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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 3:23 pm    Post subject: Doctor's Wife Missing in New York City Reply with quote

Without a trace


She went out to walk the dog - and never returned


By RALPH R. ORTEGA, MICHELE McPHEE and TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS


Svetlana Aronov's disappearance has left police baffled ...
... and her husband, Alexander, distraught. A chicken dinner on the stove. A glass of fresh-squeezed apple juice. A missing cocker spaniel. A little girl locked out of her apartment. A man stranded at the airport.

The doctor's wife who vanished in midday from an upscale Manhattan neighborhood left behind a jumble of clues and a mystery that unravels like an episode of the TV show "Without a Trace."

Russian émigré Svetlana Aronov, 44, a dealer in rare books and mother of two, hasn't been seen since she left her York Ave. co-op to walk the family dog at 2:30 p.m. Monday.

Her family says she had no enemies or reason to flee. Bloodhounds lost her scent four blocks from home. Detectives acknowledge they're baffled - and very worried.

"This is a woman who left that apartment fully expecting to come back," one high-ranking police official told the Daily News as cops blanketed the area with flyers. "Did she jump into the river with the dog? We don't think so. Something bad happened to her. We just don't know what yet."

A pall settled over the Aronov home yesterday as Aronov's husband, Dr. Alexander Aronov, chain-smoked Parliaments, and her older daughter, Polina, 22, worked the phones.

"She fell off the planet," said Polina, a fashion-show producer who inherited her mother's blond good looks. "It makes absolutely no sense."

Family mystified

Alexander Aronov, an oncologist with offices in Murray Hill and Brooklyn, said that nothing in his wife's personal or professional life explained her disappearance.

"Someone suggested maybe there was a Russian connection - the Russian mob," he said. "It's just as good an idea she was taken away by a UFO."

When she got out of bed Monday - after a weekend ski trip to Vermont - Aronov had a busy day ahead of her.

She drove her 9-year-old daughter, Veronica, to the exclusive Lycee Francais on the upper East Side, then picked up her father's dog, Bim, from a family friend.

She had an appointment to get a mole removed from her face, so she rushed home, dropped off the dog and gave her husband a lift toward the subway, the family said.

She met an antiques dealer at 11:30 a.m. to discuss a Russian artifact, police said. At noon, she phoned her husband to tell him to skip the gym after work.

By early afternoon, she was back at the apartment, trying to finish chores before she had to pick up her father, Anatoly, from Kennedy Airport.

She prepared chicken for dinner and put it on the stove. She squeezed some apple juice and left the full glass on the counter.

Then she put on her coat, grabbed a cell phone and went out with Bim, police said. She left behind her wallet and the house keys she was supposed to leave downstairs for Veronica.

Veronica's grandmother picked her up from school and brought her to the building. When they couldn't find the keys, they called the girl's father at his Sheepshead Bay office.

He found the lapse puzzling but wasn't worried. He called his wife's cell phone, got no answer and told his mother to take Veronica to her home in Queens.

By the time he left work, there was still no word from his wife, and he headed to Queens to meet his daughter.

When a dozen calls went unanswered, the doctor said, he grew uneasy but figured she had been held up by traffic or Customs.

So when he and Veronica returned to Manhattan a couple of hours later, he was stunned to see his wife's father waiting at the York Ave. building alone.

The 65-year-old former documentarian, returning from a visit to Russia, had waited for Aronov at JFK for hours and finally took a cab to Manhattan.

Grim realization

Alexander Aronov said he rushed to the garage to check on their car and found the 2001 Jeep Cherokee in its spot. He went upstairs and saw the food on the stove and the juice on the counter.

"That's when I knew something was wrong - terribly wrong," he said.

Two days later, police said they had no promising leads.

Though the Aronovs are Russian - they married in St. Petersburg 25 years ago - they have no apparent ties to organized crime, investigators said.

And while the couple is well-off - they just bought a home in Southampton, L.I., and their apartment is crammed with original art and pricey porcelain - there's no ransom demand.

Aronov's business was only a sideline, relatives said. In a good year, she made $50,000 selling books and lithographs.

Friends describe the couple as happily married. A receptionist at the Brooklyn medical office said they were taking merengue lessons and had a 10-day ski vacation in Italy planned.

"There is no clear path on this case," the police official said. "Could her father have business associates who are out to get him? Absolutely. Could her husband have hired someone to kill her? Absolutely. Could she have gotten into a car with a serial killer? Absolutely. We just don't know what happened."


With Melissa Grace and Mila Andre

Originally published on March 6, 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can't seem to get the picture to work. Here's the url.

www.nydailynews.com/559-home0306
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Then she put on her coat, grabbed a cell phone and went out with Bim, police said. She left behind her wallet and the house keys she was supposed to leave downstairs for Veronica.

Veronica's grandmother picked her up from school and brought her to the building. When they couldn't find the keys, they called the girl's father at his Sheepshead Bay office. "
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I don't know if this was in the article above: "Bloodhounds lost scent at York Ave. and 68th st." That's three short blocks.....

This looks as if she didn't plan to be out for more than a few minutes. Possibly to let the dog do his business quickly. 2:30 is about the time kids are getting out of school so she may have expected she'd be right back to the apartment before she had to leave the keys.

Monday March 3 we were hit with an Arctic blast of cold air. It was bitterly cold. No one would be lingering outside any longer than needed to go somewhere.

Most apartment buildings in New York have a doorman so she probably passed by him with the dog on the way out. Apartment dwellers do not take their dogs to the parking garage to do their business in New York. You can get fined for that even if you clean up. You must take the dog outside.


Will check that neighborhood and get an idea of what York ave. in the 60's is like. I'm a westsider and think of the York Ave. area as the suburbs.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is the way police work should be and yet another reminder of what Condit did to derail any effort to look into Chandra's disappearance. Keys and wallet left in the apartment, a distraught oncologist calling police to report a missing loved one, but in New York they had bloodhounds checking for her in two days and are looking for. In DC, they couldn't get the police to do that for weeks.

All because Condit told the police she was distraught, obsessed, and who knows what she did after he had to refuse her calls. That worked for two months. The DC police should have been saying what the NY police are saying after two days, but Condit was a powerful Congressman, and Chandra was just an intern.

In Washington politics, she was expendable.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep! RD- Its a different world up here. Washington DC is a town where secrecy is the main thing. In NYC you have more openness. Not to mention a lot of competition among the journalists to 'get the story'. The Daily News seems to be leading the pack right now although the NY Times had a good in-depth article yesterday.

I'm heading over to that area tonight to see if there's a friendly bar where people like to talk.

I did discover something interesting yesterday. If you look up Alexander Aronov in the whitepages.com system it gives about six residences in the New York area. Looks like they were dabbling in real estate which means about five sets of tenants. Hope the police are checking this. That might fit the idea in the following story that a mystery man whom Svetlana recognized "scared" her. Could there have been a problem with one of the tenants. I also want to check out the antique books angle. There's a Russian Antiques dealer across the street from where I work that a lot of big shots go to (Barbara Streisand, etc). They are so exclusive they have an unlisted phone number. Could she have been dealing with them in her art books business?


Here's today's latest:
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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/65227p-60718c.html








Scare at Svetlana gym


Mystery man shook her up


By RALPH R. ORTEGA, MICHELE McPHEE and TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS


Svetlana Aronov The doctor's wife who vanished from a busy Manhattan street Monday had an unnerving encounter with a mystery man at her gym recently, the Daily News has learned.

Svetlana Aronov, 44, was in a morning aerobics class at the Excelsior Athletic Club a month ago when the instructor said she noticed a strange man hovering outside.

"Svetlana was in the class and seemed to see somebody come up to the door," the gym manager told The News yesterday. "She got nervous and then she left."

The instructor didn't think much of the incident until she read in the papers that Aronov had disappeared while walking a dog near her East Side home Monday afternoon - and saw a picture of her husband. That's when she realized the man who had unsettled the mother of two in class that day was not her husband, Alexander, 45, an oncologist.

The gym manager told The News the aerobics instructor planned to contact police about the incident with the mystery man. Later in the day, investigators arrived at the E. 57th St. gym to interview employees.

Despite three days of digging, detectives have no strong leads.

They said no evidence has emerged of any trouble in the marriage. "Love will get you killed more than anything else in the world," said one investigator.

After probing whether Svetlana or Alexander - who married 25 years ago in St. Petersburg, Russia - were having an affair, they discounted that theory.

Keeping vigil at their co-op on York Ave. and E. 64th St., Alexander Aronov said the first question police asked was whether his wife was involved with another man. "An affair? I don't think she had an affair," the doctor said. "I'm not around her constantly, but we're constantly in touch."

He said learning that his wife, a rare-book dealer, had a lover would be better than the uncertainty he's living with. "If it was true, hearing it would be a relief because it would be a lead," he said.

The doctor, who has offices in Murray Hill and Brooklyn, said he believes his wife might have been abducted.

But a canvass by Daily News reporters of the four-block path Aronov took before she disappeared - and interviews with bus drivers, guards and pedestrians - suggest that a broad-daylight kidnapping wouldn't go unnoticed. "There's just always a lot of a people, a lot of cars," said Luann Popper, waiting on York Ave. for an M-31 bus with her two sons.

In the family's three-bedroom co-op, Alexander Aronov and his 22-year-old daughter, Polina, jumped every time a phone rang.

He also said it was a struggle to stay optimistic. "There's hope the first 24 hours," he said, his eyes brimming with tears. "You assume she's alive somewhere, being held. The other way - you consider it, but you don't want to."


With Jose Martinez, Maki Becker,
Austin Fenner and Celeste Katz

Originally published on March 7, 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Retracing her footsteps through busy E. Side streets



By FERNANDA SANTOS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Svetlana Aronov went from home to nowhere in 15 minutes.

Yesterday, exactly 72 hours after Aronov's bizarre disappearance, a Daily News reporter set out to retrace the last known steps of the doctor's wife through the upscale upper East Side neighborhood where she lived.

The 44-year-old Russian emigre stepped out of her co-op at 1175 York Ave., between 63rd and 64th Sts., at 2:30 p.m. Monday. With the family's cocker spaniel Bim on a leash, she turned north on the west side of York Ave., leaving the Queensboro Bridge behind.

As the reporter began following the same route at 2:30 p.m. yesterday, a couple waited to catch a crosstown bus in front of the building.

The midday traffic moved slowly on York Ave. Throngs of cars inched their way toward the FDR Drive or stopped at one of the four red lights along the stretch Aronov covered Monday afternoon.

The rare-book dealer would have strolled past three apartment buildings and bus stops, a hospital and a hot dog vendor, a pair of surveillance cameras and emergency boxes before she reached the corner of E. 68th St. and York Ave.

That, police said, is where bloodhounds lost her trail and she apparently vanished.

The reporter retracing her steps passed inconspicuously through hundreds of people along Aronov's route - a letter carrier, nurses, two guards and smokers puffing away outside Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

There are newspaper vending machines at the corner of 64th St. and York Ave., facing the side of a six-story brick building that spans the entire block. On each floor, there are 21 windows, and if people inside happened to be looking out at 2:34 p.m. Monday, they likely would have seen Aronov pass by.

Two minutes later, she would have come across a phone booth and an emergency box - attached to a light pole on the southwest corner of E. 65th St.

She could have called for help if she needed it.

Surveillance cameras

About 150 yards to the north, on a brick wall that surrounds 1233 York Ave., are a pair of surveillance cameras. One of them points north on York Ave., the other points west on E. 66th St.

The cameras must have taped Aronov and Bim about 2:40 p.m., just as the school day ended and students from nearby Public School 183 flooded the sidewalks on York Ave.

Across the street, two guards were in a small booth at the entrance to Rockefeller University. Both were working Monday afternoon, but neither remembered seeing the missing woman or her dog. "It's a busy road," one of the guards told the reporter.

The busiest of the blocks along Aronov's route was the last one she would have walked - the stretch of York Ave. between E. 67th and E. 68th Sts., where Sloan-Kettering is.

If she had moved at the same pace as the reporter, Aronov would have arrived at the south end of the block at 2:43 p.m., then strolled past the bus stop - packed with nurses who ended their eight-hour shifts at 2:30 p.m.

If she looked across York Ave., she would have seen Weill-Cornell Medical Center.

The time was now 2:45p.m., and the reporter arrived at the end of Aronov's route - the very place where the police bloodhounds lost the missing woman's scent.
Originally published on March 7, 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LASkipper! Everybody!

What do you make of this?
I see three investor properties. It doesn't list the house in Long Island nor the other office in Manhattan.

There is a slight difference in spelling. Is it the same person?

Aronov, Aleksandr
8700 25th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11214
(718) 333-0554

(I think this is the Doctor's office)*****
Aronov, Aleksandr
601 A Surf Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11224
(718) 449-5519

Aronov, Aleksandr
665 Ocean Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11230
(718) 853-9648

Aronov, Alexander
2131 Gerritsen Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11229
(718) 648-4271

(These last two are his residence in Manhattan)
Aronov, Alexander
1175 York Ave
Manhattan, NY 10021
(212) 838-6079

Aronov, Alexander
1175 York Ave
Manhattan, NY 10021
(212) 838-93


Any ideas?

Thanks,
James
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's interesting James is that the dog makes a quiet, unnoticeable kidnapping quite a bit harder. In fact, the car pulling up and getting her attention, opening the door and pulling her and the dog into the car, etc., is very difficult to perform without attacting attention.

The only way to do this is what you see in spy movies. A van sits next to the curb, perhaps a garment rack is pulled out onto the sidewalk as she walks up to block the view, a hand is placed over her mouth and she and the dog are pulled into the van through the side doors along with the garment rack, and they drive off.

Who would perform an organized kidnapping of an antiquities dealer, and why? No ransom demand. Plots from the likes of Indiana Jones comes to mind. Nothing that makes any sense.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RD! You're scaring me!! Hahahaha

"The only way to do this is what you see in spy movies. A van sits next to the curb, perhaps a garment rack is pulled out onto the sidewalk as she walks up to block the view, a hand is placed over mouth and she and the dog are pulled into the van through the side doors along with the garment rack, and they drive off."

Good thing that you are one of the good guys.

Here are two more addresses for Dr. Aronov! More to come.


Aronov Alexander - (718) 769-0900 - 2632 E 21st St, Brooklyn, NY 11235

alexander aronov md holistic general practice 259 mineola blvd #204 mineola, ny (914) 478-4409
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

do we know for sure that she didn't get into a vehicle with someone that both she and the dog knew, and therefore thought they were fully safe with them, at least to begin with?


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

no, we don't know it, nanci, but it would have to be an unexpected encounter and they got into the car to talk because it was so cold, which I believe James said was the case.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good Points RD and Propria!

I hadn't considered that she might have just gotten into a car to talk to someone she knew. And it certainly makes sense that she would know the person. New Yorkers don't get into strange people's cars!

The reporter above did a great job of showing how busy the area is. Nurses and school kids all over the place at exactly the same time she's walking the dog.

And the surveillance cameras! Not even mentioned are the cameras pointing out from the entrances to the hospital and the university.

Based on the "Mysterious Stranger" report above I'm guessing that she might have had a secret lover or someone from her past.

I didn't get over to that neighborhood yet but will do so on Saturday or Sunday. As far as I know they haven't organized a volunteer search yet. I'll check tomorrow.

Notice that Dr. Aronov is staying right there in the apartment!! He "jumps" every time the phone rings.

Unlike Scott Peterson.....

Also notice the little comment that "despite the fact that they are Russians the police do not believe that the (Russian) mafia was involved". Politically correct weenies would be screaming at that statement but its ok in New York 'cause that's the way people actually think and it answers a question that would come up instantly.

What was the antique item she was buying or selling that morning? Could it have been something that was small enough for her to carry while she was walking the dog? Or did she have a substantial amount of cash on her after selling an item? Who would know about this and could they have followed her to reclaim the transaction? Dealers in the jewellery trade usually trade with cash not checks or credit cards.

Apparently she went to the antique dealer after her facial surgery. Were there any lingering side effects to the surgery that would have been exacerbated by the bitter cold? Could she have been reacting to an anesthetic wearing off while she was engaged in the 'deal' and observed by a third party who followed her? "Hey, Mrs. Aronov, the dealer sent me to pick you up and take you back to the shop. He forgot something..."then whack!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 6:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

James, her reaction to the person in the hallway at the gym was not of someone she knew well, in my opinion. Even if she had a falling out with someone, and I think it unlikely it was a lover due to the close communications and staying in touch between her and her husband, but even if there was a falling out you don't get nervous when they show up. You're happy or mad, but not nervous and leave. One could argue it was a newly acquired boyfriend and that she was nervous to be seen with him, but I don't believe it resembles that.

More importantly, every gym I've been to requires a pass to get in. Wouldn't he need to be a member to get in? He obviously wasn't recognized by the instructor, though.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i got the sense that the guy was more like someone from her past in russia, maybe someone she recognized as a person who knew stuff she didn't want known in new york, but i can't really pin down where that sense is coming from yet. the russian mafia is a possibility that has to be considered, just on gp's if nothing else, but it is hardly the only possible source for complications in her life ... if i were the nypd, one of the first places i'd start digging would be at the ins, and i'd plan on working through a lot of tangled threads. my heart really goes out to the husband, if he really is sitting there half hysterical over her disappearance ... it would be so nice to see a husband who really is distressed because his wife is missing.


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 10:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the husband/doctor:



ALEXANDER ARONOV, M.D., P.C.

Current Entity Name: ALEXANDER ARONOV, M.D., P.C.
Initial DOS Filing Date: 04/15/1999
County: KINGS
Jurisdiction: NEW YORK
Entity Type: DOMESTIC PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
Current Entity Status: ACTIVE

DOS Process (Address to which DOS will mail process if accepted on behalf of the entity)
ALEXANDER ARONOV, M.D., P.C.
2632 E. 21ST STREET, STE #1
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11235


Chairman or Chief Executive Officer
ALEXANDER ARONOV
1175 YORK AVENUE
11K
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10021



Principal Executive Office
ALEXANDER ARONOV, M.D., P.C.
2632 E 21ST ST
STE 1
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11235


Registered Agent
NONE

NOTE: New York State does not issue organizational identification numbers.



Bad news. Most of Aronov's real estate is in Kings,
where you have to pay
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