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A crime scene officer brings out pipes from the bathtub in the apartment on 11th Street near Locust as they search for clues to the slaying.The blue shopping chart,come from Reed House,where Keith Tolbert,shopped at the nearby Pathmark.Struggling senior citizens in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia have a reason to be hopeful, including even those suffering from homelessness, addiction, mental health or other challenging diagnoses.Located in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia,1320 S 32nd St.Philadelphia , PA 19146 the 66 unit Salvation Army Reed House first opened its doors in 1999. A partnership between the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, the National Equities Fund and The Salvation Army turned an abandoned and decaying warehouse into an attractive modern facility that helped stabilize the community before the revitalization currently underway in the larger Gray's Ferry area even began.The Salvation Army Reed House provides residents ranging from 20 to 75 years of age with an independent living experience, some for the first time in their lives. Through an official lease signing, regular rent payments and requirements for tenancy which include regular mental health support meetings, residents are held accountable for themselves. A portion of each tenant's rent is covered through a HUD subsidy administered by the Philadelphia Housing Authority. In 2012, the home served roughly 80 individuals..Tolbert lived there,on the Second Floor,just down the end of the hall,on the left side of the building,facing 32nd Street.Offers subsidized single-room-occupancy units for low-income individuals. Case manager must complete a referral form to initiate the application process.Keith Tolbert lived for over five or six years until moved to another location-possibly his Center City residence.
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Francis Zarzycki arrived at the dirty, three-room apartment near 11th and Locust Streets in Center City on an August night, believing he was in for a party with a pair of prostitutes known as Angel and Cinderella, police say.
But the ladies' handler, a big guy named Keith Tolbert, whom Zarzycki had dealt with before, had a different plan, police say. They say Zarzycki, 40, who lived with his parents in Northeast Philadelphia, was carrying cash and drugs and represented an easy score. The trio was going to rob him.
They'd use duct tape, rope, and a Taser.
''i'm keith tolbert and i'm studying nursing,but i don't know anything about medicine.i don't what an e knock que lation is.let me sit at the Reed House Kitchen,all night,stoned,while pretending to study.Then I'll sit in the computer room-where i'll cut my rap record with dennis petty.I think bears only eat huney and shit.calvin stold my chicken or so i tried to frame him.i love throw other peoples food.i love to howl like a nut all night in my room.yawhoooo yawhoooo.let me sell guns,while in my car,up in Trenton,New Jersey.''
It was in that apartment, police say, that a robbery became a killing - a crime that ended with Zarzycki's mutilated torso floating in the Schuylkill.One expensive piece of ass.It obviuosly,cost Zarzycki two arms,two legs and a head
A Northeast Philadelphia man who worked in Doylestown as a loan officer was killed by two prostitutes and a man in a robbery gone bad, police said Thursday.
Philadelphia police said Frank Zarzycki, 40, of Endicott Street in Northeast Philadelphia, had gone to a house of prostitution Aug. 26. Capt. James Clark of the city homicide unit said Angel Weston, 21, Stephenie Foulke, 22, and Keith Tolbert, 34, decided to rob him and ended up killing him
"What started out as a planned robbery escalated into a murder by suffocation, and ended with this body being chopped up, bagged, and thrown into the river," Capt. James Clark of the Homicide Unit said Thursday in a news conference at Police Headquarters to announce the arrests of K.C.Tolbert and the two women.While the two women spoke with Zarzycki in the living room, police said, Tolbert, who lived in the apartment, attacked him.
Police said Zarzycki was stunned with a Taser-type weapon, then beaten and strangled to death in the living room of the apartment at 220 S. 11th St. Police believe Tolbert then dismembered Zarzycki’s body in the apartment’s bathroom.
Zarzycki’s family members, who lived with him on Endicott Street, reported him missing to police last week
Clark and other investigators said that in Tolbert's living room on the night of Aug. 26, the girls had entertained Zarzycki. He had worked as a loan officer, records show, and was the son of a retired Philadelphia highway patrolman.
From the bedroom,Keith Tolbert rushed with a Taser, police said. Zarzycki struggled, and the women helped subdue him - the three of them binding him with duct tape and rope as Tolbert pressed his weight into Zarzycki's back.I;m surprised,that he didn"t try to beat him to death with frying pan?
Soon, police said, Zarzycki stopped moving.
Tolbert took care of the body, police said. They think Zarzycki was dragged into the bathroom and Tolbert used a hatchet or ax on him.
Clark detailed the arrests of Tolbert, 34, along with Angel Weston, 21, of Kensington, and Stephanie Foulke, 22. All three were charged Thursday with murder, robbery, and related offenses.
The charges came just two days after a boater found Zarzycki's headless and limbless body wrapped in a plastic bag and floating Tuesday morning in the Schuylkill near Reed Street in Grays Ferry-near the location of Keith Tolberts old residence,known as Reed House-run by the Salvation Army..
Police have yet to recover Zarzycki's head or limbs, the Taser, or the hatchet or ax that police think Tolbert must have used to sever the body; they don't believe the women were involved in that part of the crime. Investigators also don't know how the body was taken to the river, Clark said.
Security cameras captured images of Zarzycki entering Tolbert's apartment building around 7 p.m. on the night of Aug. 26, but investigators were still looking Thursday for footage of Tolbert leaving the building.
"Hopefully, we'll catch him leaving out the apartment with some type of bag," Clark said.
The building has an alleyway entrance that Tolbert sometimes used, investigators said.
Crime scene investigators returned to the apartment Thursday, a day after they removed bags of evidence, including sheets and duct tape. During that initial search, investigators found some blood in the bathroom. On Thursday - after the two women told investigators that Tolbert had cleaned that room after the killing - police conducted a more extensive search, tearing up sections of flooring and pulling out bathroom piping and drains.
At least one of the woman said Tolbert told them he had dismembered the body, police sources said.
Detective Paula Campbell was assigned that case and police determined Zarzycki went to the prostitution business based on information on a computer his family turned over as part of that investigation. Campbell determined Zarzycki’s last call was to the house on 11th Street.
At that point, police searching for Zarzycki set up an undercover sting using the city’s vice unit at the home on 11th Street hoping to locate the missing man, police said. On Saturday, they raided the home, arresting Tolbert, Weston and Foulke, police said.
On Tuesday, police found a torso floating in the Schuylkill River shortly before 8 a.m. They were able to identify the torso as Zarzycki on Wednesday based upon a distinctive tattoo on his back shoulder area, police said. Zarzycki’s head, arms and legs have not been located. Philadelphia police plan to send police boats back into the river in an attempt to locate the rest of the body once they develop more information.
Police said Thursday afternoon they were charging Weston, Foulke and Tolbert with murder, robbery and related offenses. All three were being held on the prostitution charges already. Police said after discovering Zarzycki’s torso Tuesday they interviewed the three and were able to get them to admit to the murder.
Investigators do not believe Aug. 26 was Zarzycki’s first visit to the house of prostitution on 11th Street, but said they do not know how many times he’d been there previously.
The newspaper was unsuccessful in attempts to reach Zarzycki’s family. Until Thursday morning, he was listed as a loan officer with a PNC bank in Doylestown. A PNC spokesperson said they do not confirm the identity of employees publicly.
Investigators had suspected Tolbert in Zarzycki's disappearance before his body was discovered. The trail that led them to Tolbert's apartment began with Zarzycki's parents, frantic over his disappearance.
Zarzycki had struggled with drugs in the past, and his parents had tried to help him.Tolbert was a known drug addict himself,on top of claimming to work at Wawa,
He was in the habit of calling his mother, Stella, if he wasn't coming home at night. When more than a day went by without his calling or turning up, she filed a missing-person report with police on Aug. 28, said Capt. Francis Bachmayer of Northeast Detectives.
His father, whose name is also Francis and who retired from the Police Department in 1989 after more than 20 years on the force, searched Zarzycki's computer and phone records. He saw clues that his son had gone to a website with personal ads, backpage.com, and made calls to an unknown number, police sources said.
Detective Paula Campbell, Bachmayer said, realized the case had "urgency to it."
Tracing Zarzycki's phone records, investigators zeroed in on the 11th Street apartment.
They worked the case through the Labor Day weekend. On Saturday, Northeast Detectives and the Citywide Vice Unit conducted a prostitution sting at Tolbert's apartment, arresting him and Weston.
On Sunday, police found Zarzycki's 2004 Chevrolet TrailBlazer in a parking garage a block from the apartment.
The homicide Special Investigations Unit took over the case when the torso was discovered. It identified the remains by tattoos - wings and a bull - on Zarzycki's back. Investigators interviewed Weston on Tuesday, then tracked Foulke down in Glenolden, Delaware County, on Wednesday.
The women both described the killing, police said - and their stories matched.
Tolbert isn't talking, police said. He has two prior arrests in New Jersey, according to court records.
Joan Taylor, 65, lives in the apartment next to Tolbert's. He moved there six months ago, she said.
"He had lots of girls running in and out of there," Taylor said, sitting on her couch along the wall she shared with Tolbert. "They looked like crackheads."
The police, she said, showed her pictures of Zarzycki this week, but she did not recognize him.
No one answered Thursday at the Zarzycki family's home in Northeast Philadelphia.
John McNesby, head of the city's Fraternal Order of Police lodge, said that he had never worked with Zarzycki's father, but that the union would reach out to the family in the coming days.
"It's just sad," McNesby said.
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Francis Zarzycki arrived at the dirty, three-room apartment near 11th and Locust Streets in Center City on an August night, believing he was in for a party with a pair of prostitutes known as Angel and Cinderella, police say.
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A crime scene officer brings out pipes from the bathtub in the apartment on 11th Street near Locust as they search for clues to the slaying.The blue shopping chart,come from Reed House,where Keith Tolbert,shopped at the nearby Pathmark.Struggling senior citizens in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia have a reason to be hopeful, including even those suffering from homelessness, addiction, mental health or other challenging diagnoses.Located in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia,1320 S 32nd St.Philadelphia , PA 19146 the 66 unit Salvation Army Reed House first opened its doors in 1999. A partnership between the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, the National Equities Fund and The Salvation Army turned an abandoned and decaying warehouse into an attractive modern facility that helped stabilize the community before the revitalization currently underway in the larger Gray's Ferry area even began.The Salvation Army Reed House provides residents ranging from 20 to 75 years of age with an independent living experience, some for the first time in their lives. Through an official lease signing, regular rent payments and requirements for tenancy which include regular mental health support meetings, residents are held accountable for themselves. A portion of each tenant's rent is covered through a HUD subsidy administered by the Philadelphia Housing Authority. In 2012, the home served roughly 80 individuals..Tolbert lived there,on the Second Floor,just down the end of the hall,on the left side of the building,facing 32nd Street.Offers subsidized single-room-occupancy units for low-income individuals. Case manager must complete a referral form to initiate the application process.Keith Tolbert lived for over five or six years until moved to another location-possibly his Center City residence.
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Francis Zarzycki arrived at the dirty, three-room apartment near 11th and Locust Streets in Center City on an August night, believing he was in for a party with a pair of prostitutes known as Angel and Cinderella, police say.
But the ladies' handler, a big guy named Keith Tolbert, whom Zarzycki had dealt with before, had a different plan, police say. They say Zarzycki, 40, who lived with his parents in Northeast Philadelphia, was carrying cash and drugs and represented an easy score. The trio was going to rob him.
They'd use duct tape, rope, and a Taser.
''i'm keith tolbert and i'm studying nursing,but i don't know anything about medicine.i don't what an e knock que lation is.let me sit at the Reed House Kitchen,all night,stoned,while pretending to study.Then I'll sit in the computer room-where i'll cut my rap record with dennis petty.I think bears only eat huney and shit.calvin stold my chicken or so i tried to frame him.i love throw other peoples food.i love to howl like a nut all night in my room.yawhoooo yawhoooo.let me sell guns,while in my car,up in Trenton,New Jersey.''
It was in that apartment, police say, that a robbery became a killing - a crime that ended with Zarzycki's mutilated torso floating in the Schuylkill.One expensive piece of ass.It obviuosly,cost Zarzycki two arms,two legs and a head
A Northeast Philadelphia man who worked in Doylestown as a loan officer was killed by two prostitutes and a man in a robbery gone bad, police said Thursday.
Philadelphia police said Frank Zarzycki, 40, of Endicott Street in Northeast Philadelphia, had gone to a house of prostitution Aug. 26. Capt. James Clark of the city homicide unit said Angel Weston, 21, Stephenie Foulke, 22, and Keith Tolbert, 34, decided to rob him and ended up killing him
"What started out as a planned robbery escalated into a murder by suffocation, and ended with this body being chopped up, bagged, and thrown into the river," Capt. James Clark of the Homicide Unit said Thursday in a news conference at Police Headquarters to announce the arrests of K.C.Tolbert and the two women.While the two women spoke with Zarzycki in the living room, police said, Tolbert, who lived in the apartment, attacked him.
Police said Zarzycki was stunned with a Taser-type weapon, then beaten and strangled to death in the living room of the apartment at 220 S. 11th St. Police believe Tolbert then dismembered Zarzycki’s body in the apartment’s bathroom.
Zarzycki’s family members, who lived with him on Endicott Street, reported him missing to police last week
Clark and other investigators said that in Tolbert's living room on the night of Aug. 26, the girls had entertained Zarzycki. He had worked as a loan officer, records show, and was the son of a retired Philadelphia highway patrolman.
From the bedroom,Keith Tolbert rushed with a Taser, police said. Zarzycki struggled, and the women helped subdue him - the three of them binding him with duct tape and rope as Tolbert pressed his weight into Zarzycki's back.I;m surprised,that he didn"t try to beat him to death with frying pan?
Soon, police said, Zarzycki stopped moving.
Tolbert took care of the body, police said. They think Zarzycki was dragged into the bathroom and Tolbert used a hatchet or ax on him.
Clark detailed the arrests of Tolbert, 34, along with Angel Weston, 21, of Kensington, and Stephanie Foulke, 22. All three were charged Thursday with murder, robbery, and related offenses.
The charges came just two days after a boater found Zarzycki's headless and limbless body wrapped in a plastic bag and floating Tuesday morning in the Schuylkill near Reed Street in Grays Ferry-near the location of Keith Tolberts old residence,known as Reed House-run by the Salvation Army..
Police have yet to recover Zarzycki's head or limbs, the Taser, or the hatchet or ax that police think Tolbert must have used to sever the body; they don't believe the women were involved in that part of the crime. Investigators also don't know how the body was taken to the river, Clark said.
Security cameras captured images of Zarzycki entering Tolbert's apartment building around 7 p.m. on the night of Aug. 26, but investigators were still looking Thursday for footage of Tolbert leaving the building.
"Hopefully, we'll catch him leaving out the apartment with some type of bag," Clark said.
The building has an alleyway entrance that Tolbert sometimes used, investigators said.
Crime scene investigators returned to the apartment Thursday, a day after they removed bags of evidence, including sheets and duct tape. During that initial search, investigators found some blood in the bathroom. On Thursday - after the two women told investigators that Tolbert had cleaned that room after the killing - police conducted a more extensive search, tearing up sections of flooring and pulling out bathroom piping and drains.
At least one of the woman said Tolbert told them he had dismembered the body, police sources said.
Detective Paula Campbell was assigned that case and police determined Zarzycki went to the prostitution business based on information on a computer his family turned over as part of that investigation. Campbell determined Zarzycki’s last call was to the house on 11th Street.
At that point, police searching for Zarzycki set up an undercover sting using the city’s vice unit at the home on 11th Street hoping to locate the missing man, police said. On Saturday, they raided the home, arresting Tolbert, Weston and Foulke, police said.
On Tuesday, police found a torso floating in the Schuylkill River shortly before 8 a.m. They were able to identify the torso as Zarzycki on Wednesday based upon a distinctive tattoo on his back shoulder area, police said. Zarzycki’s head, arms and legs have not been located. Philadelphia police plan to send police boats back into the river in an attempt to locate the rest of the body once they develop more information.
Police said Thursday afternoon they were charging Weston, Foulke and Tolbert with murder, robbery and related offenses. All three were being held on the prostitution charges already. Police said after discovering Zarzycki’s torso Tuesday they interviewed the three and were able to get them to admit to the murder.
Investigators do not believe Aug. 26 was Zarzycki’s first visit to the house of prostitution on 11th Street, but said they do not know how many times he’d been there previously.
The newspaper was unsuccessful in attempts to reach Zarzycki’s family. Until Thursday morning, he was listed as a loan officer with a PNC bank in Doylestown. A PNC spokesperson said they do not confirm the identity of employees publicly.
Investigators had suspected Tolbert in Zarzycki's disappearance before his body was discovered. The trail that led them to Tolbert's apartment began with Zarzycki's parents, frantic over his disappearance.
Zarzycki had struggled with drugs in the past, and his parents had tried to help him.Tolbert was a known drug addict himself,on top of claimming to work at Wawa,
He was in the habit of calling his mother, Stella, if he wasn't coming home at night. When more than a day went by without his calling or turning up, she filed a missing-person report with police on Aug. 28, said Capt. Francis Bachmayer of Northeast Detectives.
His father, whose name is also Francis and who retired from the Police Department in 1989 after more than 20 years on the force, searched Zarzycki's computer and phone records. He saw clues that his son had gone to a website with personal ads, backpage.com, and made calls to an unknown number, police sources said.
Detective Paula Campbell, Bachmayer said, realized the case had "urgency to it."
Tracing Zarzycki's phone records, investigators zeroed in on the 11th Street apartment.
They worked the case through the Labor Day weekend. On Saturday, Northeast Detectives and the Citywide Vice Unit conducted a prostitution sting at Tolbert's apartment, arresting him and Weston.
On Sunday, police found Zarzycki's 2004 Chevrolet TrailBlazer in a parking garage a block from the apartment.
The homicide Special Investigations Unit took over the case when the torso was discovered. It identified the remains by tattoos - wings and a bull - on Zarzycki's back. Investigators interviewed Weston on Tuesday, then tracked Foulke down in Glenolden, Delaware County, on Wednesday.
The women both described the killing, police said - and their stories matched.
Tolbert isn't talking, police said. He has two prior arrests in New Jersey, according to court records.
Joan Taylor, 65, lives in the apartment next to Tolbert's. He moved there six months ago, she said.
"He had lots of girls running in and out of there," Taylor said, sitting on her couch along the wall she shared with Tolbert. "They looked like crackheads."
The police, she said, showed her pictures of Zarzycki this week, but she did not recognize him.
No one answered Thursday at the Zarzycki family's home in Northeast Philadelphia.
John McNesby, head of the city's Fraternal Order of Police lodge, said that he had never worked with Zarzycki's father, but that the union would reach out to the family in the coming days.
"It's just sad," McNesby said.
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Keith Tolbert, Angel Weston and Stephenie Foulke were charged Thursday with the murder of Frank Zarzycki, police said.
Zarzycki's torso was found by fishermen near the 1300 block of Schuylkill Avenue in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia around 8 a.m. Tuesday morning. The 40-year-old's head, arms and legs had been chopped off and were missing.
Using a distinctive tattoo on Zarzycki's upper back, investigators on Wednesday were able to identify the man who had been reported missing by family a week before.
Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit Capt. James Clark said Zarzycki, who lived in the Somerton section of the city, went to Apartment 26 inside 220 South 11th Street last Monday, August 26 to have a sexual encounter with prostitutes.
The man allegedly began a sexual act with Weston, 21, and Foulke, 22, in the second-floor apartment's living room when Tolbert, the 34-year-old alleged pimp, came in to rob Zarzycki.
During the struggle, Zarzycki was beaten, tasered and then suffocated. He died as a result of the fight.
Capt. Clark said investigators believe the trio panicked and dragged the man's lifeless body to the bathroom. There, Tolbert allegedly used a hatchet to dismember Zarzycki.
His torso was then placed into a bag and thrown into the river, police said.
Investigators are still searching for Zarzycki's other body parts and are leaning on the suspects to share where and how they were disposed.
"We're still talking to them," Capt. Clark said of the suspects. "We have detectives back out at the scene. We will probably still have the Marine Unit go back out to certain locations along the river. The investigation is still on going."
The trio were arrested on Saturday, before Zarzycki's body was found, after the department's Vice Unit held a sting at the apartment.
The housing unit, which is listed in Tolbert's name, is located in Center City, just south of busy Market East near the campus of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The apartment building has a mix of Section 8 and mixed-income units inside. Investigators say Tolbert paid only $30 a month in rent to live there.
Capt. Clark said the home was a known prostitution spot and that phone and computer records showed the victim had frequented the place.
"My understanding is he had been there before and obviously he wasn't robbed, but for whatever reason, this time they chose to rob him and it escalated to him being killed," Capt. Clark said.
Neighbors who live in the apartment building tell NBC10.com they saw plain clothed officers visit the same apartment last week and arrest a man and woman for alleged prostitution.
Since then, a police officer had been guarding the apartment, neighbors say. Investigators then came back to apartment on Wednesday to collect evidence.
Capt. Clark said crime scene investigators were back out at the apartment on Thursday to search for additional evidence.
Sources close to the investigation tell NBC10 crime scene techs found large pieces of flesh inside a bathtub drain pipe. That pipe was removed and taken into evidence.
NBC10 visited Zarzycki's family in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday, but they did not want to speak with the media.
Tolbert, Weston and Foulke have been charged with murder, robbery and related offenses and all, police say, have criminal histories.
Philadelphia Police say a pimp and two prostitutes killed a Northeast Philadelphia man, chopped up his body and tossed it into the Schuylkill River after a botched robbery.
Keith Tolbert, Angel Weston and Stephenie Foulke were charged Thursday with the murder of Frank Zarzycki, police said.
Zarzycki's torso was found by fishermen near the 1300 block of Schuylkill Avenue in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia around 8 a.m. Tuesday morning. The 40-year-old's head, arms and legs had been chopped off and were missing.
Using a distinctive tattoo on Zarzycki's upper back, investigators on Wednesday were able to identify the man who had been reported missing by family a week before.
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Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit Capt. James Clark said Zarzycki, who lived in the Somerton section of the city, went to Apartment 26 inside 220 South 11th Street last Monday, August 26 to have a sexual encounter with prostitutes.
The man allegedly began a sexual act with Weston, 21, and Foulke, 22, in the second-floor apartment's living room when Tolbert, the 34-year-old alleged pimp, came in to rob Zarzycki.
During the struggle, Zarzycki was beaten, tasered and then suffocated. He died as a result of the fight.Keith Tolbert,was the kind of guy,people like Salvation Army Director Marcus Christmas and Manado-Marmaduke Bakooko thought highly of ,because,he was black and going to school.Obviously,all Tolbert learned was drugs,pimping,robbery and murder.
Capt. Clark said investigators believe the trio panicked and dragged the man's lifeless body to the bathroom. There, Tolbert allegedly used a hatchet to dismember Zarzycki.
His torso was then placed into a bag and thrown into the river, police said.
Investigators are still searching for Zarzycki's other body parts and are leaning on the suspects to share where and how they were disposed.
"We're still talking to them," Capt. Clark said of the suspects. "We have detectives back out at the scene. We will probably still have the Marine Unit go back out to certain locations along the river. The investigation is still on going."
The trio were arrested on Saturday, before Zarzycki's body was found, after the department's Vice Unit held a sting at the apartment.
The housing unit, which is listed in Tolbert's name, is located in Center City, just south of busy Market East near the campus of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The apartment building has a mix of Section 8 and mixed-income units inside. Investigators say Tolbert paid only $30 a month in rent to live there.
Capt. Clark said the home was a known prostitution spot and that phone and computer records showed the victim had frequented the place.
"My understanding is he had been there before and obviously he wasn't robbed, but for whatever reason, this time they chose to rob him and it escalated to him being killed," Capt. Clark said.
Neighbors who live in the apartment building tell NBC10.com they saw plain clothed officers visit the same apartment last week and arrest a man and woman for alleged prostitution.
Since then, a police officer had been guarding the apartment, neighbors say. Investigators then came back to apartment on Wednesday to collect evidence.
Capt. Clark said crime scene investigators were back out at the apartment on Thursday to search for additional evidence.
Sources close to the investigation tell NBC10 crime scene techs found large pieces of flesh inside a bathtub drain pipe. That pipe was removed and taken into evidence.
NBC10 visited Zarzycki's family in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday, but they did not want to speak with the media.
Tolbert, Weston and Foulke have been charged with murder, robbery and related offenses and all, police say, have criminal histories.
Keith Tolbert (L) and Angel Weston (R) pictured. A mugshot for Stephenie Foulke was not available.
Keith Tolbert (L) and Angel Weston (R) pictured. A mugshot for Stephenie Foulke was not available.
Frank Zarzycki pictured in this undated phot
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Philadelphia Police say a pimp and two prostitutes killed a Northeast Philadelphia man, chopped up his body and tossed it into the Schuylkill River after a botched robbery.
Keith Tolbert, Angel Weston and Stephenie Foulke were charged Thursday with the murder of Frank Zarzycki, police said.
Zarzycki's torso was found by fishermen near the 1300 block of Schuylkill Avenue in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia around 8 a.m. Tuesday morning. The 40-year-old's head, arms and legs had been chopped off and were missing.
Using a distinctive tattoo on Zarzycki's upper back, investigators on Wednesday were able to identify the man who had been reported missing by family a week before.
Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit Capt. James Clark said Zarzycki, who lived in the Somerton section of the city, went to Apartment 26 inside 220 South 11th Street last Monday, August 26 to have a sexual encounter with prostitutes.
The man allegedly began a sexual act with Weston, 21, and Foulke, 22, in the second-floor apartment's living room when Tolbert, the 34-year-old alleged pimp, came in to rob Zarzycki.
During the struggle, Zarzycki was beaten, tasered and then suffocated. He died as a result of the fight.
Capt. Clark said investigators believe the trio panicked and dragged the man's lifeless body to the bathroom. There, Tolbert allegedly used a hatchet to dismember Zarzycki.
His torso was then placed into a bag and thrown into the river, police said.
Investigators are still searching for Zarzycki's other body parts and are leaning on the suspects to share where and how they were disposed.
"We're still talking to them," Capt. Clark said of the suspects. "We have detectives back out at the scene. We will probably still have the Marine Unit go back out to certain locations along the river. The investigation is still on going."
The trio were arrested on Saturday, before Zarzycki's body was found, after the department's Vice Unit held a sting at the apartment.
The housing unit, which is listed in Tolbert's name, is located in Center City, just south of busy Market East near the campus of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The apartment building has a mix of Section 8 and mixed-income units inside. Investigators say Tolbert paid only $30 a month in rent to live there.
Capt. Clark said the home was a known prostitution spot and that phone and computer records showed the victim had frequented the place.
"My understanding is he had been there before and obviously he wasn't robbed, but for whatever reason, this time they chose to rob him and it escalated to him being killed," Capt. Clark said.
Neighbors who live in the apartment building tell NBC10.com they saw plain clothed officers visit the same apartment last week and arrest a man and woman for alleged prostitution.
Since then, a police officer had been guarding the apartment, neighbors say. Investigators then came back to apartment on Wednesday to collect evidence.
Capt. Clark said crime scene investigators were back out at the apartment on Thursday to search for additional evidence.
Sources close to the investigation tell NBC10 crime scene techs found large pieces of flesh inside a bathtub drain pipe. That pipe was removed and taken into evidence.
NBC10 visited Zarzycki's family in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday, but they did not want to speak with the media.
Tolbert, Weston and Foulke have been charged with murder, robbery and related offenses and all, police say, have criminal histories.
Keith Tolbert (L) and Angel Weston (R) pictured. A mugshot for Stephenie Foulke was not available.
Frank Zarzycki pictured in this undated phot
Philadelphia Police say a pimp and two prostitutes killed a Northeast Philadelphia man, chopped up his body and tossed it into the Schuylkill River after a botched robbery.
Keith Tolbert, Angel Weston and Stephenie Foulke were charged Thursday with the murder of Frank Zarzycki, police said.
Zarzycki's torso was found by fishermen near the 1300 block of Schuylkill Avenue in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia around 8 a.m. Tuesday morning. The 40-year-old's head, arms and legs had been chopped off and were missing.
Using a distinctive tattoo on Zarzycki's upper back, investigators on Wednesday were able to identify the man who had been reported missing by family a week before.
Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit Capt. James Clark said Zarzycki, who lived in the Somerton section of the city, went to Apartment 26 inside 220 South 11th Street last Monday, August 26 to have a sexual encounter with prostitutes.
The man allegedly began a sexual act with Weston, 21, and Foulke, 22, in the second-floor apartment's living room when Tolbert, the 34-year-old alleged pimp, came in to rob Zarzycki.
During the struggle, Zarzycki was beaten, tasered and then suffocated. He died as a result of the fight.
Capt. Clark said investigators believe the trio panicked and dragged the man's lifeless body to the bathroom. There, Tolbert allegedly used a hatchet to dismember Zarzycki.
His torso was then placed into a bag and thrown into the river, police said.
Investigators are still searching for Zarzycki's other body parts and are leaning on the suspects to share where and how they were disposed.
"We're still talking to them," Capt. Clark said of the suspects. "We have detectives back out at the scene. We will probably still have the Marine Unit go back out to certain locations along the river. The investigation is still on going."
The trio were arrested on Saturday, before Zarzycki's body was found, after the department's Vice Unit held a sting at the apartment.
The housing unit, which is listed in Tolbert's name, is located in Center City, just south of busy Market East near the campus of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The apartment building has a mix of Section 8 and mixed-income units inside. Investigators say Tolbert paid only $30 a month in rent to live there.
Capt. Clark said the home was a known prostitution spot and that phone and computer records showed the victim had frequented the place.
"My understanding is he had been there before and obviously he wasn't robbed, but for whatever reason, this time they chose to rob him and it escalated to him being killed," Capt. Clark said.
Neighbors who live in the apartment building tell NBC10.com they saw plain clothed officers visit the same apartment last week and arrest a man and woman for alleged prostitution.
Since then, a police officer had been guarding the apartment, neighbors say. Investigators then came back to apartment on Wednesday to collect evidence.
Capt. Clark said crime scene investigators were back out at the apartment on Thursday to search for additional evidence.
Sources close to the investigation tell NBC10 crime scene techs found large pieces of flesh inside a bathtub drain pipe. That pipe was removed and taken into evidence.
NBC10 visited Zarzycki's family in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday, but they did not want to speak with the media.
Tolbert, Weston and Foulke have been charged with murder, robbery and related offenses and all, police say, have criminal histories.
Keith Tolbert (L) and Angel Weston (R) pictured. A mugshot for Stephenie Foulke was not available.
Frank Zarzycki pictured in this undated phot
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