By Laura Cox PUBLISHED: 14:06 EST, 13 July 2012 | UPDATED: 17:06 EST, 13 July 2012 A woman missing for four days and feared murdered after her family received a sinister text message claiming she was dead has been found alive 1,577 miles away, it emerged on Friday. Rajwinder Kaur, of Queens, New York, never returned home after leaving to do volunteer work on Sunday evening. Later that night, her sister received a text message with the words: 'The girl with this phone is dead, was smiling'. But Kaur was tracked down by police 1,577 miles away in Dallas, Texas, yesterday, when a friend who had bought her bus ticket tipped them off, MSNBC reported.
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Last seen leaving her Queens, New York home to do volunteer work in Brooklyn at 8pm on Sunday
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That evening her sister received a harrowing text claiming she was dead
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Had sold many of her possessions on eBay shortly before disappearing leading police to believe she may have run away to join a cult
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