Although Kratz says DiNardo shot Finocchiaro in his statements.
https://bucks.crimewatchpa.com/sites/default/files/29567/post/attachments/kratz_documents.pdf
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Although Kratz says DiNardo shot Finocchiaro in his statements.
https://bucks.crimewatchpa.com/sites/default/files/29567/post/attachments/kratz_documents.pdf
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Sorry - coming in here late....
No problem - knock yourself out!
Does anyone know "when" the neighbors heard the shots?? I'd like to put that on the timeline. And since I didn't see it on the first 50 posts here (still reading....nline: ) - I'll post it next.
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Does anyone know "when" the neighbors heard the shots?? I'd like to put that on the timeline. And since I didn't see it on the first 50 posts here (still reading....
nline: ) - I'll post it next.
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PA BOYS TIMELINE:
updated July 17, 2017
July 5th, Wednesday - 6pm Day 1 - Jimi Patrick, a 19-year-old who lives with his
grandparents in Newtown Township, leaves his home at 6 p.m. He recently completed his first year at Loyola University in Maryland.
He agrees to meet with Cosmo Dinardo, 20, to buy 4 pounds of marijuana for $8,000, according to a criminal complaint.
Article link: http://www.cbs46.com/story/35896178...stunned-small-town-pennsylvania#ixzz4n5GKOrjN
Complaint link: https://bucks.crimewatchpa.com/sites/default/files/29567/post/attachments/dinardo_documents.pdf {words in italics are quotes from the article.}
On this evening, Dinardo picks up Patrick at his grandparents' home in Newtown and they drive to Dinardo's parents' sprawling farmland in Solebury Township, according to a criminal complaint.
He takes Patrick to a remote part of the property, where Patrick says he only has $800. Dinardo offers to sell Patrick a shotgun for that money, gives him the weapon, and then shoots and kills him with a .22-caliber rifle, Dinardo tells detectives after his arrest.
Dinardo drives the property's backhoe to that remote location and digs a hole about six feet deep, puts Patrick's body in the ground, and buries him, the complaint states.
July 6, Thursday Day 2 - Richard Patrick contacts Newtown Twp Police Dept. to report his grandson 19-year-old Jimi Patrick missing. (report time unknown)
July 7, Friday - ~6:30pm/7pm Day 3 - Dinardo sets up two other drug deals, according to a criminal complaint. He first agrees to meet with Dean Finocchiaro, a 19-year-old from Middletown Township, and sell him a quarter-pound of marijuana for about $700.
Before the meeting, Dinardo picks up his cousin Sean Kratz, according to a complaint.
The cousins drive to Finocchiaro's home, pick him up and bring him back to the Dinardo's family property.
Finocchiaro is last seen at about 6:30 p.m. getting into a vehicle, police later said, though they did not provide any details about the vehicle.
Also Bonie Finocchiaro contacts Middletown Twp Police Dept. to report her 19 year-old son, Dean Finocchiaro missing, last seen on July 7th, and did not show up for work that night. (report time unknown)
July 7, Friday - 6:53 pm - Meo's girlfriend received a final text message from him. She later told police she had not been able to get in contact with him since then, which is "out of the ordinary and not common," according to a police criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Sturgis, a good friend of Meo, was last seen. Sturgis told his father he was going to meet up with Meo, his family told police.
Finocchiaro was also last seen.
July 7, Friday - 7:49pm - Later the same day, Dinardo makes plans to sell marijuana to Thomas Meo, a 21-year-old from Plumstead Township, according to a criminal complaint. Meo is with his friend and co-worker Mark Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg.
Dinardo meets with Meo and Sturgis, and they follow him in Meo's 1996 Nissan Maxima to Dinardo's family home. A mobile license plate reader spots Dinardo's vehicle, a Silver 2016 Ford pickup truck, in Solebury Township at 7:49 p.m. The plate reader also spots Meo's Nissan Maxima seconds later, according to the complaint.
After arriving at the house, Meo and Sturgis get into Dinardo's truck and drive to the family's farmland property, where Kratz remained. As Meo and Sturgis exit the truck, Dinardo shoots Meo in the back, Dinardo later tells police. Meo collapses to the ground, screaming.
Sturgis starts to run away and Dinardo shoots at him, striking and killing him. Dinardo, out of ammunition, gets in the backhoe and drives over Meo, crushing him to death, the complaint states.
Dinardo uses the backhoe to pick up Meo and Sturgis and put their bodies in the same metal tank where he earlier had placed Finocchiaro's body. He pours gasoline into the metal tank and lights it, a complaint states.
Dinardo and Kratz then leave the farm without burying the burned bodies of the three men.
July 8, Saturday Day 4 - Melissa Fretanduno-Meo contacts Plumstead Twp Police Dept. to report her 21 year-old missing. Thomas did not show up for work that day.
In the afternoon, Dinardo and Kratz return to the farm and use the backhoe to dig a 12.5-foot-deep hole -- about 1/2-mile away from Patrick's grave -- and bury the "pig roaster" containing the charred bodies of Finocchiaro, Meo and Sturgis, the complaint states.
At about 5 p.m., Dinardo contacts an unidentified male friend in Bensalem. They meet up and Dinardo offers to sell him a 1996 Nissan Maxima for $500 -- Meo's vehicle, according to a complaint.
July 9, Sunday Day 5 - Mark Sturgis' family report him missing to the Pennsyvania State Police, after Mark did not show up for work with Thomas. (time unknown)
July 9, Sunday - 2:10am - Police locate Sturgis' vehicle in an area known as Peddler's Village in Bucks County at 2:10 a.m., less than two miles from where the men were killed, a complaint states.
July 9, Sunday - ~ 4am - Two hours later, investigators locate Meo's 1996 Nissam Maxima at Dinardo's family home in Solesbury Township. The keys and title to the vehicle, still in Meo's name, hang on the wall inside the garage of the property, a complaint states.
July 9, Sunday - 2:30pm - Bucks County detectives interview Dinardo at 2:30 p.m., questioning about his interactions with Dean Finocchiaro on the night he went missing. Dinardo tells police that he picked up Finocchiaro at his home at about 7:00 p.m. on July 7 and that Finocchiaro asked him to drive to Langhorne for "a big coke deal," the complaint states.
He says he made Finocchiaro get out of his truck and then went fishing. Dinardo denied to police that he was in the Solebury Township area that evening.
July 9, Sunday - ~4:30pm - Later that afternoon, Bucks County detectives interview Dinardo's friend from Bensalem (KBM-Known Bensalem Male). He tell them that Dinardo offered to sell him an older-model Nissan Maxima, according to the criminal complaint. KBM received a call from Dinardo on July 8 at approximately 5pm.
July 10, Monday - Day 6 - Search warrant to search property at 6xxx Lower York Rd in Solebury Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Deep grave found on property.
Investigators search several locations for evidence. But a signal from one of the missing men's cell phones leads them to the Dinardo family's farmland property, according to CNN affiliate WPVI. They execute a search warrant there, a complaint states, hoping to find the men alive.
The same day, police arrest Dinardo for the unrelated and formerly dismissed firearms charge dating back to February. His bail is set at $1 million.
July 11, Tuesday Day 7 - Dad bails out Cosmo.
July 12, Wednesday Day 8 - With pressure mounting to find the missing men, Weintraub announces that officers have recovered several important pieces of evidence but that the investigation remains "wide open."
Police later re-arrest Dinardo for allegedly stealing and then trying to sell Meo's vehicle one day after he went missing, according to a criminal complaint.Not long after, investigators discover the body of Finocchiaro, as well as other unidentified human remains, in a 12.5-foot-deep grave on the farmland property. The other remains are later identified as Meo and Sturgis.
July 12, Wednesday - 12 midnight - DA press conference announces discovery of the grave.
July 13, Thursday - Day 9 - Detectives interview Dinardo a second time. Confesses his and Kratz's involvement in murders. Tells detectives where Patrick's body is.
~ 9:20pm - After confession Sean Kratz is detained and interviewed.
Patrick's body unearthed from grave site.
July 14, Friday - DA's office files multiple charges against Dinardo and Kratz.
Dinardo faces four criminal homicide charges, and Kratz faces three criminal homicide charges, according to a criminal complaint.
In court judge enters not guilty plea on defendants' behalf and orders them held without bail.
If you see something off or wrong - please let me know! Also, if I repeat "something"!
updated July 17, 2017
July 5th, Wednesday - 6pm Day 1 - Jimi Patrick, a 19-year-old who lives with his
grandparents in Newtown Township, leaves his home at 6 p.m. He recently completed his first year at Loyola University in Maryland.
He agrees to meet with Cosmo Dinardo, 20, to buy 4 pounds of marijuana for $8,000, according to a criminal complaint.
Article link: http://www.cbs46.com/story/35896178...stunned-small-town-pennsylvania#ixzz4n5GKOrjN
Complaint link: https://bucks.crimewatchpa.com/sites/default/files/29567/post/attachments/dinardo_documents.pdf {words in italics are quotes from the article.}
On this evening, Dinardo picks up Patrick at his grandparents' home in Newtown and they drive to Dinardo's parents' sprawling farmland in Solebury Township, according to a criminal complaint.
He takes Patrick to a remote part of the property, where Patrick says he only has $800. Dinardo offers to sell Patrick a shotgun for that money, gives him the weapon, and then shoots and kills him with a .22-caliber rifle, Dinardo tells detectives after his arrest.
Dinardo drives the property's backhoe to that remote location and digs a hole about six feet deep, puts Patrick's body in the ground, and buries him, the complaint states.
July 6, Thursday Day 2 - Richard Patrick contacts Newtown Twp Police Dept. to report his grandson 19-year-old Jimi Patrick missing. (report time unknown)
July 7, Friday - ~6:30pm/7pm Day 3 - Dinardo sets up two other drug deals, according to a criminal complaint. He first agrees to meet with Dean Finocchiaro, a 19-year-old from Middletown Township, and sell him a quarter-pound of marijuana for about $700.
Before the meeting, Dinardo picks up his cousin Sean Kratz, according to a complaint.
The cousins drive to Finocchiaro's home, pick him up and bring him back to the Dinardo's family property.
Finocchiaro is last seen at about 6:30 p.m. getting into a vehicle, police later said, though they did not provide any details about the vehicle.
Also Bonie Finocchiaro contacts Middletown Twp Police Dept. to report her 19 year-old son, Dean Finocchiaro missing, last seen on July 7th, and did not show up for work that night. (report time unknown)
July 7, Friday - 6:53 pm - Meo's girlfriend received a final text message from him. She later told police she had not been able to get in contact with him since then, which is "out of the ordinary and not common," according to a police criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Sturgis, a good friend of Meo, was last seen. Sturgis told his father he was going to meet up with Meo, his family told police.
Finocchiaro was also last seen.
July 7, Friday - 7:49pm - Later the same day, Dinardo makes plans to sell marijuana to Thomas Meo, a 21-year-old from Plumstead Township, according to a criminal complaint. Meo is with his friend and co-worker Mark Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg.
Dinardo meets with Meo and Sturgis, and they follow him in Meo's 1996 Nissan Maxima to Dinardo's family home. A mobile license plate reader spots Dinardo's vehicle, a Silver 2016 Ford pickup truck, in Solebury Township at 7:49 p.m. The plate reader also spots Meo's Nissan Maxima seconds later, according to the complaint.
After arriving at the house, Meo and Sturgis get into Dinardo's truck and drive to the family's farmland property, where Kratz remained. As Meo and Sturgis exit the truck, Dinardo shoots Meo in the back, Dinardo later tells police. Meo collapses to the ground, screaming.
Sturgis starts to run away and Dinardo shoots at him, striking and killing him. Dinardo, out of ammunition, gets in the backhoe and drives over Meo, crushing him to death, the complaint states.
Dinardo uses the backhoe to pick up Meo and Sturgis and put their bodies in the same metal tank where he earlier had placed Finocchiaro's body. He pours gasoline into the metal tank and lights it, a complaint states.
Dinardo and Kratz then leave the farm without burying the burned bodies of the three men.
July 8, Saturday Day 4 - Melissa Fretanduno-Meo contacts Plumstead Twp Police Dept. to report her 21 year-old missing. Thomas did not show up for work that day.
In the afternoon, Dinardo and Kratz return to the farm and use the backhoe to dig a 12.5-foot-deep hole -- about 1/2-mile away from Patrick's grave -- and bury the "pig roaster" containing the charred bodies of Finocchiaro, Meo and Sturgis, the complaint states.
At about 5 p.m., Dinardo contacts an unidentified male friend in Bensalem. They meet up and Dinardo offers to sell him a 1996 Nissan Maxima for $500 -- Meo's vehicle, according to a complaint.
July 9, Sunday Day 5 - Mark Sturgis' family report him missing to the Pennsyvania State Police, after Mark did not show up for work with Thomas. (time unknown)
July 9, Sunday - 2:10am - Police locate Sturgis' vehicle in an area known as Peddler's Village in Bucks County at 2:10 a.m., less than two miles from where the men were killed, a complaint states.
July 9, Sunday - ~ 4am - Two hours later, investigators locate Meo's 1996 Nissam Maxima at Dinardo's family home in Solesbury Township. The keys and title to the vehicle, still in Meo's name, hang on the wall inside the garage of the property, a complaint states.
July 9, Sunday - 2:30pm - Bucks County detectives interview Dinardo at 2:30 p.m., questioning about his interactions with Dean Finocchiaro on the night he went missing. Dinardo tells police that he picked up Finocchiaro at his home at about 7:00 p.m. on July 7 and that Finocchiaro asked him to drive to Langhorne for "a big coke deal," the complaint states.
He says he made Finocchiaro get out of his truck and then went fishing. Dinardo denied to police that he was in the Solebury Township area that evening.
July 9, Sunday - ~4:30pm - Later that afternoon, Bucks County detectives interview Dinardo's friend from Bensalem (KBM-Known Bensalem Male). He tell them that Dinardo offered to sell him an older-model Nissan Maxima, according to the criminal complaint. KBM received a call from Dinardo on July 8 at approximately 5pm.
July 10, Monday - Day 6 - Search warrant to search property at 6xxx Lower York Rd in Solebury Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Deep grave found on property.
Investigators search several locations for evidence. But a signal from one of the missing men's cell phones leads them to the Dinardo family's farmland property, according to CNN affiliate WPVI. They execute a search warrant there, a complaint states, hoping to find the men alive.
The same day, police arrest Dinardo for the unrelated and formerly dismissed firearms charge dating back to February. His bail is set at $1 million.
July 11, Tuesday Day 7 - Dad bails out Cosmo.
July 12, Wednesday Day 8 - With pressure mounting to find the missing men, Weintraub announces that officers have recovered several important pieces of evidence but that the investigation remains "wide open."
Police later re-arrest Dinardo for allegedly stealing and then trying to sell Meo's vehicle one day after he went missing, according to a criminal complaint.Not long after, investigators discover the body of Finocchiaro, as well as other unidentified human remains, in a 12.5-foot-deep grave on the farmland property. The other remains are later identified as Meo and Sturgis.
July 12, Wednesday - 12 midnight - DA press conference announces discovery of the grave.
July 13, Thursday - Day 9 - Detectives interview Dinardo a second time. Confesses his and Kratz's involvement in murders. Tells detectives where Patrick's body is.
~ 9:20pm - After confession Sean Kratz is detained and interviewed.
Patrick's body unearthed from grave site.
July 14, Friday - DA's office files multiple charges against Dinardo and Kratz.
Dinardo faces four criminal homicide charges, and Kratz faces three criminal homicide charges, according to a criminal complaint.
In court judge enters not guilty plea on defendants' behalf and orders them held without bail.
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per complaint:
Okay - per CD:
Kratz did not rob Finocchiaro in the woods and they went into the barn. As they were leaving the barn Kratz shot finocchiaro in the head. - page 7 on link below.
per Kratz:
After they arrived, Dinardo and Finocchiaro went into the barn. Kratz said he heard gun shots from the barn and then Dinardo returned to the truck. - page 8 on link below.
this is per https://bucks.crimewatchpa.com/sites/default/files/29567/post/attachments/dinardo_documents.pdf
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I was following this case very closely but I fell off over the weekend. Am just now trying to catch up on everything.
Do we know whether or not police recovered cash and marijuana that would corroborate CD's version of events? I haven't been able to find those details anywhere, and I can't understand why they would be kept secret?
Sorry if this has been asked and answered many times.
Do we know whether or not police recovered cash and marijuana that would corroborate CD's version of events? I haven't been able to find those details anywhere, and I can't understand why they would be kept secret?
Sorry if this has been asked and answered many times.
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Bbm: I read the FBI was brought in for their recovery expertise.
And you have covered the unanswered Qs. Multiple agencies, investigative and medical examiner have to piece this story together. It is going take some time, for sure.
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Yes, but that reply is dated July 13, after CD was arrested 2nd time and after DA announced discovery of common grave.
Thank you.. I wasn't paying attention walking my dog & reading..not a smart thing to do
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I wasn't aware you could not use the term that I used.. starts with a T**G
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CD didn't live in the bucolic area you describe.He lived in Lower Bucks, Bensalem..A nice home, with a pool and everything, but more an over the top home in a modest area. his family has assets, but who knows how the cash flow was, and how generous his parents were with him..My guess is they pulled the reigns in, hence his alleged selling of "firewood" and kicks
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Not defending CD in any way at all but it just seems to me that he has been crying out for help for years. So sad no one took it seriously. Hoping justice will be served for the Bucks Boys.
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I agree with you. It is middle class. It doesn't mean they were rich. Growing up, my parents had a nice house in a nice area, owned similar business (weird) I always had food and a roof over my head but i had to work for my money. The thing is. They worked hard for their money and I was expected to do the same. IMO he had mental problems that maybe his parents didn't understand or realize how bad it was. Who knows, maybe they did but I don't think they ever believed THIS would happen.
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I would just use the word " gangsta"
I don't think money was the motive, nor was weed, although they may have played into it in CD's mind that way. The only motive that I see is that he is a psychopath who wanted to find people to kill. Were these guys there for pot deals? Perhaps, but I don't believe for a second that he killed them over nickel and dime pot deals. Were they "customers" who possibly owed him a little money? Also plausible, but again that's not why he killed them. If we take CD at his word, both in his video before the killings and his statements afterwards, it's possible that he announced that he was going to kill all the people that owed him money and then within the next week, lured them to the farm with pot deals and executed them. But what is the real motive here? None of these guys involved (including CD and SK) have any appearances of being big time drug traffickers making multi-million dollar deals that people can get killed for stiffing your supplier. Even if these guys owed CD a couple hundred dollars or something, systematically executing them over it is something that only a psychopathic killer would think appropriate to do. The only real reason I see that CD killed these guys is that he is a psychopath chasing the "thrill" of killing people.
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There's still media talking about it in NYC. Not sure how nationwide it is right now. I guess if there's no new info there really isn't much to report on or enough for an updated article.
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Sources: Cosmo DiNardo also confessed to 2 Philadelphia murders; police investigating
http://6abc.com/news/sources-dinardo-also-confessed-to-2-philadelphia-murders/2229332/
To clarify, not confirmed yet:
"However, Philadelphia police say that while they are aware of that reported confession, they are not yet able to link him to any killings in the city.
Commissioner Richard Ross spoke to Action News on Tuesday morning. He said the department would be "remiss" if they didn't investigate."
http://6abc.com/news/sources-dinardo-also-confessed-to-2-philadelphia-murders/2229332/
To clarify, not confirmed yet:
"However, Philadelphia police say that while they are aware of that reported confession, they are not yet able to link him to any killings in the city.
Commissioner Richard Ross spoke to Action News on Tuesday morning. He said the department would be "remiss" if they didn't investigate."
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Boo hoo. He wasn't "crying out", he was being a criminal, a bully and a . I'm sick of all of these excuses. Smh.
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I wonder if the LE that took the confessions from both CD & SK thought about asking them why they needed to murder the victims? All we have so far is a description of what they did in the affadavits, but no question as to why they had to kill the four guys. What the motive was?
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Why couldn't you use the word T**G? The NY Post uses it every day...
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It's probably the way WS website is formatted for certain words. It has happened to me before too, so i just find a different word that says the same thing.
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