Published - 11 September 2019
The enduring 9/11 mystery of missing Dr. Philip: How cops remain stumped by the disappearance of a married New Yorker who vanished the night before the attack
Seven years after September 11, 2001, Dr. Sneha Anne Philip was officially listed as the 2,751st victim of the terrorist attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans. Yet, her disappearance continues to be one 9/11’s most enduring mysteries. On the afternoon of September 10, 2001, the 31- year-old doctor left her apartment in Battery Park City, never to be seen again.
The last image ever taken of Sneha was captured via CCTV footage while she purchased a dress, lingerie, panty hose, bed linens and three pair of shoes from the Century 21 department store a few blocks from her home in downtown Manhattan.
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Her husband, Ron Lieberman came home from work that evening around midnight to an empty apartment. Although strange, it wasn’t out of the ordinary for Sneha to stay out late with friends. By the time his alarm clock went off the next morning on September 11, 2001 – Sneha was still not home. A few hours later, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center just three blocks from couple’s one-bedroom Tribeca apartment.
The city descended into chaos, Lieberman tried dialing his wife from work and got the answering machine. Panic began to settle in when nobody in Sneha’s family had heard from her either.
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The last time Lieberman saw his wife was the previous morning when he kissed her good-bye before leaving to work in the Bronx where he was an emergency-room intern at the Jacobi Medical Center. He hitched a ride back to his apartment in an ambulance to look for Sneha, but the trip amidst frantic traffic took six hours. By 9pm, he made his way past the rubble and destruction toward his building but the front doors were closed shut without electricity. He was forced to give up and spend a sleepless night on a friends couch in the nearby West Village before finally heading home on the morning of September 12.
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Grey soot coated every surface in his apartment. There was no sign of Sneha; only the paw prints their cats had laid in the surface of the dust.
(The last confirmed sighting of Sneha was on September 10, 2001 while shopping at the Century 21 department store in downtown Manhattan. She purchased lingerie, panty-hose and bed-sheets)
(lots of photos in the link)
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