His parents had not heard from him in days and then they found his body and now investigators want to know who killed him. Good evening, im iain page. Im dawn timmeney. Lucy is off. That mans heart broken family is talking to fox 29 tonight. Our Shawnette Wilson live outside the Gloucester CountyProsecutors Office in woodbury. Shawnette. Reporter just awful. The victims family hadnt seen him in day so they went to his house looking for him. They were devastated as you can imagine to find him dead ton see exactly what happened to him. My wife come in. Shes hollering for himself couldnt find him. And she says the couch and everything is a shamble. Reporter frank if as yo and his wife were stunned when they opened the door to their sons tiny house just behind their home on buck road in elk township. He took me inside to show me the place had been ransacked. I seen the couch laying over and the television blasting. Reporter frank says he lifted the couch and there was his son. 59yearold Michael Fazio dead underneath with a pile of blankets covering him. Took them off. Then i seen him i grab his butt and shook him a few times. No movement. So i ran right in and called the police. Reporter frank says whoever did this bound his son and left him for dead on the blood stained carpet. His feet were tied. Hands behind him. Bag over his head and duct taped. Reporter they found michael around noon on monday after they hadnt seen him all day sunday. The Gloucester CountyProsecutor Office says michael was assaulted and an autopsy determined the cause of death to be quote mechanical and positional a fix ya. Frank says his son struggled with drinking but he doesnt know who would want him dead. He was pleasure to be around when he wasnt drinking. Everybody liked him. Reporter investigators say so far no one has been arrested. Cant wait to hear from them. And cant wait to hear they caught somebody. Somebody did it. Theres no way in this world that boy could have tied himself up by himself like that. No way. Reporter and again no one has been arrested. The Gloucester CountyProsecutors Office is investigating along with elk township police. Dawn, back to you. All right, shawnette, thank you. Happening now a brazen thief targeting food trucks in West Philadelphia. He spotted on Surveillance Video casing the neighborhood but he pulls out a gun. Now, food truck owners are doing business differently. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in West Philadelphia for us tonight. Chris . Reporter well, dawn, he works seven days a week to feed his family and hes been known to feed other people down on their luck without any money. Well tox night, this food truck owner here in West Philadelphia who had a gun pointed to his head says he doesnt feel safe around here any more. Shaw ramon has been cooking up halal food from his truck on 45th and walnut street since he immigrated from pakistan a year and a half ago. Hes never had a problem here until monday night. Showed me the gun like he shoot us and he say give me the money. Reporter Police Released this Surveillance Video of a man who pulls up in a darkcolored chevy malibu calmly walks down 45th street towards this food truck. And in a matter of a minute, police say he entered the back of the truck and put a gun to ramons head and got away with hundreds of dollars in cash, vitter yo captured the man just before and after the robbery. These people are out there freezing in these trucks trying to make a few dollars for their families. Reporter Police Detectives say the man struck again two hours later a mile and a half away. This time a food cart at 34 many and lancaster on the campus of drexel university. Again, the victim held up at gun point where the guy got off with hundreds of more dollars. Enters this truck points a gun to the persons head and demands the money. Takes it and gets back in the car and they do the same thing, gets in the car and drives off. Reporter customers tell us hes frequently giving away free food to those with no money. He now doesnt even feel safe in his own neighborhood. We do very hard work. Like safe. Reporter now police say a total of 1500 bucks was taken from both trucks but they also say with Crystal ClearSurveillance Video they believe someone in southwest or south philadelphia knows this guy. They are asking them to call southwest detectives. Iain . Lets hope it happen, chris. Thank you. You dont need me to till its bitterly cold outside. No wonder there arent many people walking about on the ben franklin parkway and that means anything that may have melt dad is now freezing yet again. And that could mean for another tricky morning commute from everyone tomorrow. So kathy, how cold exactly is it going to get . Too cold, dawn especially for mid march. We should be warming up with the days getting longer but were not. In the deep freeze with a northwesterly wind that continues to be at least ten to 20 miles an hour. Temperatures right now mainly in the 30s its 25 in the poconos. 33 in wilmington. 33 in millville and 35 in atlantic city. So the whipped chills that feel like reading is even lower. Feels like 26 in the city. Feels like 19 13 rather in the poconos it feels like 27 in dover. The good news is, the winds are going to diminish bad news is temperatures are going to fall quickly and well wake up to temperatures in the 20s through the i95 corridor to the south and west and waking up to temperatures in the teens to the north and west of the city. Pottstown 18. Reading 18. Allentown 19. The poconos it will feel like only 17 degrees tomorrow morni morning. Of course, the st. Patricks day forecast is coming up. We have weekend snow and rain to talk about and then watching the potential for a developing coastal storm that could throw back additional snow for sunday. Well talk more about that coming up with your seven day forecast but for certain the refreeze is immediate concern for tonight and tomorrow. All right, kathy, thanks. We told you last night about the citys warning about that falling ice. You really really need to be careful out there with high winds and fluctuating temperatures. Ice and snow can come sliding right off buildings especially high rise and thats why officials with l and i along with the Streets Department have been out surveying any sites that could be problematic. Potentially dangerous areas are being blocked off and warning signs are up all across the ci city. A bucks county boy is still in the hospital after a tragic accident while playing with a family dog. The fiveyearold was found unconscious face down in the snow outside his home in no one knew what happened at first. Police now believe the dog grabbed the boys scarf and pulled it tight to cut off his air supply. The child is under heavy sedation at chop tonight. Possible justice for some burglary victims. Police say they may have perm belongings to return to some people this all involves more than a Million Dollars worth of stolen goods. Investigators say some of it was then sold philadelphias jewelers row. Fox 29 dave kinchen reports from center city. Top notch watches, precious bracelets, valuable coin collections and other stolen items on display by multiple officials who want them back in the hands of the rightful owners. Prosecutors say the goods were swiped in an elaborate burglary ring that spanned all across the Delaware Valley an allegedly under every ended up jewelers row stores of shahaz. We found him at one of his stores today. Are these allegations true . Were you selling stolen goods . Did you know they were stolen. Reporter he refused to open the door and comment what investigators are calling 1. 5 million in stolen goods. He was charged with belonging to corrupt organization and receiving stolen property and has since been released. Four other men were also charg charged. These defendants effectively targeted high value homes and specifically looked for jewelry, designer purchases and cash. Reporter detectives say they recovered 50,000 stolen pieces of jewelry and other valuables grabbed at numerous highend homes between august of 2015 and july of 2016. Extensive ring that investigators say were responsible for eight burglaries in Montgomery County, six in delaware county, one in chester county, plus alleged thefts in cherry hill and new castle county, delaware. Investigation revealed that these crimes were the product of a sophisticated and organized effort by this criminal enterprise. Reporter police raided his v jewelers store this past january it is now closed. Officials say his home was also searched when they found more suspected stolen goods and buckets along with computers and documents we repeatedly tried to talk with shahaz. We want to get your side of the story. We just want to get your side of the story. Reporter Montgomery County das office announce add creation of the website where you can look at the pictures of that stolen jewelry and file a claim if you believe one of those items might be yours. We have a link to that website on fox29. Com. In jewelers row, dave kinchen fox 29 news. New tonight a local middle schoolteacher facing assault charges. Police in linwood, new jersey, say Kimberly Pesce is a teacher at bell haven Avenue Middle School pulled a students chair backward so he hit his head on the floor back in february. School officials called authorities the day after the alleged assault and Police Arrested her. Upper darby daycare worker accused of shoving fouryearold little girl down the stairs goes before a judge. Sarah gable faces charges in the incident which was captured on Surveillance Video at the child care of the future daycare center. Today the 52yearold woman waived had he ever right to preliminary hearing leaving Court Without comment. Gable scheduled to be arraigned on april 12th. Tonight a pennsylvania pastor facing charges in the death of his own granddaughter but people are divided because the pastors religion rejects modern medici medicine. Roland foster the pastor of the fundamental Faith Tabernacle congregation is charged for allegedly not reporting neglect of his twoyearold granddaughter ella. She died of pneumonia in november. The congregation preaches to place trust in god alone for healing. Kids in the secretary have died in the past of treatable diseases until now no church leaderleaders have ever faced c. Ellas parents are facing Involuntary Manslaughter charg charges. Watch this. See the trunk open . How about the woman jump out. She just saved herself from a kidnapper. Beautiful model posing on the train tracks. Thats where she died and this is her funeral announcement. A secret happening in your neighborhood. Could your teenager be involved in a sex rink . And whoa homeowner finds more dust bunnies in the garage. He found an alligator. Dont turn over to hgtv. Dont do it. Details are disgusting. Alleged sex trafficking ring that ran in part out a northeast philadelphia hotel. 14yearold girl says she was enclaved enslaved and forced to work there. We first told you about this last week and now fox 29 investigates is taking a closer look at sex trafficking in philadelphia. Our Dave Schratwieser goes behind the scenes of the sex trafficking ring and youll find out it could be happening where you least expect it, even in your own neighborhood. Heres dave. Reporter it looks like any other house on this West Philadelphia block. The corner of 51 is the and warren. The place needs a little work, but nothing out of the ordinary. Probably never guess that this used to be ground zero for a big sex trafficking ring. You come in and you go upstairs. Reporter this guy claims to know all about the house want went on here when it was known across the region as the headquarters for the passionate touch. A sex for money operation with its own website and marketing plan. City and federal investigators say it was run by these three men, graham, brian wright and rinaldo,. She got charged with sex trafficking. Do you think thats what it should have been. Thats what it is. Is that what they were doing. Thats what they were doing. Reporter according to this former patron people would come from far and wide to the house. All over. New jersey, maryland, they had a back page. Reporter there was security. They meet you there and you pay them credit, cash or debit. Reporter pay to play arrangement. Sixtyfive dollars half an hour. One hundred dollars for an hour. Its a supply and demand. Demand is there and as long as the demand is there the supply will keep coming. Reporter while the money flowed so did the sex. Especially on the weekends when this former prey patron says the women were basically held hostage. The girls cant come out friday, saturday sunday. Working around the clock. Around the clock. Theyre seeking the people that are not strong. Seeking the people that are not able to say no. Reporter city and federal investigators say this was the pro tow typical sex trafficking operation. With young girls being lured in by the promise of a home, clothes, money and in some cases drugs. Former patron says the girl girs were 18, 19 and 20 years old. Detective kate gordon of philadelphias special victims unit says for some women caught up in sex trafficking operations, the starting age can be as young as 12. Your child could be gone for a few hours and say theyre going to friends house when in reality thats not at all where theyre going. Theyre actual tal hotel with four other people and this is occurring. Reporter detectives gordon and officer ashley, are among half dozen svu detectives and supervisors who have now joined forces with federal Homeland Security investigations, the fbi, the Salvation Army, Us Attorneys Office and the District Attorney on a new task force charged with cracking down on sex trafficking. Number one goal is just to recover these girls, get them out of the situation but then also to go after the people that are doing this to them. Reporter investigators also say they work hard to get young women out of the sex trade and on a better path in life. The Salvation Army plays a vital role. They cover everything from housing to basic needs, clothe clothing. They need care as well as longterm therapy, treatment. Reporter investigators say sex trafficking operations are not just confined to the inner city. They can pop up in neighborhoods like this one in northeast philly. Human trafficking is one these types of crimes that is truly hidden in plane sight. If youre seeing a lot of different people and coming, coming and going, Pay Attention to your neighbors. Pay attention to the cars that are coming and going. Parents need to be aware of what their children are doing online with mobile devices. Girls are being recruited at High School Ages by their pierce. Reporter investigators have a warning for parents of young girls. If you see someone coming home with newer clothes, a brand new phone, language that isnt something you necessarily were aware of before that youre hearing that doesnt quite make sense. Girls are coming from upper middle class homes in the suburbs. Theyre coming from families where, you know, their parents are loving. Reporter dave schratwiese schratwieser, fox 29 investigates. Airline personnel are also being trained to look for young women who may be traveling with men into the city just for the purpose of sex. Of course investigators say if you see something suspicious, you can contact them anonymously information is on our website fox29. Com. Bensalem Police Department trail blazing with new crime testing technology. The Bucks County Department will become the first in the country to use rapid hit id for dna testing. The new technology generates lab quality forensic dna profiles in less than 90 minutes. The citys Public Safety director says this means catching criminals. It can happen faster and the streets will be a lot safer. Its not about necessarily locking up people its about preventing victim tomorrow and that comes by locking getting criminal off the street today. What took us 18 months then took us 30 days now as the da said give us an hour and a half start well get these guys and gals. Some critics say it can be difficult to regulate how dna samples are collected because theres no state or federal oversight. Temple is recalculating the increase to the price of its meal plan which it partly blamed on the soda tax. The university had announced the 6 hike for next year. Mayor kenney though criticized schools for raising fees calling the soda tax a scapegoat. Temple says the Mayors Office raises valid concerns and they are now reviewing the amount of the increase. Well, take a look at this. See that trunk open . And then see the woman jump out . Believe it or not she just saved herself from a kidnapper. Wrong place, wrong time. Imagine trying to run from a volcano. Bruce . Reporter its been a week of snow and sleet and subfreezing temperatures but we found some folks beating the winter blues with the help of a little bit of a prank on mother nature. My story is ahead. Iain. All right, bruce. Keep it here. Dont go anywhere. Now with tomorrow traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. Watch for the falling ice everywhere. Even here on the delaware Memorial Bridge where the outside lanes were blocked all day today. Some of the septa bus routes still on detour. Check the system sta