Bodies Of 2 Women Bound With Duct Tape Discovered In Hudson River

The bodies of two women, duct-taped together at the waist and feet, washed up from Hudson River in New York on Wednesday afternoon.

Officials said the bodies were taped together, however, the circumstances leading to the incident were unknown. The bodies were facing each other and the women had died recently, officials confirmed.

A police source familiar with the investigation said, “They were bound together. There’s no visible sign of trauma. It appears to be a suicide pact,” the New York Daily News reported.

Eyewitness News reported the women were fully clothed and were in their late teens or early 20s.

They were found one on top of the other, with the larger of the two on top face-down. Both were wearing black leggings. One was wearing a bomber jacket with a hood, while the other had a gray hooded down jacket.

Sources said the bodies could have washed ashore with the tide and remained there when the tide went out.

Martin Castillo, a passerby, saw the bodies lying on rocks by the Hudson River near Riverside Blvd. around 2:40 p.m. EDT and informed the authorities.

"The police were coming down and I followed them. The bodies were on the stones. One of them was facing up. She was a woman. I couldn't believe it. I can't see how this happened,” Castillo said.

Officials had a difficult time reaching the bodies as they were on rocks below a pier. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers were at the scene standing guard at the riverside. The area remained taped off.

The New York City medical examiner's office will determine the causes of death and the identities of the victims were not released.

In a similar incident earlier this month, bodies of two women were pulled from a murky pond in Chaska, Minnesota. Police said the young women would have drowned after their car crashed into the pond.

Bushra Abdi and Zenyab Abdalla, both 19 years old, went missing after they left their individual workplaces after finishing their night shifts. The two were last seen in a 2006 gray Chevrolet Impala that belonged to one of their families.

Zeynab picked up Bushra from her workplace. Their last known contact with anyone was a call to police for help from one of their cell phones. The call was traced near the area of Highway 212 and County Road 41. After two days of intensive search, the divers first located a car in the pond. Officials then announced via loudspeaker that they found two bodies.