[1] On November 3, 2010, the half-naked body of 21-year-old Elaine Goldberg, a nursing student at the Gwynedd Mercy University who had recently recovered from substance use disorder, was found in a parking lot on Ruth Street.

[4] On December 15, the half-naked body of a third victim, 27-year-old Casey Mahoney of Asheville, North Carolina, was found in a patch of woods near some railroad tracks of the Kensington area.

[7] The video showed what appeared to be a black male in his early 20s with long sideburns, who walked with a characteristic gait and supposedly said to his assault victim that his name was "Anthony".

[7] An anonymous tip led to the arrest of a homeless vagrant, 22-year-old Antonio Rodriguez, who had been released from the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on August 29, 2010, after serving a 3-month term for a felony drug charge.

[12] At his subsequent trial, Rodriguez's attorney attempted to bar the prosecution from presenting his client's graphic written confessions from being used in court, in addition to questioning the legitimacy of how they were obtained in the first place.