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A Wall Street line, shackle change, Oh we someome gird
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It's calling by the name. There is no mercy and
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it's been a tentery juice as the huge stream game
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Rango three.
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Come here but by me to die.
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Inside these walls, inside the wild.
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And when the girls I Hey everyone, and welcome back
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to Bloody Angola. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and today
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I am bringing you another Fifty Shades of Evil series episode.
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I'm going to take you to Hucks County, Pennsylvania, and
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I'm going to tell you the story of Cosmo DeNardo,
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who in twenty eighteen was convicted in the murder of
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four young men inside of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, over a
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three day time period. Now, he lured them in order
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to kill them. And I'm not going to tell you
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right now how he did that. We'll get into it.
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But this case became nationally known as the Lost Boys
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of Huck County and it's absolutely shocking. And as I said,
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this one takes place in Hucks County, Pennsylvania, which is
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a beautiful part of Pennsylvania. It's bordered by the Delaware River.
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There are a bunch of parts there. It has a
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high population. As a matter of fact, six hundred and
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fifty thousand people called Bucks County home, and I can
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assure you in twenty seventeen, all six hundred and fifty
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thousand people were absolutely shocked when they discovered they had
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a killer amongst them. So what happened, how and why?
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That's what we're going to cover today, And I'm going
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to start by giving you the background on Cosmo DeNardo.
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He was born in nineteen ninety seven in Ben Salem, Pennsylvania,
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to Tony and Sandra DeNardo. He's actually the oldest of
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four children, and he was named after his paternal grandfather,
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who was a very successful real estate investor, and his
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family also owned a very thriving construction business. They had
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money and lots of it, and Cosmo was described by
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those who knew him as very polite and friendly. When
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he was a kid, he was the kind of kid
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that would grab your groceries or help you cross the street,
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and even at a young age, he was very active
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in his community. He even won a township award for
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his volunteer work rebuilding a church, and he was also
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active in sports at a young age, especially football. Though
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some childhood injuries would stop any aspirations of ever playing
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in the NFL or college football or anything like that.
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We're going to go to twenty eleven, and he's fourteen
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years old at this time, and Cosmo has his first
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documented run in, if you will, with police, when someone
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reported him riding his four wheeler on the street. Now,
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this guy loved to write his four wheeler, had always
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been interested in that. He kind of ram with people
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who enjoyed getting out there and riding four wheelers and
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doing motocross and all those sorts of things. And obviously
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that's a very minor offence. But the crazy thing is
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Cosmo would accumulate like thirty infractions or tickets over the
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next six years on this very same thing, riding four
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wheelers in the street. And to me, that just kind
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of speaks on he don't learn, and it speaks on
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the fact that he had a lot of money. Because
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if you don't have a lot of money or your
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family anyway, you're not going to pay thirty different tickets.
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It's just not going to happen. Now, in twenty fifteen,
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at the age of eighteen, he's he actually sworn in
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on a drug and alcohol advisory Board by the mayor
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of that city. I'm sure some of this had to
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do with the fact that his parents were very prominent
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in that area, in the Ben Salem Township area. But
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you'll find out later in this episode that that is
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very ironic that this guy was sworn into a drug
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and alcohol advisory board. Also, when he's eighteen, he graduates
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from Holy Ghost Prep School and he earns a scholarship.
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Dude was smart, there's no doubt about it. And he
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attended Arcadia University and at this time in his life
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he decides he wants to become an orthodonist. Now he
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only attends college for one semester. He had a girlfriend
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during that time and they break up, and honestly, Cosmo
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starts losing it mentally, and a lot of people around
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him they would say he started to have like this
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major personality shift in himself. He just was not the
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same guy anymore. And he's just eighteen years old during
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this breakup. Now we're gonna go to twenty sixteen, he
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turned nineteen years old and Cosmo Denardo's life just completely
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falls off the rails. In May of that year, he
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gets in a pretty serious ATV accident four wheeler accident
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where he breaks his leg in several spots. He also
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suffered some pretty major head trauma. He's so injured, in fact,
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he gets put in a hip to toe cast for
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like four months. Then in July of that year, Cosmo's
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mother has him involuntarily committed after several escalating events, including
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giving her a black eye his own mother, biting her arm,
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and attempting to jump into a stranger's call while claiming
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that he was kidnapped. Now, this would be the first
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of three times he would be institutionalized over a six
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month period. So we're gonna move on to July fifth
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of twenty seventeen, and we're gonna switch subjects as well,
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and I'm going to tell you about nineteen year old
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Jimmy Patrick. Now, Jimmy had plans, and he told his
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grandmother that he's going to go meet some friends at
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Chick fil A and he would not be too long.
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And he leaves the house on that day, the day
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after the fourth of July, hours pass and Jimmy does
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not return home. Now, typically, regardless of when he would
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come home, he would wake up his grandparents and let
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them know that he was back. Just the kind of
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kid that he was. He was very responsible, smart kid,
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but this particular night, nothing, He never woke them up.
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Assume he would. He didn't. Now, now, this was very
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unlike this guy. He worked full time, he went to college,
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he was good with his money, very responsible. No way,
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he's just gonna not show back up at home and
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not let his grandparents know where he's at. Now. Although
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he was so responsible and very well rounded, things were
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not always easy for Jimmy. His mom was diagnosed with
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schizophrenia well before he was born, and that's actually why
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his grandparents were taking care of him. They had actually
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taken care of him since he was just one day old,
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and they treated him as if he were their own son,
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and they were extremely worried. When they wake up the
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next day and he's not there, his grandmother, as a
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matter of fact, starts panicking. She's sending texts to him,
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where are you? Are you okay except because this was
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just so way out of the box for this kid.
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But nothing, no response, He never returns a text. So
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they call us good friends, and his good friends are like,
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he wasn't meeting us at Chick fil a. Everybody that
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they reached out to Nobody knew anything about meeting to
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hang out at Chick fil A. As a matter of fact,
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none had spoken to him since he had left his
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grandparents' house. So at noon that morning, the day after
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he went missing, they called police, but due to him
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not being missing for twenty four hours, the police say,
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they just kind of blew that off. I mean, this
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is a nineteen year old kid, there's probably he's probably fine.
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Let's wait until it's been at least twenty four hours,
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which would have been four o'clock PM. That was the
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last time that they saw him. So they agree to
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do that, and at four o'clock PM they call police again.
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A patrolman shows up at the house, takes a report,
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but you know, there's no urgency there. The police at
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this point, they're still thinking this guy is probably party
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two hard, maybe got drunk and stayed at somebody's house
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that they don't know of who knows he's a teenager.
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He's nineteen. They do, though, take his cell phone and
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say we're gonna run a ping on his cell phone,
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and then the officer leaves, and they do indeed trace
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that cell number to check the tower pins and the
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last ping that registered was about fifty miles away from
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his home. It was in a park in Delaware County.
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Now his phone was turned off by this point, but
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that was the last time that it was connecting to
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a tower. If that's a hell of a long way
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away from the Chick fil A that is like five
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miles from his house. Days go on, and by July
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eighth of twenty seventeen, some three days later, still no
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sign of Jimmy. His grandparents they know time is of
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the essence here and they don't wait too long before
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they hire their own private investigator to work this case,
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and he starts interviewing all of Jimmy's friends. The PI
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also discovers that another team is missing from the same county,
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nineteen year old Dean Finacaro, who went missing just two
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days after Jimmy, and so to investigators, they need to
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find out if these two cases could be related. The
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boys they kind of lived somewhat close to each other,
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but they were far enough away from each other that
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they graduated from different high schools and they actually had
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different friends that they ran with. They didn't have the
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same circle of friends. So in this case his parents Deans,
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they also have reported him missing, and police they did
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go by there to take a report and by the
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time they get there, all of his friends are there.
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Dean was very popular amongst his friends. But the problem
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was Dean he was kind of no stranger to police.
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He was kind of a hell raiser. But he had
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just gotten a new job and he appeared to be
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doing much better. But police they were still thinking, we've
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had run ins with this guy before, and this is
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probably some situation where he went missing and he's just
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partying somewhere, maybe doing a drug or two, and he's
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going to show up. Now. Police they are working these
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two missing team cases and it's in Bucks County and
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apparently Dean just disappeared off the face of the earth
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because he went to eat with his dad. He went
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back home, he told his dad, Hey, I'm going to
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be back in fifteen minutes. He leaves the house and
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just disappears. So his parents they tried to call and
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text him, but his cel phone was turned off. So
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his parents they actually do something really smart. They go
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on Facebook and they print out a list of all
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his friends in the area that had any contact with
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him on Facebook in like the past year, and they
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start crossing them off the list. As they talk to
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these friends and say, hey, have you seen our son. Now,
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there was one friend out of all of those that
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his parents nor police could get hold of, and he
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wasn't returning calls or messages either, and his name was
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Cosmo DeNardo. Now, apparently these two were friends who knew
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each other from a four wheeler writing community, and Dean's
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parents they had no idea who Cosmo was as a
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matter of fact, when they came across a name. I mean,
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Cosmo is a pretty memorable name, if you will. They
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had never heard that name come out of his mouth before.
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But they start digging into Cosmo police, and they discover
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that Cosmo, according to the people that knew him, was
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kind of crazy. It kind of went off the rails,
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as I told you earlier. So at this point police
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they do decide to do a ping search on Dean's phone.
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Now I can't tell you why they did not do
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this prior to this point. They do, in fact do
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a ping search on Dean's phone, even though it's turned
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off by that point, and police they do see when
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it was last us and they discover that it was
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last used in Bucks County, but they also discover it
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was on the same property owned by Cosmo Denardo's family,
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So all of this is moving faster than you may realize.
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On Wednesday, July fifth, Jimmy Patrick goes missing. Friday July seventh,
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Dean Finnacaru missing, and by Sunday, July ninth, police had
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peened Dean's last location to Cosmo Donardo's family property. So
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the next step is to go check out that property.
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They want to see if they can speak to Cosmo,
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maybe he's there. They go out there and it's the
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middle of the night, and this is an expansive property.
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It's over ninety acres and it's one of three large
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properties that the Donardo family owns. Remember they're very wealthy.
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As they drive through this whiming property, they come upon
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a very dilapidating home and I'm talking like a haunted
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house looking house. And it's the middle of the night,
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it's like one o'clock in the morning when they do this.
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In this house is obviously abandoned. I'm talking cobwebs on
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the doors and everything, and they notice a detached shed.
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So they pull up and they go to the door
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this home and they kind of look in the windows,
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and it's the middle of the night. You can barely
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see anything the windows. They have all that grime on them,
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so it's like looking through glasses that are fogged up, right,
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But they don't see anything. So they leave. Now at
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this time, it's like three o'clock in the morning. The
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two detectives involved, they go their separate ways because one
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of them was actually from a neighboring county. But the
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detective from Bucks County, as he's driving by himself after
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they part ways, him and this other detective, it's just