A Queens husband from hell who allegedly scattered his wife’s hacked-up body across the city’s wilds was a spiteful busybody rumored to have landed his much-younger bride in a green card marriage, neighbors spilled.

Rupchand Simboo, 74, was arraigned Wednesday in the murder of his 33-year-old wife Salisha Ali after GPS data from his phone led police to more of her dismembered remains, months after Ali’s decomposing torso was found near JFK Airport, prosecutors said. 

Cops recovered Ali’s severed head, legs, and arm last week in the Jamaica Wildlife Refuge as they followed cellphone app data that showed Simboo was in the swampy area last summer, a day after she was last seen alive, prosecutors said.

Authorities are investigating whether jealousy amid a love triangle turned deadly, sources said – a motive that dovetails with rumors swirling in Simboo’s neighborhood that Ali was having an affair.

Simboo’s arrest didn’t draw much surprise among his neighbors in South Ozone Park, where he was known as an ill-tempered odd duck.

“He was a nasty man. Just nasty. Nasty and very vindictive, like, mean. Like, he’s not a nice person,” said neighbor Sureshwarie Ackree.

“I wasn’t surprised when this happened, because he in my business. He was a very wicked man.”

Simboo was ordered held without bail during his arraignment late Wednesday on murder and concealment of a human corpse charges.

The charges cap a bizarre saga stretching from Queens to the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

Sources said Ali, who hailed from Trinidad, had started a long-distance relationship in 2023 with Simboo, a resident of South Ozone Park. She moved to Queens in 2024 and eventually married Simboo, the sources said.

The May-December marriage was related to Ali’s immigration status, as the mother-of-three girls sought a new life in the US, The Trinidad Express first reported.

“She did it like for papers, probably,” Ackree said, wondering why a 30-something would marry a septuagenarian. 

Neighbors said Simboo had lived with an older woman before Ali, with whom he often argued. Their tumultuous relationship apparently ended years ago with a knock-down-drag-out blowup that several neighbors witnessed.

“They had a big argument, they was cussing one another out in the street,” one neighbor said. “She moved out, he went to Trinidad, came back with this woman (Ali).”

Ackree said rumors swirled that Ali had a strained marriage with Simboo that included a  relationship with another man. 

Sources confirmed detectives are investigating whether a love triangle and jealousy ultimately led to the murder.

But whatever Ali’s home life, she still kept in close touch with her family after she moved to Queens, sources said. 

She last talked with her family on FaceTime sometime July 13, and didn’t show up to her job as a home health aide the next day, sources and court records state.

Simboo reported Ali missing on July 19 at the urging of her mother, prosecutors said.

But Ali outwardly gave mixed signals to neighbors, with one seeing little sign of strain or worry as his wife remained missing.

“He was living his life, cool, calm, and collected,” the neighbor said.

Ackree, for her part, noticed Simboo stopped drinking and barbecuing outdoors. 

“I said, where was the lady? He said, ‘Oh, I don’t know anything. I don’t know where she is,’” Ackree said. “He looked like fish out of water, like something happened. He didn’t look normal.”

The disappearance took a horrific turn Sept. 22, when two sanitation workers saw a blue moving blanket wrapped in yellow rope near Idlewood Park, a marshland close to JFK Airport, cops and prosecutors said.

Investigators used DNA testing to determine that a decomposed torso inside belonged to Ali, court documents state.

The grim discovery prompted an investigation that led to a warrant search at Simboo’s home along 135th Street on Oct. 17, where they found plastic wrap and a yellow rope consistent with the cord used to bind Ali’s torso, the documents state.

Cops found a moving blanket during a second search warrant at Simboo’s work garage that was identical to the impromptu shroud wrapped around Ali’s torso, according to court papers.

Amid the investigation, detectives tracked Simboo’s GPS coordinates through the Life360 app on his phone and found he was in the Jamaica Wildlife Refuge on July 14, according to prosecutors.

He had also been near Brookville Boulevard and 149th Avenue, where Ali’s torso was found, prosecutors said.

A search of the backwoods on March 5 and March 6 uncovered a head, legs, and an arm off Cross Bay Boulevard, just north of North Channel Bridge, officials said. 

A forensic analysis determined that the disembodied body parts all belonged to Ali, prosecutors said. 

Rupchand is next scheduled to appear in court on March 16.

– Additional reporting by Amanda Woods