Missing Woman’s Family Gets Disturbing Text Message From Her Cell Phone: ‘The Girl With This Phone Is Dead’
- Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:54pm by
Billy Hallowell
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It’s scary enough to have close friend or a relative go missing. But a New York City family is caught in the middle of an especially-bizarre case after receiving a disturbing text message from Rajwinder Kaur’s (the missing woman in question) cell phone. Kaur, 26, vanished on Sunday evening; she was last seen around 8 p.m. at her Queens home. Rajwinder was apparently on her way to volunteer at a Brooklyn shelter at the time.
Following her disappearance, the sent text message read, ”The girl with this phone is dead was smiling.” The note, which is convoluted, reached Gurpreet Kaur, the woman’s sister, around 9:40 p.m. that same night. Relatives claim that Rajwinder, a former social worker, would have never sent such a message herself.
“I was reading it and it didn’t make sense and I worried, what’s going on?” Gurpreet said in an interview with CBS New York.
While the family seems to believe that foul play is at the root of the young woman’s disappearance, sources tell CBS otherwise. According to a report, some within the NYPD allegedly believe that Rajwinder sold some of her belongings on eBay, joined a cult and sent the text to let her family know: “the old Rajwinder is dead to you; the new Rajwinder is with us.”
Her family, naturally, rejects this theory, with her cousin, among others, claiming that “she’s not an extremist.” Also, they note that there’s no evidence of her using credit cards, her cell phone and other tools that one would purportedly need, regardless of cult membership. Regardless, they also believe that she’s alive.
Stay tuned for more updates on this bizarre story.
(H/T: CBS New York)
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Comments (48)
Rob
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 5:20amHERE IS A NEW ARTICLE THAT SAYS SHE WAS FOUND AND ALIVE!
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens-woman-vanished-sunday-found-alive-texas-article-1.1113459
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 10:28amStrange. She says she was arranged to be married, yet her family says that’s not true. Someone is definitely lying. I hope she doesn’t end up being an “honor killing” in the near future.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 3:30pmShe just “got-it” about NY’s infinite tax-killing state, and wanted to move-out quickly before she lost everything! So she mooved to the greatest freest state arroud…Texas! The cellfone was a ruse to smoke-screen the libby-commie-UNION-types so‘s she won’t be sued for moving out of a union-state to a right-to-work state. Happin’s more than you think!
Report Post »Question with BOLDness
Posted on July 14, 2012 at 2:08pm@1proudAmerican
If the girl is saying she left because of an arranged marriage, I believe her. The family, I believe, doesn’t want that to come out and make them look barbaric (as they would be if they’re setting up arranged marriages). She sold her stuff on e-bay and bought a plane ticket to Texas. What more needs to be said? I don‘t blame her for making herself ’disappear’. I would’ve done the same thing.
Report Post »Question with BOLDness
Posted on July 14, 2012 at 2:42pm…. in my opinion
Report Post »Question with BOLDness
Posted on July 14, 2012 at 2:43pm… in my opinion
Report Post »MRMANN
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 4:31amDoesn’t sound good. If, as the police propose, she has joined a cult, she will likely be away from her family for many months if not years. She’s truly “gone.”
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:39pmBizzarre.
Report Post »Master_and_Commander
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:33pmhmm, kinda reminds me of the second season of 24 where the perfectly innocent girl in the perfectly innocent family turns out to be a die hard Islamic extremist and tries to blow everybody up…
Report Post »GenOptimus
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:45pmIt‘s Bush’s fault.
Report Post »Aron
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 3:10pmTotally his fault.
Report Post »WINNEBAGOMAN
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:21pmThis is how media works to make a story out of nothing. Notice the NYPD source was unnamed. That means that some reporter has a friend or acquaintence at the NYPD, and when they asked that person about this case that “source”, who probably had no real knowledge of the case, made some off-the-cuff, more than likely sarchastic comment. The reporter simply changes the tone and context of the “NYPD source”, and now has a blockbuster piece from what would have been another cookie-cutter missing person piece. That’s how MSM works.
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:37pmThe Queens woman who disappeared Sunday and whose phone transmitted a disturbing text message to her sister was found alive in Texas Thursday, officials said.
Rajwinder Kaur, 26, was located in Dallas after a friend went to police and told them where she was, a law enforcement official said. The friend had purchased a bus ticket to Dallas for Kaur.
Report Post »americanoverpolitics
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:29pmShe was found alive in Texas at a bus stop.
Report Post »crushynn
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 7:41pmSince when does selling things on eBay mean you’re joining a cult? Maybe she was just trying to pay off some bills????? Sounds like the police don’t feel like doing their job.
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 12:50amAgreed, there is obviously more information that we are not privy to. . .
Report Post »SolitudeBliss
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 6:54pmI’m sorry but can someone please explain it to me? Howww many cults ARE there in NYC? After the family received the dead text, the conclusion the cops come up with is that she joined a cult !!!!!
SERIOUSLY??????
Report Post »TRILO
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:30pmSurprised they are not blaming it on some rogue terrorist group as they are under every rock and around every corner.
In all seriousness, I hope that the family finds out what has happened. It would be horrible to have a family member missing. It is even worse for them to receive such a horrible text.
Report Post »ronin_6
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 6:23pmI pray this ends well, I fear that it won’t. Don’t care what the PC police say, men it is your job to protect your women, be they mother, sister, wife, daughter, girlfriend etc. Do not let those you love down.
Report Post »libsaredangerous
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:34pmHorrible. I don’t know how people can or would want to live in NYC. It is getting so bad. This is what happens when you are a sanctuary city and let anyone come and live there w/o any rules. I know I am assuming a lot.
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:55pmThe country going down the crapper and we have this. WGAS?
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:21pmSuch a sad story. I pray she comes home to her family soon.
Report Post »AmericanPatriot
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:14pmWhether she‘s alive and the member of a cult or she’s dead by someone elses hand, what a horrific message for her family to receive! My prayers and blessings go to all involved (except the bad guy, if there is one).
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 6:08pmI agree, this would be terrifying to experience.
Report Post »MartyTr
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:45pmHope it isn’t an honor killing.
Report Post »BenzinVasser
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:30pmIndians aren’t Muslim, they’re Hindu.
Report Post »MartyTr
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:59pmhttp://indianmuslims.info/ –I wouldn’t rule it out.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:37pmFBI profilers have ruled out English majors as possible suspects
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:27pmWow, Tom Cruise is quite the quick bachelor.
Report Post »Lothmar
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:25pm”The girl with this phone is dead was smiling.”
I dont know whether they mean ‘she’ was smiling when she died, or ‘they’ were smiling when she died… The second is much creepier.
Report Post »Ty Coon
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:07pmWho wants to bet a million dollars that the perpetrators of this crime, look as though they could be Obozo’s, sons ?!
Report Post »BaltimoreJoe
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:00pmGotta be some other sites you could go hang out on dude…
Just when you think it can’t get worse, it just keeps rolling in. Unimaginable to get a message like that.
Report Post »mrmikejohnson
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:48pmI bet drugs are involved. Usually this type of behavior is from people much younger than 26 years old if it doesn’t involve drugs.
Report Post »Gman992
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:47pmI would arrest the guy for his bad grammar alone….but, he’s probably a foreigner.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:25pmEvery other person you look at any more are foreigners. They paw to come in here and then want to change America back to what they ran from in the first place. Assimilate or leave should be the bottom line. We owe you nothing.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:07pmWhen do we get a text from the Obama administration saying it’s dead?
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:07pm10 bucks she’s dead
Report Post »ABVCharlie
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:49pmTerrible tragedy and all, but this comment actually made me “lol”
Well done, sir.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:06pmGPS baby, now it’s time to go hunting.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:40pmI agree. Why they don’t trace the cell phone is beyond me.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:51pmToo late, USPat, the cell phone was dumped immediately after the text was sent.
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:31pmPIPER60 — Since it’s a cell phone, all they can do is trace it back to the missing girl. As for the location of the phone at the time the text message was sent, all they can do there is triangulate betweet the nearest cell phone towers to get a general area where the phone was located at the time. That could be several city blocks, but it won’t trace to an exact address.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:28pmweiner-
Report Post »Cell phones track you by GPS. They can find the exact spot the text was sent, not that that will guarantee any advance in the case.
kevinj319
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:33pmYou guys watch too much TV. The stories you watch always seem to gloss over the technical and legal limitations to doing such a thing. They might do this all the time on NCIS, not so often in real life.
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:05pmA social worker. A trip to India made her more spiritual. She sold many of her things on eBay. The “is smiling” part makes me think she joined a cult but this is pure speculation.
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