A judge on Monday dismissed charges against a Philadelphia man for allegedly murdering his erstwhile employer in a home invasion, according to The Bucks County Courier Times. Earlier in the hearing, prosecutor Christopher Rees reportedly withdrew the linked rape-related charges against defendant Thomas Delgado, 51, because DNA tests excluded him from being the man who sexually assaulted the fiancee of slain victim, Joseph Canazaro, 48. Two of the total 34 charges did remain, but those only concerned the stolen 2006 black Lincoln Mark LT pickup truck. Rees ended up withdrawing those charges as well.
As far as the courts are concerned, authorities are back to square one in trying to prove who broke into businessman Joseph Canazaro’s home and stabbed him to death.
”We do have some missing pieces here,” Judge Regina Armitage reportedly said in court on Monday. “Serious missing pieces.”
Two men, armed and masked, broke into the home in the 300 block of Swartley Road in Hilltown Township on Jan. 18, 2013, authorities said. They put local businessman Canazaro, his fiancee, and his 12-year-old son in zip ties, and one of them — allegedly Delgado — raped the fiancee.