Sneha Ann Philip, a 31-year-old internal medicine resident at St. Vincent’s Hospital, was last seen the evening of September 10, 2001, in lower Manhattan. Security footage placed her at the Century 21 department store near Battery Park around 7:18 p.m., carrying two large shopping bags with lingerie, shoes, and bed linens. She never returned to the Battery Park apartment she shared with her husband, Dr. Ron Lieberman, who reported her missing on September 11, 2001, after failing to reach her and learning relatives had not seen her.

Philip’s passport, identification, and all but one credit card were left at the apartment. The disappearance occurred the same morning as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and her family has long maintained she went to help victims at the towers. The NYPD investigation raised an alternate theory that she may have left voluntarily amid alleged personal problems, which the family denied. A lower court declared her legally dead in 2004 but did not link her death to the attacks; an appellate court later ruled she died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and her name appears on the 9/11 Memorial. No trace of her remains or belongings has been found.

Did anyone in lower Manhattan in September 2001 see Sneha Philip after the Century 21 footage, or remember her that weekend?