Tanya Moore and Tina Rodriguez were two transgender friends and sex workers on 13th Street in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States [ 1 ] The pair disappeared on June 30, after getting into the car of a couple of clients. On July 3, their mutilated and dismembered bodies were found burning at a baseball diamond in Middletown. After getting into a light medium-sized van with two male clients on June 30, , the men they had left with were never seen again.
Other transgender sex workers describe the men last seen with the victims as being two white men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. The driver had curly dark hair and a mustache; the second suspect was blonde and clean shaven. Through meticulous fingerprint analysis, hands cut off of the charred victims were matched with prison records by the FBI, both being identified as Jonathan Streater and Faustino Arroyo.
Tanya Moore was a thirty-one-year-old transgender sex worker. She was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tanya had over twenty arrests for prostitution in Pennsylvania going back thirteen years prior to her death. Tiffany Hall, a friend of Tanya and Tina said, "Streater was clean cut and went to church". Tina Rodriguez was a twenty-seven-year-old transgender sex worker.
She had over fifty prostitution arrests in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York prior to her death. Her half-brother, Arnaldo Mojica, told a newspaper in that Arroyo hadn't been seen at the family's home in Camden for six months leading up to the murders. Mojica said the family knew Arroyo was "gay". Arnaldo also said that Arroyo's mother "went all the time to Philadelphia to get him out of jail, going on to say, "We tried to help him, tell him to stay home, but he would always go away.
Around , a witness told police Moore and Rodriguez were killed by himself and an "infamous member of the Warlocks Motorcycle Club " after picking them up for sex and discovering they were transgender. No charges were filed because the statement was made under a proffer agreement. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. In Philadelphia, U. Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , U. Puerto Rico.
