Speaker 1: September two thousand, one pm, Manhattan. The sun set five
Speaker 1: minutes ago technically really, though it's been dark for a while.
Speaker 1: Thunderstorms coursed through the city, pulsing and pausing, blackening the sky.
Speaker 1: This is the sound of that rain. The rain of
Speaker 1: captured on video by a man named Andres Barila standing
Speaker 1: in a department store across the street from the World
Speaker 1: Trade Center, is Dr Sneha and Philip at eight pm
Speaker 1: hours and twenty eight minutes before a Boeing seven sixty
Speaker 1: seven slams into one of the skyscrapers above snay House,
Speaker 1: swipes her husband's credit card, grabs two bags, and exits
Speaker 1: onto the street. She's never seen again. Except that's not true.
Speaker 1: Snay was seen again. We just don't know by whom.
Speaker 1: She stayed somewhere that night, though we don't know where.
Speaker 1: There is a grand story to be told of nine
Speaker 1: eleven of the world before and after. This is not that.
Speaker 1: This is the story of one missing woman and her
Speaker 1: family's questifine her. The story of a thirty one year
Speaker 1: old newlywed on the precipice of life, a promising career
Speaker 1: in medicine ahead of an artist, a poet, a sister,
Speaker 1: a daughter, someone loved, someone lost, someone who disappeared during
Speaker 1: a monumental moment in American history. Since September two one,
Speaker 1: there's been no sign of Snay huh, no DNA, nothing.
Speaker 1: In the absence of evidence, tabloids and rhetors alike poured
Speaker 1: over her personal life, her sexuality, her mental health, alcohol use,
Speaker 1: legal troubles, snay how the victim? Snay? How the hero Snay?
Speaker 1: How the troubled woman? But who was Snay really? Who
Speaker 1: is she? For my heart media, this is missing on
Speaker 1: nine eleven, The story of one woman who vanished on
Speaker 1: the eve of history and my quest to find her.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Wallzac. Talk to people who knew
Speaker 1: snay ha friend or foe, and you'll hear the same descriptors. Brilliant, beautiful,
Speaker 1: our tistic, charismatic, and depending on who you ask, either
Speaker 1: manipulative or more generously, really good at getting what she wanted.
Speaker 1: Sna was smart, I mean brilliant. She spoke five languages, English, Russian, Italian, German, Emalayalam.
Speaker 1: She loved books. She was philosophical and poetic. Though she
Speaker 1: grew up in a conservative Indian family, she was progressive.
Speaker 1: She considered herself a feminist, and she loved gay men
Speaker 1: at a time when much of America didn't. Her art
Speaker 1: was typically abstract. She was a fan of Jackson Pollock.
Speaker 1: One day, much to her parents surprise, she and a
Speaker 1: friend painted a mural in her family's basement. Sneh was ageless,
Speaker 1: smooth skin, rice smile, piercing brown eyes, black hair, five
Speaker 1: six and a hundred and fifteen pounds, but fierce. Her
Speaker 1: life began on October seventh, nineteen sixty nine, in southwest India,
Speaker 1: in the state of Kerala. It's three years later her
Speaker 1: father wanted visa lottery for doctors and moved the family,
Speaker 1: say her mother on Zu, and her older brother Ashwyn,
Speaker 1: to Albany, New York. Three years after that, her younger
Speaker 1: brother John was born. As a kid, sna attended Ludonville
Speaker 1: Christian School and later Emma Willard School, an exclusive private
Speaker 1: academy that counts among its alumni Jane Fonda and Senator
Speaker 1: Kirston jilla Brand, who graduated the semester before Snaha arrived.
Speaker 1: Snayha ran track and played flute and the piano. She
Speaker 1: decorated her bedroom with posters of Billy Idol and breakfast
Speaker 1: at Tiffany's. She idolized Audrey Hepburn and listened to boy
Speaker 1: George and Duran duran in Naha graduated from Emma Willard
Speaker 1: and moved to Baltimore to attend Johns Hopkins University, where
Speaker 1: she pursued both premed and creative writing studies. Whether or
Speaker 1: not Snayha really wanted to be a doctor depends on
Speaker 1: who you ask. Her family says yes, really, everyone else
Speaker 1: says no. They say she really wanted to be an artist.
Speaker 1: At Hopkins, was the treasurer of her sorority by muw
Speaker 1: It was easy for her to make friends on the outside.
Speaker 1: She was gregarious and extroverted, approachable and kind, but she
Speaker 1: also had an introverted streak, someone quick and witty who
Speaker 1: could turn inward. In May, Snaha graduated from Hopkins by
Speaker 1: she was in Seattle. Seattle and ninety three was energy,
Speaker 1: the epicenter of American culture. If you just graduated from
Speaker 1: college and you're looking for somewhere to go and somewhere fun,
Speaker 1: somewhere cool, somewhere to get a start, Seattle sing Keith Place,
Speaker 1: and everyone was heading. Hugo Kuga, a reporter New Snaeha loosely.
Speaker 1: His girlfriend at the time was her roommate. They shared
Speaker 1: a house on Capitol Hill, a gritty, trendy, gay friendly neighborhood.
Speaker 1: You'd meet people who had and were from other places
Speaker 1: and nothing no time to Seattle at all, and people
Speaker 1: who dressed well. I've remember that, and Sale is one
Speaker 1: of those people. She was not white, she was cool,
Speaker 1: she dressed well. She was not from Seattle. Um, oh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like, you're one of those people. You're one of
Speaker 1: those cool people who moved to Seattle. She was easy
Speaker 1: to talk to. She uh yeah. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: some people are cool and cold and stand off as
Speaker 1: she wasn't. I remember that. She was a warm person,
Speaker 1: easy to talk to. Um, easy to joke with. While
Speaker 1: in Seattle, took classes at the University of Washington or
Speaker 1: you dub and fell into the rave scene. She loved fashion,
Speaker 1: especially shoes, and she loved to dance. Her younger brother,
Speaker 1: John joined her in Seattle for about a year. By
Speaker 1: the summer of had moved east to attend the Chicago
Speaker 1: go Medical School. One year later, Ron Lieberman arrived in Chicago,
Speaker 1: also to attend med school. Ron was a long haired
Speaker 1: Jewish musician from Los Angeles. He was skinny, looked like Jesus,
Speaker 1: and played the guitar in He and snay has started dating.
Speaker 1: Sometime after that, In ninety six or ninety seven, Snah
Speaker 1: took a year off from d school. She flew to Tuscany, Italy,
Speaker 1: where she spent six or seven months painting. She loved Tuscany,
Speaker 1: she could see herself living there permanently. During this time,
Speaker 1: Sah pondered whether or not she really wanted to be
Speaker 1: a doctor, or whether she should dedicate herself to art.
Speaker 1: It was in Tuscany that Ron proposed to her on
Speaker 1: the balcony of her apartment in Florence. She said yes,
Speaker 1: and after a blissful Tuscan escape, returned to Chicago and
Speaker 1: med school in n She and Ron graduated and moved
Speaker 1: to New York City that July. Based did their residencies,
Speaker 1: Ron at Jacoby Medical Center in the Bronx and snay
Speaker 1: Haw at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan. Ron specialized in
Speaker 1: emergency medicine. Snah wasn't sure what to do, maybe oncology
Speaker 1: or neurology, or maybe she'd be an allergist. On May
Speaker 1: thirteenth two thousand, Ron and Snaeha got married at the
Speaker 1: trout Beck, a luxurious in and Amenia, New York. Their
Speaker 1: wedding was lavish and joyful, so much so it was
Speaker 1: featured in a magazine Grace Ormond Wedding Style in two
Speaker 1: thousand one. The night before the ceremony, in an ancient
Speaker 1: eight hour Indian ritual, temporary designs were painted on the
Speaker 1: bride's hands and feet, with Hannah symbolizing her new marital status.
Speaker 1: Custom dictates that a woman remains a new bride as
Speaker 1: long as the design can still be seen. Spanish flamenco
Speaker 1: guitar music entertained guests before the ceremony, while classical Indian
Speaker 1: music featuring sitar and tablet drums provided the backdrop. As
Speaker 1: the couple stood under an outdoor arbor, over which a
Speaker 1: talent or Jewish prayer your shawl was straped well I
Speaker 1: guess sing an Indian song, Ron plays a tiny teardrop
Speaker 1: shaped gold pendant and cross around Snah's neck, symbolizing their marriage.
Speaker 1: He then wrapped the bride in a red silk wedding
Speaker 1: sorry elaborately woven with golden thread. The couple drank wine
Speaker 1: from a Kiddish cup, over which another guest had recited
Speaker 1: a traditional Jewish blessing. Ron ended the ceremony by smashing
Speaker 1: a glass underfoot. In the Jewish tradition, the year that
Speaker 1: followed the summer of two thousand to the summer of
Speaker 1: two thousand one, that was the Golden year, the year
Speaker 1: everything seemed right with the world seemed as I see it.
Speaker 1: There are four logical explanations for Snay has disappearance. Nine eleven, murder,
Speaker 1: she ran away and is alive. Suicide. But come on, murder,
Speaker 1: suicide that she's alive. None of that makes sense. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing, though, neither does nine eleven, not when you
Speaker 1: look at it closely. Nothing makes sense. So what do
Speaker 1: you do when the person you love just vanishes? A wife,
Speaker 1: a sister, a daughter gone, just gone? What do you
Speaker 1: do with that? Snay House family settled on the hero
Speaker 1: narrative that snayhow was walking home on nine eleven and
Speaker 1: ran into the burning towers to help people, And really,
Speaker 1: can you blame them? Think of the pain the grief
Speaker 1: that leads a family to choose nine eleven as the answer.
Speaker 1: And although there's no proof yet that Snay had died
Speaker 1: on nine eleven. Officially, that is the answer, that she
Speaker 1: died in the attacks at the World Trade Center. For
Speaker 1: snayhus family, this is all very painful, so I think
Speaker 1: it's important from the get go to make clear what
Speaker 1: I hope to accomplish with this show. First, I want
Speaker 1: to tell you about real snay Ha, not Reddit Snah
Speaker 1: the mystery woman. Second, I want to examine her disappearance closely.
Speaker 1: She deserves that. Finally, most of all, I want to
Speaker 1: find new information answers. What I can promise you is
Speaker 1: the truth, all of it as I know it. What
Speaker 1: I can't promise you is a neat, tidy ending. That's
Speaker 1: up to you. Yes, you, I'm speaking to the person
Speaker 1: sna stayed with an You're out there. You never came forward,
Speaker 1: not to her family, the cops, the press. Come forward
Speaker 1: now please. I'll protect your identity, and to anyone else
Speaker 1: with important information you too, I'll let you know how
Speaker 1: to reach us at the end of the show. Any
Speaker 1: proper examination of snay has disappearance begins with a minute
Speaker 1: by minute account of To piece together this timeline, I
Speaker 1: relied on court records, police records, and interviews when possible
Speaker 1: times are exact. When not, they're approximate. September two thousand one,
Speaker 1: around ten thirty am, Snay is in Manhattan Criminal Court
Speaker 1: charged with assault, harassment, and falsely reporting an incident. A
Speaker 1: few months ago. She told police that a fellow doctors
Speaker 1: sexually assaulted her in a bar. Then, according to the NYPD,
Speaker 1: she recanted and proceeded to harass the doctor and his wife.
Speaker 1: This is the incident that her family believes led her
Speaker 1: to spiral downward. We'll get into it more later. With
Speaker 1: her today are her husband, Ron, and her attorney, Mark Freiburg.
Speaker 1: Her appearance is brief, the case is adjourned to a
Speaker 1: future date. What happened next is disputed. According to an
Speaker 1: NYPD detective. While exiting the courthouse, Snah and Ron get
Speaker 1: into a heated argument. Ron says this never happened, and
Speaker 1: Mark Freiburg, Snayhouse attorney, told me he doesn't remember any argument.
Speaker 1: He declined further comment. Sometime between ten thirty and eleven thirty,
Speaker 1: while walking a mile from the courthouse back to their
Speaker 1: apartment at Rector Place, Ron and Snay has stopped at
Speaker 1: a bank and pull a hundred dollars out of an
Speaker 1: a t M. They split the money. Between eleven fifteen
Speaker 1: and eleven thirty, Ron leaves for work. His shift starts
Speaker 1: at one, and he doesn't want to be late. He
Speaker 1: has to catch the subway to the Bronx. Ron declined
Speaker 1: to speak to me, but here he is. In two
Speaker 1: thousand two, on Unsolved Mysteries, kissed her. I told her
Speaker 1: I loved her, and I left. Luckily, I left my
Speaker 1: keys at home, so I went back and I got
Speaker 1: to his string again, and that was the last time
Speaker 1: that I saw be four. Ron Leaves tells him she's
Speaker 1: going to clean the apartment. They're hosting a small dinner
Speaker 1: party the next night, the eleven. She's excited because the
Speaker 1: shipment of Orc is just derived from Hawaii. She tells
Speaker 1: Ron that at some point she might take a walk.
Speaker 1: Early afternoon, sna meditates. She starts cleaning the apartment and
Speaker 1: repotting the orchids. Around two to two thirty and her
Speaker 1: mom Ato talk via instant messenger, probably a o LL
Speaker 1: Instant Messenger or AIM. They chat for one to two hours,
Speaker 1: then tells aunt Wo that she better get back to cleaning.
Speaker 1: While no one disagrees that Snah and Onto talked via
Speaker 1: i AM records indicate that they also may have spoken
Speaker 1: by phone and or text, though I haven't been able
Speaker 1: to confirm that. Anzo declined to speak to me. Around
Speaker 1: four or five, Say signs off and tells her mom
Speaker 1: she's going to run errands. Between five and five thirty,
Speaker 1: Sammy Fliciano, a doorman, see Snay how walk out the
Speaker 1: front of her apartment building. Sammy is the second to
Speaker 1: last person that we know of to see Snay alive
Speaker 1: September ten. What do you remember of September ten? What
Speaker 1: hours did you work and what do you remember of
Speaker 1: that night? September two? Was the night before, I mean
Speaker 1: the day before, of course, right. Uh? I worked at
Speaker 1: three three eleven shift as the casci age. Um, I
Speaker 1: remember just working my shift and I'm going home. Do
Speaker 1: you have any memories from that night or is it
Speaker 1: just kind of get lost in the aftermath of not eleven? No,
Speaker 1: I can't remember, honestly. I mean, I just know I
Speaker 1: did the night shift, and UM, I remember being picked
Speaker 1: up by a friend of mine and that's it. I
Speaker 1: can't remember much. So I think the NYPD, maybe a
Speaker 1: private investigator spoke with you. I know it's been a
Speaker 1: really long time, but um, they didn't. I didn't even
Speaker 1: remember that. They they it listed you as the second
Speaker 1: to last person to see Dr Philip. And so I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna I'm gonna read you what what I found
Speaker 1: in the reports and tell me if any of it
Speaker 1: strikes a chord. It said that you saw Dr Philip
Speaker 1: leave the building sometime between five fifteen and five thirty.
Speaker 1: Do you have any memory of that? Um? No, I don't.
Speaker 1: Do you do you remember that? Actually, Dr phil No,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the that's that. That's the other question.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have no memory of the persons
Speaker 1: of that residents name. I mean faith, I'm sorry, face,
Speaker 1: no memory of that face. Yeah, but Snay Philip, you
Speaker 1: recognized the name. The name sounds very familiar, just the faith.
Speaker 1: I cannot pay for it. I cannot put a face
Speaker 1: into it. So, unfortunately, twenty years later, Sammy doesn't remember much.
Speaker 1: At the time, Snay has apartment building. Rector Place was
Speaker 1: called Park with a C Place park Place. It's a
Speaker 1: twenty four story building built in it had about three
Speaker 1: hundred units. Google mapp it. It's about nine dred feet
Speaker 1: southwest of the World Trade Center. By nine eleven, Rector
Speaker 1: was at about occupancy, many of its residents worked on
Speaker 1: Wall Street. I know which unit Ron and Snaha lived in,
Speaker 1: but I'm not publishing it. I don't want people to
Speaker 1: disturb the current owner, who understandably does not want publicity.
Speaker 1: What I can tell you is that it was a
Speaker 1: one bedroom, that Ron and Shall lived on, one of
Speaker 1: the cheaper floors, and that their unit did not face
Speaker 1: the World Trade Center. When Snaha leaves Rector sometime around
Speaker 1: five or five thirty PM, she's wearing a brown dress
Speaker 1: and sandals. Her dress is, according to Ron, quote, kind
Speaker 1: of a shirt style dress that came to her knees
Speaker 1: short sleeves. Later in court, Ron's says she wore quote,
Speaker 1: a knee length brown collared short sleeve shirt dress with
Speaker 1: buttons down the front, sandals, a beated black and gold
Speaker 1: choker with a tear drop shaped cross pendant, a gold
Speaker 1: engagement ring with a diamond in the center, a gold
Speaker 1: wedding band with small diamonds studded around it, and earrings
Speaker 1: with diamonds, studs, and flower shapes. Her toenails were painted purple.
Speaker 1: After she leaves the apartment, Snayha drops off dry cleaning.
Speaker 1: Then she walks the Century One, a massive department store
Speaker 1: across the street from the World Trade Center, just east
Speaker 1: of the Twin Towers. Century One, no relation to the
Speaker 1: real estate company, is a New York icon, a beloved
Speaker 1: spot where for decades shoppers could treasure hunt for discounted
Speaker 1: high fashion. I say could, because in September Century declared
Speaker 1: bankruptcy citing the impact of the COVID pandemic. Earlier this year,
Speaker 1: the company CEO, Raymond Guindey, graciously gave me a final
Speaker 1: tour of the store, which will likely never reopen. It
Speaker 1: was emptied out, partially lit and running on fumes with
Speaker 1: a skeletal staff. Close your eyes and wander around with me,
Speaker 1: a two hundred thousand square foot six story complex with
Speaker 1: flickering lights in the middle of a pandemic, looking for
Speaker 1: the last known location of a woman who disappeared on
Speaker 1: the evening before nine eleven. Thanks for walking up all
Speaker 1: the escalators with us. I appreciate it. Get in my
Speaker 1: work out I handed in India print out of the
Speaker 1: last known image of snay Ha A still of her
Speaker 1: in the women's coat area, captured by a security camera.
Speaker 1: So this is probably literally this picture the area this
Speaker 1: was taken I think it was around here, let me,
Speaker 1: or in this area here? So did the women's coat
Speaker 1: area was in the same place in two thousand one
Speaker 1: that it was untild recently, yes of us. So like
Speaker 1: when we're looking and that looks like a door or something,
Speaker 1: I think it's that door. And I think that column
Speaker 1: is that column. This picture is maybe taken over here someplace. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: and where are we on the top floor? Where are
Speaker 1: we were on the fifth floor? The one floor? It's
Speaker 1: six floors. We tried to pinpoint the camera that caught
Speaker 1: the image. Do you think it is that a that
Speaker 1: a camera? Yeah, all those domes always cameras. Well. I know,
Speaker 1: I think you're probably right because I imagine I mean,
Speaker 1: either this would have been aimed more closely this way
Speaker 1: or or the other way. They had like at least
Speaker 1: got it, So you know they have been the cameras
Speaker 1: from two one. Probably probably not because they constantly, but
Speaker 1: the location is pretty much, say the same. They swap
Speaker 1: out the camera technology, you know, a better six O
Speaker 1: five Snap purchases several items, including Lingerie and bed Lennon's
Speaker 1: six four D. I found a single source that states
Speaker 1: say made another purchase at this time, though I haven't
Speaker 1: been able to confirm it. The sun sets, snay Ha
Speaker 1: buys three pairs of shoes in a different part of
Speaker 1: the store. And here we have a critical question. Why
Speaker 1: wasn't snay captured on camera in the women's shoe area? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'd spread at the time. Was the UM security system
Speaker 1: in terms of like camera coverage, because one thing that
Speaker 1: I read is that there were not security cameras in
Speaker 1: the women's shoe area. That seem accurate to you. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's surprising because pretty much him everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would be surprised it would. They usually go all
Speaker 1: over like you see. Guindy took me to the security room.
Speaker 1: It had one of those big mirror like windows. I
Speaker 1: pressed my face against the glass to see inside. The
Speaker 1: timeline of of when Dr Philip disappeared UM the doorman
Speaker 1: at her building on After Place saw her leaving sometime
Speaker 1: around five fifteen five dirty. But obviously if you look
Speaker 1: at this still from the security footage, you know it's
Speaker 1: a sixteen fifty seven twenty four, so four fifty seven roughly.
Speaker 1: Do you know, by chance if the time was calibrated
Speaker 1: or correct or off or I have no idea. I figured,
Speaker 1: I figured, I'm asking you the time on a security
Speaker 1: camera was correct twenty years ago. But I did hear
Speaker 1: that there was a transaction done and like around six
Speaker 1: pm or something. Yeah, So there, as far as I know,
Speaker 1: there were I believe to transactions. One was for lingerie
Speaker 1: bed linens um and then the last was for three
Speaker 1: pairs of shoes. So so we're she was caught on
Speaker 1: camera and exactly where we're standing right now browsing women's coats,
Speaker 1: where where would lingerie bed linens and then also women's
Speaker 1: shoes in relation to where we are right now, where
Speaker 1: are the different areas? So the lingerie would have been
Speaker 1: a couple of floors down, probably on three bed men's
Speaker 1: would be in the basement of this building. And then
Speaker 1: to get two shoes, it makes sense that she paid
Speaker 1: to transactions to get two shoes. It's into separate building
Speaker 1: on the other side, and it makes sense that she
Speaker 1: paid for it and then went to those buildings kind
Speaker 1: of like an annex where she shopped separately in the
Speaker 1: shoe area. Which building what streets just so it faces
Speaker 1: on Broadway the shoe annex, uh, and it there's a
Speaker 1: way to connect from here without going outside, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of circuitous. Some people just go out the front
Speaker 1: door and walk next door. It's easier. So how far
Speaker 1: how big of a compost? I'm gonna have to get
Speaker 1: Google Maps. How big of a complex is? Does you said?
Speaker 1: It's five six buildings total? I mean so basically it
Speaker 1: fronts the main street on Church Street, which is to
Speaker 1: the west, and it it goes through the series of
Speaker 1: buildings to Broadway, which is the east. So it's almost
Speaker 1: the full square block, although a couple of chunks are
Speaker 1: not part of this door. But it makes sense that
Speaker 1: she would work her way to shoes and then that
Speaker 1: would be her final transaction. Yeah. And then if she
Speaker 1: was exiting um having purchased shoes, would she walk out
Speaker 1: on Broadway or probably? Okay, that makes the most sense.
Speaker 1: Sometime between seven seven thirty, snay Haa exits Century one,
Speaker 1: probably onto Broadway. She carries two bags with five fifty
Speaker 1: dollars worth of shoes, bed, linens, and lingerie. It's still
Speaker 1: raining on and off. M That thunderstorm was so I
Speaker 1: don't know how to say. It was so strangely beautiful
Speaker 1: that it was eerie. It was like something is happening
Speaker 1: something is coming. I don't know what it is. I'm
Speaker 1: going to have to record this nine. Monica Bravo is
Speaker 1: an artist in residence at the World Trade Center, working
Speaker 1: out of an empty space on the ninety two floor
Speaker 1: of the North Tower. That evening, she captures video as
Speaker 1: rain rolls into the city as Snayhouse shops below, Monica
Speaker 1: films from above. Later, Monica turns her footage into a
Speaker 1: work of art called September tenth two one, which translates
Speaker 1: to roughly, it's impossible for you to die on the
Speaker 1: eve of your death. Monica waited all summer for this
Speaker 1: rain to film it. It started at to fifty five,
Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong. It started like like you know
Speaker 1: when you see the storm coming and you see like
Speaker 1: the big cloud like low, and you go, oh shoot,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get all wet like like that, and
Speaker 1: then it's dark and you see like it's like a
Speaker 1: dark monster coming. And I started seeing it from the
Speaker 1: window and that's when I started taping. And it's fascinating
Speaker 1: how fast that um cloud came over that it just
Speaker 1: touches the window with a drop of water. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you see it in the first second of
Speaker 1: the film. It's just like you see the storms coming
Speaker 1: and then immediately you know the storm is present when
Speaker 1: it's the first few drops on the on the on
Speaker 1: the window, and you know you are part of the storm.
Speaker 1: So it did not stop until probably nine pm. It
Speaker 1: was it was always raining, and there was lightning at
Speaker 1: the end of a very frightening lightning. You I used
Speaker 1: to be so scared of lightning until that day. And
Speaker 1: you know what made me get like rid of that
Speaker 1: fear was that this is my thought then not right, so, oh,
Speaker 1: that's going to happen to me. I'm in Tawaiwan. We
Speaker 1: have the I don't know how to say in English Paris,
Speaker 1: you know this thing that yeah, yeah, yeah, we have that.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I would safe here. First I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be dead, I don't know, from another fire, but
Speaker 1: not here. I was thinking about fire the whole time
Speaker 1: I was there. The moment I leave that night, I
Speaker 1: take the tape and I thought maybe I should take
Speaker 1: everything else, and I said, well, no, there wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a fire. But I was thinking all the time about fire.
Speaker 1: And I looked at the water sprinkles and that's it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there's sprinkles here, We're gonna be fine. Around midnight,
Speaker 1: Monica leaves the North Tower, less than nine hours before
Speaker 1: American Airlines Flight eleven slams into it one floor above.
Speaker 1: There are only two artists left on the ninety floor. One, Jeff,
Speaker 1: leaves after Monica. The other, Michael Richards, a sculptor, sleeps
Speaker 1: in the tower that night and dies in the attack.
Speaker 1: The next day. Eleven PM, Sammy Fliciano says Doorman ends
Speaker 1: his shift at Rector Say hasn't returned to the apartment,
Speaker 1: neither has her husband Ron. Around eleven fifteen, Ron returns
Speaker 1: home from work. Snay is not there, nor are her bags.
Speaker 1: There's no sign she's been in the apartment since she
Speaker 1: left about six hours earlier. Here again is Ron on
Speaker 1: unsolved mysteries. Sometimes she would feel uncomfortable staying by herself
Speaker 1: at home, and her brother lives very close by, and
Speaker 1: her cousin also lives very close by, so she would
Speaker 1: sometimes go spend the night with him. And I thought, well,
Speaker 1: maybe she just decided to stop at her brother's house
Speaker 1: or her cousin. Around midnight, Ron goes to sleep. Nine
Speaker 1: eleven four oh five am, someone places a call from
Speaker 1: the apartment landline to Ron's cell phone. Ron has no
Speaker 1: memory of making that call. Next time I'm missing on
Speaker 1: nine eleven. Second, before we go, I want to let
Speaker 1: you know that at the end of each episode, I'll
Speaker 1: be giving you homework, something you can do, some way
Speaker 1: you can help move the story forward, and then I'll
Speaker 1: give you our tipline, an email where you can send
Speaker 1: us information or even documents. Some of these tasks will
Speaker 1: be interactive and relatively easy, some will be specialized and difficult.
Speaker 1: The goal is to add you, our audience, to our
Speaker 1: investigative team. This week one, did you know Snay Huh? Two?
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