The sisters were Saudi Arabian nationals.
The Farea family moved to the U.S. from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in mid-2015, AM New York reports, and lived in Fairfax, Virginia.
They had a history of going missing from home.
According to the New York Times, Tala and Rotana had initially been reported missing in December 2017. When Fairfax police found them, the sisters were placed in a shelter after alleging abuse and asking for protection. They were then reported missing from that facility at the end of August of this year.
The NYPD emphasized that the “duct tape was not binding them” but “keeping them together” and that “it’s entirely credible that they entered the water alive.”
On Wednesday, October 24, two women were found floating in the Hudson River, near the 68th Street pier in New York City. They were fully clothed and their bodies were duct-taped together at their waists and ankles.
https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/two-saudi-arabian-sisters-found-dead-hudson-river.html
Thus I’m finding suicide hard to believe. My guess is honor killing.
What say you, Linda Sarsour?