Two men charged with killing four in Pennsylvania

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Two men charged with killing four in Pennsylvania

By Gina Cherelus

 

Bucks County District Attorney's Office photos show L-R, top row: Dean Finocchiaro, 18, and Tom Meo, 21, L-R bottom row: Jimi Patrick, 19, and Mark Sturgis, 22 as authorities say they are searching for the four missing men in Bucks County, about 40 miles north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. on July 11, 2017. Courtesy Bucks County District Attorney's Office/Handout via REUTERS

 

(Reuters) - Two Pennsylvania men were charged with multiple counts of homicide on Friday in connection with the murders of four young men found buried on a farm north of Philadelphia, prosecutors said.

 

Cosmo Dinardo, 20, and Sean Kratz, 20, were accused of shooting and killing three of the men, while Dinardo alone was accused of killing the fourth, according to Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub.

 

The bodies of the men, aged 19 to 22, who had been missing since last week, were found on a farm owned by Dinardo's parents in Solebury, Pennsylvania.

 

The victims were identified as Dean Finocchiaro, 19, of Middletownship; Mark Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg; Thomas Meo, 21, of Plumstead Township; and Jimi Patrick, 19, of Newtown.

 

Weintraub told a news conference on Friday that he did not know the motive behind the murders.

 

Kratz, of Philadelphia, was arrested on Thursday hours after Dinardo, of Bensalam, confessed to the murders, authorities said.

 

On Wednesday, investigators found three bodies in a common grave under an oil tank on the farm. The fourth body was found buried nearby, prosecutors said.

 

Weintraub said that Dinardo confessed to his role in the murders to avoid the death penalty. He said Dinardo led authorities to the fourth body.

 

According to an arrest affidavit, Dinardo told police he had agreed to sell marijuana to the men on three occasions at the property. Dinardo said that on July 5th he had planned to sell Patrick four pounds of marijuana for $8,000. However, the buyer only had $800 when he came to make the exchange, the affidavit said.

 

"Dinardo offered to sell him a shotgun for that amount," prosecutors said in a statement on Friday. "They walked to a remote part of the property, where Dinardo said he fatally shot Patrick with a .22 calibre rifle."

 

The other three men were fatally shot when they went to the farm on July 7 to buy marijuana from Dinardo, who was joined by Kratz, prosecutors said.

 

Dinardo was charged with four counts each of criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit homicide, three counts of robbery and abuse of a corpse. Kratz was charged with three counts of criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse and robbery.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-07-15

[tonray]

Nice American boys, great society we have built. Never going back.

[jak2002003]

9 minutes ago, tonray said:

Nice American boys, great society we have built. Never going back.

Agree.  Now we need to Thai bashers to see this... as they seem to think only these things happen with Thai men.

 

 

[tonray]

6 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Agree.  Now we need to Thai bashers to see this... as they seem to think only these things happen with Thai men.

 

 

I know that area too, somewhat affluent, a bunch of stupid, rich kids buying drugs from someone they connected to on Facebook. This is far more common than people realize and usually it's not just marijuana. Stupid bunch of <deleted>.

[Jonnapat]

Judging from the daily ''death news" it seems difficult to choose between the USA and Thailand for the number 1 spot in this particular sport.

[Foozool]

Do they think before they attempt such murders ? I guess not, because most probably they are under influence.