On a quiet block in South Ozone Park, neighbors said the allegations are hard to believe.<\/p>\n
Queens prosecutors accuse 74-year-old Rupchand Simboo of killing his 33-year-old wife, Salisha Ali, then dismembering her body and dumping the remains in two different locations across the borough.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Salisha Ali was last seen alive in mid-July, prosecutors said
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In September, sanitation workers discovered her decomposed torso a few miles away from their home
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According to prosecutors, GPS data from her husband’s phone, Rupchand Simboo, placed him at both locations shortly after Ali was last seen alive<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d usually see them around [summer]. They\u2019d be hanging out around the porch,\u201d neighbor Terrance Dwarika said.<\/p>\n
Dwarika, who lives across the street, said Simboo was renting the first floor of the home.<\/p>\n
He added that the couple appeared normal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey seem happy,\u201d Dwarika said.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, Ali was last seen alive in mid-July. The next morning, she never showed up for work at her job in Brooklyn, and family members said they couldn\u2019t reach her.<\/p>\n
Days later, Simboo called the police to report her missing at the request of her mother, prosecutors said. Then in September, sanitation workers discovered her decomposed torso a few miles away from their home.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very surprising. I wouldn\u2019t expect something like that coming from him because he was an easy-going guy,\u201d one neighbor told NY1.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, search warrants later recovered rope and plastic wrap inside the home, consistent with the materials used to bind the body.<\/p>\n
And just days ago, detectives searching the Jamaica Wildlife Refuge recovered additional remains, including a head, leg and an arm.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said GPS data from Simboo\u2019s phone placed him at both locations shortly after Ali was last seen alive.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was back doing his normal, regular thing, going to work, hanging out, living his life,\u201d the neighbor said. \u201cHe never did anything different after the police came. He went on living his life the same way. Nothing changed.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to officials, Simboo is charged with second-degree murder, among other charges. He pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n
Simboo is due back in court next week, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a quiet block in South Ozone Park, neighbors said the allegations are hard to believe. Queens prosecutors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[387,25,388,9,24,12,63,308,122,124,123,27,200],"class_list":["post-162081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-louis-finley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162081","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=162081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}