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WTXF Fox 29 News At 6PM December 30, 2014

Old school detective work getting identifying the pattern retracing our victims, talking to both victims. Reporter police say the 38yearold palen who lived near the park followed the same mo with his victims. The minute the victim got into the park with the offender mr. Palen immediate aggressive assault occurred where he brutally beat her and sexually assaulted her. Reporter after an attack in 2011, Police Released a composite sketch and another woman came forward then another woman claimed she was also raped in the same vicinity. Took awhile to catch up to him. Reporter but they did eventually when palen who moved away was arrested for raping woman in Madison Wisconsin earlier this year. His dna was up loaded. Matched ours. We started this investigation all over again in march. Im really glad they were able to get him. Reporter palen was serving his sentence for the wisconsin rape when he was extradite and charged with the two rapes here. Now, there was a third apparent Sexual Assault but that victim has since passed away. Hes being held on 10 million bail. Were live tonight at Police Headquarters im Joanne Pileggi fox 29 news. Back to you iain. Joe, thank you. Very cold night out there. Your fox 29 Winter Weather authority temperatures have been dropping setting up a cold week and a frigid end to 2014. Domenica. Certainly its going get very cold around here. Temperatures are down 6 degrees in philly from where we were just 24 hours ago. 10 degrees in wilmington. 10 degrees in dover. So the chill is definitely over us. It is only going to get colder for from here over the next couple of days. Heres a look at the current temperatures. 36 in philly. 20 in mount pocono. 31 in dover. 29 in Atlantic City. Everybody is going to fall below freezing over the next couple of hours. The wind chills not a major factor but they are definitely adding to the chill. It feels like 31 in the city. 13 right now in mount pocono. So definitely a night to bundle up if you are out and about. Temperatures will be falling through the 30s and getting into the 20s after mid night. It is going to be a cold start to the last day of the year and a very cold beginning to the new year. Well have a look at your complete forecast coming up in a bit. Iain . Domenica, thank you. Happening now anger in the streets of philadelphias mayfair section tonight. A group of protesters denounce 11 Police Brutality at the hands of city officers. The rally organized by the family of Brandon Tate Brown a 26yearold shot and killed during an altercation with police this protest was held on the sketch hundred block of frankford avenue where brown died. The family is demanding an independent investigation into browns death much his mother says police went to have and didnt have to use deadly force. No one deserves to be execute executed in any fashion. We are not god. You can disable. You are trained to disable. You can do all of these things without killing him. We are putting Police Commissioner ramsay and all of these, those cops on notice. Thats right. The days of killing black young men are over and they will never come back again. Protesters marched down frankford. Philadelphia bike patrol officers were on hand. Police say the protests was peaceful. Meantime new york city mayor trying to hes tensions between himself and the citys police department. This afternoon the mayor met with the citys five police units of unions including pba president Patrick Lynch whose been publicly critical of the mayor. Union leaders believe the mayor is fostering an anti cop movement in the wake of the grand jury decision in the death of eric garner. Philadelphia police want to fine the suspects in this video. Investigators say they carjacked a pizza delivery driver. It happened on december 18th just after midnight on the 4900 block of parkside avenue. Cops say when the delivery men arrived at the customers house he knew something wasnt right and he ran. You can see the suspect chased him and eventually stole his 2009 toyota sky i dont know. The deliveryman was not hurt. Pennsylvanias highest court now says a law that requires lifetime registration for juvenile sex offender Social Security not constitutional. The Supreme Court ruled five to one that the satisfy sex offender registration and notification act does not allow juvenile defendants the ability to challenge the presumption that they are likely to rei offense. Opponents of that original requirement call it a great victory for the kids who have been wrongly impacted by the statute. Seems the flu has hit the state of delaware pretty hard this season. The Delaware Division of Public Health tells us delaware has seen 10 times the number of flu cases this year. Compared to the same time last year. Since december 20th of this year there have been six hadnt dread 32 reported cases of the flu compared to last year there were just 70 flu cases. A k9 officer is on the mend tonight after an tack by a pitbull. Police say sixyearold German Shepherd monty was attacked on monday. Officers were doing a search of a Homeless Community in New Castle County seller park. They say the pitbull charged at monty. Officers used tasers but the dog was able to regain its footing and charged again. Monty handler critically shot the pitbull. Pitbull was human and euthanized euthanized. Monty was treated at a hospital for his injuries. Fox 29 working to get results now tore a 79yearold woman from south jersey whose trying to get her entire lifes possessions back. Thats because after a Storage Company sold those belongsings because of a hefty unpaid storage bill which the woman thought was paid for and taken care of by the movers she hired. Fox 29s brad satin is also on the case live in turnersville new jersey torque night. To find out exactly what happened. Brad . Reporter iain its turning out to be a real bad case of he said she said. We know that this woman hired this mover about four months ago literally everything she owned was brought here to Public Storage. She thought it was all secure. At least until it was delivery time. This was going to be her dining room set. She has the complete hutch. Reporter janie should have a house full of furniture here in her bear, delaware home. Instead some empty rooms. She and her 79yearold mother live together after her mom sold her home in williamstown, new jersey, back in august. She hired a mover for about 1,400 who she says promised to store her items until she was reselled and that she could pay any extra storage fees upon delivery. But when she called for delivery she learned that nearly everything in her 10 by 30foot unit was gone. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of furniture plus things that cant be replaced. My parents wedding album. Their rings everything is in there and all the jean following my mom for over that are years. I have lost everything. Reporter we talk to maim today in the hospital following shoulder surgery. Her family says shes now depressed. Turns out the mover who put the storage unit only in his name stopped paying the full rent after a couple of months. We found that mover Anderson Theodore and asked him why. I did the best i can. I was paid. I thought aft three months if i cant get a hold of her. If you cant get a hold of somebody after three months do i pay the storage fees yes. The family claims he had several numbers to reach them. He lied because i gave him my sisters number. He had plenty of ways of getting in touch with me. Do you think you did all you could to try to make sure she got her belongings back . I believe i did the best i can. Reporter he claims while the storage unit did call him for payment, he was never threatened with an auction. No phone calls no males no emails, no nothing . No. That it was going to be auctioned off no. The family says not true. He was sent letters. He was call on the phone and the people said that, you know, he didnt come until two days afterwards and start complaining that they sold the stuff. Reporter now at this point it doesnt appear Public Storage did anything wrong. They had a contract with this mover. They tell me its very unusual a mover would not immediately transfer the bill to the client so the mover isnt stuck with the bill. As for this mover theodore whether he was properly bonded that would lead potential toll an insurance pay out for emma were not sure. Shes certainly worried that everything is lost. Iain. Lets hope not, brad. Thank you. If youve got an issue youd like fox 29 to help you get results on just let us no. Head to our website at myfoxphilly. Com. Then click on the news link and send us an email. A driver loses control of a car on Spring Garden crashing into side of this building. It happened this morning at sixth and Spring Garden. Police say the driver refused medical attention. Fortunately no one was hurt. Officers say they dont know what cough the driver to crash. And he just won the lottery but hes nowhere to be found. One familys frantic search tonight for their grandfather as he disappears after hitting the jackpot. And your drive to the shore could soon look a lot different. The big plan to make some big money at rest stops along the garden state most heavily traveled road. Howard. Eagles may not be in the playoffs but theres one team that will be talking to one of their coaches for their head coaching job. That and more chip kelly coming up in sports. We have very cold air working up to the northwest with temperatures minus seven in international falls. Thats all headed our way. It gets pretty cold around here plus were tracking a storm system for the weekend. The details are coming up. Okay. What was that in the sky last night. People along the east coast saying they saw a bright fire ball around 6 30. You can see it there. A driver caught this video on his dash cam in hanover, new jersey. Reports came in from as far away as montreal over the siting. The American Meteor Society says it received more than 330 reports. What a difference a year makes after winter storms and a surge of last minute packages through a wrench into shipping last holiday season. Wall street journal says most presents made it under the Christmas Tree on time this year. According to data from ship matrix ups and fed ex delivered an estimated 98 of express packages on time on december 24th. New jersey is considering trying to make its toll road rest stops into destinations. A bill working through the state legislature would require the operators of the new jersey turnpike, garr didnt state parkway and the Atlantic City expressway to study new money making opportunities for those rest stops. The result could be more billboards cell phone towers or even shops behind the grab and go forward ad food and Souvenir Stores there now. Another possibility corporate sponsor ships. Lawmaker say the idea to to raise money for road repairs without charging the drivers. The measure passed in the assembly but not considered yet by the full senate. A family searching for their krickyearold grandfather. He won the lottery back on december 19th. The next day he went missing. Foxs Erika Erickson with more on his disappearance. Report. Call me please, i love love you so much. Please come home safely. Reporter a plea to her grandfather 86yearold arthur neal missing from his detroit home on trinity street for nine days now. Words cant express. I need to know where he is. Please tell us. Reporter his family says neal missing christmas and having no contact with anyone especially his granddaughter christina who usually checks on him is extremely odd. I talked to him all the time, and i called him and his phone is going to voicemail. Reporter police say right now they dont see steins avenue robbery. Although they say a winning Lottery Ticket may have had something to do with neals disappearance. Neal winning 20,000 December December 19th. Nowhere to be found the next day. He has not been seen. He has not been heard from. We have no evidence leading to us believe that theres any foul play as of yet. Reporter neal is described as about 5 feet 7inches tall weighing about 160 pounds with a medium complexion. He has gray hair with a full beard and mustache. His family says hes physically and mentally healthy and won run off without telling anyone. Obviously they love him very much. He is elder in age. We want to get him back as soon as possible. Reporter his car a black 19 nate cadillac did heville with license plate bmz7786 is also missing. Along with his dog. This family now only hopes someone out there knows where he is and calls police. He need his family and his family needs him. So please bring him back. Please. Let get back to your fox 29 Winter Weather authority now. Boy it was mild a couple of weeks ago but you know what, all of a sudden weve got cold air coming in and its going get even colder over the next couple of days. Heres domenica to tell us all about that. Eye, iain. It certainly s its chilly out there tonight. Temperatures are going to fall into the 20s and the teens and this will be one of the colder nights weve seen sin the middle of november really before thanksgiving much its been a very mild december. Heres a look at county by conte. 20 in mount pock know. 30 in allentown. We have 36 right now in philadelphia. Its 29 in doylestown. Temperatures are going to continue to fall through the 20s overnight. Thats because we have these clear skies. Clear skies always lead to colder temperatures. Winds are coming in from the north and that is just pumping in the cold air that has been singing in from canada into the lower 48. So heres a look at the weather headlines. Very cold tonight. Temperatures in the teens and 20s. It will be a cold start tomorrow and then bigger big bitter cold wind chills for new years eve and new years day. Those winds are going to start to pick up by tomorrow afternoon and that is going to make things feel a lot more harsh around here. We do get mild by the weekend but we are tracking a system that will come through that will bring us some rain and we could get a bit of a wintry mix saturday night into sunday. So thats something we have to keep our eye on. Heres a look at the National Temperatures though because this is pretty unbelievable with this cold air coming in. This is another arctic blast three right now in billings. Minus one in rapid city. Chicago 17. They were down to six just a couple of hours ago. Even the cold air has sunk down into the desert. Phoenix 62. Not cold for us but for them thats pretty chilly. 44 in vegas where they have the threat of snow even on new years day. For us its just the cold that will be coming our way and this really starts to head our way over the next couple of days. So well bottom out with this cold tomorrow and then new years day and then it will start to get little bit more mild. So heres a look at your holiday forecast. If youre planning to be out and about tomorrow night, bundle up. It will be in the teens right around midnight. It will feel like it will be in the low 20s much it will feel like its in the teens. New years day 38 for daytime high but again those wind chills are going keep us feeling like its in the low 20s all day long. So that means for the mummers parade it is going to be quite chilly. Heres a look at fox future cast. Now, we are clear tomorrow plenty of sunshine. But we could see some flurries pop up especially north of philly during the afternoon. Just keep that in mind if you see some flurries flying around either wednesday or thursday thats possibility with all the cold thats around. Theres a look at the forecast for tonight. Clear skies, 26 in the city. 19 in the suburbs. Tomorrow 35 but the wind chills will have it feeling ick like its in the low 20s through much of the day. Theres a look at the seven day forecast. We start to get mild on friday. Temperatures will stay in the 40s through the weekend. Our next system comes in by saturday afternoon. Could have a wintry mix saturday night into sunday. So an active start to the new year. Sounds good. It will be cold out there. We know that. All right. Thanks thank you domenica. Heres howard with a look at sports. By the way i do like it cold. I know you do. Just putting a positive spin on that. Nfl has five head coaching openings and one of the teams has contacted one of the eagles assistant coaches about their job. And chip kelly tells us why coaching in the nfl has its advantages over College Football football. That and a new head coach takes a big job in college coming up in sports. And coming up tonight at 10 1 little boys miracle living five years without hearing anything until today. We are there for the special moment when doctors connect davids new cochlear implant we are following more breaking news right now. Video from sky fox moments ago showing a car into a school. It happened on knights road near fair dale. No injuries have been reported. Its not clear why the driver of the car drove into that school. We will of course continue to monitor this story. The eagles signed seven players, well, to their practice squad which is really not big news i thought id throw that in there. With all the Coaching Movement in football its interesting the perspective when chip kelly look at coaching in the nfl. Always rumors and stories about chip going back to college. All up crack but that doesnt stop anybody. Yesterday chip kelly put coaching in the inform fl in perspective. Just think its a different game. Its a different set up. Its a different work day. Its a different everything. But, you know, the chance to compete and to play at this level is extremely intriguing to me because every single game no matter who you play when you play it, where you play it, you have no idea if youll win or lose. I think thats its a tough deal when you really look at it but i mea

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