Investigators found the body of one of four missing young men, along with other human remains, buried on a Pennsylvania farm, and vowed to "bring each and every one of these lost boys home to their families."Rico says that the phrase 'foul play is suspected' keeps turning up in this story, like anything else was possible... (Given their photos, Rico suspected homosexual behavior here, but apparently it was multiple drug deals gone bad...)
Cadaver dogs led them to the spot on the ninety-acre farm in Solebury Township, where they discovered human remains inside a twelve-foot-deep common grave.
"I don't understand the science behind it, but those dogs could smell these poor boys twelve feet below the ground," Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said at a midnight news conference.
The body identified was that of nineteen-year-old Dean Finocchiaro. Weintraub did not say how he died. The other remains have not yet been identified. The missing men are 22-year-old Mark Sturgis, 21-year-old Tom Meo, and 19-year-old Jimi Tar Patrick. Patrick, who attended a Catholic high school for boys with the man authorities consider a suspect, was last seen Wednesday, while the other three vanished Friday. "This is a homicide; make no mistake about it; we just don't know how many," Weintraub said.
Authorities said they are looking at pursuing homicide charges against a twenty-year-old man who was taken into custody earlier Wednesday, whose parents own the farm. Cosmo DiNardo was being held on five million dollars cash bail after he was charged with trying to sell another victim's car after he had disappeared. The car was found on the DiNardo family's property.
DiNardo also had been arrested Monday and held on one million dollars bail on an unrelated gun charge before his father paid a hundred thousand dollars to bail him out Tuesday. The charge stems from accusations that DiNardo was caught with a shotgun and ammunition in February despite a prior mental health commitment.
The back-to-back arrests bought investigators time as they scoured the farm and other spots across the county for clues to the men's disappearance, Weintraub said.
DiNardo's parents, Antonio and Sandra DiNardo, own the farm in upper Bucks County, a bucolic area with rolling hillsides, new housing developments, and historic sites. They also own a nearby farm parcel that was also searched and a concrete company near their home in Bensalem, closer to Philadelphia.
An attorney representing the couple issued a statement earlier Wednesday, saying they sympathize with the families of the missing men and are cooperating "in every way possible with the investigation."
The FBI had been using heavy equipment to dig a deep ditch on the farm property, and then sifting through each bucket of dirt by hand.At least some of the missing men are friends, but it's unclear how well they knew DiNardo, if at all.
14 July 2017
Missing, but not forgotten
Bob Lentz, Maryclaire Dale have an Associated Press article about the case of four young men, missing in New Hope, Pennsylvania:
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