SOLVED NY - Tala Farea, 16, Rotana Farea, 22, Hudson River, 24 Oct 2018- COD released: suicide/drowning

[Kid Dropsy]

Bodies of two women that were bound together with duct tape are found in New York's Hudson River

• A passerby called 911 around 3pm on Wednesday after they spotted the bodies
• Police said both women were fully clothed and both were even wearing coats
• Neither body showed signs of trauma and the cause of death remains unknown

The bodies of two women who were bound together by duct tape washed up from New York's Hudson River on Wednesday.

Authorities received a 911 call at 2.40pm from a passerby who spotted the two bodies in the river off by Riverside Park in the city's Upper West Side neighborhood.

Police said both women were fully clothed. Neither body showed sign of trauma.

A law enforcement source told DailyMail.com that both women were in their late teens or early twenties.
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[borndem]

Thanks for the report and the thread, @Kid Dropsy!
And a bit belated,

Welcome to Websleuths, Kid Dropsy!!
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Suicide?? No, and h*ll no. Where is the person who taped them together and threw them in the river, NYPD? SMH
Robbery and drowning, maybe?
Assault and asphyxiation, perhaps?
Drug OD and survivor(s) got paranoid, possibly?
Gang ritual, could it be?
Jealous husband or partner, hmmm?
Check your Missing Persons reports.

This one is a tad weird...

 

[lantern sky]

They might have managed this from a raft or floating device; duct tape one another, then slip into the water.

 

[borndem]

They might have managed this from a raft or floating device; duct tape one another, then slip into the water.

Yes, it could be possible. If one person's hand(s) was(were) free, that would make it look at least possible, but if all hands and arms were solidly taped to their bodies, it would be impossible unless they had help. Some type of awful suicide pact, perhaps. What one won't do, two might. If so, I would suspect teenagers.

And a belated

Welcome to Websleuths, lantern sky!!​

 

[dotr]

Bodies Of 2 Women Bound With Duct Tape Found Near Riverside Park
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The bodies of two women were found floating in the Hudson River Wednesday afternoon.

Police say the bodies were bound with duct tape and both were fully clothed, reports CBS2’s Valerie Castro.

 

[calicoco]

NYC - Suicide? Bodies of two women bound together with duct tape are found in the Hudson River

 

[calicoco]

Not out of the question that it was an assisted double suicide.

 

[wickedannabella]

Police sources told CBS2 they were leaning toward the women’s death being some sort of suicide pact. The sources believes the women may have jumped from the George Washington Bridge, with their bodies eventually making their way down river

Bodies Of 2 Women Bound With Duct Tape Found Near Riverside Park

 

[Cosmia]

I can't really figure out the logistics of duct taping oneself to another but it doesn't mean their wrists were bound, it just means they were stuck together. It could just be around the torso or legs. If a suicide pact this might be a failsafe implemented by the more determined party so that the hesitant individual can't bail at the last minute.

The big question for me is whether this matches up with any recent missing persons. And if not, any missing persons at all. It'd be unusual (not improbable, but unusual) to find two young women who are so far removed from family and friends that nobody would report either of them missing. And it'd be unusual if they'd been missing for more than a few weeks and only turned up now, because it'd suggest they had been alive but unaccounted for quite some time before making the decision to end their lives together. If they'd died earlier than that, I don't think that purported law enforcement source would be able to identify their age range so confidently.

 

[kaen]

Police sources told CBS2 they were leaning toward the women’s death being some sort of suicide pact. The sources believes the women may have jumped from the George Washington Bridge, with their bodies eventually making their way down river

Bodies Of 2 Women Bound With Duct Tape Found Near Riverside Park

The bridge fall is so devastating to a body that they would know almost immediately if they had that sort of fall. So, if sources are stating this, then it is probably the case. If they each jumped without being taped together, they would not have been found together so maybe that was the plan: ensure they were each found or neither found.

 

[borndem]

Police sources told CBS2 they were leaning toward the women’s death being some sort of suicide pact. The sources believes the women may have jumped from the George Washington Bridge, with their bodies eventually making their way down river

Bodies Of 2 Women Bound With Duct Tape Found Near Riverside Park

Thanks for the article, and

Welcome to Websleuths, wickedannabella!!​

 

[borndem]

Welcome to Websleuths, Cosmia!!​

 

[wickedannabella]

After arriving on the scene, police discovered the women lying face to face with duct tape around their waists, a police source tells People. Their feet were also duct taped but not to each other.

ABC7 reported that the victims were in their late teens or early 20s.

New York Daily News reported that the women were both dressed in black leggings with one wearing a bomber jacket and the other a grey hooded jacket.

Bodies of 2 Women Bound Together with Duct Tape Found Washed Up on the Rocks of the Hudson River

Lesbian death pact perhaps.

 

[MicheleT]

Two female bodies discovered in New York's Hudson River: report

The women, who reportedly were duct-taped together, were both fully clothed and didn't appear to have any signs of trauma.

 

[TTF14]

How strange!

 

[kirkassoc]

Sketch of both girls/women in this article. Suicide pact? What in the world?

Sketches show women whose duct taped bodies washed up

 

[LaborDayRN]

Sketch of both girls/women in this article. Suicide pact? What in the world?

Sketches show women whose duct taped bodies washed up

Sad story. The women look like they may be related in the sketches IMO. The article says that they were bound at the waist and feet which makes it more feasible they may have applied the tape themselves, although I'm not totally convinced.

A police source tells Eyewitness News the bodies were bound together with duct tape, with tape around their waists and feet, facing each other.

Sketches show women whose duct taped bodies washed up

 

[kirkassoc]

Sad story. The women look like they may be related in the sketches IMO. The article says that they were bound at the waist and feet which makes it more feasible they may have applied the tape themselves, although I'm not totally convinced.

A police source tells Eyewitness News the bodies were bound together with duct tape, with tape around their waists and feet, facing each other.

Sketches show women whose duct taped bodies washed up

I try to imagine a scenario where two young women would go to a jumping off place (with LOTS of duct tape) and stand there and wrap tape around each other's legs first, then stand and wrap tape around their waists. Why didn't they wrap tape around their mouths or their wrists? If it wasn't suicide, why didn't perp wrap their mouths/wrists? Just so puzzling the way things happen in some of these sad, sad stories. Perhaps they left a note wherever they lived. Once LE figures out who they are, they can search their homes, etc. for a note.

Here's hoping LE can figure this out for the families of these young women. I agree that they look like they could be related.

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

I have nothing to add but compassion for those who knew and loved these women.

 

[Alethea]

How awful. Are they not able to identify them? I am surprised to see them release sketches so early.