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Fairmount Park Murders: Victims Left Bar With Suspects Before Execution-Style Killings, PD Says
Thurston Cooper and Krystina Chambers willingly left a North Philadelphia bar with the couple who would murder them just 20 minutes later, claim city police.
Cooper, 49, and Chambers, 38, were shot "execution-style" in Fairmount Park around 10 p.m. on Feb. 28, PPD said at a press conference Thursday, March 14.
Lamar Young, 52, and Dale Johnson, 56, are facing charges for the murders, authorities said.
Police believe all four were at Tellups Tavern, 1322 W. Olney Ave., on the night of the murders. The victims and the suspects had some sort of interaction at the bar, p…
Elias Diaz Linked To Fairmount Park Rape: Police
The man accused of attacking people with a machete in Pennypack Park has been linked to a string of unsolved rapes and one murder dating back to 2003, according to authorities.
Elias Diaz, 46, was arrested on the park trail on Sunday, Dec. 17, police said previously.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 19, Philadelphia police, District Attorney Larry Krasner, and FBI officials said Diaz's DNA was linked to evidence collected from the scenes of multiple sexual assaults in Fairmount Park from 2003.
He is also said to be linked to the July 13, 2003 murder of 30-year-…
