to get out of the country and start a new life for herself. Maybe she's somewhere else practicing medicine, new husband, raising a family.

She would have left all of her other credit cards and IDs behind because she wasn't going to be Sneha anymore.

Maybe she has even come back to visit people every now and then on the hush, hush....

But for what? Nothing stopping her from divorcing her husband or finding a new job or a new husband or new wife, in NYC or someplace else in US as herself. It is not like she was wanted by the police. She seems close to her family too.
And it costs quite a bit to build a new life especially given her lifestyle and can't be done overnight.

It was a way of putting her legal troubles behind her and maybe even starting afresh with her career (assuming she is now in another country practicing medicine under an assumed identity).

Why would a 31 year old woman who liked to go to bars with friends in the evenings leave her ID behind in the apartment?

Carding wasn't that strict. She definitely looked old enough to drink.

And how does one just start practising in another country, she would need proof of her degree and credentials and references?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

They absolutely will. My senior year of college, I was placed with the battered women's shelter in the college town as my internship for my senior thesis. To this day, I still do NOT know where the shelter is located in that town or if it's even in the town proper. I, and the other student placed there, met our handlers at random locations throughout the town. We then drove to another location in town, switched vehicles, and were blindfolded for the drive to the shelter. Same procedure leaving the shelter. Pick up and drop off locations were never the same. The cars used varied. The only constant for us were our handlers. I legit felt like some kind of CIA spy.

All of the helpers and handlers working there took their work very seriously. Not only that, there were lawyers, therapists, doctors, makeup artists, hair dressers, and teachers who all volunteered and were blindfolded to get to the location as well. This was back in 2005, so I can only imagine how sophisticated their operation is now. I saw the transformations the women went through before being moved out of that location to their new lives. It's much more sophisticated than simply tossing on a wig and making a run for it.

I worked at a domestic violence shelter in the Bronx. I was not blindfolded to travel to it! The women were free to come and go during the daytime, but were not allowed to use cell phones or give out the number. This was in 2000.

[Anonymous]

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

Yes, even Amtrak and the GWB were shut down. There was really no way off the island.

[Anonymous]

Have any details ever been provided as to what Sneha and her mom discussed over IM for 2 hours on 9/10?

The person who she supposedly made a false police report about--I wonder if he/she was investigated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

They absolutely will. My senior year of college, I was placed with the battered women's shelter in the college town as my internship for my senior thesis. To this day, I still do NOT know where the shelter is located in that town or if it's even in the town proper. I, and the other student placed there, met our handlers at random locations throughout the town. We then drove to another location in town, switched vehicles, and were blindfolded for the drive to the shelter. Same procedure leaving the shelter. Pick up and drop off locations were never the same. The cars used varied. The only constant for us were our handlers. I legit felt like some kind of CIA spy.

All of the helpers and handlers working there took their work very seriously. Not only that, there were lawyers, therapists, doctors, makeup artists, hair dressers, and teachers who all volunteered and were blindfolded to get to the location as well. This was back in 2005, so I can only imagine how sophisticated their operation is now. I saw the transformations the women went through before being moved out of that location to their new lives. It's much more sophisticated than simply tossing on a wig and making a run for it.

How bizarre. I've worked at two domestic violence shelters. They don't publicize the locations and they take confidentiality and security very seriously but certainly no CIA mission. No changing cars or blindfolding etc. That seems so extreme. Seems pretty traumatizing for women who have been abused to be blindfolded and put through that.

[Anonymous]

Also reputable women's shelters won't obstruct a missing person case as PP mentioned, they also won't aid insurance fraud as in her family applying to the 9/11 victims fund. I do know shelters take confidentiality seriously. Theorizing that she was escaping abuse is another way to project honorable motives to her disappearance.

Maybe she died on September 11 as a by stander, murdered, or suicide. Or maybe she walked into another life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Yes, even Amtrak and the GWB were shut down. There was really no way off the island.

She had several weeks before people would recognize her, there were literally thousands of people missing.

[Anonymous]

Fascinating

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she had friends (or even distant relatives) who helped her to get out of the country and start a new life for herself. Maybe she's somewhere else practicing medicine, new husband, raising a family.

She would have left all of her other credit cards and IDs behind because she wasn't going to be Sneha anymore.

Maybe she has even come back to visit people every now and then on the hush, hush....

But for what? Nothing stopping her from divorcing her husband or finding a new job or a new husband or new wife, in NYC or someplace else in US as herself. It is not like she was wanted by the police. She seems close to her family too.
And it costs quite a bit to build a new life especially given her lifestyle and can't be done overnight.

It was a way of putting her legal troubles behind her and maybe even starting afresh with her career (assuming she is now in another country practicing medicine under an assumed identity).

Why would a 31 year old woman who liked to go to bars with friends in the evenings leave her ID behind in the apartment?

Carding wasn't that strict. She definitely looked old enough to drink.

And how does one just start practising in another country, she would need proof of her degree and credentials and references?

I have no idea how careful these things are checked in other countries, especially back in 2001 before records were electronic and more easily verifiable.

[Anonymous]

I wish her well