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that the water s body is actually attached to a center block. reporter: investigators have not been able to identify the woman but they say sometime between sunday afternoon at 3:00 o clock and 11:00 o clock yesterday morning someone dumped the body of the african-american woman between 25 and 35 years old. the woman was found in about 3 feet of water. it kind of hit me like what is really happening to an area where me and my children just moved to. reporter: the description of the victim the police are trying to identify an african-american woman in her late 20 early 30s. 5-foot six, 130 pounds with short hair. she was wearing distinctive jewelry. bracelets on both wrists and rings on her fingers. rings of a horse and an anchor shown here. the woman also had this tattoo on her left shoulder. investigators say the first priority is to identify the victim and then find the person who left her here. this is still a young woman. she was thrown away like she was a piece o
reporter: dobb knee immediately called 911. police say the girl had been sexually assaulted by 39 year old malik bailey. a family member who came into her bedroom while she slept. investigators say he forced her to the basement where the attack continued before she was able to escape. she said she was yelling for her mother during the assault and got no response at all. i would have to imagine the mother would respond. reporter: police say the mom couldn t answer her daughter s cry for help. bailey first brutally beat the 38-year-old woman in her second floor bedroom. how severe she was beaten on her head. reporter: police were able to get into the home initially. they crawled on to neighbor s roof that s when they spotted the mom bleeding from her head through a window. squat was called in for fear bailey was still in the house. but he had already made a run for it. i was just praying that her mother wasn t dead. that s what i was praying. i was praying they catc
right now the search is on for the person who killed a 77-year-old man in his own home. neighbors called 911 more than a day earlier saying they could hear screams coming from that home. police later found his body inside. good evening, i m lucy noland. i m iain page. now his family and neighbors want to know who attacked him. you can see crime scene tape blocking the back of the victim home on theodore street in south we have philadelphia. fox 29 s dave schratwieser is live at police headquarters tonight. dave, police have any leads tonight? reporter: iain, police don t have much to work with at all tonight. they have not identified the victim for us. but friends of the victim have identified him joseph daily who they described as a hard-working handyman, home improve many contractor who still went to work every single day and has lived in that home for years. homicide detectives spent the night questioning relatives and witnesses at headquarters looking for a reaso
would want to harm the 77-year-old victim. his body was found inside the home where he s lived for decades. on the first floor living room we found is 77-year-old homeowner laying on the floor with blunt trauma to his head. i don t know why they had to do that. that was so sad. reporter: police believe the victim took his son to the airport friday night, pick him up after work and return here and parked van at the rear of the home. police and fire were called to the home 1:00 a.m. for reports of a person screaming inside. 911 reports two juveniles in the house. victim was hard-working home improvement contractor and handyman who we were to work every day retired army sergeant james e. jackson lives right next door. i said hello and goodbye. yes, i did. he come out feed my dog dog bones coming doing from odd jobs and that s it. this woman lives across the street. she used to see the vick till early every morning on her way to work. i was shocked to hear he was