Cosmo DiNardo; suspected serial killer

Four men went missing last week and Cosmo DiNardo is their suspected killer according to the Tribunist. The missing men are Jimi Tar Patrick, 19, Dean Finocchiaro, 19, Mark Sturgis, 22, and Tom Meo, 21. They were last seen on July 7th. DiNardo became a suspect when he tried to sell a car belonging to one of his victims for $500.

Finocchiaro’s body was discovered on DiNardo’s parents’ property buried in a hole twelve feet deep.

DiNardo has been diagnosed with schizophrenia which prevents him from purchasing weapons, however, he is well known throughout his community as someone that can get you whatever gun you need. In fact, he was arrested on weapons charges in February, but the local magistrate dismissed those charges late last month…for some reason – just weeks before his four victims disappeared.

From Philly.com;

Eric Beitz, 20, of Bensalem, said Wednesday that he and his friends had hung out often in recent weeks with Cosmo DiNardo, and said DiNardo came off as agreeable on the surface but routinely sold firearms, spoke about killing people, and seemed to have “ulterior motives.”

“I can tell you on multiple different occasions, on multiple different accounts, from multiple different people, including myself – Cosmo has spoken about weird things like killing people and having people killed,” Beitz said. “Everybody you talk to about this guy, you hear he’s mentally unstable.”

Yet a local magistrate dismissed weapons charges against him. DiNardo would pop hot on a NICS check but he was buying and selling guns illegally without a background check. They missed their chance to lock his ass up last month, but I guess they felt sorry for him and let him loose.

Beitz recalled DiNardo’s offering to sell another friend a shotgun at their first meeting. He said that DiNardo had bragged about having someone killed because of a dispute over $800, and that DiNardo said he only gave his phone number out to “people who kill people.”

He sold “rifles, shotguns, handguns… assault rifles. Whatever he could get his hands on. He would kind of brag about it, too,” Beitz said. He said DiNardo routinely sent them photos of himself posing with guns.

According to another Philly.com link DiNardo was arrested earlier this week on the charge that was dropped last month;

DiNardo was originally arrested for allegedly possessing a shotgun and ammunition he was not permitted to have because he had a “mental illness” and had been involuntarily committed to an inpatient treatment facility, according to a criminal complaint filed in February.

Yeah, the government will protect us if we all give up our guns.

UPDATES: Inside Edition reports that DiNardo confessed to the murders in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. His lawyer says that DiNardo “feels deep remorse” for the murders. Other remains were found late yesterday in his 12-foot pit.

Fox News reports that a second “person of interest” is in custody.

The Washington Post says Sean M. Kratz was charged with three counts of homicide in the case, as DiNardo’s accomplice.

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