BUCKS COUNTY HORROR: THE PIG ROASTER MURDERS OF COSMO DINARDO

Four young men disappear in Bucks County, Pennsylvania after setting out to buy marijuana. What police called a drug deal gone wrong soon turns into one of the most disturbing true crime cases in Pennsylvania history.

In this episode of Crimery, host Tim Novotney goes deep into the Cosmo DiNardo case, the murders of Jimi Patrick, Dean Finocchiaro, Tom Meo, and Mark Sturgis, and the terrifying question at the center of it all: was this really just a failed weed deal, or was something much darker happening on that 90-acre family farm?

This is the case of the Pig Roaster Murders — a wealthy Bucks County family, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic son with dozens of police contacts, a missed warrant, a backhoe, a burn tank, and four victims who never should have died.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• How Cosmo DiNardo lured four young men to his family’s Bucks County farm
• Why the official “drug deal gone wrong” theory doesn’t fully explain the killings
• The role of Sean Kratz and the confession tapes that shocked Pennsylvania
• How a missed gun warrant may have changed everything
• Why this case says as much about money, privilege, and system failure as it does about murder

If you follow true crime podcasts, Pennsylvania murder cases, Bucks County crime, or the Cosmo DiNardo murders, this episode is for you.

Host: Tim Novotney
Show: Crimery
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Transcript

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So I want to tell you about the time a guy cooked people in a pig roaster. And before you say anything, yeah, I know, but stay with me. This didn't happen in some swamp. This didn't happen in the middle of nowhere. This happened in one of the wealthiest, most beautiful zip codes in Pennsylvania. Horse farms, covered bridges, the kind of place where Bradley Cooper buys a$6.5 million estate because it's quiet. And the guy who did it, a scholarship kid. Catholic school, anti-drug task force, township volunteer award, his neighbors wrote letters to the judge about what a good boy he was. Four young men are dead, and the official explanation is drug deal gone wrong. I've spent a lot of time with this case, and by the end of this episode, I'm going to tell you what I think was actually going on. Because drug deal gone wrong is not the answer. It's a placeholder. I'm Tim Novotny, and this is Crimary. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 30 miles north of Philly, right on the Delaware River. If you've never been, picture the most painfully charming place you've ever seen and then add money. Stone farmhouses from the 1700s, rolling hills, horse farms, people have been farming this land since William Penn, and somehow it still looks like a postcard. We're talking about Salisbury Township specifically. The median household income is$185,000. Poverty rate is non-existent. Medium household value, brace yourself for this, is$730,000, which is ridiculous. The high school is ranked fourth in the entire state. 70% of the students at the high school take AP courses. Crime rate is a joke, and the biggest emergency the township government plans for is snowplows hitting your mailbox. They have literally written it into their policies. That's the vibe. Bradley Cooper lives here. Zane Malik from One Direction has a farm here. Chickens, turtles, the whole thing. He told an interviewer, it's just quiet, no human beings. A great place to reflect. And when a guy who played sold-out stadiums on five continents chooses Bucks County to be left alone, that tells you what kind of left alone this place offers. Now, a few miles west, there's a place called Pedlar's Village in Lahaska. Brick walkways, colonial buildings, a carousel from 1922, 2 million visitors a year. It's actually the third most visited attraction in the Philadelphia region. It's the most aggressively wholesome place on earth. The kind of place where you buy fudge and your grandmother cries because she's so happy. Two of the victims in this case met their killer at Peddler's Village on Friday night in July near the carousel, and I want you to hold that image. Deeper in Salisbury, it's all big parcels behind long driveways, properties you cannot see from the road. Someone can own 90 acres out here, and it doesn't even come up in a conversation. People review this area on Google and write things like, it feels like the rest of the world doesn't exist out here. One of those back roads, Lower York Road, there's a farm, 90 acres, long driveways, no name on the mailbox, just fading numbers and a broken post. And that's where all this happened. Here's what I need you to understand right up front. This entire story is about four guys who wanted to buy weed. That's it. Not hard drugs, not guns, not some criminal enterprise, weed. They heard there was this guy in the area who can get it for them and they went to go buy some from him. Millions of people have done this, or you know someone who has done this. There were zero reasons for any of them to think anything would go wrong, especially in this area. Jimmy Taro Patrick, 19 in Newtown. Jimmy's mom had schizophrenia. Bad her whole life. His dad was never around, and his grandparents, Sharon and Rich, raised him from a baby. Good kids, scholarship to Loyola, Maryland. The package was over$50,000 a year and he made the dean's list. And here's the connection. Jimmy went to Holy Ghost Prep in Bensalem, same school as Cosmo Donardo, one year behind him, and they knew each other. The criminal complaint lays this out. Donardo agreed to sell Jimmy four pounds of weed for$8,000. He drove to Jimmy's grandparents' house in Newtown, picked him up, drove him out to the farm. Think about how normal that sounds. A kid you went to high school with pulls up to your house to take you to pick up some weed. You get in the car, why wouldn't you? Dean Fanacchiaro, 19 Middletown Township. Dean was the kid who never stopped moving. Wheelie sneakers to scooters to skateboards to ice hockey to snowboards. His mom said the kid just went from one thing to the next his entire life. He was working at an ice cream shop in Levytown. A co-worker said he had a smile that would just hug you. The Bob Marley quote on his funeral program love the life you live. And here's what matters about Dean. The criminal complaint says Denaro described him as being like a cousin, like family, and the affidavit says Denaro agreed to sell Dean a quarter pound for about$700. Dean's not going to meet some stranger in a field, he's going to buy weed from a guy he considers family. Denaro and his cousin Kratz picked Dean up from his house. His house, his mom's house, he got in the car right out front, and that's how safe this felt. Tom Mio, 21, Plumstead. Tom worked two jobs, construction for his best friend's dad's company and the overnight at a gas station in Doylestown. He was diabetic, insulin pump, glucose kit, carried it with him all the time. And I need you to hear this part. His family said Tom did not go anywhere without that kit. Not to the store, not to a friend's house, nowhere. And that detail is going to matter more than almost anything else in this case. According to court documents, the deal was set up between Denardo and Tom directly. Tom was the contact, and Tom brought his best friend along for the ride. Last thing Tom said at work, his co-workers were talking about what makes them happy, and Tom said, Money doesn't make me happy. My family and friends do. Mark Sturgis, 22, Pensburg. Mark and Tom were best friends since they were kids. Worked construction together every day. Mark's dad said he played guitar like a pro. Stairway to Heaven was his song, and his mom told a story about first grade. A classmate dropped his Mother's Day flower pot walking out of school and the kids crying. And Mark switched the pots, gave the other kid his perfect one, and brought his mom home the broken flower pot. And here's the thing about Mark that I keep coming back to. The affidavit is clear. The deal was between Donardo and Tom. Mark was not even part of any of this. He wasn't buying, he wasn't selling, he was just hanging out with his best friend Tom on Friday night in July and went along for the ride. That's it, that's why he's dead. The Donardos, Tony, Antonio, built everything from nothing, concrete and construction. Him and his wife Sandra built their own neighborhood in Ben Salem Township. All eight houses, including their own, built 30 plus more homes around Philly, a dialysis clinic, and I swear to God this is real, a treatment center for troubled teens, a place where kids with problems go to live and get help. And they called it the bridge. In 2005, they bought 90 acres in Salisbury. Farm property. That was for hunting, ATV riding. They also had a second property nearby on Aquitong Road, a house, a shed, and a long driveway where you could stash something and nobody would ever see it. And the whole family operated heavy equipment. That's the business. Concrete, construction, and back hose. And Sandra had a carry permit for a 357 revolver. Remember that gun, it's the murder weapon. Now let's get on to Cosmo. Cosmo Donardo, born 1997, oldest of four kids. And look, if you stop reading in 2015, the kid's life story reads like a college omissions brochure. Straight A student, scholarship to Arcadia University, wanted to be an orthodontist. His senior year at Holy Ghost Prep, this is the same school as Jimmy Patrick, he was on the Ben Salem Township's Antidrug and Alcohol Task Force. The Anti-Drug Task Force. He won the Township Award for Rebuilding a Church, and his dad told Philadelphia magazine, my son was supposed to be the mayor of this town. The mayor of the town. May 2016. ATV accident on the farm. Pinned under the vehicle for hours. Compound fractures, head injury, wheelchair, and according to his mother, within weeks the son she knew was gone. He stopped eating her food because he was convinced that she was poisoning him. He gained close to 100 pounds on medications and started hearing voices. He told his doctors, and this is from the medical records, that his legs cast was bugged by Russian spies. And that his mother was a Russian spy. And get this, he also thought that the casts on his legs were Russian spies. So they were bugged by Russian spies and they were Russian spies themselves. Now I want to be clear, mental illness is not a joke and it's not a motive. But I need you to see what the system was looking at and what it was choosing to ignore. This is not a guy who quietly struggled. This is a guy setting off every alarm there is. Diagnosed, paranoid, schizophrenia. Three involuntary commitments over the next five months. Man, did that friggin' ATV accident mess him up. He threw a wheelchair at a staff member. He showed up to his old high school acting erratic and they banned him from it. Arcadia University sent a certified letter saying, Come back and it's criminal trespassing. His mother Sandra went to 10 psychiatrists at eight hospitals. Her words, I don't know if there's help for mental illness. I've tried to get help, but there was no help out there. And I thought about that quote because she's not wrong. She went to 10 doctors and not one of them stopped what was coming. And that is frightening. December 2016. Cosmo attacks his father in a moving truck. Like, just out of nowhere, beats him up, comes after Sandra. Tony hits Cosmo in the head with a brick. The neighbors call the cops because they see the family running down the street from their own son. That's crazy. Third commitment, hospital notes, delusional, grandiose, manic, hyperverbal, thoughts of suicide, and fleeting thoughts of homicide. He told hospital staff directly, if I had a gun, I'd kill them all. That is in the file. In a hospital on December 16th, seven months before four people are dead. His psychiatrist at UPenn, Dr. Christian Kohler, from the very first session documented that Cosmo had chased his own father with an AR-15, but decided not to kill him. That is in session one notes. That's what the doctor wrote down before he even started treatment. And by June 2017, Kohler declared Cosmo in full remission and started pulling him off his medications. Meanwhile, and this is according to the Bucks County Courier Times, Ben Salem police had 88 documented incidents involving the Denaro household going back to 1998. 40 of them involved Cosmo specifically. He threatened a man with a rifle over a dirt bike dispute. He paced outside a neighborhood's house in the dark until after they called 911. 14 incidents in a single year before the murders, and in May 2017, he was arrested for illegally carrying a shotgun, which is a federal offense when you've been involuntarily committed. And a judge dismissed the charge. Dismissed it. The DA refiled it on June 21st. The warrant sat there. Nobody picked him up. He wasn't arrested on it until July 10th, three days after the first murder. If somebody had ever served that warrant when it was filed, there's a real possibility that four people would be alive today. That's not me being dramatic. That is the calendar. 40 police encounters, zero convictions, not one. His dad had money, lawyers, and a name in the community, and every single time it went away. And here's the thing the official record doesn't emphasize. According to the confession tapes obtained by NBC 10, Donardo told investigators he was a middleman for drug deals. He was selling weed and guns off the family farm. People in the community knew this. A friend of his named Eric Bitz told the Philadelphia Inquirer on multiple different occasions from multiple different people, including myself, Cosmo has spoken about weird things like killing people and having killed people. Everybody you talk to about this guy, you hear he is mentally unstable. People knew this, but nobody stopped it. Then comes Wednesday, July 5th, Jimmy Patrick. The affidavit lays out what happened. Denaro agrees to sell Jimmy 4 pounds of weed for$8,000. Then Denaro gets in his car and drives to Newtown and picks Jimmy up at his grandparents' house and brings him out to 6071 Lower York Road in Salisbury. They get there, Jimmy only has$800. And here's Denaro on the confession tape. So we get there, and I said, okay, well let me see the$8,000. So I go to count the money, and there's$800 there. So I'm like, dude, if you don't have the money, like this is horrible. This is not good for me. So he pivots, tells Jimmy, I'll sell you a shotgun for$800 instead. Walks him out to a remote part of the property and hands him a 12 gauge. And while the 19-year-old Jimmy Patrick is holding the shotgun, Denaro shoots him in the back with a 22 caliber rifle. On the confession tape, I go, get the backhoe, dig a hole, say a prayer, and put him in the hole. Said a prayer, put him in a hole, and then he burned Jimmy's$800. He told detectives, I don't want the kid's$800. I didn't kill him over$800. I wasn't robbing him. So what was it then? Because the official record says it was a drug deal gone wrong. But the guy just told you on tape it wasn't about the money. So what was it about? He drove home and then at 1.19 a.m., hours after burying a 19-year-old kid on his family's property? Cosmo Gennaro posts to his Facebook a question Best methods to fall asleep, question mark. Other than the awful tasting tea. Oh, and working out doesn't make me tired, FYI. I've stared at that screenshot more times than I probably should admit. 2,000 people scrolled past that. Somebody probably recommended melatonin, and Jimmy Patrick was six feet underground in a field a half mile away. Thursday, July 6th, the next day, the single day between Murder 1 and Murder 2, 3, and 4. Sandra drives her son to UPenn, Dr. Kohler's office. It's a routine psychiatric appointment. And Kohler declares Cosmo in full remission. This is literally right after he murdered someone, and he stops the medication entirely. And the session notes say, no clear risk to self or to others. Before the appointment, while sitting in the waiting room, Cosmo uses his iPad to Google the Soup Maker cartel. It's a Mexican drug cartel known for dissolving bodies and barrels of acid. Over 300 victims. He Googled that in the waiting room and then walked in and told his psychiatrist he was doing great, then drove home with his mom. Also that day, according to NBC 10, Denaro went grocery shopping, spent nearly$300 on steaks and fish for his family. There is a body buried on the farm, and this man is buying ribeyes. Friday, July 7th. Three more. According to the affidavit, Denaro agreed to sell Dean Finacchiaro a quarter pound of marijuana for about$700. But before picking Dean up, he calls his cousin Sean Kratz. He's 20 years old, he's from Northeast Philly. Petty theft, burglaries. Kratz has been shot 19 times in an unrelated incident earlier that year, and, miraculously, he survived, and he was out on bail. On the drive to Dean's house, according to the criminal complaint, Denaro and Kratz agree, they both are going to rob Dean. Denaro hands Kratz his mother's 357 revolver, Sandra's carry gun, stolen from her. They pick Dean up from his house in Middletown. The kid who thinks Cosmo is like a cousin drives him out to the farm. According to the confession tapes, the three of them end up in a barn on the property. They're hanging out, looking at Denaro's Vespa. Think about that. Three guys in a barn looking at a scooter, bullshitting about nothing. Dean has zero idea what is coming. He thinks he is with family. Then Dean walks out. Kratz on the confession tape. I kinda was hesitant. I pulled the gun out. I aimed it in the air, closed my eyes, and fired a shot. The bullet hit Dean Fanacchiaro in the head. Denaro took the gun and shot Dean again on the ground. On the tape, his head was split the hell open. According to NBC 10, Kratz ran out of the barn shaking and vomiting. And Denaro walked out laughing, joking that Kratz had never seen a dead body before. They took$200 off Dean's body. That's it. Denaro wraps him in a blue tarp, tries to drag him out of the barn, but the tarp catches on a nail. So he gets the backhoe. He puts Dean's body into a metal tank on the property, and in his confession, Denaro had a name for that tank. He called it the Pig Roaster. Now later that same night, the court documents show Denaro had a separate deal set up with Tom Mio. But, as luck has it, Tom Mio brings Mark Sturgis. Mark's not part of the deal. He's just along for the ride. The affidavit says they meet at a church parking lot near Peddler's Village. That Pedlar's village that we talked about earlier. The village, the carousel, the brick walkways, the fud shops. Tom and Mark follow Denaro and Tom's Nissan to the Aquatong Road property. Tom parks in the shed, leaves his key, leaves his title, leaves his insolent kit. They get into Denaro's truck. He drives them to the lower York Road farm. Kratz is already there. When Tom and Mark step out of the truck, Denaro opens fire with a 357 Magnum. Denaro on the confession tape. I shot Tom in the back. It's rocked him. Mark was like, what the? He's such a big kid. I unloaded the gun on him. Sturgis trying to run makes it about 20 feet before going down. Shot multiple times. Dead. Mio is on the ground, bullet in his back, paralyzed, screaming, I can't feel my legs, I can't feel my legs. Denaro is out of ammo. So he gets his father's backhoe and drives it over Tom Mio. Kratz told detectives that Denaro basically crushes him. Tom Mio was 21 years old. The last thing he said at work was that money doesn't make him happy. Denaro loads both of the bodies into the pig roaster with Dean, pours gasoline, and lights it. According to the DA, the fire was not successful. It didn't destroy the remains the way Denaro wanted. So the next day he uses a backhoe to dig a hole 12.5 feet deep and buries the whole tank. Three people, one grave. Saturday, July 8th. The confession tapes lay out what happens next. The cousins wake up. They both go out and hand wash Denaro's truck. They drive to Kratz's mom's house in northeast Philly. They visit Kratz's sister who just had a baby. Denaro makes lewd comments to the new mother holding her newborn. They drive to a new barber shop owned by Kratz's uncle. Denaro gets a haircut and a shave, and Kratz drops the victim's identity. Into a sewer drain on the street. Then they go to Franklin Mills for a professional car wash. They get cheesesteaks. And I keep thinking about the barber shop. Denaro sitting in a chair while somebody holds a straight razor to his neck, making small talk, and three bodies are decomposing in a metal tank on his family's farm. The human brain is not supposed to be able to do that. 1 48 a.m. Denaro's Facebook post. Time to say bye-bye to Facebook and hello to more free time. Missing persons report come in separately. Different departments. Nobody connects them yet. Jimmy's grandparents file July 6th when he doesn't show up for work. Mio and Sturgis the 7th and 8th. Fanocchiaro, the 8th. Investigators start running cell data. Dean Fanocchiaro's phone is pinging on Denaro's farm. Then, Tom Mio's Nissan Maxima is in the shed at the Aquitong Road property. Keys inside, titles inside. Insolent kit inside. Tom's family says it the second they find out. Not possible. Tom does not go anywhere without that kit. Not to the store, not to a friend's house. He would rather die than leave it. And they were right about both. He did die and he didn't leave it by choice. That insolent kit is what ties the whole thing together. Without it, the cops are still looking in four different directions. July 10th, Denaro is arrested on the refiled gun charge. His father Tony shows up and posts$100,000 cash, 10% of the million dollar bail. Cosmo walks out of jail free five days after murdering Jimmy Patrick. July 12th, arrested again for trying to sell Tom Mio's Nissan to a friend for$500. His dad just posted$100,000 in cash, and this guy is trying to sell a dead man's car for$500. That's not a criminal genius. That's a guy who never in his life thought the rules applied to him. And up to this point, he'd been right.$5 million bail this time. He doesn't walk. What followed was one of the biggest searches in Buck County's history. FBI, state police, cadaver dogs, excavators, new choppers, and at the foot of the driveway every single day, four families under a tent in the July heat. Mark's mom, Amy, was there before the searchers even arrived every morning, and she was still there after they all left, staring into the distance. Tom's mother had already driven to Pedlar's Village at 2 a.m. and stood on the side of the road calling his name in the dark. Sharon Patrick, Jimmy's grandmother, walk to Cornfields praying the rosary. July 12th, late night, the three-body grave is found. DA Matt Weinthrob holds a midnight press conference. July 13th, Denaro confesses. Four hours on tape. And he's calm, matter of fact, walking detectives through the farm and pointing out the locations. The deal? Tell us where Jimmy Patrick is, and the death penalty is off the table. That's what they told him. He told them, half a mile away, remote corner of the farm, buried alone. After more than an hour of questioning, and this is from NBC 10 tapes, Denaro finally broke. His breathing got fast and he starts sobbing. I threw my life away for nothing. All I've done is nothing. I ruined people's families. They walk him out in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit. A reporter asks if he has anything to say to the families. Denaro says, I'm sorry. Two words. This is the part of the episode I've been building to, because everyone asked the same question about this case. Why? Why did Cosmo Donaro kill four people? Fair question. But I think there is a better one. How was he allowed to? Because the system had everything it needed to stop this. Like everything. Three involuntary commitments. Fleeing thoughts of homicide. If I had a gun, I'd kill them all. Chased his dad with an AR-15. 88 police incidents. 40 involving Cosmo. 14 in a single year before the murders. A federal gun charge. A diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. All of that stuff was documented. All of it was in the system. But none of it mattered. And here's what makes it worse. Nobody was corrupt. Nobody got paid off. And when you have money in this country, real money, you don't need a conspiracy. The system just takes care of you. Quietly. Every time charges come in, there's a lawyer. There's cash. Hearing gets scheduled. It goes right away. Because you're the family with the concrete business and the 90-acre farm. 40 encounters. Zero convictions. That's not a broken system. That's a system working exactly as designed for the people who can afford it. The gun charge in May 2017, dismissed by a judge, the DA refiled it June 21st. The warrant sat on a desk. Nobody served it. It wasn't executed until July 10th. If that warrant had been served the week it was filed, Cosmo Denardo would have been in custody on July 5th when Jimmy Patrick got in his car. That is not speculation. That is fact. The wrongful death lawsuits, all four victims' families, sued Tony and Sandra Donardo. The suits called the farm a playground for illegal acts. They argued that the parents gave their dangerous, mentally ill son access to guns, a backhoe, and 90 acres of privacy. Those suits settled in May of 2023, confidentially, and the Donardos paid. We will never know the number. The Donardos are suing Dr. Kohler for malpractice, pointing the finger at the psychiatrist. And Sean Kratz, exact same murders, no money, public defender, sat without bail from the moment he was arrested. Same crime, different bank account. May 16th, 2018, Bucks County Court. Judge Jeffrey L. Finley. Cosmo Denardo 21 pleads guilty. Four counts of first-degree murder. Robbery, abuse of corpse, weapons, four consecutive life sentences, no parole. Judge Finley said, I have no doubt in my mind that should the day ever come that you find yourself released into the community and had the opportunity to kill again, you would do it. To you, humans' lives are disposable. They have no value. Then Kratz, his plea paperwork was signed. 59 to 118 years, negotiated, ready to go. And then, moments before he formally accepted, Kratz changed his mind. In open court, he said he did it on family advice. His own lawyer looked blindsided. Four families who thought it was over had to come back. Kratz trial November 2019. His attorney, Haruto, called him a low IQ kid preyed upon by a psychopath. Defense, cohesion. He was scared of his cousin. Jury deliberates 18 hours. Convicted, life. One of the mothers to Kratz at sentencing, you've called your cousin a monster. Yes, he's a sick monster, but you're an evil monster. And Mark Sturgis' dad, Mark Potash, stood up and spoke directly to Donardo, who wasn't even in the room but had posted, I'm a savage, on social media seven months before the murders. Potas, you think you're a savage. You've lived your whole life protected. In prison, you'll meet Savage, and I promise you, it won't look like you. So where does it stand today? Cosmo Donardo is at SCI Phoenix in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Medium security. The families called it an outrage. Four bodies and he's in medium. He's 28 and he will die in that facility. Kratz, life, every appeal denied. The farm is still in the Donardo's family's name. Broken mailbox at the end of the driveway, still there. And one more thing. According to the confession tapes reported by NBC 10, Donardo told investigators he was responsible for at least two other murders in Philadelphia before any of this. He said he strangled a man in North Philly, shot another one in West Philly, both when he was a teenager. Philly PD says that they have no evidence that he did either one. So here's my read. The official motive. Drug deal gone wrong. He felt cheated and he felt threatened. I read the affidavit. I listened to the confession tapes. I went through every piece of reporting on this case and I don't buy it.$7,200 short on a weed deal does not explain four murders in three days. It does not explain the pig roaster. It does not explain the haircut. It does not explain the cheesesteaks. It does not explain buying$300 worth of steaks for your family the day after you buried someone. It does not explain Googling a cartel that dissolves bodies and acid in your psychiatrist's waiting room. And it does not explain posting sleep tips on Facebook four hours after putting a 19-year-old in the ground. Drug deal gone wrong is what you write when you need to close a file. It's a box you check. And here's what I think this actually was. Cosmo Donardo had raged before the accident ever happened. His father was cheating on his mother. That's documented. His girlfriend left. The Navy SEAL thing fell through. He walked away from a scholarship. He was on Facebook begging people to hang out with him. And girls were roasting him in the comments. He had this enormous idea of himself. I'm a savage, no explanation needed. And nothing in his life that backed it up. He was isolated, humiliated, furious, and he spent his entire life learning one thing. When you're a Denardo in Bucks County, consequences don't come. 40 police encounters, zero convictions. That is an education. That teaches you something very specific about how the world works and where you sit in it. The illness took away the last internal thing, telling him to stop. The psychiatrist pulled the medication. The judge threw out the gun charge. The bail system put him back on the street, and then Jimmy Patrick showed up with$800 instead of$8,000. And he became the first person to give Cosmo Donardo a reason in a life where every other consequence had been removed by money, by lawyers, and by a system that never once said no. The mother, Sandra, was trying. 10 psychiatrists, 8 hospitals. She drove her son to his appointment while he had a body buried on her farm. And I believe she didn't know. But I also believe they gave their son a farm, a backhoe, guns, 90 acres of nothing, and their family name as a shield. And somewhere between trying to help him and protecting the reputation, they chose the reputation. A charge gets dismissed. They let it go. Another incident, another lawyer, every single time. Four kids are dead. The settlement was confidential, and the official motive in the case is still drug deal gone wrong. And that should bother you. Jimmy Taro Patrick is buried at the church of St. Andrews in Newtown. His room is exactly the way he left it. His name on the wall in capital letters, a photo of him on the mound in his number 9 jersey. Tom Mio is at a resurrection cemetery in Ben Salem. The last thing he told his co-workers was that money didn't make him happy. Dean Fanacchiaro has a Bob Marley quote on his headstone: Love the life you live. He was 19. Mark Sturgis' guitar is in his father's house. His dad stares at it, wishing he could hear him play it one more time. Mark was 22 and still the same kid who gave a crying classmate his flower pot and brought his mom home, the broken one. The farm has a broken mailbox at the end of the driveway, and somewhere in Philadelphia, there might be two more names that nobody has said out loud yet. If you guys like this show, come find me at Crimary.show. Tell me where you land on all this. This is exactly why I built this show. Crimary.show Day One Merch is live. Five star rating takes 30 seconds right now. It changes everything. I'm Tim Novanny. This is Crimary. Stay curious, stay skeptical, and never stop asking questions. See you next week.