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Trinidadian man arrested for murder of wife in Queens
ABC7 News – New York City police said Wednesday that 75-year-old Rupchand Simboo killed his wife, and then reported her missing last July. The police arrested the husband after her remains were discovered in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel.
The victim, 34-year-old Salisha Ali, was last seen alive by a relative during a Facetime call on July 13. The same day, Simboo filed a missing person’s report. Detectives now believe he did that to cover his tracks after killing her.
Salisha Ali
The two met in 2023 when she lived in Trinidad. Ali, a Guyanese woman by birth moved to Queens in 2024 to live with Simboo and they married that same year. Police sources told Eyewitness News; the 75-year-old was the 34-year-old’s immigration sponsor.
After her torso was discovered in Queens last September, family members in Trinidad feared the worst. Police found Ali’s severed head, legs, and arm last week in the Jamaica Wildlife Refuge after GPS data from Simboo’s phone showed he was in the swampy area last summer – a day after his youthful spouse was last seen alive, prosecutors said.
The discovery of her head in another part of Queens last Thursday confirmed their worst fears. Simboo was arrested Wednesday on charges of murder, obstructing governmental administration and tampering with physical evidence. Relatives of Simboo showed up to the house Wednesday night. They did not want to offer any comment, but one of them did say they have just as many questions as we do.
Rupchand Simboo
For months, neighbours have been haunted by what happened to Ali. Eyewitness News asked neighbours if they noticed anything alarming about the couple’s relationship.
“They would sit outside on the porch in the summertime. Sometimes we’d see them having a beer and just hanging out playing music, but other than that, they seemed normal to me,” one neighbour said. Hasiena Dwarika had no idea she was living across the street from an accused killer, but she started to wonder.
On Sept. 22, pieces of a decomposing torso were found in a garbage bag by sanitation workers picking up trash at a Queens Park near JFK Airport.
Department of Sanitation workers doing roadside cleanup called police after finding the garbage bag containing a woman’s remains near 149th Ave. and Brookville Blvd. on the edge of Idlewild Park in Rosedale.
Inside the bag was a woman’s partially skeletonized decomposing torso, with the head, arms and legs missing. Police used drones to canvas the area but no other body parts were immediately found.
The garbage bag containing the body was found in some brush “about 100 feet south of the street,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters following the discovery. Sanitation workers had just thrown it into the truck’s hopper when they smelled a foul odor and alerted the police, he said.
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