PA BOYS TIMELINE:
updated July 17, 2017
July 5th, Wednesday - 6pm Day 1 - Jimi Patrick, a 19-year-old who lives
with his grandparents in Newtown Township, leaves his home at 6 p.m. He
recently completed his first year at Loyola University in Maryland.
He agrees to meet with Cosmo Dinardo, 20, to buy 4 pounds of marijuana for
$8,000, according to a criminal complaint.
Article link: http://www.cbs46.com/story/35896178/10-days-of-horror-the-
killings-that-stunned-small-town-pennsylvania#ixzz4n5GKOrjN
Complaint link:
https://bucks.crimewatchpa.com/sites/default/files/29567/post/attachments/din
ardo_documents.pdf
On this evening, Dinardo picks up Patrick at his grandparents' home in
Newtown and they drive to Dinardo's parents' sprawling farmland in Solebury
Township, according to a criminal complaint.
He takes Patrick to a remote part of the property, where Patrick says he only has
$800. Dinardo offers to sell Patrick a shotgun for that money, gives him the
weapon, and then shoots and kills him with a .22-caliber rifle, Dinardo tells
detectives after his arrest.
Dinardo drives the property's backhoe to that remote location and digs a hole
about six feet deep, puts Patrick's body in the ground, and buries him, the
complaint states.
July 6, Thursday Day 2 - Richard Patrick contacts Newtown Twp Police
Dept. to report his grandson 19-year-old Jimi Patrick missing. (time unknown)
July 7, Friday - ~6:30pm/7pm Day 3 -
Dinardo sets up two other drug
deals, according to a criminal complaint. He first agrees to meet with Dean
Finocchiaro, a 19-year-old from Middletown Township, and sell him a quarter-
pound of marijuana for about $700.
Before the meeting, Dinardo picks up his cousin Sean Kratz, according to a
complaint.
The cousins drive to Finocchiaro's home, pick him up and bring him back to the
Dinardo's family property. Finocchiaro is last seen at about 6:30 p.m.
getting into a vehicle, police later said, though they did not provide any details
about the vehicle.
Also Bonie Finocchiaro contacts Middletown Twp Police Dept. to report her 19
year-old son, Dean Finocchiaro missing, last seen on July 7th, and did not show
up for work that night. (time unknown)
July 7, Friday - 6:53 p.m.: Meo's girlfriend received a final text message from him. She later told police she had not been able to get in contact with him since then, which is "out of the ordinary and not common," according to a police criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Sturgis, a good friend of Meo, was last seen. Sturgis told his father he was going to meet up with Meo, his family told police.
Finocchiaro was also last seen.
July 7, Friday - 7:49pm -
Later the same day, Dinardo makes plans to
sell marijuana to Thomas Meo, a 21-year-old from Plumstead Township,
according to a criminal complaint. Meo is with his friend and co-worker Mark
Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg.
Dinardo meets with Meo and Sturgis, and they follow him in Meo's 1996
Nissan Maxima to Dinardo's family home. A mobile license plate reader spots
Dinardo's vehicle, a Silver 2016 Ford pickup truck, in Solebury Township at
7:49 p.m. The plate reader also spots Meo's Nissan Maxima seconds later,
according to the complaint.
After arriving at the house, Meo and Sturgis get into Dinardo's truck and drive
to the family's farmland property, where Kratz remained. As Meo and Sturgis exit
the truck, Dinardo shoots Meo in the back, Dinardo later tells police. Meo
collapses to the ground, screaming.
Sturgis starts to run away and Dinardo shoots at him, striking and killing him.
Dinardo, out of ammunition, gets in the backhoe and drives over Meo, crushing
him to death, the complaint states.
Dinardo uses the backhoe to pick up Meo and Sturgis and put their bodies in the
same metal tank where he earlier had placed Finocchiaro's body. He pours
gasoline into the metal tank and lights it, a complaint states.
Dinardo and Kratz then leave the farm without burying the burned bodies of the
three men.
July 8, Saturday Day 4 - Melissa Fretanduno-Meo contacts Plumstead Twp
Police Dept. to report her 21 year-old missing. Thomas did not show up for
work that day.
In the afternoon, Dinardo and Kratz return to the farm and use the backhoe to
dig a 12.5-foot-deep hole -- about 1/2-mile away from Patrick's grave -- and
bury the "pig roaster" containing the charred bodies of Finocchiaro, Meo and
Sturgis, the complaint states.
At about 5 p.m., Dinardo contacts an unidentified male friend in Bensalem.
They meet up and Dinardo offers to sell him a 1996 Nissan Maxima for $500 --
Meo's vehicle, according to a complaint.
July 9, Sunday Day 5 - Mark Sturgis' family report him missing to the
Pennsyvania State Police, after Mark did not show up for work with Thomas.
(time unknown)
July 9, Sunday - 2:10am -
Police locate Sturgis' vehicle in an area
known as Peddler's Village in Bucks County at 2:10 a.m., less than two miles
from where the men were killed, a complaint states.
July 9, Sunday - ~ 4am -
Two hours later, investigators locate Meo's
1996 Nissam Maxima at Dinardo's family home in Solesbury Township. The keys
and title to the vehicle, still in Meo's name, hang on the wall inside the garage of
the property, a complaint states.
July 9, Sunday - 2:30pm -
Bucks County detectives interview Dinardo
at 2:30 p.m., questioning about his interactions with Dean Finocchiaro on the
night he went missing. Dinardo tells police that he picked up Finocchiaro at his
home at about 7:00 p.m. on July 7 and that Finocchiaro asked him to drive to
Langhorne for "a big coke deal," the complaint states.
He says he made Finocchiaro get out of his truck and then went fishing. Dinardo
denied to police that he was in the Solebury Township area that evening.
July 9, Sunday - ~4:30pm -
Later that afternoon, Bucks County
detectives interview Dinardo's friend from Bensalem (KBM-Known Bensalem
Male). He tell them that Dinardo offered to sell him an older-model Nissan
Maxima, according to the criminal complaint. KBM received a call from
Dinardo on July 8 at approximately 5pm.
July 10, Monday - Day 6 - Search warrant to search property at 6xxx
Lower York Rd in Solebury Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Deep grave found
on property.
Investigators search several locations for evidence. But a signal from one of
the missing men's cell phones leads them to the Dinardo family's farmland
property, according to CNN affiliate WPVI. They execute a search warrant there, a
complaint states, hoping to find the men alive.
The same day, police arrest Dinardo for the unrelated and formerly dismissed
firearms charge dating back to February. His bail is set at $1 million.
July 11, Tuesday Day 7 - Dad bails out Cosmo.
July 12, Wednesday Day 8 - With pressure mounting to find the missing
men, Weintraub announces that officers have recovered several important pieces
of evidence but that the investigation remains "wide open."
Police later re-arrest Dinardo for allegedly stealing and then trying to sell
Meo's vehicle one day after he went missing, according to a criminal
complaint.Not long after, investigators discover the body of Finocchiaro, as well
as other unidentified human remains, in a 12.5-foot-deep grave on the farmland
property. The other remains are later identified as Meo and Sturgis.[/i]
July 12, Wednesday - 12 midnight - DA press conference announces
discovery of the grave.
July 13, Thursday - Day 9 - Detectives interview Dinardo a second time.
Confesses his and Kratz's involvement in murders. Tells detectives where
Patrick's body is.
~ 9:20pm - After confession Sean Kratz is detained and interviewed.
Patrick's body unearthed from grave site.
July 14, Friday Day 10 - DA's office files multiple charges against Dinardo and
Kratz.
Dinardo faces four criminal homicide charges, and Kratz faces three criminal
homicide charges, according to a criminal complaint.
In court judge enters not guilty plea on defendants' behalf and orders them held
without bail.
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