# Bucks County killings . . . strangerer and strangerer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2017, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066 "2017-07-12T08:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/81 "2017-07-17T21:02:03Z")
The New York Times reports that he was named after his grandfather. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/82 "2017-07-17T23:13:29Z")
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/83 "2017-07-18T01:15:34Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > The New York Times reports that he was named after his grandfather. What ever, he is certifiable bat shit crazy. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/84 "2017-07-18T01:41:11Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > The New York Times reports that he was named after his grandfather. Oh, _that_ Cosmo DiNardo. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/85 "2017-07-18T01:46:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What ever, he is certifiable bat shit crazy. You mean aside from having been involuntarily committed? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/86 "2017-07-18T02:55:04Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I knew nothing about this. [Here’s the story](http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/four-young-men-reported-missing-in-bucks-county-20170710.html) for anyone else like me. I live in the adjacent Montgomery County, and this is the first I’ve heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/87 "2017-07-18T04:01:09Z")
More detail about Cosmo here: [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/bucks-county-pennsylvania-murders-cosmo-dinardo-.html?\_r=0](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/bucks-county-pennsylvania-murders-cosmo-dinardo-.html?_r=0) What is the Seinfeld connection? I can only think of Cosmo Kramer. Was there another one? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/88 "2017-07-18T04:24:25Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > More detail about Cosmo here: [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/bucks-county-pennsylvania-murders-cosmo-dinardo-.html?\_r=0](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/bucks-county-pennsylvania-murders-cosmo-dinardo-.html?_r=0) > What is the Seinfeld connection? I can only think of Cosmo Kramer. Was there another one? I think people are making that connection because it may be the only other place they’ve heard that name. I live near Bucks County and Cosmo (or Kosmo), while not as common as John or David, is not all that unusual due to the large population of Italian descent. I often order from Kosmo’s Pizzeria. Why a New Yorker like Seinfeld would find that name especially funny or unusual I can’t say. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/89 "2017-07-19T03:23:00Z")
I just heard on my local news that Cosmo is claiming (bragging?) that he’s killed other people, and authorities are combing the files for cold cases that may match up with information he’s given them. :eek: This doesn’t surprise me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/90 "2017-07-19T03:27:22Z")
I still gotta think there’s no way his parents had no idea what was going on. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/91 "2017-07-19T13:26:39Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Twelve and a half was what I read. > > I don’t know what’s stranger. > [ol] > [li]Digging a grave (mass or otherwise) twelve feet deep.[/li][li]The police continuing to excavate beyond eight or so feet down.[/li][li]The police measuring (with a tape measure? Laser?) the depth to the half-foot.[/li][/ol] Re: The second point. They just didn’t want to fall for the dead dog technique of disposing a body. [ul] [li]Dig a deep hole[/li][li]Throw in the body[/li][li]Back fill a couple feet[/li][li]Throw in the dog[/li][li]Back fill to the top of the hole.[/li][/ul] The idea being, when they find the dog, most people stop looking. Measuring to the nearest half-foot is odd in any event. Maybe Mr. Spock was in charge. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/92 "2017-07-19T17:24:10Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > We’re discussing this extensively on another website, and we all think this is going to go much deeper than we think at the time - the evidence equivalent of the 12-foot hole, if you will. I for one don’t think this is the first time Cosmo has killed someone. I’m half and half on previous killings. The news has been weirdly quiet here in Bucks for a few days, I don’t know if it augurs a calm before another storm or signifies nothing . . . DiNardo is a braggart wanna-be-mafioso who is enjoying his moment of fame; he may be trying to extend the moment by claiming to have killed before (he’s also bat-shit crazy and might actually believe he is a serial killer). OTOH, he’s bat-shit crazy and perhaps has been practicing his “art” for longer than thought. Philly is full of disenfranchised, homeless folk whose murders aren’t really investigated. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/93 "2017-07-19T18:24:09Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > I’m half and half on previous killings. The news has been weirdly quiet here in Bucks for a few days, I don’t know if it augurs a calm before another storm or signifies nothing . . . For a story this big, it means exactly this. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/94 "2017-07-19T23:05:10Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I still gotta think there’s no way his parents had no idea what was going on. My daughter said the exact same thing. I’m curious about these other alleged murders he says he committed. Has there been any word if they were just random or people he had some acquaintance with? I’m not sure what to believe as far as if he even has killed before. The whole thing is just disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/95 "2017-07-20T01:37:35Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Then I remain a little confused. If the kid skipped bail, they were just going to bill him for the other $900K? Or was the other 90% from property rather than cash? > > I’m familiar with the “pay a bondsman a 10% fee to guarantee the full bail amount” model, but not the “your bail is set at $1 million, but we’ll be nice and let you put up $100K instead” model. Yes, it’s common. If you skip bail, the state gets the money either way. You have to guarantee the amount, so if you haven’t got property it doesn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/96 "2017-12-15T12:53:52Z")
[Arraignment](http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/cosmo-dinardo-and-sean-kratz-arraigned-on-murder-charges-20171214.html) yesterday. Death-penalty paperwork filed against both, but only will be used against Cosmo if he backs out of the agreement & doesn’t plead guilty/goes to trial. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066/97 "2017-12-16T09:00:10Z")
Brutal and bizarre. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bucks-county-killings-strangerer-and-strangerer/791066.md?page=4)