Above: A guardian of truth, candidness, & fairness-in-reporting, this entity was NOT. A propaganda arm of Donald William Wuerl it certainly was, especially with the help of the woman formerly known as Ann Rodgers Melnick. This explains why the subscriber numbers of this newspaper became so low that it was marked for shutdown in 2026, until it was purchased by a non-profit group which now promotes its easily proven falsehoods, concerning one priest who was never given the opportunity to defend himself and to show how his defamers were less-than-clever liars. This included those sleight-of-hand False Light deceptions which were half-truths that ended up getting twisted into lies, along with damning accusations which had zero physical evidence & zero corroborative witnesses to support the likelihood that they actually occurred. |
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"Very simply, no civilian anywhere in the United States has the power to "drop the charges" in any criminal case. This included the Diane Thompson of 1978, especially concerning an Anthony Cipolla who was NOT charged for any crime in the same year of 1978.
This is because the power to drop criminal charges is reserved solely to the sovereign-governing-authority which is referred to as "the State." This includes the federal governing authority in federal jurisdiction cases, being that the federal government is also regarded as "the State." After all, the United States has an administrative authority called the Secretary of STATE.
Every criminal case in America begins with "The State of Such-and-Such vs defendant-of-the-case." Even federal criminal cases begin with "the United States vs defendant-of-the-case."
Therefore, only the court officers of the prosecuting State or the United States have the power to dismiss charges that have already been filed in the name of a prosecuting State or in the name of the United States.
And of course, this means "dismiss the charges," "withdraw the charges," "drop the charges," and "Nolle Prosequi." Each phrase means the same thing.
Doubly important is the fact that, in the 35-day-long Cipolla Case of 1978, there were NO CHARGES to be dismissed in the first place, being that no charges were ever filed.
If Diane Thompson did sign something under duress in Bob Colville's office on August 28th, 1978, then it was pointless, because Bob Colville would have had nowhere to have taken that sheet of paper. It would have been a very useless sheet of paper," especially in light of the fact that Cipolla was NOT arrested in 1978, in the first place.
Moreover, any other procedural matter concerning Anthony Cipolla would have occurred at the CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE, and not in the office of DA Bob Colville."

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"HOWEVER, in order for a "complainant" to withdraw her Private Citizen's Criminal Complaint in the 1970s, the "COMPLAINANT" had to ...
... appear AT THE CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE in person, to get the paperwork done, and NOT in any county District Attorney's office. This included Bob Colville's office, in 1978."
Let us commence:
As far back as the 1990s, the Post-Gazette joined forces with the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson and reported that Anthony Cipolla was found to be as guilty as sin through DNA testing, was then arrested, and was then rescued by the county D.A. who forced this Diane Thompson to drop the charges.
Firstly, there was no DNA evidence of any kind involved with the case which only lasted for 35 days. As I stated 8 to 12 times previously, it took an average of 52 days for DNA testing to produce results, in 1978.
Plus, there was no mention of any presence of any semen anywhere on Tucker Thompson, in the July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incident Report signed by the Officer Mark Ninehouser with whom I personally spoke at length.
That report's medical section reported zero harm done to the young Tucker whose name appears on the report as "Thomas Thompson." It was therefore reported that there was no medical evidence that any crime had been committed against the young Tucker, on July 25th, 1978. Period.
Secondly, Cipolla was never arrested, meaning that he was never charged with any kind of crime, and he was never arraigned. After all, there is a decisive difference between an August 28th, 1978, Probable Cause Hearing which was scheduled for Anthony Cipolla and an indictment which never occurred in the Case of Anthony Cipolla.
Civilians in the United States are incapable of dropping any criminal charge of any kind; NOT even in Bob Colville's office, in 1978.
The supportive facts of a flagrantly misrepresented case
Always remember. The Cipolla case is what rocketed Donald Wuerl to his undeserved stardom, and that case, as it was presented by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, was an outlay of falsehoods that Wuerl let be uncorrected. Thus, Wuerl rose to power & influence through LIES.
The narration of the 1978 Cipolla Case .. as was reported in the early 1990s by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette ... and later by Randy Engel ... claimed that Cipolla was as guilty as sin, yet DA Bob Colville forced Diane Thompson to sign a sheet of paper which "dropped the charges."
Let us review one more time, for those who are stubborn and in denial that Diane Thompson LIED ... that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette spread her lies through publication ... and that Randy Engel presented the lies as fact
According to Diane Thompson, the very false reason why Cipolla was as guilty as sin was because, one or two or even three days after Tucker's July 25th exam, the Allegheny General Hospital lab identified semen said to have been gathered from Tucker as belonging to Cipolla, via DNA test results. Then some time around or on July 30th Cipolla was arrested by "Detectives Nehouser & Fogle."
The problem is that this entire story is an easily provable lie. Firstly, in 1978, there were no "Detectives Nehouser & Fogle."
Moreover, as is proven by referring to the July 25th, 1978 O/I Report, Allegheny General Hospital did NOT mention the presence of semen on Tucker Thompson or on his clothing or on his property. All that was mentioned was that Tucker's medical condition was "GOOD."
This means that there was no semen found, and therefore, no semen was involved. If it were, then the July 25th O/I report would have mentioned it.
Let us review this more clearly, for those embedded & brainwashed by the shared LIES of Diane Thompson, Randy Engel, and the Pgh Post-Gazette, even in the 1990s
1] The great falsehood in Diane Thompson's DNA claim is that, in 1978, it took an average of 52 days to produce a DNA test result, meaning that, if there were DNA testing done in the Cipolla Case, the results would not have been submitted until middle to late September. Yet, the Cipolla case only lasted 35 days, ending on August 28th.
Plus, DNA testing in the 1970s occurred in NIH labs, and NOT in hospitals.
2a] Below is posted more confirmation that there actually was NO MENTION of semen being found on Tucker in the July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incidence Report. In fact, the only statement from Allegheny General Hospital which was recorded in the July 25th O/I Report was that "Thomas Thompson's" medical condition was GOOD.
2b] There were two blank spaces after the word, GOOD. If an injury or abnormality or evidence of criminal conduct had been found, then it would have been stated in that blank space.
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Above is the top part ... about a third of ... the one-page July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incident Report, signed by Officer Mark Ninehouser with whom I personally spoke at length. Look at the bottom line, right-hand side of the photo above. The 9 year old Thomas Thompson's medical condition was GOOD. Below that line, there are two lines reserved for medical exam comments. There were no medical comments made on those two lines. This means that there was found by the licensed & board-certified examiner: 1] NO BLEEDING, 2] NO BRUISES, 3] NO SCRAPES, 4] NO LACERATIONS, 5] NO SEMEN, 6] NO RECTAL OR GENITAL ABNORMALITIES, 7] NO BROKEN BONES, 8] NO VASELINE or other lubricant on or near rectal area ... and as time proceeded, 9] NO EVIDENCE OF ANY STD. This means that there was NO EVIDENCE that any crime had been committed on July 25th, 1978 against Tucker Thompson, in the first place. Even at that, Tucker claimed that he was molested only TWICE by Cipolla; once near the July 4th holiday season and once on September 25, 1978, shortly after Diane Thompson's request for apartment rent money from Anthony Cipolla's parish was denied. 2c] Concerning this, why didn't Diane Thompson have the wisdom "to drag out of Tucker" the deep, dark secret of the alleged July 4th holiday season molestation, as she quickly did on July 25th? ANS: The only answer would be that she ALLEGEDLY lied to police on July 25th, desperate over the fact that Cipolla told her that his parish could not afford to pay her apartment rent. Concerning Randy Engel's claim that Cipolla hunted down the two lads, for a time of "grooming," Diane Thompson ALLEGEDLY approached Cipolla and his pastor first. It was NOT visa-versa. She was undoubtedly "hard-up for money" and she gravitated toward the parish where Cipolla was stationed. She was looking for charity dollars. None the less, Diane Thompson LIED when she claimed ... in a 1995 Post Gazette article & in a 2016 Randy Engel article ... that she was forced to "drop the charges" against Cipolla. And of course, in her easily provable LIE, she went theatrical and claimed that the tears in her eyes made it impossible for her to see the paper she was signing. Well, if she couldn't she the paper, she would have missed the line where she needed to write her name which would have been in Fantasyland, being that there is no such thing as a paper for a civilian to sign which would drop criminal charges already filed. In fact, Diane Thompson would have signed this paper in Double Fantasyland, being that Cipolla was not charged, in the first place. For those still in stubborn denial and believed Randy Engel's defamatory 2016 article as factual, when it was wall-to-wall i observe: |
Concerning Diane Thompson asking Cipolla to get his pastor to have the parish pay her monthly apartment rent. This is a very important note:
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Cipolla would have instantly known that Diane Thompson was soon to be evicted from her apartment. This meant that, IF Cipolla wanted to molest Frank Labiaux and Tucker Thompson on a long-term basis ... with "free rein" ... then Cipolla would have gone out of his way to make sure that Diane Thompson's rent would get paid monthly.
Cipolla did NOT do that. Cipolla showed that he was more than willing to let Diane Thompson, Tucker Thompson, and Frank Labiaux go far far away from him, to another domicile.
In as much, that fact that Cipolla did NOT go out of his way to make sure that Labiaux and Tucker would continue living nearby him shows that Cipolla WAS NOT grooming the two youths for long-term sexual abuse, as Randy Engel claimed. End of Addendum to this tutorial
Original Intro of this Post:
For those unaware, it was the extremely MISREPRESENTED Anthony Cipolla Case which rocketed Cardinal Donald Wuerl to his undeserved stardom. That stardom lasted until the conclusion of the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Inquest which revealed the actual Donald Wuerl ... the evil Donald Wuerl.
Throughout the decades, Cipolla was severely demonized. Even after his death, when he could not defend himself, the attacks against him continued.
Even when he was alive, newspapers did not give him the opportunity to defend himself. It was all one-sided reporting, much like the reporting of Nazi Germany, under Nuremberg defendant and eventual death-penalty convict, Julius Streicher.
The OHIO LIE of none other than Diane You-Know-Whom
For the record, as was previously mentioned in another post, that the most recent defamation against Cipolla was the claim that people in Ohio were coming out of the proverbial woodwork, accusing him of molestation and filing lawsuits against him ... four and five years AFTER his death, in 2020, 2021 or 2022.
Well, in the entire history of Ohio, from the first day when the first white man walked on its terrain, all the way to August 31, 2026, not a single person in Ohio or originally from Ohio ever accused Anthony Cipolla of molestation. This was yet another Diane Thompson LIE.
The presentation of that case was one sick joke. Those falsehoods are addressed in sufficient detail, at the Wuerl-of-Hurt site. Go see for yourself, line-item by line-item ... in the August 2026 archive.
The 1990s, when cover-up artist, Wuerl, artificially became a star
The 1990s newspaper narration of Diane Thompson being coerced into signing a 1978 sheet of paper in Bob Colville's office that was needed to "drop the charges" against Anthony Cipolla ... which were never filed in the first place ... shows how much of a liar she was and how much of a bunch of liars were the editors of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
This also showed how much of a liar Wuerl was, in not correcting the falsehoods being reported as fact. After all, this is the lying newspaper whose people spent over a decade very falsely calling the blatantly manipulative and even vengeful Donald Wuerl the Bishop of Zero Tolerance ... as well as the Model of Zero Tolerance.
And of course, Wuerl displayed much tolerance toward Wolk, Zula, Pucci, Zirwas, Hoehl, Burchianti, Huff, and other priests of a criminal nature.
None the less, this is also the newspaper whose subscriber numbers were so low ... in the newspaper's unpopularity ... that management decided to close down all operations of it, by May of 2026. Then, a non-profit organization purchased it, designating it to release publications two days a week, on Thursdays and Saturdays.
The Bob Colville Coercion Tale proved that the Thompson Clan and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editors were clueless as to basic procedural law in the United States
In review, for those of you who are exceptionally stubborn, exceptionally bigoted, and/or exceptionally brainwashed by either the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette or Randy Engel or any Wuerl-influenced entity:
The entire narration of the August 1978 Bob Colville Coercion Tale was was a harrowing one, where Diane Thompson was brought into Bob Colville's office and was then illegally detained there ... until she signed a sheet of paper that was needed "to drop the charges" filed against Anthony Cipolla.
Yet, as of August 28th, 1978, Cipolla had neither been put in handcuffs nor put behind county jail bars, simply because no charges were filed against him. The entire "filing of charges" thing was a deliberate lie. Meanwhile, the "dropping the charges" thing was a bigger lie.
In as much, here is a re-Reality Check for you people out there who never studied law and are still in denial that Randy Engel, Renew America, and others of a less educated nature still disseminate lies about the 1978 Cipolla Case, in your belief that Colville forced Diane Thompson to "drop the charges" ... which were never filed, in the first place:
Very simply, no civilian anywhere in the United States has the power to "drop the charges" in any criminal case. This included the Diane Thompson of 1978, especially concerning an Anthony Cipolla who was NOT charged for any crime in the same year of 1978.
This is because the power to drop criminal charges is reserved solely to the sovereign-governing-authority which is referred to as "the State." This includes the federal governing authority in federal jurisdiction cases, being that the federal government is also regarded as "the State." After all, the United States has an administrative authority called the Secretary of STATE.
Every criminal case in America begins with "The State of Such-and-Such vs defendant-of-the-case." Even federal criminal cases begin with "the United States vs defendant-of-the-case."
Therefore, only the court officers of the prosecuting State or the United States have the power to dismiss charges that have already been filed in the name of a prosecuting State or in the name of the United States.
And of course, this means "dismiss the charges," "withdraw the charges," "drop the charges," and "Nolle Prosequi." Each phrase means the same thing.
Doubly important is the fact that, in the 35-day-long Cipolla Case of 1978, there were NO CHARGES to be dismissed in the first place, being that no charges were ever filed.
If Diane Thompson did sign something under duress in Bob Colville's office on August 28th, 1978, then it was pointless, because Bob Colville would have had nowhere to have taken that sheet of paper. It would have been a very useless sheet of paper," especially in light of the fact that Cipolla was NOT arrested in 1978, in the first place.
Moreover, any other procedural matter concerning Anthony Cipolla would have occurred at the CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE, and not in the office of DA Bob Colville.
So, what did she do on August 28th ... 1978?
Well, ladies & gentlemen, the only procedural thing that Diane Thompson could have done on Monday, August 28th, 1978 was "withdraw her private criminal complaint."
Now, a private criminal complaint is a petition to the "court of jurisdiction" to file charges. It is NOT the act of filing charges.
Then, there is the matter of withdrawing a private criminal complaint. Firstly, if the DA acts upon the private criminal complaint and does file charges, then the complainant cannot file a withdrawal. A complainant can only withdraw her criminal complaint IF neither the DA nor a presiding judge filed charges against the accused.
This is because, as soon as criminal charges are filed anywhere in the United States, the case is put solely in the hands of the prosecutor and the judge.
No civilian anywhere on Earth can "drop the charges" against any defendant anywhere in United States jurisdiction, in criminal law. NOT even Diane Thompson could have done this in Bob Colville's office, in 1978.
Procedural Review
As a quick lesson, if the DA's office has not yet acted on the private criminal complaint, and if the judge did not yet "issue process" and have the accused person arrested, then a private citizen can withdraw his/her complaint.
HOWEVER, in order for a "complainant" to have withdrawn her Private Citizen's Criminal Complaint in the 1970s, the "COMPLAINANT" had to ...
... appear AT THE CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE in person, and NOT in any county District Attorney's office, to get the paperwork done. This included Bob Colville's office.

When you file a private criminal complaint, you are asking the court to file the charges for you. The court you are asking is the one who has jurisdiction over your case.
It is never a matter of you filing charges. Thus, when you file a private criminal complaint, you are not filing charges. When you file such a complaint, charges are only "pending" and charges in your personal case may never get filed, if the Burden of Proof standard is NOT satisfied.
In a Probable Cause Hearing the Burden of Proof Standard is lower than the standard for a "full hearing based on the merits." None the less, one requirement for a judge to approve the issuing of an indictment is that the complainant has to "show reasonable grounds that a violation has probably occurred."
Now, according to the July 25th, 1978, Offense/Incident Report signed by Officer Mark Ninehouser, there was no evidence that Tucker Thompson, aka Thomas Thompson, was violated. After all, the Allegheny General Hospital finding of Tucker's condition was classified as "GOOD."
No mention of bruises, blood stains, cut marks, scratch marks, red marks, semen, or anything similar.
And of course, being that the average amount of time it took for DNA test results to be produced in 1978 was 52 days, there wasn't the time for any DNA test result to be submitted into evidence, even if there were semen found on Tucker. This is because the 1978 Cipolla Case lasted for only 35 days.
The O/I Report was NOT the conclusion of the police officer. It was literally quotes of what the Thompson Clan alleged. There was no cross-examination done at that time.
The fact that the July 25th medical exam report marked Tucker's medical condition was GOOD, when he was supposed to have been recently molested a few hours prior, would be the reason why no police officer submitted a Police Affidavit to any magistrate and why the Allegheny County DA declined to indict Cipolla.
Very simply, there was no evidence against Cipolla, according to the O/I Report. There were only unproven accusations.
The rapid time between the "alleged" molestation and the calling of police made the entire accusation look like a premeditated scheme
Another important feature of the July 25th, 1978, O/I Report is that, according to Diane Thompson and "Thomas 'Tucker' Thompson," Cipolla molested Tucker between 3:10 PM and 4:30 PM.
Well, Diane Thompson literally called the police at 5:15 PM. This means that she was supposedly able to "pry out of Tucker" deeply troubling concealed information within 45 minutes to 2 hours after Tucker was molested ... and within one hour after Tucker got home.
The point here is that Diane Thompson claimed that she had to extract a secret from Tucker. Well, in past cases, it would not be for weeks or months or even years that a molestation victim would finally reveal the incidents of his molestation to an adult. Yet, Diane Thompson claimed to have "finally" extracted deeply hidden information within one to two hours after a molestation event.
Such a thing would have broken some kind of speed record, indeed. But, such a rapid time span makes the entire thing look like a premeditated con game, especially shortly after Diane Thompson was denied her request to have Cipolla's parish pay her monthly apartment rent.
As the past 35 years have illustrated, accusing a priest of molestation can be a very lucrative undertaking in the United States, especially for people who need apartment rent money.

The general rule of the private citizen's criminal complaint
When it comes a private citizen's criminal complaint, it is never a matter of you pressing charges. If any person in America could file criminal charges, then there would be total chaos in the court system. Con artists and vengeful people would be filing charges to the point of overloading the legal system and causing it to be unable to operate.
When neither judge nor prosecutor approved of the private citizen's criminal complaint
If neither a DA nor a judge approved the private criminal complaint, it used to be that the "complainant" was left to do the prosecuting, himself/herself. But, the civilian did the prosecuting under the watchful eye of an assistant DA.
And of course, it has always been a rarity for a private citizen to prosecute a case in America. Even at that, during such rare cases the civilian prosecutor had no power to "drop the charges" during the transpiration of the case. Only the judge had that power.
Concerning judges and/or DA's accepting a private citizen's criminal complaint and then filing charges against the accused, in 1978, such a thing happened about 10% of the criminal cases in the USA.
Today, if a private citizen is denied his/her request to have criminal charges filed against the accused, then that private citizen can file in United States District Court, asking for an injunction ordering the DA to file criminal charges.
Moreover, if a police officer submits a POLICE AFFIDAVIT, then the presiding judge can declare due cause, pursuant solely to the police affidavit, and indict the accused person(s). In that case, no private citizen's complaint is needed.
Here is the pertinent question, concerning the 1978 Cipolla Case:
Q: Which actual persons caused criminal charges to be filed against Anthony Cipolla, according to Diane Thompson's fictional tale?
ANS: According to Diane Thompson and certain writers, the filing of charges against Cipolla in 1978 ... which were never filed in the first place ... was done by "Detectives" Nehouser and Fogle.
In reality, the detectives were the late Warren Broz who died in 2020 or so, and the Detective Leo Marchetti who died in 2012. They did NOT arrest Cipolla. In fact, Broz ended up becoming a desk sergeant for a long period of time, after having been a detective.
So, process this contradiction in your mind:
According to Diane Thompson, two guys named Nehouser and Fogle arrested Cipolla, filing criminal charges against him, in late July 1978. Then, Diane Thompson magically had the power to drop the charges, by signing a sheet of paper in Bob Colville's office, in late August of 1978.
If she did not do the filing of charges, then how is it that she got the power to dismiss the charges? The answer is that her whole Colville Signing Story is a wall-to-wall lie. Cipolla was never charged, in the first place. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was either too dishonest or too incompetent to fact-check this damning story which defamed Colville as much as it defamed Cipolla.
As a reminder ... stated for the third time or so due to airheads in America, if Diane Thompson's private criminal complaint had been accepted by the DA's office or by a judge in 1978, then, from that point in time and onward, she would not have had the power to withdraw her complaint. Once criminal charges are filed anywhere in the United States, it's out of civilians' hands. It's completely in "the State's" hands.
All in all, Diane Thompson LIED. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette repeated her LIE. And Randy Engel LIED, while acting as if to be a law professor, when she was nothing more than a babbling buffoon.
Of course, Engel spent a third of her defamatory 2016 article mentioning how the detectives ... which were given the wrong names by Engel ... were telling Thompson how they hoped that she would stand strong and NOT succumb to being pressured into dropping charges by the Diocese of Pittsburgh and Cipolla's lawyer.
Well, Diane Thompson had zero authority to drop any criminal charges anywhere in the USA and at any time in 1978. Randy Engel wrote a series of LIES, in 2016. Cipolla died shortly thereafter, from a heart condition placed under intense stress, due to Engel's lies which were still online, even during the tenth anniversary of Anthony Cipolla's violent death. The conclusion is that Randy Engel was a violent person.
Now, as far as went Diane Thompson withdrawing her private criminal complaint, it would only have been because she had not met the Burden of Proof Standard to prosecute Cipolla ... and because she had no idea how to prosecute a case herself ...
... and allegedly because she didn't want to get in trouble for allegedly filing a false police report and for allegedly lying to the police. After all, Allegheny General Hospital found zero evidence that any kind of crime had been committed upon "Thomas Thompson," on July 25th, 1978.
None the less, perceive what the Post-Gazette and Thompson ... in the Court of Public Opinion ... were accusing the 1978 DA's office of having done.
This shows that Diane Thompson & the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette personnel ... in the 1990s & in the 2010s ... were nothing but a bunch of liars thinking that Pittsburghers are stupid enough to believe anything stated by the Post-Gazette, as if it were the Infallible Voice of God.
Well, it's only the Voice of Annoyance and it was been an Insult to the Intelligence of the Reasonable Pennsylvanian. It's grand DECLINE in subscribers in the 2010s & 2020s proves this to be so. It allegedly lost $350 million in a 20 year period, illustrating long-term unpopularity.
Plus, the Post Gazette management was not very kind to its employees. Due to low subscriber numbers, the Gazette could NOT afford to be kind to its employees.
It's no wonder why the Post Gazette underwent a decline in subscriber numbers so significant that its management planned to shut down operations in May of 2026. Then, a certain non-profit organization purchased it. Well, that non-profit organization purchased a severe liability. If you're going to do that, you might as well hire a reckless driver to be your personal chauffeur.













































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