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Post by Scumhunter on Sept 22, 2014 13:33:21 GMT -5
 A murder warrant has been issued in last month's double slaying and abduction of two men found stabbed, bound and beaten in the Schuylkill - and another who survived the attack and was stumbling along the river banks, police said Monday. Police have said they believed the grisly Aug. 28 killings were linked to Asian gangs. On Monday law enforcement sources said murder charges have been filed against Tam Le, 42, who lived in a Southwest Philadelphia home where investigators believe the three victims were tortured before they were taken to the river, weighted down and stabbed. The warrant for Le was approved, law enforcement sources said, after DNA from hair fibers found on duct tape found in the yard of the house was linked to one of the victims, whose identities have not been released. One of the victims, a 23-year-old man, survived the attack after he played dead on the river bank. He swam to safety after being tossed in the water. The other two men, brothers, Vu Huynh, 31, and Viet Huynh, 28, of Paoli, had their wrists duct-taped and their legs chained to buckets of tar, and were found in the shallows, their throats slashed. Law enforcement sources said the brothers had been given $100,000 from an Asian drug crew to buy drugs but had gambled away most of it at Harrah's Philadelphia in Chester. Unable to pay back about $60,000 of the money, they had been lured to Le's property on the 2400 block of South 72d Street, police said, where they were held captive in a backyard garage. When the 23-year-old, who is originally from Vietnam, arrived at the house with all the money the group could muster, he was tied up and beaten with the others. The night after the killing, U.S. marshals broke down the door to the large house on 72d Street - where sources said Le lived with his wife and young children - but it was empty. Investigators searched the home and the garage - as well as a trailer across the street, which police say contained a pot-growing operation. They discovered the tape and construction buckets similar to the ones used to weigh down the victims. Homicide Capt. James Clark said Monday that Le has the "money and means" to travel, and that investigators are aware of several locations outside of Pennsylvania that he had frequented in the past, Clark said. "We are doing our best to track him," Clark said. There is $40,000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction. Tipsters are encouraged to call the Homicide Unit at 215-686-3334. You can also submit an anonymous web tip by clicking on the following link: phillymostwanted.org/default.aspx?menuitemid=781&suspect=TAM%20MINH%20LE UPDATE: On Wednesday, Dec. 17th, 2014, Tam Le was added to the US Marshals Top 15 List. You can call them and remain anonymous at 1-877-WANTED-2www.philly.com/philly/news/20140923_Murder_warrants_for_the_grisly_double_slaying_by_the_Schuylkill.html |
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Post by Scumhunter on Sept 22, 2014 13:33:36 GMT -5
This is the third breaking news Pennsylvania case and second in the city of Philadelphia this month. Crazy. Also want to say although no one has said it- if anyone tries to point out the victims involvement in allegedly gambling drug money and tries to say their case isn't as important as other victims- they still didn't deserve to die and especially not like that- this is still one of the most brutal new cases I've seen yet.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Sept 23, 2014 12:20:54 GMT -5
Regardless of the drug activity the victims were involved in, the point is that Tam Le is charged with an extremely brutal double homicide where a third victim barely survived. Since the US Marshals are now involved in the manhunt, can they cease being lazy and add Tam Le to their 15 Most Wanted List?
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Post by Scumhunter on Oct 31, 2014 16:45:44 GMT -5
Update from the Philadelphia Daily News: THANH VOONG, the man who on Aug. 27 survived being bound, stabbed eight times and thrown into the Schuylkill with two men who died, appeared in court yesterday looking relatively healthy. Voong, whose age has been given as 23 and 19, testified at a preliminary hearing as the victim of an Aug. 9 beating and attempted abduction on League Street near Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia. He pointed to Henry M. Le, 34, of Bailey's Run Lane, Springfield, Delaware County; and Nam Phan, 20, of South Malin Road, Broomall, as the men who used their car to block his BMW shortly after 10:40 p.m. Phan tried to break the windshield of his car with the same hammer he used to beat his head and face, while Le punched and kicked him and announced that they were going to abduct him, Voong said. "My whole face was a mess and I was bleeding everywhere," testified Voong, who added that he broke free and ran screaming onto Washington Avenue, where two police officers spotted him and arrested the defendants. Although Municipal Judge Charles Hayden ordered Le and Phan to stand trial for aggravated assault, kidnapping for ransom and related counts, he struck from the record Assistant District Attorney Edward Cameron's question to Voong about surviving the Aug. 27 attack. Hayden struck the question after defense attorneys Evan Hughes (for Phan) and Brian McMonagle (for Le) objected and Hayden and the attorneys left the courtroom to discuss the matter. After the hearing, the attorneys were tight-lipped about whether the Aug. 9 incident was related to the Aug. 27 slayings, for which no one has been arrested. "Who knows? I mean, it's the same complainant," was all that Cameron would say. Hughes and McMonagle declined to comment. But the safety of Voong appeared to be on the minds of court officials, who held the hearing in a courtroom fitted with bullet-proof glass normally used for homicide preliminary hearings. Voong, under cross-examination by McMonagle, conceded that he used several aliases, had lied to Cameron about not knowing the defendants prior to the Aug. 9 attack, and had failed to notify his Delaware probation officer about his Aug. 12 arrest in upstate New York for bringing drugs across the Canadian border. Voong told McMonagle that Le and Phan had been to his home to use and deliver marijuana. The river slayings were drug-related, police have said. Brothers Vu Huynh, 31, and Viet Huynh, 28, both of Paoli, were pulled lifeless from the river, their throats slit, arms and legs bound by duct tape and buckets filled with tar chained to their feet like anchors. Both had been stabbed multiple times, as had Voong, who managed to get out of the river because his feet were not anchored. Last month, Philadelphia police issued an arrest warrant for Tam Le, 42, charging him with being involved in the slayings and the attack on Voong. Police believe the Huynh brothers were killed because they gambled away most of the $100,000 that an Asian gang had given them to buy drugs. Police also believe that when Voong brought the gang only part of its money to free the brothers, he also was tortured and taken to the river. www.philly.com/philly/news/20141030_Man_who_was_stabbed__bound__thrown_in_river_in_August_appears_in_court.html#7KEYpk5Klr1DR1KB.99 |
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Post by Scumhunter on Oct 31, 2014 16:46:58 GMT -5
So apparently the one surviving victim of the late August attack (some articles say August 27th and others say August 28th) was the victim of an attempted attack earlier in the month. This certainly makes this case even crazier than it already was.
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 17, 2014 17:58:48 GMT -5
Regardless of the drug activity the victims were involved in, the point is that Tam Le is charged with an extremely brutal double homicide where a third victim barely survived. Since the US Marshals are now involved in the manhunt, can they cease being lazy and add Tam Le to their 15 Most Wanted List? You can stop calling them lazy now. You got your wish!  www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/le/le.htm |
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 17, 2014 18:00:31 GMT -5
P.S. In our defense, we were annoyed the Marshals had only been adding guys like once every five months prior to October. But the reason we were annoyed was because the Marshals are so good at what they do, that we knew they could catch a few more guys if they finally added some. |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Dec 17, 2014 18:08:16 GMT -5
P.S. In our defense, we were annoyed the Marshals had only been adding guys like once every five months prior to October. But the reason we were annoyed was because the Marshals are so good at what they do, that we knew they could catch a few more guys if they finally added some. Correct. I realize how good the Marshals Service is at finding fugitives that their list should be as productive as possible. I was just getting slightly annoyed with the lack of updates until recently. Hopefully there will be more vacancies soon, including the extremely dangerous Tam Le. A few new details were released that are mentioned on his most wanted poster. First is that Tam Le was born in Vietnam so hopefully he didn't try to flee back there. The second is that he was convicted of murder in 1994 which makes him even more dangerous. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 17, 2014 18:14:22 GMT -5
Yeah I might bump him up higher on my 2014 personal most wanted list now when I get a chance to look at it. Also we now know the name of the gang he's in "Born To Kill." I'm assuming they didn't name themselves after the 1947 black-and-white film in this case...
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Post by HeadMarshal on Dec 17, 2014 21:00:12 GMT -5
Now when I'm looking at the current Marshals Most Wanted fugitives, I feel that Tam Le is the worst and scariest. Although of course they are all bad.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Dec 18, 2014 0:59:02 GMT -5
Yeah I might bump him up higher on my 2014 personal most wanted list now when I get a chance to look at it. Also we now know the name of the gang he's in "Born To Kill." I'm assuming they didn't name themselves after the 1947 black-and-white film in this case... I've already raised Tam Minh Le's position on my Most Wanted Fugitives of H2 2014. By the way, this is besides the point, but due to a 74% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes' Flixster Bucket, Born to Kill holds special honor as #28 on my list of the Ancient Top 30 Movies of '947. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Jan 14, 2015 12:19:30 GMT -5
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Post by HeadMarshal on Jan 14, 2015 12:21:28 GMT -5
Amazing news! |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Jan 14, 2015 12:42:44 GMT -5
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Post by Scumhunter on Jan 14, 2015 12:54:32 GMT -5
I don't know why but if for some reason I ever wind up living in Philadelphia I'll be sure to their ABC station and not CBS station first. ABC 6 broke the news first and also managed to not say he was on the FBI's Most Wanted list. LOL.
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