A 75-year-old man was arrested after he murdered his much younger wife, then dismembered her body and dumped the remains in different parts of Queens, according to the district attorney.
Rupchand Simboo was charged with second-degree murder, two counts of concealment of a human corpse, and evidence tampering in connection with the killing of his 33-year-old wife Salisha Ali, Queens DA Melinda Katz said Thursday. Simboo was arrested Wednesday and later arraigned in Queens Criminal Court.
According to the charges and an investigation, Simboo and Ali were together at his South Ozone Park home on July 13, 2025. She never showed up for work at her job in Brooklyn the next day, however. She would never be heard from or seen alive again.
About a week later, on July 19, Ali’s mother requested Simboo report her daughter missing, which he did.
It would be two months before any major developments in the case. Around 7 a.m. on Sept. 22, two city Sanitation Department workers spotted a blue moving blanket wrapped with yellow rope around what appeared to be a large object in a patch of woods of near 149th Avenue and Brookville Boulevard in the Rosedale neighborhood. When the workers opened the blanket, they found what appeared to be a woman’s decomposed torso, the investigation found.
It was later determined that the remains belonged to Ali.
A search warrant was issued for Simboo’s home, where investigators recovered plastic wrap and yellow rope — which an NYPD lab determined was consistent with the rope used to bind Ali’s torso. A second search warrant found a moving blanket in Simboo’s garage that was identical to the one wrapped around the remains.
Nearly six months later, more remains — including a head, legs and an arm — were discovered in the Jamaica Wildlife Refuge off Cross Bay Boulevard, south of the North Channel Bridge, according to the investigation. The medical examiner found those were also of Ali.
The search of the wildlife refuge came as a result of Simboo’s GPS coordinates from the Life360 app on his phone. Data from the app showed he had been there on July 14, the day after Ali had last been seen alive. The app also showed that on the following day, he had been at the Rosedale location where her torso was later found.
Katz said Simboo “went to extraordinary lengths to evade responsibility for the brutal killing of his wife, discarding her remains in remote locations and concealing critical evidence in an apparent effort to cover up this horrific crime.”
She also commended the “diligence of New York City Sanitation workers” for making the discovery and notifying police — because without that, “the victim’s loved ones might still be searching for answers about her disappearance.”
Simboo was remanded at his arraignment and is next scheduled to appear in court on March 16. If convicted, he faces 25 years to life in prison. Attorney information for Simboo was not immediately available.