The families of four teens killed by Cosmo DiNardo in 2017 have settled their wrongful-death lawsuits against him and his family.
in a determined hunt that drew national and international media attention. State and federal investigators scoured the region and finally focused in on the remote Solebury property, where they used shovels, metal detectors, cadaver dogs, and excavators before DiNardo — in a bid to avoid the death penalty — eventually disclosed the location of the bodies.
In the lawsuits, lawyers for the victims’ families said DiNardo’s parents should have known of his propensity for violence and aberrant behavior. A year before the murders, DiNardo was arrested for carrying a shotgun around his Bensalem neighborhood and had been barred from the campuses of his high school and college for his disruptive behavior, according to court filings. The DiNardo family’s attorney, Jeffrey Ogren, declined to comment Thursday, citing the confidentiality of the settlement. Tom Kline, who represented the Finocchiaro family, said the end of the lawsuit “brings a measure of closure to the Finochiarro and all of families impacted this tragedy, which sadly and tragically resulted in so much suffering and loss.” Attorneys for the Sturgis, Meo, and Patrick families did not immediately return requests for comment.Violent Deaths, Shattered Lives: Remembering the Solebury Township victims a year later In a crime that shocked the region, Patrick was killed first — DiNardo shot him with a .22 caliber rifle. Two days later, DiNardo and Kratz drove Finocchario to the farm, where Kratz shot him in the head with a handgun owned by DiNardo’s mother.The final two victims, Sturgis and Meo, were killed days later. DiNardo fatally shot Sturgis and shot and wounded Meo before crushing him with a backhoe owned by his parents.Published
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