Cosmo, who was named after Tony’s father, was the eldest of four good-looking kids with promising futures. Tony and Sandra had founded and prospered their own concrete and construction business. When he shows up at his lawyer’s office in Center City on this day nearly two years later, Tony is dressed pretty much the same, except he’s wearing jeans instead of shorts.īefore his son’s murder rampage, Tony DiNardo was the patriarch of what, at least from the outside, appeared to be an all-American family. When Tony showed up at the police station to bail his son out of jail in the summer of 2017, TV cameras captured him wearing a t-shirt, shorts and construction boots. Tony’s a brawny guy with a long, Brando-esque aquiline nose and the callused hands of a cement contractor. That’s Antonio “Tony” DiNardo, Cosmo’s father, talking about his son. “My son was supposed to be the mayor of this town. Instead of dissolving the bodies in acid, however, Cosmo doused the three corpses in gasoline and set them on fire in an oil tank that had been converted into a “pig roaster.” When he ran out of ammo, Cosmo hopped on a backhoe and rolled over Meo, who was still alive and screaming, crushing him to death. 357 handgun that Cosmo had stolen from his mother. What happened next made international news.Ĭosmo and his accomplice proceeded to shoot all three men, killing two of them instantly with a. But 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro and 21-year-old Tom Meo, who brought along a friend, 22-year-old Mark Sturgis, were walking into ambushes. The very next day, July 7th, Cosmo and his cousin, 20-year-old Sean Kratz, lured two more young men to the DiNardos’ farm, also under the pretense of selling them marijuana. In his notes, Kohler wrote that his patient posed “no clear risk to self or others.” So Cosmo walked out of Kohler’s office and drove home with his mom. But the psychiatrist seemed unaware that he was dealing with a time bomb. This was the frightening mind-set of the young man Kohler would see that day. Even as he sat in the waiting room that day at Penn, killing time before he saw Kohler, Cosmo used his iPad to google the “Soup Maker Cartel,” a Mexican drug syndicate known for making “soup” out of some 300 murder victims by dissolving their bodies in barrels of acid. 22 rifle and buried the corpse in a grave that he dug with a backhoe.Īnd he was just getting started. But after bringing Jimi to the DiNardos’ sprawling farm in New Hope, Cosmo shot him to death with a. Just a day earlier, Cosmo had offered to sell 19-year-old Jimi Patrick $8,000 worth of marijuana. Neither he nor Sandra DiNardo had any clue how dangerous Cosmo had become - or what he had already done. That day in the office, according to the suit, he completely stopped Cosmo’s medications. A month earlier, he’d declared that Cosmo’s bipolar disorder was in full remission, and he’d reduced his medications. Cosmo had been behaving violently, going in and out of psychiatric facilities, and Sandra had lived in fear of another storm - another violent psychotic episode in which Cosmo, amped up with manic superpower strength, would suddenly attack someone in the family.īut according to a lawsuit recently filed in Common Pleas Court, Kohler - who through a lawyer declined to comment for this story - seemed to believe Cosmo’s situation was improving. For Cosmo and his mother, Sandra Affatato DiNardo, the previous year had been harrowing.
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