15 July, 2017
Cosmo DiNardo, 20, lives with his family on the farmland in Solebury, Pennsylvania, where human remains were discovered in a 12.5ft-deep grave.
Matthew Weintraub, the Bucks County District Attorney, said they believe four men are acquainted with each other, but that this information still needs to be confirmed.
The victims were 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro, 19; Mark Sturgis, 22; Tom Meo, 21, and Jimi Taro Patrick, 19. The missing men were last seen last week, and one body in the grave has been identified as that of Dean Finocchiaro, 19.
Officials say a person of interest, Cosmo DiNardo, was re-arrested, Wednesday. this time for allegedly stealing a vehicle registered to Meo.who was reported missing on June 8.
Dinardo, the son, has been arrested for trying to sell a auto belonging to one of the missing men, Thomas Meo.
Investigators are searching a property that belongs to the DiNardo family. Jimi Tar Patrick, 19, was last seen on Wednesday.
According to a report by The Intelligencer based in Doylestown, Bucks County, DiNardo's defense attorney said Thursday his client confessed to his "participation or commission in the murders of four young men."
Weintraub said the investigation doesn't focus exclusively on Dinardo and "is still wide open". "But if others arise and we can name them, we will", he said. Lang also said DiNardo is remorseful over the crime.
When Meo and Sturgis got out of the auto, DiNardo said he shot Meo in the back and then shot Sturgis who was trying to run away, according to the district attorney's office.
Four Pennsylvania men have gone missing in the last week, prompting an extensive investigation from local and state authorities, along with the FBI.
Authorities said all four victims had been positively identified.
DiNardo, 20, who once sold guns and marijuana and bragged about having someone killed over a debt, was arrest on a $5 million cash bail. "Make no doubt about it", said the district attorney in a press conference on Wednesday night. DiNardo is prohibited from possessing a firearm because he has a mental illness and had previously been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility.
"It's 90-plus acres, and we are going through it with the equivalent of a fine-tooth comb", Weintraub said.
