August 16, 2026

2016 Engel Article: Huge lie dispelled by 1978 Offense/Incident Report and more.

That sheet of paper was only that which starts-off an investigation and is NOT the conclusion of an investigation.

As a very important reminder, that white sheet of hand-printing that the Thompson team made sure would get downloaded and put online was NOT an arrest report.  It was NOT an arrest warrant.  It was NOT even a police affidavit.  And it was NOT a case report.

It was simply notes of two persons making accusations against Anthony Cipolla.  It's their allegation only, and not any assessment of any law enforcement agent.  

It's technically an Offense/Incident Report.  That's all.  It's NOT evidence.  It creates the task to find if any physical evidence or corroborating witnesses exists which can confirm the accusations made to police in the Offense/Incident Report.

The Offense/Incident Report of July 1978 

The O/I report in the 1978 Cipolla case simply outlined the words of Diane Thompson, as were recorded by an uniformed man in blue.  Within it was mention of nine year old Tucker Thompson ... aka Thomas Thompson ... having been taken to Allegheny General Hospital, for an "exam for sexual molested."  

Note:  the word, molested, in that text was a noun.  Plus, in Pgh police reports, AGH is Allegheny General.

The same 1978 Offense/Incident Report marked Tucker Thompson's "victim's condition" as "GOOD."  There was ZERO MENTION OF SEMEN ever having been found on Tucker's body and/or clothing.  Plus, no injury to the private bodily section recorded.  Neither front nor back had tearing, bruising, etc.  

In the same 1978 report, there was ZERO MENTION OF CIPOLLA GETTING ARRESTED, thereby showing the outright incompetency of local journalists in the late 1970s who did NOT know the difference between a post-arrest prelim hearing and a pre-arrest Probable Cause Hearing.  

It was a probable cause hearing which was scheduled for Aug 28, 1978.   The newspapers falsely reported it as a post-arrest hearing.  In reality, the  hearing was see if Cipolla were going to get arrested or not.  

In the illustration below, at the top right-hand corner, look for "victim's condition," and below it, where it states, "GOOD." 

Proof that there was no immediate arrest came in the fact that, after Ninehouser submitted his Offense/Incident Report, the sole detective of the case later had a chat with 12 year old Frank Labiaux, as a witness.  The investigation had just begun.

In addition, proof that there was no arrest at all came from the detective's 2018 grand jury testimony, when he described the transpiration in the hallway, shortly before the Aug 28 Probable Cause Hearing was cancelled, by cause of Diane Thompson withdrawing her private citizen's criminal complaint on Aug 28.

Now, Cipolla had youth groups for years and numerous altar servers.  Yet, concerning the only two times when Cipolla was accused of abuse, both accusing parties were dirt poor and in desperate need for money.  And of course, accusing a priest of sexual abuse could get for you a huge chunk of change.

Moreover, there was an Offense/Incident Report in the 1978 Cipolla Case posted online.  So, where is the arrest report, if there actually were an arrest of Cipolla in 1978?

In fact, being that Diane Thompson claimed that a hospital tested semen said to have been found on Tucker, and then quickly discerning that it to belong to Cipolla, this means that there would have been an actual warrant for Cipolla's arrest.  Okay then, where is a copy of the warrant?

Timeline Problems, aka head-scratcher mysteries 

Diane Thompson was allegedly married to a guy named Tom Thompson in 1965, until 1977 or so, upon which he allegedly committed suicide by an overdose of barbiturates.  And then, according to Randy Engel, Anthony Cipolla popped-in, and started molesting Diane Thompson's two sons.   

Of course, Randy Engel made it sound as if Cipolla were grooming and then molesting Tucker for a long time and many times.   In fact, an occasional website would state that that the molesting of Tucker AND Frank was was done in 1977 and in 1978.  The Pgh Post Gazette made it look as if Cipolla molested Tucker 20, 40, 60, or even 80 times. 
 
TWO TIMES ONLY went the accusation, as was told to the police, on July 25th, 1978 
 
Well, the alleged claim ... as was stated on record ... was that Anthony Cipolla molested Tucker Thompson a total of TWO TIMES ONLY.
 
This is according to Officer Mark Ninehouser's Offense/Incident Report of July 25th, 1978.  In that report, Mark stated that Tucker expressly claimed that he was first molested by Anthony Cipolla around the 4th of July, 1978 ... and then on July 25, 1978 ... only after Diane Thompson dragged the information out of him ... or dragged what she wanted to hear out of him, for profit.
 
 
Take note at the bottom, where Mark Ninehouser prints his name clearly enough for legibility.  How did Randy Engel end up calling him "Nehouser?"  This is the sign of an incompetent ... yet self-righteously arrogant & presumptive ... buffoon, not paying attention to the case.  This is also the sign of a buffoon who doesn't know how to tell who the uniformed officers are and who the detectives are.  After all, Randy claimed the "Nehouser" was a detective, when he was a uniformed office.
 
In fact, next to the Ninehouser name is the number 46.  That was his badge number.  And speaking of numbers, Diane Thompson was 32 years old, in the Summer of '78.  In fact, her phone number at the time was 1-412-766-4563.   None the less, it was a land-line, like every other civilian phone of the 1970s. 
 
And of course, she stopped living there in 1978, shortly after she was denied her request of asking Cipolla to ask his pastor to start paying her apartment rent.  The pastor was willing to pay zero dollars of her rent due.   Oh, and it was at Apt 16, on 3616 Mexico St, Pgh, PA  15227.
 
Moreover, Tucker ... and/or Diane Thompson ... told uniformed police officer Ninehouser that Cipolla only molested Tucker with his hand ... and a stethoscope via some sort of medical exam.  
 
Now, Randy Engel claimed that Tucker was taken to the hospital and semen was found on him, followed by a positive DNA identification of Cipolla being quickly made in the hospital laboratory.  HOWEVER, in 1978, it took many weeks for a DNA test result to be ascertained, and hospitals didn't do the testing.  NIH government labs did.
 
HOWEVER, the contradiction and hypocrisy of the accusation against Cipolla existed in the fact that Tucker said that Cipolla only used his hand to molest him, and the male hand is NOT the body part that ejaculates semen.  
 
If Cipolla kept his pants on ... and if Cipolla's private section had not been involved in the molestation of Tucker ... as the Offense/Incident Report claimed ... then how did semen get on Tucker's clothes?   
 
The only answer is that Diane Thompson lied yet again to Randy, and Randy Engel once again fell for it.  There was no semen ... according to police report.  Remember, the "victim's condition" was officially stated as "GOOD."
 
Now, for the big credibility problem concerning ages:
 
Diane Thompson's eldest son or step-son in 1978 was Frank Labiaux.  According to the record, Frank Labiaux was 12 years old in 1978.  This would mean that he was born in 1966.  Well, in 1966, a Tom Thompson was allegedly the husband of Diane Thompson.  
 
So, why does Frank have a different last name, if he is Tom Thompson's son?  Who was the real father of Frank?   If he were adopted, then how did a court grant custody of a minor of no relation to a financially impoverished woman who didn't even have readily available rent money?  Plus, if he were adopted back in 1966, how did he get assigned to a severely injured special forces soldier?
 
And who was the father of Diane Thompson's alleged third son ... who actually did die young, somewhere around his late teens or early twenties or even early thirties or whatever?  Or was he instead a nephew or something similar?
 
Also in the 1978 scene was a ten year old girl whose last name was different than Tucker's and Frank's.  She was supposedly Diane Thompson's daughter.  Mark Ninehouser's report stated that the young girl was Kathy Kennealy.  Who are/were that child's parents and who were her legal guardians?
 
So, in the same "household" ... at 3616 Mexico Street, Pittsburgh, PA, Apartment 16 ... there was a nine year old named Thompson, a 10 year old named Kenealy, and a 12 year old named Labiaux.  Diane Thompson was said to have been the mother and/or guardian of those children.  Who were the fathers of these children?
 
There is even a bigger time problem with the tale of Tom Thompson going from master printer ... in the age of automated printing ... to special forces trainee in 1965 which meant that he had to have started his military service in 1962
 
Diane Thompson ... according to Randy Engel ... said that Tom Thompson's trade was that of a printer and that he was one of the finest printing craftsmen in the land.  
 
At this point, there is a time problem here.  Firstly, how old was Tom Thompson in 1965 that he could gain the experience of being a master printer and yet end up in America's elite forces with the required three years of previous military experience?  Uhhhhm, there is one thing you need to know about Special Forces recruitment.  That is this:
 
In order to be recruited and then sent to Special Forces training, you "usually" needed to already have had three years of military experience.  THUS, according to Randy Engel, the master civilian tradesman husband of Diane Thompson started in the military in 1962, even though Engel stated that Diane Thompson married young, indicating that she married an equally young man.  
 
 
Guess how old Diane Thompson was in 1962.  Chances are the you guessed wrongly.  She was 16.  Then, 16 years later, in 1978, she accused Cipolla of molesting Tucker ... and Tucker only, originally.
 
By the way, she was 19 in 1965, the year when her husband, Tom, was said to have been in a devastating special forces training accident at the Spartanburg military base which was permanently closed 19 years prior, in 1946.  It was then turned into a State Park, in 1949. 
 
This would mean that Tom Thompson was too young and/or inexperienced to have been training in the U.S. special forces in 1965, after having been a master printer ... during the era of automation ... where master printers were rarely in demand.

Therefore, how did Tom Thompson get the time to become a master printer during an era when the printing trade had long since turned "push-button" ... as far back as the 1940s?  That is to ask, how did the young Tom Thompson get the time to become a master craftsmen, when there was only the need for button pushers?  Or is it that Randy explained this poorly, in her defamatory 2016 article which demonized Cipolla from A to Z.
 
 
Below:  Concerning the claim that Tom Thompson was both a master tradesman and a special forces recruit with three years prior military experience, how does a master craftsman in his mere 20's become a master craftsman in the printing trade by 1961, when printing turned automated and became a push-button industry?
 
In the event you're keeping score on the case which Donald Wuerl used as a diversionary tactic ... to misdirect attention away from Wuerl's undisputed abusive priests ... the magistrate in charge of the Cipolla Case's Aug 28, 1978 Probable Cause Hearing was Stephen Laffey.  
 
That hearing was cancelled via Diane Thompson, herself, during a time when "charges" were NOT YET FILED, meaning the Diane Thompson IS A LIAR for claiming that her signature, written under duress, "dropped criminal charges" against Cipolla.  
 
And as a reminder for the seventh or eighth time, in every jurisdiction in the United States and in its 50 sovereign states, once criminal charges are filed against anyone, the only two persons who can "drop the charges" in every case is 1] the prosecutor 2] and the judge.  
 
Thus, the whole newspaper narrative of the Drop-the-Charges Nightmare scenario of Diane Thompson, when she was unable-to-see-the-paper-she-was-signing-because-of-tears-in-the-eyes, it was total bull crap.  When you have tears in the eyes and need to write something, what do you instinctively do?  ANS: You wipe them away with one hand and maybe even a Kleenex.  
 
Moreover, Hollywood repeatedly had movies which claimed that only the victim can file charges ... for dramatic effect and story-line flexibility only.  Well, a murdered man is incapable of filing criminal charges against his murderer.  Yet, numerous murder charges have been filed throughout American history.  Therefore, persons other than the victim have repeatedly filed criminal charges in the USA.
 
Who in mainstream media ever mentioned the asst DA in charge? 
 
Moreover, the assistant DA who was notified of Diane Thompson's accusations against Anthony Cipolla was John Marchetti.

The point to mentioning this is that Marchetti is the one who eventually received (uniformed) Officer Mark Ninehouser's Offense/Incident Report.   Yet, Diane Thompson NEVER mentioned this name, when she gave her first interview with the Pgh Post Gazette, back in the 1990s.  

She kept mentioning the DA in a very defamatory way, as if he were the one front & center.  It would have been Marchetti who personally spoke with her and conducted things.  Perhaps she was too stupid to know the difference between the DA and an assistant DA.  

Even at that, I had a cousin who was an assistant DA, and his name was very well known.  It was a county famous for its Hall of Fame sports legend and its many steel mills.  Yet, it didn't come close to the fame of Allegheny County whose DA's would have been more well known.  Yet, Diane Thompson wasn't paying attention.  

For the record ... for the seventh or eighth time ... when a private citizen signs a private citizen's criminal complaint, an assistant DA, as either monitor or mentor, gets assigned to the case.  Moreover, there has been a very small percentage of private citizen's complaints which became actual "private prosecutions." 

Of course, the media claimed that the local government in 1978 shut down all possibility of persecuting a priest claimed to have had DNA evidence against him, found in a hospital lab within a few days of time, shortly after July 25, 1978.  

Of course, there was NO DNA EVIDENCE in the 1978 case, and it took over 7 weeks for DNA test results in 1978.  In 1978, you did not get DNA results in three days, or even within 3 weeks.  The DNA evidence claim of the 1978 was another Diane Thompson lie.

That was as blatant a lie as when Diane Thompson told Randy Engel that she had to laboriously, at great sacrifice, pay a $45 fee, for Frank Labiaux to go to the annual convention in Michigan.  It was 100% for free, because it weekend designed to inspire young lads into seeking a priesthood vocation.  It was a recruiting weekend, and the cost of it was already in the missionary religious order's budget.

Once again, in case I wasn't understood ... due to poor writing ...  Diane Thompson NEVER had to pay a $45 entrance free for any relative to go to the Michigan seminary recruit weekend.  She lied yet another time.  

The big question very soon in my investigation & fact-checking was literally ======> When does Diane Thompson not lie?  After all, she claimed that, after Aug 28, 1978 was that she now had no chance ever of getting Cipolla indicted and tried in a criminal court of law.

Well, in 1978, child molestation charges in the State of Pennsylvania had a  TWO YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, and the US Constitution's Double Jeopardy Law was not in effect.  It wasn't in effect, because there was no jury verdict, or judge's directed verdict, and bench trial judge's "finding."  

Diane Thompson most definitely could have pursued the case.  She had time, all the way until July 24, 1980.  If she wanted two counts of charges filed, then she had until June 30th, 1980, in an uncontested "timely" filing.  Thus, she had 22 months or approximately 660 days to get Cipolla in handcuffs, IF he actually did any molesting.

Even at that, there was no case in the first place, being that CIPPOLA WAS NOT ARRESTED in 1978 or ever.  He was NOT indicted.  The case literally didn't even begin.  Things were only at the investigation phase.

That 1978 Investigation ran at a lynch mob speed 

The investigation should have continued.  However, the sole detective of the case jumped the gun, in his fatal error of NOT corroborating a thing said by then-twelve-year old Frank Labiaux, in an interview with him.  The detective's fatal error was in him assuming that every 12 year old male always tells the truth to the police.  Of course, junior high school teachers knew that 12 year old males lie to teachers.  So, why not the police, also?

If Cipolla were actually guilty of any wrong-doing, a few more months of police investigation could have resulted in actual evidence or corroborating points of circumstantial evidence ... or a newly emerging witness ... which could have warranted an indictment & arrest.  

If the Allegheny County DA's office were as corrupt as Diane Thompson claimed, then Diane Thompson could have brought-in the State Boys from Harrisburg for investigation purposes ... if and only if she were telling the truth and not playing a con game designed to quickly get apartment rent money, back in 1978.

August 14, 2026

In 1978, the Cipolla Case was NOT irrevocably closed ... and surely not due to one August 1978 signature

 The 1978 Cipolla Case was presented for over 33 consecutive years as one where Diane Thompson was harassed into "dropping the criminal charges."  But, there never were criminal charges filed against Cipolla, in the first place, ever.  Cipolla was never in handcuffs.  

Concerning that white sheet of paper that the Thompson Camp made sure would get posted online, it was a report, summarizing that which Diane Thompson and Tucker said to two uniformed police officers, one of which took notes. 

In as much, there is a difference between a private criminal complaint and "the issuing of process."  There is a difference between a private criminal complaint and an indictment ... and an arrest.  There definitely is a decisive difference between an Offense/Incident Report and a Police Affidavit, as well as an Offense/Incident Report and an arrest warrant.

Furthermore, no magistrate would tell a recently arrested defendant to go home and come back tomorrow for the arraignment, as Mrs Randy Engel claimed in her 2016 fictional horror story of Anthony Cipolla.  Arraignments are designed to see IF the defendant gets to go home, in the first place.  The two main questions addressed in any arraignment is 1] Is the defendant a flight risk? and 2] Is the defendant a danger to anyone in society by which he needs to be confined, to keep people safe from harm?  

The Media's subsequent sensationalism of the Cipolla Case 

The 1978 Anthony Cipolla Case was a case presented by the 1990's media as one where the prosecuting of Cipolla was solely dependent on Diane Thompson keeping the charges filed.  It was claimed that she was confronted by a squad of "suits" who forced her into signing a sheet of paper which officially dropped criminal charges which were never filed in the first place.  

Very simply, the 1978 case didn't even get to the stage of judging if there should be the filing of charges or the dismissal of the case as unfounded.  

Moreover, according to the media, once Diane Thompson "dropped the charges" that no prosecutor ever filed in the first place, then no one anywhere on Earth had the power to criminally indict Cipolla ever again, concerning her 1978 accusations.  The journalists forgot the existence of the Statue of Limitations, as well as grand juries, election time, etc.  

Diane Thompson had five years, to get charges filed.  And if the county boys were being as corrupt as she claimed, she had recourse to the State Boys in Harrisburg.  That whole 1978 story was an insult to the intelligence of anyone who studied law for even half a semester.

There is one known legal procedure which makes the thesis statement of the 1978 case 100,000 percent FALSE.  It's known as:

PRIVATE PROSECUTION, and Diane Thompson could have prosecuted Cipolla herself, under the complete monitoring of an assistant DA, as a private prosecutor.  She could have filled-out a form herself, stating the same accusations she spoke to Uniformed "man-in-blue Officers Ninehouser & Fogle who were NOT detective, as Randy Engel falsely claimed.  But, she needed evidence.  

 And contrary to what Randy Engel stated, there was no DNA evidence test results that were even possible in such a short span of time, in 1978.  This has already been explained in other posts.  

Moreover, if you were to gloss over the 2018 PA Grand Jury Findings, there was no mention on any record of semen being found on Tucker Thompson's clothes.  

Thus, even concerning the false way in which Randy Engel described the 1978 Cipolla Case, if Diane Thompson would not have withdrawn her private citizen's criminal complaint, and even if the judge would have declined to issue process against Cipolla, thereby refusing to put Cipolla in handcuffs, Diane Thompson still could have kept the case alive.  

The sheet of paper she signed on August 28, 1978 did NOT irrevocably & permanently close the case.  The Law of Double Jeopardy closes a case.  THEREFORE, Until a jury issues a verdict ... or until a Judge takes the case away from the jury and simultaneously issues a directed verdict ... or until the judge presiding in a "bench trial" officially issues "a finding" ... Double Jeopardy is not yet activated, and case can get re-opened. 

The Success of the Case was NOT dependent on Thompson. PERIOD.

 Even if Thompson refused to sign the withdraw of her July 1978 private citizen's criminal complaint, and even if she were to have boldly walked into the hearing room, it didn't mean that the Cipolla would continue.  It didn't mean that the Cipolla would not be dismissed by a judge who LATER expressed his suspicion over Diane Thompson's accusations. 

No matter what, the case would not have ended on August 28th, 1978, IF Diane Thompson responded by petitioning the court to become the private prosecutor of that one case.  Diane Thompson still could have had her day in court, concerning her damning 1978 accusations against Cipolla.  It might have been one or two years later, but she would have had her presentation heard by those in power.

 Let us review for the eighth, ninth, or tenth time, so that maybe a few people will suddenly understand how the Pennsylvania Rules for Criminal Procedure worked in the late 1970s.  But first ...

... one more quick educational note.  In 1974, the was the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Act.  There was also the 1976 Grand Jury Act.  In 1974, something known as an "indicting grand jury" was abolished, leaving only "investigating grand juries" in Pennsylvania.  

This meant that even after Diane Thompson withdrew her private criminal complaint, if there really were someone in the PA State Justice Dept who believed in Diane Thompson, that person could have persuaded a member of the Allegheny County DA's office to finally get a real indictment filed, even a year or two later.

The bottom line is this:  The 1978 Cipolla Case was NOT permanently closed with no hope of legal recourse, on August 28, 1978.  All of that stuff that Randy Engel wrote in 1978 was complete fiction.  

In fact, her narration of a 1978 arrest which NEVER happened, and of 1978 prelim trials which NEVER happened ... and of a 1978 arraignment which NEVER happened was the description of procedural anarchy.  That 2016 article proved that Randy Engel did NOT know the first thing about the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.

One more time, for Randy Engel followers too stubborn to believe that she is actually human and not the infallible & divinely chosen reporter of God   

Firstly, Diane Thompson did NOT file criminal charges in 1978.  She filed a PRIVATE CITIZEN'S CRIMINAL COMPLAINT.   All such complaints required the approval of the local DA's office or a local judge, concerning state jurisdiction crimes.  They still do, today. 

Moreover, law tutorials report that prosecutions initiated by private citizen criminal complaints have been, as a trend, extremely low in percentage, compared to all the prosecutions transpiring in the USA.

Now, there was an August 28th, 1978 Probable Cause Hearing scheduled which was too see IF there were any just cause to file criminal charges against Anthony Cipolla, in the first place.

The existence of that hearing being scheduled was proof that the DA's office did NOT elect to indict Cipolla.  Thus, the determination of whether or not Cipolla was going to be indicted, arrested, arraigned, and processed was now dependent upon a judge.

The big lie of Randy Engel was in her NOT describing the scheduled probable cause hearing as a hearing which was to transpire before any arrest was made.  Engel very FALSELY made it sound as if Cipolla was already charged, arrested, and arraigned, and was going to a post-arrest prelim hearing, in August of 1978.  Randy Engel LIED in her description. 

Here's a quick lesson:  The difference between a preliminary hearing and a probable cause hearing used to be this:  The probable cause hearing occurred before any arrest was performed.  The preliminary hearing occurred after an arrest & arraignment was made.  Then after the 1974 & 1976 Grand Jury Acts, a probable cause hearing and a preliminary hearing became synonymous. 

The point to such a hearing is to show the magistrate that there does exist substantial enough evidence and/or corroborating witnesses to legitimize a prosecution of the accused.  If no evidence or concurring witnesses are produced, then the hearing ends with the entire case being dismissed.  Such a case can only get re-opened, if someone shows-up with evidence never-before-presented.

Back to the 1978 Case which was severely misinterpreted by Engel

Okay now, the media and Randy Engel made it sound as if no one anywhere could get Cipolla arrested, arraigned, and put on trial, after Diane Thompson dropped the case in 1978.  That was and is one BIG LIE.  Someone in the local justice department could have gotten the case re-opened without the help of Diane Thompson.  

For example, the sole detective assigned to the case could have persuaded the DA's office a year or two later, to officially ask a judge to order the creation and convocation of a grand jury, for the sole purpose of investigating Anthony Cipolla ... without a single signature from Diane Thompson.  

But, the detective needed to present some kind of newly emerged evidence or corroborative witness to re-open the case.  He did NOT do so.  None the less, observe:

 
Randy Engel's Two Detective LIE, showing how incompetently written that defamatory 2016 article was 

For the record, Randy Engel FALSELY stated that two detectives were assigned to the 1978 Cipolla case, named Nehouser and Fogle.  She furthermore stated that those two fictional detectives supported Thompson through and through, begging her to not let herself be intimidated into "dropping the charges," being that Engel claimed that she was the only person on Earth who could get Cipolla sent to trial and then to prison.

The truth is that Detective Nehouser was Uniformed Police Officer Mark NINEHOUSER, and Detective Fogle was Uniformed Police Officer Bob Fogle.  Those were the two officers who responded to Diane Thompson's July 25th call to the police.  They went to Thompson's apartment and spoke with Diane Thompson only once ... and then never again.  There was a sole detective in the 1978 Cipolla case;  Detective McG...

All in all, the fate of the world was NOT in the sole hands of Diane Thompson, in 1978.  

Reminder of Engel's DNA falsehood ... with NEW expert tutorials 

As well, Diane Thompson completely lied when she said that Tucker was taken to the hospital in July of 1978, and at the hospital DNA test results identified Cipolla as a molester of Tucker within a couple of days, followed by Cipolla being in handcuffs.  

Well, proof that this is another big lie consists in the fact that DNA testing in 1978 was NOT conducted in hospitals, as Randy Engel falsely claimed.  It was conducted in NIH labs.  And test results took longer than an average of 52 days to produce, according to the latest professional sources.  The tutorial below show without a doubt that Randy Engel's claim that Tucker's semen being tested in hospital and then being quickly identified as belonging the Anthony Cipolla was and is one big lie.

Between July 25th, when Thompson called the police, and August 28th, when Thompson withdrew her private citizen's criminal complaint, only 35 days transpired.   That was NOT enough time to get a positive DNA test result.

The 2016 Engel article is so egregious that those involved in its writing, editing, publishing, and maintenance online should be sued literally for millions of American dollars.  They should be subjected to other legal repercussions of their digital version of crying wolf, emotionally traumatizing a heart patient, and being the blatant cause of his cardiac arrhythmia death, being that he read the specific accusations long before November 30, 2016.  He read it shortly before his August 2016 death.

Even at that, it was beyond pathetic that Engel added the most disrespectful comments about Cipolla after his death.  Even in death, Engel will not allow you to be at peace.

BTW, back in the 2010s, whenever Randy had an online article that just wasn't getting enough views, she would have me post it on my Marian website, to see if it would get a higher number of hits.  

And I mentioned previously that she, Mike Ference, and I were once interviewed simultaneously on some kind of internet radio talk show.

And she did edit one of my Wuerl-of-Hurt posts.  This is mentioned to show that Randy and I were not strangers to each other.  We are now, though.

August 12, 2026

Tom Hamilton: a McQuire Home Administrator; not a youth who followed Cipolla



This is why "Tom Hamilton" was the FIRST NAME on the Beaver County district attorney office's interview list, concerning the investigation of Tim Bendig's private criminal complaint.  
 
Look at that list.  All the people there are authorities, and not young Padre Pio youth group attendees.  Randy should have realized this. 
 
An instance of Randy Engel not having the full documents, in her trashing of Cipolla
 
Engel stated that the Beaver County DA's office was wrong, because it stated that Tim Bendig was an adult at the time described by Bendig as the time he was said to have been molested by Cipolla at the McGuire Home.  According to Engel, Bendig said that Cipolla was molesting him since he was thirteen.  Got it?
 
Here is the response:  Tim Bendig literally "averred" ... "stated" ... "testified" ... that Cipolla molested him at the Knoxville parish from 1982 and 1986.  He was alleged to have never mentioned any timeline of molestation at the McGuire Home.  So, he alleged that he was molested as a minor outside of the Beaver County DA's jurisdiction.  

Now, the Beaver County DA was ONLY investigating alleged crimes that might have occurred in BEAVER COUNTY ONLY.  The claim of Bendig  being molested by Cipolla from 1982 to 1986 was in ALLEGHENY COUNTY.  The DA investigators were judging the case according to Bendig's testimony.  Incidentally, Bendig was born in October of 1970. 

 
Now, Cipolla was transferred to New Brighton's McGuire Home in 1983.  He left Knoxville's St Canice Parish at that time.  Yet, Bendig claimed to have been molested by Cipolla where Cipolla was not.  None the less, according to the Beaver County DA report, Bendig only mentioned one incident ... one when he was the age of majority.
 
What does this indicate?  It indicates that Bendig was making up a story for lots and lots of lawsuit dollars, not keeping track of a timeline, for credibility purposes.  
 
Plus, he realized that all he needed was to get Cipolla indicted for one offense, done one time only.  The DA's report mentioned one and only one alleged offense only.  Was it a misprint?  Well, misprint or not, I know from personal experience that Tim Bendig is ... or at least was ... a lying con artist.
 
From my personal experience, Bendig's success in being a con artist was in his voice inflections.  They sure had me fooled, until Bendig got a little too confident and rattled off 4 lies in a row to me, making me realize that he was nothing but a con artist, and therefore, Cipolla was innocent, after all.  Moreover, Bendig had a very effective feel-sorry-for-me voice.  It sure tricked me for a short while. 
 
Bendig also tried try to get Cipolla indicted by the Allegheny County DA.  That DA's office also concluded that there was not the corroborating witnesses nor the physical evidence needed to warrant an indictment of Cipolla.  Everyone aware of Bendig's lawsuit concluded that he was simply trying to get a higher sum of lawsuit money, by getting Cipolla indicted.  Bendig went 0 for 2.
 
There were far more obvious lies that Engel fell for: 
 
In looking back, Randy Engel also should have instantly realized that there is no school in session in Pennsylvania on July 30, 1978, and therefore, young Tucker was NOT sitting at the kitchen table doing his homework, while being harassed by an Anthony Cipolla said to have been wearing a cassock in the middle of Summer.  
 
Engel was like a wolf in nice-grandma-clothing, seething to tear apart Cipolla.  I was surprised to find that Engel never contacted Anthony Cipolla's only brother ... or Cipolla's twin sister ... and I was surprised that ... 

... Engel never made contact with either one of the two police officers whom she claimed were detectives arresting Anthony Cipolla, in 1978.  Well, the truth is that the honorably retired Officer Mark Ninehouser expressly told me that he NEVER arrested Cipolla --- 
 
--- and that he merely went to Diane Thompson's residence, to take a statement from her, followed by him transposing it on a standard form, via hand-printing ... and NOT cursive writing ... followed by him handing over the notes to the detective desk.  

And that was it.  No theatrical events.  Ninehouser had nothing to do with the case from the moment he handed his hand-printed report to the detective sector, in July of 1978.  Thus, he was NOT a detective as Engle very erroneously claimed, in her self-assured smugness.  Thus, he did NOT drive Diane Thompson, Tucker, and Frank Labiaux to a hearing, saying en route that he and his partner were confident that they were going to get Cipolla convicted.  None of that happened.
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Once again, I categorically state that I am more than willing to categorically declare Anthony Cipolla a vile molester who was rocketed into the blast furnaces of Hell for all eternity.  The problem is that the fact-checking on all of the damning accusations against Cipolla categorically turned out to be sophomoric lies.

One example is the 100% proven lie about Frank Labiaux committing fire extinguisher vandalism upon a church near his home in August of 1977 at the age of twelve (out of revenge for being molested.)   
 
The fact is that the vandals were a 14 year old and a 15 year old duo of thugs who also slashed the tires in the church's parking lot, on another occasion.  

That church was the African Methodist Church, located down the street.  The motivation for those acts of vandalism was RACISM and not resentment from being molested.
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Concerning Randy Engel's slur against Pope Benedict XVI for having worn red Medieval shoes, in her stating that it was an obvious sign of Benedict being a homosexual, know that those were the historically famous SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN.

They were red, to symbolize that the pope was willing to shed his blood for Christ, as did Saint Peter, Saint Linus, Saint Anacletus, Pope Evaristus, Pope Pius I, Pope Soter, Pope Eleuterus, Pope Victor, Pope Urban I, Pope Calixtus, Pope Anterus, Pope Cornelius, Pope Lucius I, Pope Felix I, Pope Marcellinus, and a number of other ones.  

There is a lot of blood on the Chair of St. Peter.  So, Engel better quit mocking the papacy.  She is apparently jealous that she never got to have the power and influence of a pope . . . or else she is merely the stereotypical overly domineering hag who damns people, because she thinks that it gives her power.

      Q:   And what is the indication of this?
ANS:   She goes by a man's name, hypocritically enough.

The Lie about a military base in Spartansburg in 1965

You know, there was no military base in operation, in Spartansburg, in 1965.  It was once known as Camp Croft, and Camp Croft was closed in 1946.  Since 1949, it has been known as Croft State Park.

In addition, Vince Cipolla told me in person that he NEVER saw his brother Anthony wear a cassock.  In fact, a close friend of Cipolla, (the 6'6" one who was invited to join the Penn State Nittany Lion football team and who majored in electrical engineering), said that he NEVER saw Anthony in a cassock, either.  Engel was very non-factual in her 2016 horror story.

She wrote those damning things, because she wanted to believe them ... and because she is soooooo gullible to con artists and their voice inflections.  But now, we have proof that Frank Labiaux is a liar, just like his mother or step mother, Diane Thompson.  After all, the fruit does NOT fall far from the tree.
Well, Engel proved that she has no respect for the dead, as
well as no respect for the Shoes of the Fisherman

Now for the matter at hand:   In her three-part article, Randy Engel addressed the Beaver DA office's 1989 report on the investigation of Tim Bendig's private criminal complaint against Anthony Cipolla.

Now, ladies & gentlemen, Bendig only filed that complaint, in the hope of getting a large sum of lawsuit money from the Diocese of Pittsburgh.   It was an obvious ploy and farce for Bendig to have filed that private criminal complaint, based on one very simple and obvious observation:

The observation is that Tim Bendig filed his notice of pending lawsuit (through his attorney) before filing the private criminal complaint.  If you are criminally wronged, you call the police first.
 
Bendig did NOT accuse Cipolla until he was flat broke, and after Cipolla told the Padre Pio Group people to stop sending money to Bendig at his former Pittsburgh seminary address. 
 
 Bendig had many years to report Cipolla.  He was NOT chained in a Cleveland basement.  Throughout those years, he showed no signs of distress.  
 
Now, I went through a suicide, concerning a teenager who lived at Father John Hoehl's Baden house.  Therefore,  I KNOW the look of .... of .... giving up on life, shortly before a guy commits suicide.  Bendig did NOT show signs of being an imprisoned sex slave in any capacity.

In addition, Bendig didn't accuse Cipolla until after he had no more money and after Cipolla told the Padre Pio Prayer Group members to stop sending Bendig money to the Pittsburgh Seminary.  

Once again, I was the one who went through a suicide, and NOT the hag, Randy Engel.  I literally had to take the accuser of Father James Torquato to safety and I saw the look of fear on his face.  Randy Engel did NOT.

Engel's followers act as if she is all things to all people and that she has been everywhere.  No way.  Engel, as old as she is, didn't come close to experiencing what I had to experience in life ... simply by default.  
 
All those situations walked up to me. They even came-a banging on my door, as when two young ladies were frantically telling me that their dad was beating their mom, imposing on me the duty of conscience to go and physically rescue her.  
 
I had zero seconds to think things out.  I had to walk into a scene where police had died, in similar "domestic violence" scenarios throughout America.  Does Randy Engel know what it is to walk into a wife-beating-in-progress?  Well, I sure do.
 
Does she know what it is to endure sexual harassment?  I do.  Does she know what a person's face looks like while he is attempting to murder you?  Well, I sure as Hell.  The facial expression is that of an emotionless Frankenstein.  None the less, did Engel ever take to safety a woman being repeatedly beaten by her live-in boyfriend guy?  I sure as Hell did.

Did she know what it was to be in TWO major industrial accidents and live to tell about both?  So, why do you follow her as if she is the infallible Man of all Seasons?  In following Engel, you are following a pretender and libelous hag.

Tim Bendig IS a strategic liar, and a number of people contacted me, confirming what I personally witnessed of Bendig.  Plus, after all these years of me calling Bendig a liar, he never sued me for defamation.

None the less, the Beaver County DA, as well as the Allegheny County DA, stated that there were no grounds upon which to indict and prosecute Anthony Cipolla.  In the Beaver County report, mention was made that FOUR people were interviewed by law enforcement personnel.  They were:

          TOM HAMILTON

          SISTER MARY ALICE

         MONSIGNOR SHULTZ

         ANTHONY CIPOLLA

In her libelous three-part article, Engel stated that she asked Tim Bendig who Tom Hamilton was ... if memory serves me correctly.  Well, Bendig said that Hamilton was a Padre Pio Group youth who used to frequent the McGuire Home.  Do you believe Bendig?  Well, his answer was obvious bull crap.  Take a closer look:

What are the caliber of people named in the above witness list?  ANS: People of some measure of authority.   Observe:

Cipolla was the official chaplain of the McGuire Home.  Monsignor Shultz was the head of the Pittsburgh Diocesan Beaver County Deanery.  This means that he he was the most powerful Pittsburgh diocesan priest in all of Beaver County.

Sister Mary Alice had a superior's post at the McGuire Home.  Therefore,  it would be obvious that Tom Hamilton was some type of authority at the same McGuire Home.  

People, please test damning accusations for cracks.  In as much, Hamilton wasn't a teenage kid coming and going as he pleased.  Please quit being so gullible, People.





August 10, 2026

Perhaps we should cover one Randy Engel LIE against Anthony Cipolla at a time

 

She was so positively assured, in her smug arrogance

In 2016, Randy Engel assured us, with great confidence that the evidence of Anthony Cipolla being a serial molester was blatant.  She stated that the evidence existed in the fact that Cipolla was "moved around" a lot of times, in a five-year period.  He was given multiple parish assignments in as many years.  

Engel forgot about the PRIEST SHORTAGE of the late 1970s, when priests were in a pea & shell shuffle game. 

According to Engel, this is unheard-of, and is the tell-tale sign of a molester.  According to reality, however, the multiple parish assignments given to a newly ordained DIOCESAN priest was something quite common.  Engel erroneously concluded that:

Of course, Randy Engel was making it look as if Anthony Cipolla kept getting caught molesting youth after youth, followed by him being assigned to a different parish, as a cover-up, over and over again.  This is why multi-million dollar defamation lawsuits exist.  

In her claiming that it was "unusual" for a newly ordained priest to be frequently shifted from parish to parish, Engel LIED.  It was and is very common for a newly ordained DIOCESAN priests to be shifted-around, simply for the sake of gaining experience.  

Newly ordained priests of a religious order were limited to the parishes run by that religious order, as well as the affiliated schools.  So, their assignments were far more limited than that of a diocesan priest, for the most part.  Diocesan priests were in a different set of circumstances, with much wider boundaries.  By the way, a diocesan priest is also known as a "secular priest."

Observe the reality of a newly ordained diocesan priest ... even in the 1970s, according to the Archdio of D.C, the Denver Catholic, the Jersey Catholic, EWTN, and other sources: 

 ABOVE: Get into reality and take note that the 'TYPICAL NUMBER OF MOVES" made by "NEWLY ORDAINED PRIESTS" are usually "UP TO 5 IN 5 YEARS." 
 
Now, Anthony Cipolla became a NEWLY ORDAINED DIOCESAN PRIEST on May 27th, 1972.  Thus, it was expected for him to have been  assigned to as many as five parishes in his first five years, during a priest shortage.  

MOREOVER, instead of getting arrested in 1972 or 1973 or 1974, he received COMMENDATIONS which were known as "a recognition" & "an expression of appreciation" ... even from POLICE!!!!
 
Therefore, according to Randy Engel and her "good good New Jersey friend," the police were engaged in the cover-up of a molester priest, making the police accomplices in molestation.  To normal people, however, the police were acknowledging a 1970s priest who found a way to keep kids "off the streets" and "out of trouble."  
 
Q:  So, were the police the accomplices of a molester or is Randy Engel the stereotypical & predictable gossipy hag of absolutely worthless value, clinging to her defamation? 

Concerning Cipolla's assignments, I do know that there was one specific pastor Cipolla could not stand.  This is because, he specifically told me.  So, he requested a transfer.  But, Randy Engel insinuated that each parish assignment equaled one molestation accusation each.  

No, Engel simply succumbed to the influence of her pushy and emotionally disturbed "good good New Jersey friend" who wanted Cipolla gone forever.  Engel did NOT think things out.  She trusted her very pushy and hate-filled friend who did leave the Catholic Church ... which was ironic for Catholic-Doctrine-Supporter, Randy Engel.  She was basically a groupie following a New Jersey cult leader, at least in 2016. 

That New Jersey woman freaked out when Cipolla tried to get a home-schooling job as some kind of religion teacher.  The New Jersey woman didn't know that Anthony Cipolla:

1] ... was NEVER arrested even in 1978, but was rather defamed by a single mom who claimed that DNA evidence was taken from young Tucker's clothes and was positively matched to Cipolla in a hospital lab within three days time, when 1978 DNA matches took an average of 52 days to complete and the testing thereof never occurred in hospitals.

2] ... was officially cleared by TWO DA offices who found that Tim Bendig's accusations against Cipolla were unfounded.  There was zero physical evidence and no corroborating witnesses.  

By the way, concerning the Mark Hamill mentioned by Engel in 2016, he was in the administration of McQuire Home, in New Brighton, PA ... and NOT a teenager who frequented the McQuire Home, as if he were a sex groupie ... as Tim Bendig falsely claimed.  This is explained elsewhere at this site.  

Observe below how Tim Bendig was NOT regarded as the teller of truth.  In 1989, Bendig should have been indicted, arrested, and arraigned for filing a false police report.  Actually, he filed two; one in Beaver County and one in Allegheny County. 

None the less, the list of four people in the center of the dispatch below are all PEOPLE IN AUTHORITY, and not sex groupies.  The names of authorities include Mark Hamill.  So, Randy Engel's good good New Jersey friend got it entirely wrong.  Her New Jersey friend should be sued for defamation, at a very high price.

Such a thing would have ended Cipolla's nightmare and would have began a new nightmare for ever-so-nightmaric Donald Wuerl who actually supported the sacrilege of Dignity Masses, where a certain mortal sin was honored as a holy act of God.  

Meanwhile, it's a sin that 87% of American males have no interest in committing, and this comprises about 55 million adult males born in the USA who don't care about honoring the Dignity Masses Wuerl made sure to operate in the Pittsburgh Diocese. 

 None the less, Anthony Cipolla also ... 

3]  NEVER had to register as a sex offender, being that he was never even arrested for a sex offense, in the first place.  He was NOT arrested in 1978.  And remember, I'm the one who authored briefs that were filed at the United States Supreme;  NOT Randy Engel.

In continuing, Cipolla also ... 

4] Had dozens of character witnesses lined-up to testify at the Tim Bendig lawsuit trial which Wuerl made sure would never happen, by giving Tim an out of court settlement shortly before the trial date.

5] Was only accused by a Diane Thompson who was proven to be an outright wall-to-wall liar. 

 6]  Had no one else accuse him of molestation, even though he had youth groups dating back to 1972, proving that he was no serial molester.

7]  Plus, in the thirteen years since I was first handed the box of documents pertaining to the Cipolla Case, not a single person ever contacted me, to tell me that Cipolla molested him or anyone else.

8]  The 1993 Vatican Case had nothing to do with Tim Bendig's or Diane Thompson's accusations.  

9] Moreover, Randy Engel's New Jersey friend refused to accept that  Diane Thompson was repeatedly caught lying.  And it was Diane Thompson who, after sending me emails and knowing that I exist, publicly stated that I didn't exist, but rather Anthony Cipolla was running this site under my name which Diane Thompson claimed was a fictional name.  

None the less, Cipolla's fatal error was walking into that interview as a priest-with-faculties and not as a suspended priest forbidden to present himself as a priest.  That was stupid of him.  

None the less, Cipolla was cut off by Wuerl, even though Wolk, Zula, Pucci, and Leo Burchianti, as well as Huff & Zirwas were NOT cut off.  None the less, Cipolla needed money.  His reputation was ruined in Western Pennsylvania.  

And as far as goes work experience for Cipolla, it was limited to managing youth groups and prayer groups.  He needed to take with him the docs which proved that he was repeatedly CLEARED by LAW ENFORCEMENT and never arrested in 1978.  And he needed to dress as a layman  Even at that, no home schooler would have hired him as a layman, unless that home schooler knew him for decades.

Most importantly, applying for a youth chaplain type of job was only attempted by Cipolla once.  If he would have kept trying, then that would have been the sure sign of a molester, on the hunt for children.  But, he didn't keep doing so.

The Cipolla Case ... free from the lies of Diane Thompson, Randy Engel & Engel's vicious New Jersey friend with whom spoke for hours at a time ... still has its doubts.  But, it is certain that he was not the Son of Satan Randy Engel made him out to be. 

Then came the 2016 article which concentrated the lies in one spot.  Those accusations were posted online before they were posted at its final November 30th, 2016 destination.  I see it in detail months before November 2016.

All in all, that New Jersey woman who was obsessed with home schooling and obsessed with avoiding all Catholic schools was too emotionally immature to understand this about Cipolla.  

She was also asininely wrong in other things, time after time.  After all, she claimed that there was no way I was in construction ... and then claimed that I was a fraud only pretending to be in construction, while fronting criminal activity.  HOWEVER ... 

... there have been about a thousand construction company paychecks addressed to me, as well as ...

... hundreds of times I signed vouchers, deliver tickets, and purchase orders for construction material, as well as me writing-out employee checks in my handwriting and then signing them in 2014, 2015, and 2016 ... as well as me having numerous witnesses see me perform construction activity, including the inspectors, fellow construction workers, subcontractors, home owners, school security guards, delivery men, concrete truck operators, curious neighbors, traffic control flagmen, warehouse employees, building material lot workers, building material store managers, etc.  

In the end, the New Jersey conspiracy theory woman merely didn't avoid all Catholic schools.  She left the Catholic Church for a religion that does not believe in the Immaculate Conception nor the indissolubility of Marriage nor the primacy of Saint Peter.  Her rejection of Catholicism went from A to Z, and she was the predictable pushy, shovey, over-domineering hag. 

She was so annoying and out-of-touch that I had to write to her and tell her to never contract me again.  Only after that did she start defaming me, requiring me to post counter-measures such as my security clearances, including the one below.  

Keep in mind that feeble hags have no power, yet they lust for power.  They get their power from slandering others, to make others appear lower than them:


 So, for the fourth, fifth, or sixth time, if you state about me what she did and Diane Thompson did ... and if you have money ... you and I ARE going to court.  Plus, if you are outside of Pennsylvania, then you and I are going to federal court.  Such a case is known as a Diversity Action.  If you want a war, you've got one.  

I simply wanted Wuerl to grant me and anti-sweatshop, slave labor apostolate, being that defrauding laborers of their wages is one of the four sins which cry to Heaven for Vengeance.  Wuerl did NOT care to stop human suffering.  He only increased it wherever he could.  But, such a thing is typical for a narcissist.

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BTW, do you want to know why Diane Thompson accused Cipolla of molestation in 1978 and then quickly withdrew her private citizen criminal complaint, in my private citizen's personal opinion which is protected under New York Times Co v Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)?  Well here it is:

Diane Thompson, in my private citizen's opinion, was desperate for rent money.  So, she accused Cipolla of molestation, hoping that she would get a quick out-of-court settlement.  This means that, according to my private citizen's opinion:

Thompson didn't know the difference between civil court and criminal court.  When she found out that there was no money in it for her, in her having filed paperwork in criminal court, she withdrew her private criminal complaint against Cipolla, thereby dropping the whole case in August of 1978.  She knew that she wasn't going to get money in time to pay apartment rent. 

 
  
Below are Cipolla's "pastoral assignments."