{"id":161579,"date":"2026-03-12T18:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161579\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:01:39","slug":"life360-app-used-by-queens-man-74-ties-him-to-dismemberment-slay-of-young-wife-prosecutors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161579\/","title":{"rendered":"Life360 app used by Queens man, 74, ties him to dismemberment slay of young wife: prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 74-year-old murder suspect\u2019s use of a popular app meant to help track friends, loved ones, and even pets gave NYPD cops crucial evidence in building the case he murdered and dismembered his much younger wife and dumped her remains in two Queens parks<\/a>, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n

Accessing the Life360 app on his cell phone, cops learned Rupchand Simboo had visited the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel and the outskirts of Idlewild Park<\/a> in Rosedale \u2014 the two locations where his wife\u2019s remains were ultimately discovered in pieces.<\/p>\n

The app put him at those remote two locations less than 48 hours after his wife, Salicia Ali, disappeared on July 13, prosecutors said as they charged Simboo with murder, concealment of a human corpse, and tampering with physical evidence Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A woman\u2019s headless limbless torso, later identified as Ali, was found wrapped in a blue moving blanket and yellow rope by city sanitation workers<\/a> just outside of Idlewild Park near JFK Airport off of Brookville Blvd. and 149th St. on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n

The body was found in some brush \u201cabout 100 feet south of the street,\u201d NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters following the discovery. Sanitation workers had just thrown it into the truck\u2019s hopper when they smelled a foul odor and alerted the police, he said.<\/p>\n

Ali\u2019s head and limbs were recovered at the Jamaica Wildlife Refuge last Thursday and Friday. Cops were there looking for evidence based on the Life360 tracking data, prosecutors revealed.<\/p>\n

A blue moving blanket and yellow rope matching the ones found wrapped around the torso were located inside Simboo\u2019s apartment and garage by detectives executing a search warrant, prosecutors said late Wednesday as Queens Criminal Court Judge Sharifa Nasser-Cuellar ordered the septuagenarian held without bail.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Simboo faces 25 years to life in prison, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs alleged, (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,\u201d Katz said Thursday. \u201cWere it not for the diligence of New York City Sanitation workers, who discovered the remains and promptly notified authorities, the victim\u2019s loved ones might still be searching for answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

By linking to cellphones and locater tags that can be given to a child and put on a pet\u2019s collar, Life360 offers \u201cpeace of mind\u201d by \u201ckeeping tabs on all your family members all through the day<\/a>\u2014whether they\u2019re off to school or on the way home from practice,\u201d the app\u2019s website boasts.<\/p>\n

The app can provide the user with up to 30 days of location history and unlimited \u201cplace alerts\u201d depending on the plan, which ranges from $7.99 to $24.99 a month.<\/p>\n

Police believe Simboo killed Ali, back on July 13 \u2014 the day she was last seen alive. It is not clear exactly how he killed her, with prosecutors saying she died of \u201chomicidal violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

After she died, Simboo went about \u201cmethodically\u201d dismembering the body, slicing off her head and limbs, Kenny said in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cA knife was used to cut through the soft tissue, and a saw was used to cut through the bone,\u201d Kenny told reporters.<\/p>\n

Tattoos found on the victim\u2019s torso helped police link the remains to Ali, who had moved to the U.S. from Trinidad in 2024.<\/p>\n

Simboo and Ali met in 2023. The two got married when she moved to the U.S. and lived together in a modest two-family house in South Ozone Park.<\/p>\n

Ali, who made daily calls to her mother and three daughters back in Trinidad, was last seen alive on a FaceTime call with relatives on July 13. At the behest of her family Simboo reported Ali missing six days later, telling police she had left their home at 11 p.m. on July 13 and never returned.<\/p>\n

Cops investigating her disappearance learned that she never returned to job as a home health aide after July 13.<\/p>\n

But Ali\u2019s two cellphones were pinged at their home through that night until 9 a.m. on July 14. The phones then traveled 11 miles to a construction site where Simboo worked before they were shut off. Simboo told police Ali didn\u2019t know where he worked, according to court papers.<\/p>\n

Once Ali\u2019s torso was discovered and the victim was identified through her tattoos \u2014 three names and a flower \u2014 detectives executed search warrants for Simboo\u2019s cellphone, where they found the crucial Life360 tracking data. They also executed search warrants on his home, where they found the blanket and rope.<\/p>\n

Cops gave Ali\u2019s family the heartbreaking news in October, relatives said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were shocked when we got the news. It is very horrific. This is something you would hear about in movies<\/a>,\u201d Ali\u2019s relative told the Trinidad Express. \u201cYou never thought it would happen to our family.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Ali stopped making her daily calls, the family didn\u2019t think much of it, since \u201cpeople who knew her in the US\u201d said \u201cthey were seeing her about,\u201d the relative told the Trinidad Express. \u201cWe didn\u2019t think anything had happened to her, but just said she wanted a break from the family,\u201d the relative said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 74-year-old murder suspect\u2019s use of a popular app meant to help track friends, loved ones, and even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[66306,64457,27139,66666,9,24,63,5269,122,124,123,66376,49301],"class_list":["post-161579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-idlewild-park","tag-jamaica-bay-wildlife-refuge","tag-joseph-kenny","tag-life360","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-prosecutors","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rupchand-simboo","tag-sanitation-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}