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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,893 posts)
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:26 AM Jul 2017

Authorities discover human remains in Bucks County, Pa., where 4 men went missing

Last edited Thu Jul 13, 2017, 10:17 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: Washington Post

Authorities discover human remains in Bucks County, Pa., where 4 men went missing

By Samantha Schmidt July 13 at 4:01 AM

Authorities said they have discovered human remains in a search for four missing men in Bucks County, Pa., and identified one of the bodies as a 19-year-old who disappeared on Friday.

District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said in a midnight news conference Wednesday that investigators found the body of Dean Finocchiaro among human remains discovered in a grave more than 12 feet deep on a rural property in Solebury Township, where they have been searching for the missing men since last week. Cadaver dogs led investigators to the hole, which Weintraub identified as a common grave.

The revelation came after authorities named Cosmo DiNardo, 20, of Bensalem, a person of interest in the case and arrested him for stealing a car belonging to one of the missing men. ... Weintraub said he is now classifying the case as a homicide, but we just dont know how many homicides. He did not say how Finocchiaro was killed.

{Police continue searching for 4 missing Pennsylvania men, identify person of interest in the case} (1)

Weintraub did not say whether the rest of the bodies were identified as the other three missing men, but said recovery efforts will resume Thursday morning. The first of the men to disappear, Jimi Tara Patrick, 19, was last seen on July 5. Finocchiaro, Mark Sturgis, 22; and Tom Meo, 21, vanished on Friday. Some or all of them appeared to know one another, authorities said. .... Patrick, the first of the four to go missing, just finished his first year at Loyola University in Maryland, a Jesuit school. He was on the deans list and had no conduct violations, the universitys president, the Rev. Brian Linnane, told the Baltimore Sun. (2)
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Samantha Schmidt is a reporter for The Washington Post's Morning Mix team. She previously worked as a reporting fellow for the New York Times. Follow @schmidtsam7

(1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/11/police-search-large-farm-for-4-missing-pennsylvania-men-suspecting-foul-play/

(2) http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-missing-men-wednesday-20170712-story.html

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/13/authorities-discover-human-remains-in-bucks-county-pa-where-4-men-went-missing/



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There was this interesting comment:

markend
8:57 AM EDT
According to the local Bucks County grapevine:

1) Several months ago, Cosmo DiNardo suffered a traumatic brain injury in an ATV accident resulting in frontal lobe damage and personality changes. It is unclear if DiNardo received the diagnosis of schizophrenia before or after this accident.

2) Cosmo DiNardo had been smoking "K2" which is synthetic marijuana comprised of organic material sprayed with industrial chemicals.
Effects of K2 can be: "anxiety and agitation, nausea and vomiting, high blood pressure, shaking and seizures, hallucinations and paranoia, and they may act violently."
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/synthetic-marijuana-everything-you-need-to-know-about-k2-drug-spice-20160713

3) According to local rumors, Cosmo DiNardo killed the four young men as a favor to William Riddle. Supposedly, the four young men were witnesses to Riddle's severe beating of another young man in Philadelphia this past May. Riddle is due in court in August on charges.
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/helen_ubinas/surviving-a-violent-attack-at-temple-university-just-the-beginning-for-one-philly-teen-20170706.html

Philly.com has additional information:
"Key figure in Bucks disappearance spoke of having people killed, acquaintance says"
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/friend-of-missing-bucks-man-dinardo-spoke-of-having-people-killed-20170712.html

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[div class"excerpt"]Surviving a violent attack near Temple just the beginning for one Philly teen
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/helen_ubinas/surviving-a-violent-attack-at-temple-university-just-the-beginning-for-one-philly-teen-20170706.html

Updated: JULY 6, 2017 5:02 PM EDT



Camera icon STEVEN M. FALK / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Joe & Theresa Lynch behind their son Dan Lynch, a 19-year-old recovering from head injuries after being jumped by some guys near Temple.

by Helen Ubias, Daily News Columnist @NotesFromHel ubinas@philly.com

Somewhere inside Hahnemann University Hospital, theres a piece of 19-year-old Dan Lynchs skull.

Doctors had to remove it to keep the Northeast Philadelphia teenagers brain from swelling after he and his cousin were attacked by a bunch of guys near Temple University on May 20.

A couple of weeks later, police arrested a Bensalem teen, William Riddle, 19, and charged him with several offenses, including aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person.

Lynch, who was knocked unconscious, doesnt remember what happened, but eyewitness accounts and video footage paint a disturbing picture.



William Riddle, 19, of Bensalem, was arrested for allegedly assaulting Dan Lynch, 19, of Philadelphia, near Temple University on May 20. He is charged with criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person.
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kaotikross

(246 posts)
2. pretty dumb killer
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:38 AM
Jul 2017

Mommy and Daddy own a concrete business, he couldn't have put the bodies in a foundation someplace? I give him credit for burying the one found over 12 feet down, though. He obviously didn't dig that by hand. They would have caught me on that too, those dogs are really talented! Probably the dumbest move of all was trying to sell that car.. for $500. This kid is wealthy, he needed the $500 that badly?- his folks ponied up $100,000 for his bail without batting an eye. There's paperwork on auto sales, titles and such. Pretty stupid.

FakeNoose

(32,349 posts)
14. This kid needs money for drugs
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 10:54 PM
Jul 2017

Even though his parents have dough, I'm sure they don't give him money to get high.
Besides that he's had a severe head injury, he's probably not thinking straight these days.

Sad case all around. I feel sorry for the parents of these boys.


BumRushDaShow

(127,302 posts)
4. And that was located on the DiNardo family property, which is 90 acres
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:44 AM
Jul 2017

This has been a big story on the local Philly news (since we cover the surrounding rim counties). They have been fine-tooth combing the property.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,893 posts)
5. It's big news on WTOP, an all-news, -traffic, and -weather radio station in DC.
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:55 AM
Jul 2017

I was surprised there wasn't already a thread in LBN about it. TexasTowelie has one from a few days back in the Pennsylvania group:

Bucks DA: Disappearance of 4 men suggests foul play; case considered 'criminal'

Good morning.

BumRushDaShow

(127,302 posts)
7. Probably because it started as "4 missing men"
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 10:25 AM
Jul 2017

and was mainly a local story that got more and more bizarre over the past couple days. They had a press conference yesterday afternoon about what they had found at the time and it just took off...

Top 'o the morning to you too!

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,893 posts)
6. The story's been updated, at 9:54 a.m.
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 10:18 AM
Jul 2017
Authorities in Pennsylvania find body of missing man during search, say case is a homicide

By Samantha Schmidt and Mark Berman July 13 at 9:54 AM

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Samantha Schmidt is a reporter for The Washington Post's Morning Mix team. She previously worked as a reporting fellow for the New York Times. Follow @schmidtsam7

Mark Berman covers national news for The Washington Post and anchors Post Nation, a destination for breaking news and stories from around the country. Follow @markberman

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
8. should not even use the word marijuana with that "industrial chemicals" IDIOTS smoke. Throw the book
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 11:03 AM
Jul 2017

at the murderers. My heart goes out to the family with the head-injury son.

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
9. ABSOLUTELY ! It is *NOT* "synthetic" marijuana; it is FAKE marijuana SUBSTITUTE.
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 03:02 PM
Jul 2017

Journos need to stop using that term; it is appallingly inaccurate and misleading.

 

VermontKevin

(1,473 posts)
11. I remember when that poor kid got beaten, every racist assumed it must have been a Black
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 04:21 PM
Jul 2017

gang because of the area where it happened. They were wrong.

 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
13. The killer is similar to a young Donald Trump
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 04:43 PM
Jul 2017

Their 68-acre farm about four miles outside New Hope in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, cost a cool $5.4 million in September 2005. But Antonio and Sandra DiNardo, whose fortune stems from trucking and concrete, weren’t done adding to their estate.
Less than a year later, the couple bought an adjacent property with a farmhouse built in 1821 for $450,000, according to county property records.
Man in Custody Possibly Connected to 4 Missing Men
In December 2008, they bought another couple of adjacent acres for $500,000 to complete a massive property along Lower York Road, which has become the center of a search for four missing young men and garnered national attention with the DiNardos' son named a person of interest in the case.
Dozens of local police and FBI agents scoured the family's farm for two days, using backhoes and other earth-moving equipment in what the county district attorney on Wednesday called the county's biggest search in recent history.

Cosmo DiNardo
Photo credit: Bucks County District Attorney's Office
Cosmo DiNardo, 20, the son of Antonio and Sandra, was ordered held on $5 million cash bail for allegedly being in possession of a car belonging to one of the missing men. The new arrest on Wednesday came a day after his family posted $100,000 bond to free the young man after he was initially held on gun charges while District Attorney Matt Weintraub described him as a person of interest in the confounding case.
According to an affidavit obtained by NBC10, DiNardo was accused of possessing a 20-gauge shotgun and ammunition in February despite being barred from owning a firearm due to a history of mental illness that included an involuntary commitment. A district judge dismissed the charge in May, but the district attorney had authorized for it to be refiled on Monday.
Person of Interest in Missing Men Case Released on Bail
DiNardo's attorney, Fortunato Perri Jr., had no comment to reporters as he arrived to a court appearance with the DiNardo parents on Thursday morning.
Mark Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg, Montgomery County, 21-year-old Thomas Meo, of Plumstead Township; Dean Finocchiaro, 19, of Middletown Township and Jimi Tar Patrick, 21, of Newtown Township all vanished last week. Weintraub said the four and DiNardo all apparently knew each other.
Major Announcement in Case of 4 Missing Young Men
Officials later announced early Thursday that cadaver dogs found human remains on the DiNardo family's Lower York Road farm and one set of the remains was identified as that of Finocchiaro.
How exactly Cosmo DiNardo came to be the focus of the investigation and why his parents’ farm was in law enforcement’s cross hairs remained shrouded in mystery.
What is known is that the young man comes from a family that has built a fortune on real estate in Philadelphia, Montgomery and Bucks counties. His grandfather, also named Cosmo DiNardo, owned several properties, with property records dating back to the 1970s showing a mix of residential and commercial rental properties.
The diverse holdings include a property leased to a behavioral health non-profit on Adams Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia that brings in as much as $32,000 a month, and a multi-unit apartment house on West Avenue in Jenkintown.
The elder Cosmo DiNardo died in 1997 at the age of 55. He had lived with his wife on Mayfield Avenue in Elkins Park since 1974. It’s not clear how he got his start — or the initial capital required — to begin buying real estate.
But his next purchase was the house on Wayland Circle in Bensalem where his grandson was twice arrested this week. Antonio and Sandra DiNardo continue to use that suburban home as the base for their real estate and business holdings.
Between 1979 and 1989, Cosmo DiNardo bought three commercial properties and the Jenkintown apartment house.
The first purchase was a strip of storefronts at 1016 Cottman Avenue for $67,500 in 1979, which was sold in 2004 by his son Antonio for $425,000.
The next was 3159 Summerdale Avenue, bought for an unknown amount in 1981.
Timeline: Search for Young Men in Bucks CountyTimeline: Search for Young Men in Bucks County
A third commercial property, bought in 1986 for $95,000, is 10 Shady Lane in Rockledge, Montgomery County. It’s currently rented to a dentist.
As his son came of age, Cosmo and Antonio DiNardo shared one real estate deal before Antonio eventually took over. The elder Cosmo and Antonio DiNardo purchased a Philadelphia house on Longmead Lane for $50,000 in early 1989 and flipped it two years later for $210,000.
In the late 1990s and 2000s, Antonio DiNardo purchased four more properties, two in Philadelphia and two in Bensalem. In 1998, DiNardo bought 4455-65 Castor Avenue for $94,000. It is home to the family concrete business called Metro Ready Mix and Supply.
The other property on Adams Avenue, purchased for $140,000 in 2001, is leased through 2032, according to property records, to a health care non-profit called The Bridge.
One of the Bensalem properties, 3636-3649 Hulmeville Road, which was bought in 2004 for $450,000, is home to the family’s other business, Bella Trucking.
The following year, the DiNardos began collecting the farmland outside New Hope that would become the scene for the evolving mystery surrounding four missing men and a son who now sits inside Bucks County Jail.
As investigators converged on the family's estate, the DiNardos have remained tight-lipped.
But the family's attorney, Perri Jr., released a statement Wednesday on behalf of Antonio and Sandra DiNardo expressing sympathy for the families of the missing and asserting their cooperation in the investigation.
"As parents, Mr. and Mrs. DiNardo sympathize with the parents and families of the missing young men and they are cooperating in every way possible with the investigation being conducted by law enforcement," the lawyer wrote hours before the discovery of human remains on their property.


Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Cosmo-DiNardo-at-Center-of-Missing-Men-Mystery-is-Scion-to-Family-With-Sizable-Real-Estate-Holdings-434155333.html#ixzz4mkLI9QnN
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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,893 posts)
15. Prosecutors charge two with killing Pennsylvania men who went missing, say all remains found on farm
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 04:24 PM
Jul 2017
Prosecutors charge two with killing Pennsylvania men who went missing, say all remains found on farm

By Joel Achenbach and Mark Berman July 14 at 2:35 PM

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Prosecutors on Friday charged two men with homicide and a host of other crimes in the killings of four people who went missing in Pennsylvania last week, setting off an intensive search that gripped this wealthy region north of Philadelphia.

Officials said that they had filed charges against a man who a day earlier confessed to his role in killing the missing four and another series of charges against another man who they said was involved in some of the deaths. ... Authorities said that the missing men were all shot after meetings with Cosmo Dinardo, the 20-year-old man at the center of the investigation, centered on marijuana deals.
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Dinardo had previously been the sole person of interest identified by authorities. In a court filing Friday, prosecutors charged him with two dozen total counts including four counts of criminal homicide, another four counts of conspiracy involving a criminal homicide and a range of counts relating to inflicting serious bodily injury and abusing a corpse. ... The prosecutor’s office also charged a second man, Sean M. Kratz, with three counts of homicide as well as similar charges levied against Dinardo, including inflicting serious bodily injury and abusing a corpse, according to another court filing.

According to prosecutors, Dinardo killed the first man who went missing — Jimi Patrick, 19 — and buried him in a grave on land owned by his parents. Dinardo and Kratz are both charged with three other slayings that followed two days later and accused of burying the three men in a group grave where human remains were found this week.
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Berman reported from Washington. Alice Crites in Washington contributed to this report.

Joel Achenbach covers science and politics for the National Desk. Achenbach also helms the "Achenblog." Follow @joelachenbach

Mark Berman covers national news for The Washington Post and anchors Post Nation, a destination for breaking news and stories from around the country. Follow @markberman
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