Inside the chilling story of 9/11 victim Edna Cintron – the ‘waving woman who never lost hope’

Edna Cintron, known as the “waving woman who never lost hope,” is one of thousands of people being remembered on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Cintron, 46, an administrative assistant at Marsh & McLennan, tried to get help and was seen in the graphic photo standing on the ledge of the 93-story North Tower of the World Trade Center.

She waved from a gaping hole after one of the planes – Flight 11 – crashed into the building that hellish day, leaving a cloud of searing flames and black smoke.

Eerie images showed many people trying to escape jumping from the towers before the devastating collapse occurred.

At 10:28 a.m., the swaying stopped and the North Tower collapsed completely. Cintron was one of the 2,996 people who died that day.

Cintron’s iconic image is still shared, circulated and remembered today.

The ghostly image of Cintron waving in the hope that someone will come to her aid before the North Tower collapses

In the video posted by 9/11 Revisited, Cintron’s husband William recounts the painful moments before his wife died.

According to the footage, he “tentatively” identified his wife as the woman who had been waiting on the edge of the impact hole for 20 minutes, hoping to be rescued.

However, a man whose fiancée was also in the building claimed that the waving woman, dressed in white pants and a black shirt, was not Edna Cintron, but his fiancée Karen Juday.

According to 911 Revisited, the man’s claim was based on the clothes his deceased fiancée had worn to work that day.

Other details from the chilling video show Cintron and two other people trying to survive.

An unidentified woman who took the video can be heard during the emotional conversation. “David might be trying to call me,” she said, crying. “I’ll call you back.”

In the background you can hear the blaring sound of sirens, reporters on the ground and complete chaos.

An obituary on Legacy.com spoke of Cintron’s “courage and strength.”

Her husband, William Cintron, told how the couple had once been homeless and how Cintron supported him during their 12-year marriage, when he struggled with alcoholism.

He said he stayed sober because of her love and support.

Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two planes into the Twin Towers

The gaping hole in the photo after a plane crashed into the North Towers of the World Trade Center

“She made sure she kept me in line,” he said. “She made sure I did what I had to do. She was a very, very strong woman because she put her foot down.”

He also admitted that Cintron was “more like a mother” to him.

“She would make sure I ate well and she would make sure no one manipulated me. So she was also my backbone. She made me strong. She made me who I am today.”

And he also remembered how she had made their house in East Elmhurst a home.

“She would come home from work, cook and make sure there was food on the table when I got home from work, and so on,” he said.

‘And every night we ate ice cream and watched TV.’

On September 11, 2001, a hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston flew into the South Tower of the World Trade Center and exploded at 9:03 a.m. in an unprecedented attack.

The two planes were hijacked by terrorists of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The collapse of the Twin Towers killed almost 3,000 people.