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Families Of Slain Bucks County Teens Settle Wrongful-Death Lawsuits
The lawsuits were filed against Cosmo DiNardo and his parents after he confessed to the murder of the four boys in 2017.
Jeff Werner, Patch Staff
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — The families of four teens murdered by Cosmo DiNardo in 2017 at a farm in Solebury Township have settled their lawsuits against DiNardo and his family, according to a report published by the Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday.
The terms of the settlements were not disclosed in court records, according to the report.
The civil lawsuits against the DiNardos and their affiliated businesses were filed in 2018, a year after DiNardo killed Jimi Patrick, 19, of Newtown, Dean Finocchiaro, 19, of Middletown Township, Tom Meo, 21, of Plumstead Township, and Mark Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg.
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Cosmo DiNardo is currently serving consecutive life sentences in state prison after pleading guilty in 2018 to the murders, which took place on a farm his parents owned in Solebury.
In 2020, lawyers for Antonio and Sandra DiNardo of Bensalem requested a lawsuit filed by the parents of Jimi Patrick be dismissed, but Judge Shelly Robins-New ruled the couple could be held
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legally responsible for the actions of their mentally ill son, who shot the victims and buried their bodies at the 90-acre farm off Rt. 202 in Solebury.
Carin O’Donnell, a lawyer for Patrick's family, argued his parents' responsibility was uniquely substantiated because of their son's access to guns and his documented history of disruptive and violent behavior. "According to court documents, his violent conduct was not only well known to his parents, but was at times directed at them," O'Donnell's firm, Stark & Stark, said in a statement following the ruling.
DiNardo killed the boys in three separate shootings, all of which took place on the DiNardo family farm on Lower York Road.
Jimi Taro Patrick, 19, of Newtown Township was killed first on July 5, 2017. On July 7, DiNardo and his cousin Sean Kratz killed Dean Finocchiaro, 19, of Middletown Township. Thomas Meo, 21, of Plumstead Township and Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg, were killed later that day when they arrived at the property together.
Human remains were discovered after a massive search effort. See timeline here.
DiNardo later admitted to luring the victims to the sprawling, unoccupied Solebury property under the pretense of selling the young men marijuana, and then killing them.
DiNardo pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder, along with additional counts of robbery, abuse of corpse, conspiracy, possession of instruments of crime and illegal firearms possession.
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