[ April 19, 2024 ]
Two sisters were found bound together, dead, floating in the East River in New York City. For the past few days, the police were asking the public for information, trying to find out who they were. I followed the story carefully because young girls dying in this way raise flags. Knowing what I know now, there is no doubt in my mind this was a double honor killing:
2015: Family moves to Fairfax, Virginia from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
December 2017: Sisters run away and beg police not to tell mom where they were. They return back to Virginia at some stage afterwards
Story continues below advertisementMay 2018: Oldest sister attends final classes at George Mason
August 2018: Tala is reported missing. The search is called off when police learn she is with her sister in New York City.
October 17: Mother’s last known contact with the sisters, according to relatives
October 23: Mother receives call from Saudi Consulate ordering the family home because the girls have applied for political asylum
October 24: The girls bodies are found washed up in the Hudson River
These two sisters wanted to be free. They worked hard to stay alive – they lived in various shelters and had applied for asylum – fearing persecution for religious or political beliefs.
Drowned and duct taped sisters had been ordered back to Saudi Arabia
‘They were a happy family,’ says relative of Saudi sisters found dead in New York – then why did they keep running away?
The mother of the women told detectives that the day before their bodies were discovered, she received a phone call from the Saudi Arabian Embassy, the New York Post reported, citing police sources.
The Embassy reportedly told her that her family’s residency in the U.S. was in jeopardy because Rotana and Tala applied for immigration asylum.
The following day, their bodies were found in the Hudson River on the Upper West Side. The two were fully clothed, with no obvious signs of trauma, bound together by duct tape and facing each other, according to police.
Believe nothing the family says.
FIRST PICTURES: Sisters found drowned and duct-taped together had been ordered home by the Saudi government a DAY before their bodies washed up and a year after they fled to a shelter and begged police not to tell their family where they were
- Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 22, washed up in the Hudson River on Oct. 24th
- A day earlier, their mother got a call ordering the family back to Saudi Arabia
- Thegirls had applied for political asylum, the consulate official told their mot her
- Medical examiners have ruled out that the girls could have jumped from the George Washington Bridge in a suicide pact
- Because neither body showed visible signs of trauma, that theory – which was peddled by police – is implausible
- Rotana was an undergraduate engineering student at George Mason University in Virginia
- She dropped out this year and started attending college in New York City
- Her younger sister ran away from home and went to live with her in August
- Relatives in Saudi Arabia say they were ‘happy’ and the ‘apple of their father’s eye’
- The girls ran away last December and begged police who found them not to send them back to their parents
By Jennifer Smith and Alana Goodman In Fairfax, Virginia For Dailymail.com, October 31, 2018:
Police have released the first photographs of Saudi Arabian sisters who were found drowned and duct taped together in the Hudson River last week in a plea for information about their mysterious lives and murky deaths.
Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 22, were found washed up on October 24. The sisters were living together in New York City where Rotana was studying Computer and Information Technology after recently dropping out of George Mason University in Virginia.
Their parents, Wafa’a and Abdulsalam, live in Virginia with their brothers who are 18 and 11. Abdulsalam often traveled back to Saudi Arabia for work but no information about his job has emerged.
In August, the family reported 16-year-old Tala missing after she disappeared from Virginia but the search was called off when they learned she had gone to stay with her sister in New York City.
She had recently been awarded a spot at a top private school in Saudi Arabia with a full scholarship but was desperate not to go.
It was the second time they broke off from the family.
In December last year, the pair fled to a shelter in Fairfax. The family reported them both missing.
When officers tracked them down, the sisters begged them not to tell the family where they were. What led to them returning home remains a mystery but police are focusing their investigation on the circumstances surrounding it.
Despite their repeated attempts to live independently from their parents, the family was described as ‘happy’ by Arab media outlets and were the ‘apples of their father’s eye’.
‘Their mother was naturally protective, but in no way was their household problematic for them to run away,’ they told Arab News.
They said the family was happy with Tala living with her sister who she missed dearl when she left Virginia.
‘Tala was upset for quite some time after her sister decided to continue her studies in NYC. Yes, it did cause a problem for the family as the mother had to file a missing case report to the police over her daughter’s disappearance, but the search was called off later when they found Tala was with her sister, Rotana.
‘The police told their mother that since her younger daughter was safe with an adult, it’s safe to call off the search.’
The girls only ever used Snapchat, they said, and communicated with their relatives in Saudi Arabia through it.
‘They were private and kept to themselves most of the time, but we communicated mostly via Snapchat and it wasn’t a surprise to any of us that they wouldn’t have any accounts on other social media apps,’ the unnamed family member said.
‘They were calm and always polite. All families have problems. What kind of sibling relationship would it be without fights every now and then?
2015: Family moves to Fairfax, Virginia from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
December 2017: Sisters run away and beg police not to tell mom where they were. They return back to Virginia at some stage afterwards
May 2018: Oldest sister attends final classes at George Mason
August 2018: Tala is reported missing. The search is called off when police learn she is with her sister in New York City.
October 17: Mother’s last known contact with the sisters, according to relatives
October 23: Mother receives call from Saudi Consulate ordering the family home because the girls have applied for political asylum
October 24: The girls bodies are found washed up in the Hudson River
‘But that didn’t push them to the edge as the Western media is portraying,’ they added.
The NYPD has not ruled anything out.
Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said yesterday: ‘We are looking at all clues in their past life.’
The family in Virginia is yet to speak out about their disappearance despite DailyMail.com’s repeated attempts to contact their representative.
On October 23, the girls’ mother Wafa’a received a phone call from an official at the Saudi Arabian consulate who ordered the entire family to return to their home country. It was in response to an application by the two sisters for political asylum in the United States.
Police have ruled out that the pair jumped from the George Washington Bridge in a suicide pact, a theory that was initially pushed out by police, because neither body had visible signs of trauma.
It is not known how long they were dead before they were found but police struggled to identify them for days.
Rotana dropped out of George Mason in May this year after two years of studies. George Mason, a public university with 35,000 students has close ties to Saudi Arabia.
We are looking at all clues in their past life,
NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot SheaThe Saudi Arabia Cultural Mission has gifted the college $63 million and has paid for the education of 270 of its 370 Saudi students.
Rather than live on campus like many of her classmates, Rotana traveled back to her home in Falls Church, Virginia where she lived with her mother, brother and Tala.
Rotana attended classes at the Volgenau School of Engineering and sources say she planned to major in bio-engineering when she returned this fall.
But the University told DailyMail.com that Rotana never returned in August to complete her education.
Problems arose for Rotana when she learned her whole family would have to return to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
A source at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington, DC told DailyMail.com Rotana’s sister Tala had won a full scholarship to study at Dar Al-Fikr, a top private school in Jeddah.
Tala had briefly studied in 2017 at Fairfax High School, close to George Mason University. Rotana and Tala’s mother contacted The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on August 24 after Tala went missing from home.
She then called off the search after learning Tala was with Rotana in New York.
She also told authorities the pair were applying for asylum in the US to avoid returning to Jeddah.
Family members told Arab News that the two sisters had only lost contact with their mother a week ago.
They are insisting that the pair did not commit suicide and are waiting to find out the cause of death from the Chief Medical Examiner, which has not yet released findings from the autopsies.
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103 Comments
5 years ago
“October 17: Mother’s last known contact with the sisters, according to relatives
October 23: Mother receives call from Saudi Consulate ordering the
family home because the girls have applied for political asylum”
Right. Girls go missing and Saudia wants the family back in less than a week. That’s not suspicious at all. And why would the Saudi Consulate order the family back if the young girls applied for asylum. There’s way more to this story.
5 years ago
Thank you barrack obama and the democRATS for bringing so many muslims into our country.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
Left/Liberal and jihadis think the same.
Turkey govt allows organ harvest of prisoners and orphaned children killing them in the process http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8
And this country is NATO member ! Left/liberals are ok with organ harvesting by killing babies too !
5 years ago
two dumb urine colored cunts tossed into the sea like the trash they are, hope they cut out heir cunts before hand though!
5 years ago
Reply to
buckeyes
nah i dont think it was a troll, they dont have the upper body strength to toss these two fat yellow cows into a body of water to rot like the trash they are!
5 years ago
Reply to
buckeyes
nah i dont think it was a troll, they dont have the upper body strength to toss these two fat yellow cows into a body of water to rot like the trash they are!
5 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
I flagged and blocked him long ago.
He is a total bitter loser when it comes to women.
No wonder females don’t want any parts of him.
Women are smart to reject a sadist like Scott!
I’d bet even homosexuals would reject him. LOL!!
Maybe even his own mother would reject him!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
That’s one angry person. Either that, or it’s just all for attention.
5 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
This a**hole hates women, all women. Probably because he can’t get one. I blocked him ages ago. The vitriol he spews makes me sick.
5 years ago
Reply to
Scott
ain`t you just a classy super intelligent intellectual with a superb mastery of the English language. i`m truly humbled in your presence on this site. i thought there was a limit to total buffoonery, before reading your posts. now i see i have a long,long way to go. would you be willing to tutor ?
5 years ago
Reply to
Scott
Have some respect for some poor murdered souls, man! They are not to blame for being born into a murderous idealogy. And if one was an engineering student and the other one was offered a scholarship, No, they were as intelligent as %@#$*! I challenge you to go to Saudi Arabia, or Iraq, or Pakistan. You are so brave over here. Go show what you are made of where your life is on the line for the remarks you make, or simply for the colour of your skin. …Maybe karma will have you be a woman over there in your next life…
5 years ago
Reply to
Esther Kiss
This is so sad, these women need justice. This has all the signs of an honor killing. I hope the police arrest the killer or killers.
You know, getting a scholarship from a college in Saudi Arabia sounds suspicious to me. I thought they didn’t believe in education for women?
5 years ago
The one on the left looks like she knows something…oops?
5 years ago
Such a terrible thing. And they had applied for asylum and asked the police for help and not to tell their family where they were.
This means they were likely turned over to their murderers by the police or the state dept. authorities.
Hopefully, there’s some accountability here.
5 years ago
Reply to
StevenRobert
I actually believe that the police didn’t say where they were, but that the Saudi Arabian government tracked them down via other means. The killer could have slipped out of the country on a scheduled SV flight as they fly daily into JFK. This could very well be an international incident.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Don’t bet on it, the police or CPS would give the information to anyone listed as the guardian. The killer is probably sitting in New York knowing without absolute proof our laws are toothless and their home government would defend them. I have seen it many times.
5 years ago
Reply to
john53
If you’ve seen it many times, meaning it is a recurring problem, the system needs to change.
I don’t know if it’s classified as a “hate crime”, which would place it under Federal jurisdiction.
Perhaps if “Honor killing” was classified as a “hate crime”, there would be more effort to prevent it.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Certainly this entire situation needs to be investigated.
The police would ordinarily return minor children to their parents, unless they were legally obligated to do something else, such as turn children over the family services.
In such situations as this, it seems children, especially girls, are especially vulnerable to “honor killing” and they should be entered into the refugee program and be eligible for political asylum.
Unfortunately, the situation is so dangerous, they probably need to enter into a program similar to the witness protection program with change of identity.
5 years ago
Reply to
StevenRobert
I think the killers fled that night or the one after on a commercial SV flight.
5 years ago
Reply to
StevenRobert
Saudi Sisters Found Duct-Taped Together Were Alive When They Entered Water
https://www.theepochtimes.com/saudi-sisters-found-duct-taped-together-were-alive-when-they-entered-water_2705746.htmlwww.theepochtimes.com/saudi-sisters-found-duct-taped-together-were-alive-when-they-entered-water_2705746.html
– the two sisters were found dead
– after washing up from the Hudson River
– onto the Manhattan shore
– officials say they were alive when they entered the water
– this means they were dumped into the Hudson upriver
– and since they could not tape themselves together
– without help, they were murdered
– it also means they died from drowning
– which means there was a deliberate effort
– to make them suffer
– probable cause = honor killing
– probable suspects = male family members
5 years ago
Reply to
StevenRobert
Yeah sure there will be accountability, when hell freezes over! The police officers who turned them over to family members, should be charged with accessory to murder!
5 years ago
I am not clear on the immigration status of the family. Based on their daughter’s sudden death together and their not wanting to return to Saudi Arabia, it sure has possibilities of being an double honor killing. Let’s see what the police make up to cover that up.
5 years ago
Competent people can plainly see a problem with the muzlem death cult.
5 years ago
There is also the possibility of if the Saudi Arabian government had a direct role in this (either by having a member of government track down and kill these two women, or hiring someone do likewise). If that is the case, while what happened in Istanbul to a WaPo reporter is one thing, this would be something else completely that Trump could not ignore, as it occurred within the United States. This has been reported widely in the local media in market #1.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
It was all arranged by obimbo. They had videos, and other physical evidence, of him sodomizing six year old little boys, as he was wont to do, so very many times.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Jamal Khashoggi was the lifelong BFF of Osama bin Laden. He’s not the one that sodomized six year old little boys. It’s obimbo that does that.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Cheers mate.
Had it in my photo album and thought I might put is to some use.
Can’t see the top bit that says: keep.
But it sums up the attitude that I feel suits me.
NEVER SURRENDER!
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
The evil and vengence of the Saudis is nothing new. They have been connected to nazism since the 1930s so their evil is on steroids —mega drugs and alcohol – and don’t tell me they do not do both because we know they are evil from any and all aspects and deserve to be destroyed.
5 years ago
There is also the possibility of if the Saudi Arabian government had a direct role in this (either by having a member of government track down and kill these two women, or hiring someone do likewise). If that is the case, while what happened in Istanbul to a WaPo reporter is one thing, this would be something else completely that Trump could not ignore, as it occurred within the United States. This has been reported widely in the local media in market #1.
5 years ago
There is also the possibility of if the Saudi Arabian government had a direct role in this (either by having a member of government track down and kill these two women, or hiring someone do likewise). If that is the case, while what happened in Istanbul to a WaPo reporter is one thing, this would be something else completely that Trump could not ignore, as it occurred within the United States. This has been reported widely in the local media in market #1.
5 years ago
You knew it was a muslim job when the sharia compliant media tried to report it as a double duct taping suicide.
5 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
This had the hallmarks of a suicide pact at first, but then the medical examiner did a further examination.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Just how do two girls, duct-taped together, have “the hallmarks of a suicide pact at first?” Name ONE instance where there was EVER a suicide committed in the same fashion. Oh, that’s right, you can’t. Because there never was one.
5 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
He’s a spin-doctor for all things muslum. He should be looking at a job in “journalism”.
5 years ago
Law enforcement and the enemedia will be called to cover-up for their Saudi masters and spin this story as anything but what it is.
Some friends of mine once knew a Soddy Barbarian family. When the wife expressed a desire to divorce her muslum man master she went back to Soddy Barbaria never to be seen alive again, where she apparently died of an aspirin overdose.
5 years ago
The Saudis have bought this American university like they have bought so much of our infrastructure all over the west.
We all know that the Saudis run a corrupt and fascistic regime that is geared towards the downfall of the west and world domination But Still We Allow them to undermine all that we have.
The fault lies with the greed of both individuals and government.
PROSCRIBE ISLAM!
5 years ago
Police need to be trained on how to deal with Shariah Crimes……
5 years ago
These poor girls were murdered while trying to escape islam.
If there was No compulsion in islam the amount of muslims in the world would be vastly-vastly smaller than it is as no one of sound mind and any real intelligence could believe in that ridiculous ideology.
The only reason that Mohammedans Do Not leave in their millions is because death or loss of family and friends would follow.
By the sound of it these two brave sisters had made that step and have paid with their lives.
ISLAM KILLS!
5 years ago
It is obvious what happened. They are Saudi. Ever heard the name Khashoggi over the past weeks? What, 9/11 wasn’t enough for you?
Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers plus money man bin Laden were all Saudi.
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
and connected to the BUSH family as well. I REMEMBER George Bush declaring that islam is a religion of peace —that’s a LIE so one has to put the facts together to know that he compromised and got some kind of pay-off to let the filthy damn saudis get away with MURDER! Sickening. Like it or not when the struggle is on the usa TURF IT WILL BE BLOODY BECAUSE WE HAVE LET THESE INVADERS KEEP COMING IN IN DROVES – They have destroyed CA big time.
5 years ago
In the ‘Religion of Peace’, when two young girls – the jewels of any family – are BRUTALLY MURDERED, the first place you look is with dear old Mom and Dad.
5 years ago
Men cannot leave Islam. The women cannot leave the men. it’s a TRAP for ALL of them. It means their DEATH.
This is a DEATH cult. The only way out is to DIE!
5 years ago
Whoever was used to draw those sketches needs to replaced.
5 years ago
Reply to
thaidude
The artist depicted them as African-Americans rather than Middle Eastern.
5 years ago
Religion of Peace Myass
5 years ago
I sure as heck wouldn’t want to return to that sh*thole country either! RIP Tala and Rotana. 🙁
5 years ago
Reply to
MTC
The same as that George Mason university’ they have sold out.
The Achilles heel is always greed for money.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Lots of universities love the Saudi students…the Saudi government pays large dollars to the schools for admittance.
5 years ago
Reply to
RetiredNavyphotog
All over the western world the Saudis are buying influence and not just the Saudis but all the oil rich nations of the Arabian peninsula. They are fully aware that technology will render their vast amounts of oil superfluous and are investing hard cash into every western country to buy land, property and buy into institutions.
These bastards are playing the long game and the only way to stop it is to PROSCRIBE ISLAM!
Which you start doing by debunking it as a normal religion and show it for the ideology of global conquest that it truly is.
PROSCRIBE ISLAM IN THE USA & UK!????????????????
5 years ago
but the lib/dems will allow this illegal caravan claim assylum
5 years ago
First thing I thought of.
Hope the truth is elucidated.
How barbaric, how tragic.
5 years ago
For DemoKKKrat trash that supports the illegal alien caravan of Central Americans trying to force their way into the US for better economic opportunities and to sponge various public benefits, these are what real and deserving asylum seekers look like.
5 years ago
And yet, Western women barely say a single word. Huh.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
muslims as a group are nearer the top of the left’s pecking order than just ‘women’ or ‘muslim women’ (the latter is a paradox don’t you think?)
5 years ago
This is just another case of honor killing, anyone with any sense can see that. I know police need evidence but the conclusion is right in front of their faces.Hopefully the investigation will uncover the facts to their demise but you can guarantee the Saudi’s will try to cover this up. This has to one of the most evil county in the world, they spread their jihadist based Wahhabi view of Islam and are the in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood. When the hell is the West going to wake up to the the evil that is Jihadist Islam and start eliminating these ass bags and their fascist cult
5 years ago
I blame the authorities for their murder!
5 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
Why? The police seem to have done what one would expect them to do. They don’t appear to have betrayed the girls in any way. In fact they did a lot more for them than any police force in Britain would have done.
What puzzles me is the status of the family in the US. The Saudis obviously had some hold over them. Were they permanent residents? Were they looking to become US citizens? What was the father’s job? It is all rather mysterious.
5 years ago
Reply to
Badger
I’ll rephrase it, it’s the gov’t whose afraid of Muslims and tell the police to stand down. Just look what’s happening to Europe. In 20 years the National flag of Europe will be Islam. They are not pro active!
5 years ago
Reply to
Badger
Your right.
We need a clearer picture.
Still stinks of honour killing though.
5 years ago
Honor killings happen too much and someone (the 18 yo brother and the father?) in that family knows what happened.
5 years ago
Death by Islam. These animals have no regard for human life. Time to close the borders and expel all muslims. They are committing slavery and genocide worldwide, and they need to be driven out of the US and defeated.
5 years ago
Reply to
BostonLiberty
How about the NYPD investigate this honor killing and make some arrests? Wouldn’t that be a better solution, Mr. Liberty?
5 years ago
the mother saw them the day before? then she told her husband, sons, or someone where they were and they took it from there…
5 years ago
Reply to
Cheryl
She set them up and the rest of the family killed them or helped in some way. That is the brutality of Wahhbism
5 years ago
This is another proof of Saudi Arabia murdering their own citizens if they wish to be free
from their tyrannical government. Saudi Arabia is behind the increased slow and deliberate
muslim invasion in ALL Western, highly developed countries. Then we have soros that
is driving his “globalism ideology”, doing everything to influence the United States and
destroy us. He and other globalists are behind the hostile, foreign “caravans”.
5 years ago
Who would want to do this crime?
5 years ago
Reply to
Robert Kahlcke
Someone who didn’t want them to get asylum…which would almost certainly have been granted. But this is something Trump cannot ignore as it occurred within the United States.
5 years ago
This is typical mooooslim MO . . . . this is far more Common than anyone knows . . . and the media usually ignores or plays it way down. I have even heard of cases when a woman goes to the police and a moooslim officer calls the parents and returned the person to the ultimate assassins. This is friggin SICK and should never happen in a Western Democracy. But in Europe, Canada and the USA is becoming more & more frequent !
Where are the “women’s” rights groups? Where is the ACLU?
5 years ago
They were suicided just like many of the Clintons’ victims were! ????
5 years ago
Wow… Welcome to America, Now Vote Republican to end this Horror .Vote Democrat and Vote for NAZIS.
5 years ago
Everyone needs to know that anything anti-islamic (arab-) gets no support in NYC, Look at the treasonous mayor- who commands the NYPD– They all kow-tow to the filthy islamics. These poor women did not have a chance either simply by remaining in the big city and having no way to escape as well-and by having no contacts to help them they lost all.
5 years ago
Yes. Democrat Party members.
