Police: Women found duct taped along New York's Hudson River identified as sisters

Monday, October 29, 2018
UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan -- Police have identified the two women whose duct-taped bodies were found washed up along New York's Hudson River as sisters from Virginia.

Police said the bodies of 16-year-old Tala Farea and 22-year-old Rotana Farea, of Fairfax, were found around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the vicinity of 68th Street and Riverside Park.

Responding officers found the bodies laying on rocks near the river.

A missing child's poster said the women were last seen on August 24, but no photographs were included.

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A police source tells Eyewitness News the bodies were bound together with duct tape, with tape around their waists and feet, facing each other.
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Both were fully clothed, and there were no signs of trauma.



Sources believe the bodies washed ashore with the tide and stayed when the tide went out.
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The Medical Examiner's Office will determine the cause of death, and the investigation is ongoing.
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