Cosmo DiNardo just confessed to killing the four missing men in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table.
One victim has been recovered and DiNardo has supposedly told FBI where the other three are buried/dumped. No more recovery will happen tonight, we’re experiencing a major storm.
A 12-foot deep common grave?? Good grief. 
This just in…
“Attorneys says person of interest in missing Penn. men confesses to role in killings”
And the dogs could still smell it. :eek:
I had a weird thought that I just posted on another board. Years ago, I worked with a woman who had lived in Texas during the 00s, and her husband was in the National Guard at the time. They were in charge of retrieving the wreckage and bodies when the space shuttle crashed; her husband found “something” and had to get counseling for PTSD. I’ll say what that “something” was in a PM.
Anyway, they were looking for 7 bodies, and found 9. :eek: :eek: They turned out to be victims of a serial killer who was in the area at the time, and they hadn’t even been reported missing yet when they were found.
I suspect that a big crime ring of some kind is about to collapse in on itself.
Some news outlets say that either one or two other people have been brought in for questioning. I do think it would have been very difficult to kill four people without assistance, but who knows?
Wow, finding murder victims amongst Space Shuttle remains.I was under the impression that there wasn’t much left of the astronauts . . .?
I’ll pass on the PTSD PM, the wife is a retired FDNY paramedic, so I have too many grody thinks in my brain already. 
Has there been any word about the motive? Was it a drug deal gone bad? I haven’t heard anything about that.
Speculation is that it was drugs and/or guns – DiNardo apparently thought of himself as quite the gangsta and was working on being some kind of kingpin. He is also alleged to have experienced a traumatic brain injury about six months ago that changed his behavior, but who knows. Schizophrenia has also been alleged, but in my experience schizophrenia usually isn’t the prime cause of violence (maybe one of our experts can weigh in on this?)
There may also be a connection to a very violent attack on a Temple U student (Philly) this year that his cousin was involved in and it’s related to eradicating witnesses.
Or he’s just a cold-blooded sociopath who decided it would be cool to feel what killing is like.
Due to extensive reading in your youth, right?
There has been a second arrest. It appears this is a “spree killing,” not a “mass killing.” It is shameful our culture has so many adjective to describe murders.
Do you have a link? I couldn’t find anything via Google.
It was on Philly Dot Com when I woke up two hours ago. But, that is now overcome by events. Seems the guy has admitted to four killings.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pa-man-admits-murders-4-men-found-grave-farm-article-1.3322623
From Philly the headline says he says he had help…
The main details of the case now seem clear.
The killer sold each of the men marijuana. He then killed each one separately. (No word on weapon.) He says he had help. He then burned and buried three of the bodies on his parents’ property. In exchange for no death penalty, he has confessed and will help police to find the remaining body.
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]
I’m still trying to understand a motive. He sold them dope and then killed them? He was a killer and lured them with the marijuana? The deals sent south? He was just crazy and/or damaged?
Whoa. Apparently I flirt with a violent death on a regular basis.:eek:
Name someone “Cosmo DeNardo” and you are just asking for trouble.
So is Cosmo still out on bail? I can’t find any news stories that say he’s been re-arrested (for the third time).
It was real nice of his folks to bail him out twice, at considerable expense. I’m wondering, however, who would be willing to sleep in the same house as this guy at this point.
I’m also curious about the 12.5’ hole. Poor people have to be satisfied with burying their victims in shallow graves.
Just heard on AP Radio News that he killed them when he felt cheated or threatened. I wouldn’t be surprised if schizophrenia influenced those decisions.
I was drawn to a line in one of the linked articles that said DiNardo sold marijuana in quarter-pound quantities for “several thousand dollars”. Now, that’s either some VERY good marijuana or a REALLY bad deal.