Posted on 01/23/2019 4:38:20 PM PST by Jyotishi
Medical examiners in New York have ruled that the mysterious deaths of two sisters found dead and duct taped together on the banks of the Hudson River was a double suicide. The cause of death was drowning.
The bodies of Rotana Ferea, 23 and Tala Farea, 16 were discovered on October, 24 2018 near the George Washington Bridge. They were quickly identified as Saudi citizens who had gone missing from a shelter-like facility, possibly for abused women, in Fairfax, Virginia in August.
"Today, my office determined that the death of the Farea sisters was the result of suicide, in which the young women bound themselves together before descending into the Hudson River," Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson said in a statement on Tuesday.
The sisters' bodies were found both wearing black leggings and fur-trimmed jackets. They were bound together loosely with duct tape at the waist and ankles. A witness reported seeing the Fareas earlier that day praying loudly and holding their heads in their hands near the area where it's believed they then walked into the water, intentionally drowning themselves.
The sisters had allegedly applied for asylum in the United States in the months before their death and been denied. At a press conference, NYPD Detective Dermot F. Shea reported that while that Fairfax, VA facility the women had said they would rather inflict harm upon themselves than return to Saudi Arabia. They also alleged abuse by their mother, father, and brother.
After leaving Fairfax in August, the Fareas made their way to New York City where they stayed in high end hotels and ordered takeout meals on a credit card in Rotana's name. Around October, shortly before they died by suicide, police believe the "money started to run out" as they reached the limit on the card.
The Farea sisters' death -- along with the story of Rahaf Mohammed, an 18-year-old Saudi citizen who fled her family and found asylum in Canada -- has drawn negative attention to Saudi Arabian guardianship laws. These restrictions include the requirement that women have the permission of a male to travel. Advocates say this can trap women in abusive situations.
...... Although I do not understand their conclusion that the sisters ..... ".... walked into the water, intentionally drowning themselves." ...... I would be inclined to think that they would have jumped off a dock since walking would have been pretty much impossible if the ankles are taped together.
ha!
GOOD POINT!
perhaps next time they should use gorilla tape, since gorillas are not known to float
I don’t know. Either way...poor kids. Too bad they couldn’t get help in time.
Autopsy performed by Bill Clinton’s personal coroner (that he brought from AK to DC?)
And they were so depressed that they went on a shopping spree beforehand.
You’ve rightly pointed to the real concern that this news story raises.
This is a case of it’s entirely possible the two sisters committed suicide.
They were summoned to go back home. Dollars to doughnuts they were going back home to be married and to men they didn’t want to be married to and quite possibly did not even know. They would have been the property of their perspective husbands, open to being raped by their husbands, and beaten by them as well as their husbands’ immediate families.
Given that information, it’s quite possible to see they would have taken their own lives.
The duct tape holding them together was loose, which it most likely would have been if they applied the tape...it would have not been a professional job.
As for drowning.... all it would take is for one sister to drop into the river...her weight would have dragged the other down and between the weight of the bodies and their clothing it would have happened fairly quickly.
Such sorrow, for them.
They didn’t stand a chance...they failed to come from the south of the border.
So that their bodies would be found together and not drift apart in the river.
This smells like week old fish. Or relatives that you can’t persuade to leave.
Seriously, I’d be embarrassed to have my name attached to this story. I can’t even call it an article or news piece.
Yeah . suicide my backside.
How do two people duct tape themseives together and manage to get themselves into the river in a dual suicide. I think this is suspicious to say the least.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
give me liberty,
or give me death!
Here is a FR thread from back on 11/02/2018 about this event.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3702434/posts
Fox News article from the event with a large photo of them.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/saudi-sisters-whose-bodies-found-duct-taped-together-in-nyc-are-unlikely-to-have-been-part-of-a-crime-police-say
Perfect quote.
Reminds me of suicide by shooting yourself twice in the back of the head.
A drowned black’s body, wrapped in chains, was fished out of an Alabama lake. Asked what he thought happened, the sheriff rubbed his chin, then said, “It looks like he stole more chain than he could swim with.”
“Either way...poor kids. Too bad they couldnt get help in time.”
They were both very good looking too. A senseless waste of human life.
Nose => Coffee!!
Good one.
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