The Extremely Bizarre Disappearance of Sneha Anne Philip | True Crime Documentary

Dr. Sneha Anne Philip, was a fiercely independent and highly intelligent young woman from Kerala, India. Her unquestioned care for patients, curiosity in multiple arts, and desire to see the entire world were all cut short by a troubling disappearance in September of 2001 in the hours leading up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, leaving all who knew her in Manhattan communitity and the entirety of New York City at large grasping for answers in a sea of mysteries that drowned us all in doubt… As a hope to provide more substantial reasoning built upon observable evidence and situational analysis, this is an examination of the disappearance of Sneha Anne Philip in the leadup to one of the darkest days in American history, and the decades long fight for her family to set the record straight on Sneha’s fate, and ultimately, her heroic legacy. This is Cold Case Detective.

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Cold Case Detective was created by TJ Ruesch and the team behind Top5s & DestinationDeclassified. Our aim is to educate and spread awareness on some of the most puzzling missing person cases in history...

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[lonerebeI]

Knowing how to protect yourself doesn't mean you can't be harmed or killed. I hope she's found 🙏🏽

[jarigustafsson]

The "she knew who to meet in bars"
But she also had a an drinking problem.
Yeah, that doesn't mix.

[debbykirby]

Feels a little glossed over for me. If we can't be brutally honest about people's lives it can hinder their being found as no body wants to really discuss the whole truth. That's not to say Sneha isn't a good person but this story is like reading through rose tinted glasses.

[maricelavancena]

The fact that she didn't come home the night before and didn't call, leads me to speculate she met foul play the day she was last seen. As for the family insisting that she died on ground 0 is rather irrational. There was no proof she was even there.

[phippskat]

I usually like your videos but hearing you say Sneha can't possibly have been murdered because she knew how to avoid it was galling and tactless. murder victims aren't to blame for hanging around with the wrong people. only murderers are to blame

[tessajowett]

She had a court case, dismissed from 2 jobs and had a substance habit. She did not come home the night before and didn't leave a message. This case is skewered by the girl's family that the real crime has gone unsolved.

[spacewurm]

The woman she was with on the afternoon of September 11 has never been identified. That always bothered me about this case.

[jstone]

This narration is uneven.
It goes into detail her purchases, items she wore and minor incidents, but does not explain the backstop of her addiction and poor performance.
Until then she portrayed as a dutiful, high achieving daughter and wife. Something such as addiction does not occur suddenly or without trauma.

[tmariepi]

Husband's phone showed a missed call at 4 a.m., 9/11/2001, from a phone line INSIDE their apartment. Who was it? I'm not convinced she died on 9/11 as a result of the terrorist attacks.

[GhostRangerr]

The fact that her family & husband insisting on her dying in the attack despite the lack of proof and it not making sense in the first place tells me that they're hiding something or withholding other details.

[FallenAngel]

Probably the worst point in history you could have gone missing was Sep 11th 2001. Such a strange, sad case. What drove her to alcohol and put her career in such jeopardy? What on earth happened?

[MikeB]

The conclusion is completely flawed. If her family is going to claim that she was a victim of 9/11, then, yes, we do need to be able to substantiate her whereabouts and that includes establishing where she was on the night of the 10th. Saying "Oh, New Yorkers get triggered talking about that kind of thing..." is lame and childish. Also, fantasizing about her running to Ground Zero to help victims of the attack is grotesquely ridiculous, since you have absolutely no evidence to back it up. You're making the facts fit your conclusion, not the other way around.

[GG-NYS]

No, it is not evident that she died on 9/11. She was known to go out all night and go home with people she had just met. She drank too much, clouding her judgement. You aren’t safe because you “know what type of person to stay away from”. Also, we NYers aren’t afraid or uncomfortable to talk about 9/11. And there are many photos of those that ran to the towers to help out before they fell. It was being documented on the ground in real time. She is in none of them.

[iamV]

Am I missing something? Where is the evidence she helped anyone on 9/11?

[matthewjennings]

Anybody who has been to the 9/11 memorial knows there is a closed off section that acts a morgue. There are still a number of people unaccounted for to this day.

[smilodon]

It is unlikely Sneha was a 9/11 victim. Based on what is presented herein, concluding that Sneha was a victim of 9/11 is not substantiated. She did not spend the night of Sept 10th with her brother or her cousin. Evidence that she even came back to the apartment on Sept 11th is insufficient. If she was smart, she would have avoided ground zero. If she was going to ground zero to assist, why did she not inform her husband or a family member? When she heard about the attack, why did she not call her husband? What you have presented leads one to the conclusion that she was either abducted or ran away the night of Sept 10th. Lastly, a woman enjoying an active social life is not a crime and should not be judged negatively.

[NurseSue]

A woman who was having a good day shopping, getting ready for visitors wouldn’t just not come home or call to let her husband know where she was. Something fishy but I’m afraid she fell thru the cracks because of all that was happening

[Ktcd_]

So just because it’s too insensitive to ask people of their whereabouts the evening before 9/11, were just going to write off the fact she didn’t contact her husband all night or the following morning as unsuspicious?

[cherrytomato]

A puzzling case. Two questions immediately jump to mind: what is the evidence Sneha really was at the WTC when the terror attacks happened and why didn't she come back home that night? Wouldn't it be more logical to think something happened to her at the time she didn't return home after her shopping. The presenter says it wasn't unusual for her to spend the night at the relative's house, but neatly omits to mention if they questioned the relatives about her whereabouts that night. It is very unlikely she tried to fake her own death; it is more likely she met some sort of foul play after her shopping.

[rmd]

What an amazing documentary. Thank you for sharing. According to Wikipedia and other sources, Sneha Anne Phillip is 'Legally dead' on September 11th 2001 but to me as to probably most people, it still remains a true mystery.