By NICOLE HENSLEY, Daily News
The two men whose bodies were pulled out of a Philadelphia river owed drug dealers $100,000 they wasted at a Chester casino.
Philadelphia police look at one of the bodies they found in the Schuylkill River. JACQUELINE LARMA/AP
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.
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