{"id":201623,"date":"2026-04-18T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201623\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:40:13","slug":"south-ozone-park-senior-held-without-bail-for-the-murder-of-his-wife-whose-remains-were-discovered-at-different-locations-da-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201623\/","title":{"rendered":"South Ozone Park senior held without bail for the murder of his wife, whose remains were discovered at different locations: DA \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queens grand jury indicted an elderly South Ozone Park man<\/a> for allegedly killing his much younger wife whose remains were discovered in separate locations near Idlewild Park and in Broad Channel. <\/p>\n

Rupchand Simboo, 75, of 135th Street, was arraigned April 17 on an indictment charging him with murder in the second degree, and two counts of tampering with physical evidence in connection with the murder\u00a0 of his 33-year-old wife, Salisha Ali. The victim\u2019s beheaded and dismembered torso, wrapped in plastic and a moving blanket, was initially found by sanitation workers near 149th Avenue and Brookville Boulevard on Sept. 22, 2025. Additional remains were discovered by detectives in the vicinity of the North Channel Bridge near Cross Bay Boulevard on March 5 and 6, 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Ali\u2019sAli\u2019s head was discovered on March 5 inside the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel. Police later retrieved other body parts during an extensive search.Photo courtesy of Ariola\u2019s office<\/p>\n

According to the charges and investigation, in the evening hours of July 13, 2025, Simboo and Ali were both present inside the defendant\u2019s home. The next morning, the victim failed to show up for work at her job in Brooklyn and was never seen or heard from again. On July 19, at the request of the victim\u2019s mother, the defendant called 911 to report the victim missing. On Sept. 22, 2025, at approximately 7 a.m., two New York City Department of Sanitation workers on a route near a wooded area in the vicinity of Brookville Boulevard and 149th Avenue observed a blue and black moving blanket and discovered what appeared to be a decomposed female torso. It was later determined that the remains belonged to the victim.<\/p>\n

A search warrant was later issued and executed in Simboo\u2019s home, resulting in the recovery of plastic wrap and yellow rope, which the NYPD Laboratory determined was consistent with the yellow rope used to bind the victim\u2019s torso. The execution of a second search warrant for the defendant\u2019s work garage resulted in the recovery of a moving blanket, identical to the moving blanket in which the torso was found.<\/p>\n

On March 5 and\u00a0 March 6, 2026, additional remains \u2014 including a head, legs and an arm \u2014 were discovered in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge off Cross Bay Boulevard, just south of the North Channel Bridge. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner\u2019s forensic analysis determined that the additional remains also belonged to the victim.<\/p>\n

Detectives searched the wooded area in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge based on the defendant\u2019s GPS coordinates from the Life360 app on his phone. The data showed that the defendant was present at the location on July 14, 2025 \u2014 the day after the victim was last seen alive. Simboo\u2019s Life360 data further showed that the following day, on July 14, 2025, the defendant was present at the location off Brookville Boulevard and 149th Avenue where the victim\u2019s torso was discovered by sanitation workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amazing cooperation between the NYPD and my office led to the identification and the arrest of Rupchand Simboo. The analysis and the investigation that led to his arrest were only possible using modern tools and data collection,\u201d Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. \u201cAs alleged, the defendant ruthlessly murdered his 33-year-old wife and tried to conceal the crime, spreading dismembered body parts in the wilderness near Kennedy Airport and Broad Channel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DetectivesDetectives place Rupchand Simboo, 75, in the back of a waiting police car on March 11, 2026, after he was charged with murdering his wife.Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n

Queens Supreme Court Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant remanded Simboo into custody without bail and ordered him to return to court on June 5. If convicted, Simboo faces up to 25 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to the diligent sanitation workers who found the first set of remains, my office and our partners in the NYPD were able to pinpoint the person allegedly responsible,\u201d Katz said. \u201cA grand jury has now indicted the defendant on murder and evidence tampering charges as we seek justice for Salisha Ali and her loved ones who continue to grieve her loss.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queens grand jury indicted an elderly South Ozone Park man for allegedly killing his much younger wife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64457,259,9,24,63,122,124,123,66376,79947,48816],"class_list":{"0":"post-201623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-jamaica-bay-wildlife-refuge","9":"tag-murder","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news","16":"tag-rupchand-simboo","17":"tag-salisha-ali","18":"tag-tampering-with-physical-evidence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201623","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=201623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}