The 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury narration of the Cipolla Case was a much more tame version of the case. The Pgh Post Gazette 1995 version and the 2016 Randy Engel version were hyper-exaggerations. Real cover-ups are sneaky, silent, snakelike, pernicious, and subtle.
PREVIEW: Randy Engel stated that, between August 15 and 17, 1977, twelve year old Frank Labiaux was molested by Anthony Cipolla for the first time ever, in a Dearborn Michigan motel room. This molestation, according to Engel, was followed by Frank vandalizing a church near his Mexico Street home, one week later.
Engel stated that twelve-year-old Frank and another youth entered through a church window, and took a fire extinguisher, unleashing its foam upon a podium and pews.
Now, there was a church on California Avenue, very near to St. Francis Xavier Parish, which was vandalized via fire extinguisher foam. HOWEVER, it happens in NOVEMBER of 1978, fifteen months after Engel said it happened.
Plus, the two vandals were aged 14 and 15. They did NOT include a twelve year old Frank Labiaux. Furthermore, two weeks later, the same two youths went back to the same church and slit the tires of the cars in the parking lot during a Protestant Revival Meeting there.
Now, there was a church on California Avenue, very near to St. Francis Xavier Parish, which was vandalized via fire extinguisher foam. HOWEVER, it happens in NOVEMBER of 1978, fifteen months after Engel said it happened.
Plus, the two vandals were aged 14 and 15. They did NOT include a twelve year old Frank Labiaux. Furthermore, two weeks later, the same two youths went back to the same church and slit the tires of the cars in the parking lot during a Protestant Revival Meeting there.
The pastor of the church quickly recognized the youths as the same ones who committed the fire extinguisher vandalism, two weeks prior. Neither of the two was Frank Labiaux. Diane Thompson and Randy Engel lied. Frank Labiaux lied.
Incidentally, the church was the Avery Memorial AME Zion Church, located at 3403 California Ave, Pgh 15212. See: Pittsburgh Post Gazette archives, at the SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1978 edition, at PAGE 18.
Incidentally, the church was the Avery Memorial AME Zion Church, located at 3403 California Ave, Pgh 15212. See: Pittsburgh Post Gazette archives, at the SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1978 edition, at PAGE 18.
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The one excerpt exposed here is so blatant a falsehood that it should set a spark in your mind, in having you realize that the damning accusations in the Cipolla Case were a series of orchestrated lies. This one cannot be defended by the Engel People, in any capacity.
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At this point, however, keep in mind that Cipolla was NEVER tried at the Vatican for molesting Tim Bendig. He was tried for a diagnosis of Depression & Suicidal Tendencies, making that case a procedural law case, only.
Wuerl refused to let Cipolla back into ministry out of fear for District Attorney John C Pettit who publicly announced that Wuerl's cooperation in the investigation which lead to the indictments of Frs. Wolk, Zula, and Pucci was MINIMAL at best.
Pettit also mentioned that investigations would continue. Therefore, putting Cipolla back into ministry would have triggered the very Grand Jury Investigation that was performed upon the Diocese of Pittsburgh in 2018.
Now, as the usual preamble, I state that I am more than willing to declare the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla an egregious molester who earned a one-way ticket to Hell. But, the fact-checking of the accusations against Cipolla resulted in finding that Diane Thompson/Mangum lied, lied some more, and lied again. It was found that even Frank Labiaux lied to Randy Engel. We continue.
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This post/article details an elaborate lie told by Diane Thompson/ Mangum and published as if it were a fact-checked truth by Randy Engel. That specific assertion concerns the claim that a young Frank Labiaux co-committed vandalism upon a church near his Mexico Street domicile in 1977, out of frustration for having been molested. Well, that church was vandalized in late 1978, 15 months later than Randy Engel said it was.
The fact-checking on this one is so exact that it should finally jar the most stubborn person into realizing that the Engel article is nothing more than a collection of easily provable falsehoods, and thereby, a long-winded piece of vicious and actionable libel.
The fact-checking on this one is so exact that it should finally jar the most stubborn person into realizing that the Engel article is nothing more than a collection of easily provable falsehoods, and thereby, a long-winded piece of vicious and actionable libel.
Ladies and gentlemen, Randy Engel wrote that, between August 15 and 17 of 1977, Anthony Cipolla molested Frank Labiaux in a Dearborn Michigan motel. Frank was 12 years of age plus 10 or 11 months. She asserted that Cipolla took 3 or 4 lads to Michigan, to see the Henry Ford Museum. The other boys weren't molested according to her. Only Frank was.
In fact, Engel stated that it was a long and tiring trip from Pittsburgh, and therefore, Cipolla didn't have the energy to molest anyone on the first night.
Now, concerning the trip to Dearborn being long and tiresome, BULL CRAP! I know this from personal experience, being that I had a girlfriend in Grand Rapids whom I would visit via highway travel, and the drive to the Detroit area was only halfway to Grand Rapids and not tiring at all. In fact, Pittsburghers used to travel to Detroit and buy cars there. They would then return to Pittsburgh on the same day.
The trip to the Ann Arbor / Dearborn / Detroit area is only FOUR hours. Now, I have traveled as far as 1,000 miles in a day (from South Carolina's Coastline to Texas) and I did more than one 14 hour trip between Pittsburgh and the Carolina coastline.
A four hour drive is nothing. The sign of a liar is exaggeration. Engel exaggerated on purpose, insulting the intelligence of any American used to really long road travel.
We need to keep the following in mind:
Diane Thompson wrote to me and specifically stated that Frank was molested at the PIME seminary, and NOT at a motel. Then, I produced a witness who went to the seminary with Tim Bendig and Anthony Cipolla. He said that nothing immoral happened there. He said that Cipolla did NOT do anything queer.
Immediately thereafter, Diane Thompson/Mangum ever-so-coincidentally changed her story and placed the molestation in a motel room. Quite frankly, people who drive to the Henry Ford Museum can easily drive back to Pittsburgh on the exact same day.
We continue:
Engel wrote that one week after the motel molestation which is highly unlikely to have occurred, Frank vandalized a church near his Mexico Street home, using a fire extinguisher as the weapon of vandalism. That would be AUGUST 24, 1977.
Engel wrote that Frank and an accomplice entered a church window and sprayed fire extinguisher foam on to a podium and church pews, resulting in his arrest and visit to juvenile court. Got it? Let's continue.
On California Avenue, near Saint Xavier Parish, a church was vandalized by means of fire extinguisher abuse, damaging furniture and carpets. It was the Avery Memorial AME Zion Church, located at 3403 California Avenue.
HOWEVER, it was NOT vandalized on August 24, 1977. In fact, it was NOT vandalized in 1977, at all. It wasn't vandalized until November 1978, fifteen months after Engel said that it was.
Now, Engel stated that Diane Thompson took her family in flight to Cleveland, in the middle of September 1978, after she was harassed into dropping criminal charges that were never filed in the first place. Yet, the vandalism did not occur until November of 1978. And and and, the vandals were a 14 year old youth and a 15 year old youth who would then commit vandalism at the same church two weeks later, sometime around November 3rd and 17th, 1978.
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In as much, if Diane Thompson fled Pittsburgh in September 1978, then how did she know about the fire extinguisher vandalism of November 1978?
After all, there was no internet in 1978, and local news items didn't make its way between major American metropolises, being that there was enough news to cover in each individual metropolis.
This would indicate that Diane Thompson did NOT leave Pittsburgh in Mid-September 1978, as was reported by Engel. After all, if you fail to pay your rent, there was/is a 30 to 60 day process, before eviction.
In their second vandalism spree, the two boys ... aged 14 and 15 ... slit the tires of the cars in the parking during a Protestant Revival Meeting.
The pastor recognized those two boys as the ones who did the fire extinguisher vandalizing two weeks prior. And neither one of the boys was Frank Labiaux. Thus, Diane Thompson lied through her teeth, and we now have evidence to prove that Frank Labiaux also lied about the Cipolla Case.
Now, you can do the fact-checking for yourself. Go to the:
Pittsburgh Post Gazette archives, at the SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1978 edition, at PAGE 18.
It mentions both acts of vandalism, including the one that Diane Thompson claims to have been done by Frank a year and a quarter before it actually happened.
In as much, I can assure you that Frank was NOT taken to Juvenile Lockup & Court, as Randy Engel claimed. Thus, Frank Labiaux was NOT frustrated for having been molested, and therefore, he probably was NOT molested. After all, he was certainly NOT ARRESTED for vengeance vandalism or any other variety of vandalism.
This one lie should break the hypnotic trance upon you, in thinking that Engel is the holiest woman alive. You might then say, "Hey, she was in Vietnam as the voice of Saigon." Uhhhm, the Voice of Saigon headquarters was in Dayton Ohio where one can find the Wright-Patterson air base. That is the air base which has the memorial plaque of the my father's Air Force Bomb Group.
None the less, we now have very convincing evidence that Diane Thompson and her children orchestrated a theatrical lie about Cipolla molesting the family. And why?
ANS: The custody of two grand children who were 12 and 14 in 2016.
Moreover, if Frank said that he did this act of vandalism upon the AME Zion Church in his interview with Randy Engel, then it's proven that he IS a LIAR.
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| Ladies & gentlemen, this is the southern end of the very short Mexico St about which Randy Engel wrote. It's a glorified back alley and little more than that. |
We now address Engel's mention of two "detectives." Firstly, one's name was NOT Nehouser, as Engel stated. It was NINEHOUSER. Mark Ninehouser.
As far as goes the R. Fogle mentioned by Engel, it was ROBERT W FOGLE, Ninehouser's police patrol partner. And yes, at times, Fogle would do "plain clothes stake-out" assignments.
None the less, in later years, Mark Ninehouser became the NFL Security Representative in Pittsburgh. In fact, before becoming a police officer, Ninehouser was a welder.
None the less, in the 1978 case, we were dealing with a private criminal complaint form and NOT a police criminal complaint form which is known as a Police Affidavit.
Concerning Fogle & Ninehouser
The irony here is that both police officers were involved in a murder that they could have prevented, on October 4, 1978. The murder took place on Buena Vista Avenue, when a man named Robert Tucker was shot to death by a Tyrone DeVaughn. Tucker was walking from the police station and was then shot dead.
You see, Fogle and Ninehouser gave the man a private criminal com-
plaint form to fill-out, upon which one of the officers went to night court to get a motions judge to sign-off on it. It would get DeVaughn arrested and processed ... if if if the judge would have signed-off on it before Robert Tucker was murdered.
plaint form to fill-out, upon which one of the officers went to night court to get a motions judge to sign-off on it. It would get DeVaughn arrested and processed ... if if if the judge would have signed-off on it before Robert Tucker was murdered.
This October 1978 murder case shows that Engel and Diane Thompson lied about their description of Anthony Cipolla's pretend July 1978 arrest. At no time did they mention a judge's signature, and I told my readers on multiple occasions that you either need a judge to sign-off on a complaint or an assistant DA to approve a complaint. Such a complaint directs the local magistrate to "issue process." To issue process means to "Book him, Danno," as was said at the end of most episodes of the hit CBS TV show, Hawaii Five-0
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Another 1978 case involving Robert W Fogle should give light on how high the bail would have been imposed upon Anthony Cipolla IF he actually were arrested. And remember, Cipolla only received a summary notice that was only signed by Diane Thompson by which he was to appear before city court magistrate Stephen Laffey, to see IF Laffey would issue process on Cipolla or not.
It was up to Thompson to show probable cause. She simply dismissed her complaint the day before the hearing.
None the less, once upon a time Fogle had undercover (plain clothes) duty, and he caught two thugs assaulting and robbing two 80+ year old sisters. The two alleged robbers were John Knox and Samuel Wade. Both were held on $10,000 bond each.
None the less, once upon a time Fogle had undercover (plain clothes) duty, and he caught two thugs assaulting and robbing two 80+ year old sisters. The two alleged robbers were John Knox and Samuel Wade. Both were held on $10,000 bond each.
Thus, if Cipolla molested Tucker Thompson in 1978, he would have been held at a high price tag. Probably $10,000. He would NOT have been released on his own recognizance. Thompson lied.
Of course, Engel said that the police let Cipolla go on his own "cognisance" (it's recognizance, in real life). But, only a judge can order a man released on his own recognizance, at a courthouse or at a magistrate's office. Plus, there are no arraignments in police stations. Thompson lied ... yet again.
By the way, concerning the Officers Robert Fogle and Mark Ninehouser case that involved the murderer Tyrone DeVaughn, go to the Wednesday, February 28, 1979 edition of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, at Page 18.
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| Above: Formerly St. Francis Xavier Parish. It's name was changed to Risen Lord Parish. California Ave, Northside. |
The fact that Thompson/Mangum ridiculed a retaliation victim of a corrupt bishop shows that she was not one of us. There is an unwritten code of respect among us. Thompson showed zero respect for me.
Plus, Thompson was found to have lied repeatedly. Do the math as to whether or not Diane Thompson suffered a priest's retaliation, and keep in mind that Frank Labiaux is now proven to be a liar, concerning the AME Zion Church Vandalism which occurred 15 months after he claimed to have done the vandalism.
Now for the real detectives of the 1978 Case.
This is the third time this has been mentioned, meaning that that which appears below is also in two other posts.
Plus,
there were not the "two detectives" that Randy Engel named as being the
ones in the 1978 Cipolla Case. Instead of "Nehouser & Fogle,"
there was Broz & Marchetti.
Now, Broz was known as a desk sergeant
for about 20 years. That created a shadow over the fact that he
actually was a detective at one time. That info was enlightening, and
if Randy Engel didn't irresponsibly shoot from the hip and instead allowed calm
to prevail, correct things would have surfaced a whole lot sooner.
For the record, her damning article was so traumatic to Cipolla that I first gave up, saying, "Hey wait a minute. Let me figure this out." It was followed by me hurrying to assuage Cipolla's trauma by citing any falsehood in the 2016 Engel article that I could. This included the 1965 Spartanburg military base lie.
The real detectives
The detectives given the 1978 case were Leo Marchetti and Warren Broz. Being that Marchetti died in 2012, Warren Broz was the only one left to testify in the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury hearings pertaining to Pittsburgh. This resulted in the assumption that there was only one detective assigned to the case in 1978. After all, there was only one suspect, so you assume there was only one detective.
Plus, Broz was known ... for 20 years ... as a Northside desk sergeant. Thus, finding out that he was a detective at one time was a surprise.
Broz was the only surviving detective in the case, when grand jury time came a coming in the vicinity of 2018. Warren Broz then died in the Year 2020, on the 13th of May.
It was Broz who said that he believed everything that Frank Labiaux told him, because Detective Broz believed that no 12 year child would ever lie to a police officer. Now, it's understood what was transpiring.
With the new understanding comes a new frustration: Why didn't Broz and Marchetti keep the case open and continue investigating? Broz simply testified that he said to Diane Thompson in 1978 something to the effect that "If Cipolla ever does this again, I promise you, I'll bust him." Well, it was guaranteed that Cipolla was not going to be anywhere near young Tucker ... or Frank ... again.
However, keep in mind that there actually was NO DEFINITIVE EVIDENCE against Cipolla in 1978. There was that stethoscope, but Cipolla claimed that he saved medical equipment for the missionary religious order to which he was associated as a seminarian. This is why Broz and Marchetti shouldn't have given-up so quickly.
This leaves a new question: Who was the assistant DA in charge of assessing the 1978 case and in deciding if the DA's office should have indicted Cipolla or leave the decision up to a magistrate, in a Probable Cause Hearing?
For the record, Warren Broz became a desk sergeant later in his career, and he was involved in the Municipal Police Officers' Education & Training Commission. And yes, while in college ... including Allegheny County Community College, he did study criminal justice. He wanted this as a career. And then, he burned out. He wasn't the first one to do so.
He was also involved in a Law Enforcement Peer Support Team which reached out to officers going through burn-out or some forms of mental trauma. In fact, there is such a thing as a "first responders' Peer Support Group," for every person involved in responding to emergencies ... such as firemen & EMT's ... and not only police.
