The two men whose bodies were pulled out of a Philadelphia river owed drug dealers $100,000 they wasted at a Chester casino.
Investigators have been searching a house in southwest Philadelphia where three men including the survivor of a Tuesday night abduction were reportedly tortured by members of a Vietnamese gang,
according to a WPVI-TV report.
The dilapidated house had been deserted by the time investigators busted down its door Wednesday night, but neighbors said the family that lived there had already packed up and left hours after two bodies were dumped in the Schuylkill River.
Buckets of roof cement identical to what was used to weigh down two bodies in the river were also found at the house.
It’s believed the family — a couple and their five children — that fled also owned a property across the street where they had a marijuana grow operation in a trailer with big dogs, the TV station wrote.
The bizarre investigation involving the death of two brothers started after a 23-year-old identified as Thanh Voong was found wandering in hysterics near Fairmount Park while bound, blindfolded and barely clothed flagged down a cop.
He played dead after a group of men slit their throats on the river shore and dumped him and the brothers in the river after a night of torture.
Voong survived despite having several stab wounds, but swam to shore after the suspects left because he wasn’t weighed down with buckets of roof cement like the other victims.
Investigators have deemed the two deaths as drug and gang-related after the pair were allegedly given $100,000 to buy drugs. However, they spent it all at Harrah’s Casino in Chester,
WPVI-TV reported.
The brothers have not been identified, but they are reportedly from Vietnam.
When they came up short on cash, they were abducted and taken to the Philadelphia house to be tortured. It’s there they were allowed one phone call. They chose Voong to bring in the cash they owed or else they would be killed, according to Philly.com.
But Voong only scrapped together $40,000.
It’s there he was bound and tortured just like the others, a detail that conflicts with a prior report from police that he was grabbed off a street in west Philadelphia and robbed in the back of a van.
Voong is well-known to local authorities after being targeted in July and early August.
He was attacked with a hammer on Aug. 9 after being pulled out of his car in Southwest Center City, police reports show.
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