He also led investigators to a home in Montgomery County where they found two firearms, the document says. Kratz says he shot no one, the complaint states, but was charged in connection with the deaths of three of them. In a police interview, he described how Dinardo shot Finocchiaro, Meo and Strugis and how his cousin disposed of the bodies, the document states. Kratz told detectives he and Dinardo discussed robbing three of the missing men prior to the killings, the criminal complaint says. The family acknowledged receiving the letter, the source said. The university sent a verified letter to Dinardo’s family saying that if he were to return to campus it would be considered trespassing because he was no longer a student. The school’s public safety office and local police were contacted. None of the interactions were violent, threatening, or confrontational but nonetheless it unnerved several individuals, the source said. He returned the fall of 2016 presumably to re-enroll at the school but he had verbal interactions with several members of the university community, the source said. It was unclear what Dinardo was doing after he left the school. The charge was reinstated on July 10 and, and that reinstatement led to Dinardo’s arrest the same day.ĭinardo also had issues at a Pennsylvania school.ĭinardo was a student for one semester at Arcadia University in Glenside during the fall of 2015, a source at the university told CNN. The charge was initially dismissed because there was an issue with the mental health paperwork and with testimony regarding Dinardo’s mental health in an involuntary commitment to a mental institution on July 12, 2016, Harran said. He is prohibited to carry a gun because he is “known to be suffering from mental illness” and had been involuntary committed to a mental institution, the affidavit related to that offense says. Dinardo said in that interview that he shot Finocchiaro only after Kratz had shot the victim in the head.ġ0 days of horror: The killings that stunned small-town Pennsylvaniaĭinardo was charged in February with a gun possession charge. In a second police interview, Dinardo told detectives he killed three of the men but claimed that it was Kratz who shot and killed Finocchiaro.
When first questioned, Dinardo claimed – the complaint states – that he was at home after a fishing outing on July 7, the day three of the men disappeared. Investigators said Dinardo, 20, lied to them during an initial police interview and days later, confessed to the killings of the missing men, according to a police criminal complaint. Kratz didn’t have an attorney at his court appearance Friday. A judge has entered not-guilty pleas on their behalf. Here’s what we know about Dinardo and Kratz, who are charged with multiple homicides. What we know and don’t know about the case of four slain Pennsylvania men Little is known about the relationship between the suspects and the victims, but details about the men who are charged in connection with the killings are becoming public. Before four men in Pennsylvania vanished last week, they were enticed to meet with Cosmo Dinardo in hopes of buying marijuana, Bucks County officials said.īut Dinardo or his cousin – Sean Kratz – allegedly shot them.ĭinardo’s attorney, Paul Lang, said Thursday that his client confessed to participating in the killings of Jimi Patrick, 19 Mark Sturgis, 22 Dean Finocchiaro, 19 and Thomas Meo, 21.
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