July 30, 2026

PART 1: Anthony Cipolla was NEVER indicted or arrested. PERIOD.

If you're wondering why this particular subject matter is up front & up top at the Wuerl-of-Hurt site, it's because August 2026 is the tenth anniversary of Anthony Cipolla's sudden & violent death. 

Above:  This is where Donald Wuerl lived, while he was orchestrating the case that would destroy Anthony Cipolla for life and which would simultaneously provide for Wuerl a wide cloak of diversionary cover-up, to hide his actual abusive priests ... and doing so while Wuerl had Ann Rodgers-Melnick of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette LIE to humanity, proclaiming Cover-up Artist Wuerl to be the bishop of zero tolerance.

Incidentally, I presently live about five blocks away from that house.  This means that I'm typing this post five blocks from Wuerl's former palatial living quarters which complemented his Marie Antoinette Lifestyle ... his Pillow Mint Lifestyle.

None the less, remember that Wuerl denied ever having been informed about the long-term sex abuse accusations against Theodore McCarrick.  Yet, a number of seminarians were writing about their fear of McCarrick's continuing sexual impositions as far back as 2002.  

Then, Wuerl suddenly claimed that he was temporarily suffering from AMNESIA, concerning the case of a major American cardinal, stationed at the United States' capitol, being accused of severe sex abuse.  Such accusations are so poignant that brain surgery patients such as Joe Biden could have easily remembered them.  

Yes, Biden had two brain surgeries back in 1988.  In fact, he had a stroke back in 1988.  This proves that the American voter doesn't know for whom he/she is voting most of the time.

Getting to the Point & Cutting to the Chase

This segment covers a couple samples of the blatant lies told by Randy Engel in her defamatory 2016 article.  That article emotionally traumatized Anthony Cipolla so badly that, shortly thereafter, he underwent a violent heart-related death while driving.  This resulted in a violent crash.  And of course, Anthony could not have done it without you, Randy.  Way to go.

For those unaware, 2016 was the year when Mrs Randy Engel wrote and got published the article which damned the existence of Anthony Cipolla.  And like the typical Nazi German ... like the typical Soviet Communist ... like the typical dictatorship ... the magazine which published Engel's defamatory 2-part article did NOT allow Anthony Cipolla to be defended.
 
It was and still is as ANTI-AMERICAN a display of hypocrisy as you can find ... all done in the name of "renewing America."  That magazine needed to be titled, "Renewing Nazi Oppression."  Let us proceed:
 
We start with the very Contradictory Heat of July Lie 
 
According to a female writer named Randy Engel, in the Heat of Late July (1978), the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla was wearing a CASSOCK, while intruding on a single mom who, five days earlier, called the police and accused Cipolla of molesting a child or two of hers.  
 
And of course, this accusation occurred almost exactly after Cipolla told the single mom that his parish didn't have the money to pay her monthly apartment rent.  A mighty coincidence, for sure.

In addition, Diane Thompson later claimed that Cipolla's followers smashed all her windows and slit all her car tires, in the Summer of 1978.  Well, this occurred BEFORE Cipolla was put in charge of the already-existent Padre Pio prayer group which was founded in the 1960s.  He had no Padre Pio Prayer Group followers as of yet.  This means that he didn't have a group of followers to go out and smash windows for him.
 
Of course, Randy Engel water-downed that particular falsehood in 2016, by claiming that only one window was vandalized.  Well, Randy Engel must have lived a sheltered life.  When people commit retaliation, they don't waste their time smashing only one window.  They go for the Kill.  The Randy Engel of 2016 had no wisdom ... or common sense. 
 
By the way,  the windows of that single mom's apartment were NOT smashed at all, and her car tires were NOT slit, either.  After all, the majority of Padre Pio Group members were either retired or disabled, meaning that they didn't have the energy to commit felonies, in the first place.  
 
Of course, Cipolla was not yet in charge of any Padre Pio Group that would have members go out and start smashing windows, during the hours between them cashing their social security checks, seeing their doctors for arthritic medical conditions, and playing checkers at the local senior citizen's hall.
 
 Cassocks in July is a fictional tale 
 
None the less, cassocks are for cold-weather months, and are NOT typically worn in late July, in case you didn't know.  BTW, I asked a few former followers of Anthony Cipolla if anyone of them ever saw Cipolla dressed in a cassock.  The answer was always. "No."  So stated for the record.
 
Meanwhile, Mrs Randy Engel also asserted that Cipolla appeared while Young Tucker was diligently doing his homework at a kitchen table ... on July 30th, 1978.  Well, ladies & gentlemen, this was during the HEART OF SUMMER VACATION, when school had been out for over 7 weeks ... and while there were still five or so weeks of Summer Vacation remaining, before the ringing of the first school bell of 1978.

Plus, according to the same Randy Engel, the father of one of the two sons of Cipolla's accuser underwent a severe special forces training accident, during 1965, at a military base in Spartanburg, South Carolina.  This was said to have been the cause that left Diane Thompson ... the 1978 accuser of Cipolla ... to fend for herself as a single mother, in the era of food stamps, welfare checks, and federally funded HUD housing.

Responses to Engel's Assertions go as follows:

Concerning the claim of special forces training in the Carolinas, in 1965, a brief background goes as follows:
 
That Spartanburg South Carolina military base CLOSED IN 1946, one year after the end of WWII.  It was called, Camp Croft.  There was no Vietnam-era training there.  The place was a tourist sight in 1965.  No guns are allowed to be fired anywhere near a tourist sight in the USA.

Even the 1950's special forces training center in Camp Mackall, in North Carolina, was NOT in operation in the 1960s.  Thus, you can be assured that Randy Engel's Special Forces Accident Segment was a deliberate lie.   
 
Below:  Look and see what LIARS Randy Engel & Diane Thompson have been, in their traumatizing the defamed heart disease patient, Anthony Cipolla, literally to death in 2016.  And then, remember this:  Hell is filled with people who never thought they would go there.                  ★☆★☆★☆☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

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Now, concerning North Carolina's Camp Mackall, whoever this "second husband" of Diane Thompson was, he definitely did NOT do any special forces training there, either.  Thus, he did no special forces training in 1965 in either of the two Carolina states. 
 

To get to Vietnam, you needed to embark from California on the West Coast and NOT from the Carolinas on the East Coast.
 
Plus, you needed to train in a hot jungle environment, and North Carolina did not have that environment.  Meanwhile, Camp Croft had already been closed for 18 years, by the time 1965 arrived. 
 
Those two observations, alone, should have alerted the 2016 readers of the defamatory Randy Engel article that the contents of that article were fiction.  In as much, let us now adjourn to the famous Fort Bragg, also located in the Carolinas.  
 
A Randy Engel defender might come to say that Diane Thompson was mistakenly referring to Fort Bragg as the place of Vietnam special forces training.  
 
Well, if Fort Bragg were in California or Hawaii or Guam, the special forces claim in the Engel article might have had some legitimacy.  If Fort Bragg were situated in a heated jungle, then the defamatory Engel article of 2016 might have had an element of credibility to it.  
 
HOWEVER, the reality to Fort Bragg and Vietnam is that there was the 5th Special Forces stationed there and the 10th Special Forces Psychological Warfare unit there.  Both special forces units were stationed there, for the purpose of paperwork and management.  Any physical training maneuvers which involved "explosions" were conducted elsewhere, in a heated jungle environment called Vietnam. 
 
Now, the 5th Special Forces was indeed established in 1961 and assigned to Fort Bragg.  HOWEVER, between 1964 and 1971 its special forces training bases were literally IN VIETNAM, to acclimate soldiers to the hot jungle environment.  Thus, there was no second husband of Diane Thompson involved in any 1965 special force training in either of the two Carolina states. 


Fort Bragg became the center of Psychological Warfare in 1952, and the 10th Special Forces Group was assigned to be stationed there, in the psychological warfare capacity.  Then, Kennedy moved the embarkation point of 10th Special Forces to the West Coast, being that the West Coast was closer to Vietnam than was North Carolina.  
 
The important point here is that the 10th Special Forces was a cerebral military unit of psychological academics and even radio transmission academics, as well as electronics training.  It was an Information Operations unit.  
 
Its training was the opposite of the violence seen in the stereotypical Chuck Norris movie.  The 10th Special Forces Unit was not trained to blow you up.  It was trained to take over your radio stations and to intercept enemy messages, as well as sabotaging enemy electronics.
 

This shows that Diane Thompson was NOT honestly mistaken, but rather, she was a deliberate liar in her harrowing special forces training tale which was nothing more fiction.  There was no second husband of Diane Thompson getting seriously injured in any 1965 special forces training session in North or South Carolina.  
 
This shows that Diane Thompson ... and and and Randy Engel's "good good New Jersey friend" who manipulated the contents of the 2016 article, in order to drastically demonize an Anthony Cipolla she literally wanted off of Planet Earth ... intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon heart patient, Anthony Cipolla, with the help of their asinine dupe, Mrs Randy Engel.
 
I personally spoke with Randy Engel's good good New Jersey friend for many hours.  She wanted Cipolla completely disregarded, avoided, and entirely ignored.   She vehemently, in a paranoiac tone of voice, kept telling me to drop the Cipolla investigation.  
 
Well, if she were a woman of truth, then she would have invited me to continue investigating Cipolla, to prove without a shadow of doubt that he was guilty of molestation.  It were as if that woman feared that numerous pieces of exculpatory evidence in favor of Cipolla would arise.  And exculpatory evidence kept rising like artifacts during an archeological excavation.
 
Cipolla was in too much pain to molest anyone or hurt anyone 
 
The huge issue concerning her outright paranoia is that, at the time, Anthony Cipolla had painful and debilitating medical conditions which included heart surgery, a previous minor heart attack, and diabetic neuropathy.  I heard Cipolla in pain many times, over the phone.  Yet, Randy Engel's "good good New Jersey friend" saw Cipolla as a danger to humanity. 
 
It's too bad that that "good good New Jersey friend" of Randy Engel did not find the psychiatrist she needed, because she was nuts. 
 
The Harrowing July Homework Fairy Tale 
 
Now, concerning the claim that Young Tucker was doing homework at a kitchen table on July 30th, 1978, a person set on defending Randy Engel's 2016 defamatory writing would respond, by claiming that Young Tucker was probably doing Summer School homework.  Well, that conjecture is very easy to disprove.  Observe:
 
According to the Pittsburgh Teachers' Union Contract of the late 1970s, there was to be no summer school occurring in the final week of July.  This was done, so that union teachers could get valid vacation time before the start of the "teachers' in-service days" which immediately occurred a few days before the start of the school year.  


Moreover, the start of the school year was scheduled to immediately follow Labor Day.  Thus, the Teachers' In-Service Days were scheduled for Late August.  
 
This is why the union contract made sure that there would be NO SUMMER SCHOOL in the last week of July.  In as much, it is 100% certain that the Young Tucker was NOT doing any summer school homework on July 30th, 1978, as Randy Engel claimed. 
 

Moreover, the 1978 accusing mother could have easily gotten a Restraining Order against Cipolla.  She could have simply called the police, if he did appear on her porch in a cassock, on July 30th.  But of course, the entire story can be written-off as a deliberate lie, because it was one big lie to have claimed that Tucker was doing homework during a time when there was no school.  

No one in the early 1970s youth groups ever accused Cipolla

If Anthony Cipolla were such a notorious child molester, then why did no one from any of his early 1970s youth groups ever accuse him of any wrongdoing?  People in those youth groups had 53 years to come forth and state their accusations.  
 
Even a confidentiality clause of decades past would have come forth during the 2002 media onslaught of Catholic bishop cover-ups.  But, none were reported about any of Cipolla's early '70s youth group members.  There is zero indication that any member of those youth groups came forth and accused Cipolla of wrongdoing.  Hello there?  Is anyone home?


None the less, the sole detective of the short-lived 1978 Cipolla investigation mentioned in his 2018 grand jury testimony why he believed the damning accusations of the 12 year old son of Diane Thompson, in 1978.

The former detective said that he only believed what the 12 year old boy said to him in 1978, because he was a 12 year old boy.  The detective of 1978 didn't think that any 12 year old child was capable of lying to a police officer.  That belief was common amongst Americans in the late 1970s.


Of course, in subsequent years, court cases showed that 9, 10, 11, and 12 year old students most certainly do lie.  This means that you have to test any junior high school student's testimony for cracks & contradictions, just like anyone else's testimony.

None the less, concerning the 1978 Probable Cause Hearing which came after the issuing of a Summary Notice, the sole detective's 2018 grand jury testimony ... of the 1978 case ... as soon as it was made known to him that the Cipolla Case was going to be dismissed ... was reportedly this:

[I] didn’t recall seeing Father Cipolla, but I do recall there was – – approximately – – there was five men and it has been a while back. 

I don’t know if they were all attorneys or who they belonged to. But one of them approached me and told me that the mother doesn’t want to press charges and they - - to the effect - - they didn’t want to get the priest in any trouble or hurt the priest.  Something to that effect. 

And I said, ‘Well, what about the boy?’ And I didn’t get an answer. So I kind of asked again. I said, ‘What do we want to do with the boy? He is the one who is the victim here.’
 
And of course, the sole detective whose last name began with McG... only believed that Cipolla was guilty because Detective McG believed that a 12 year old eldest brother was incapable of lying to police.  Of course, the 1980s McMartin case proved that 9, 10, 11, and 12 year old children are very capable of telling ridiculous lies with a straight face.
 
(Note on Due Process:  When a judge would find probable cause for an indictment, he/she would do what was known as "issue process."  Then, and only then, does the person end up getting indicted and then arrested & arraigned.)  

In 1978, no one issued process on Anthony Cipolla.  And in 2026, after a deep-dive investigation which included searching America for those involved in the 1978 case, it turned out that Diane Thompson and her eldest son repeatedly lied in their "averments of fact."  Those lies were as bad as those told by the McMartin witnesses of 1983 to 1990.

The 1978 Pittsburgh detective automatically played jury, declaring Cipolla guilty, because Detective McG believed that 12 year old big brothers didn't lie.  Well, school teachers know that 12 year youths do lie.  
 
The detective should have simply  said, "But, we had an element of probable cause in the 1978 case which needed follow-up."  

The probable cause was the stethoscope, IF and ONLY IF there were no evidence of Cipolla occasionally sending medical supplies to the foreign mission with whom he was once associated.  And of course, his association with that mission was as a seminarian.  
 
BTW, the yearly Michigan trip of Cipolla was to the grounds of that religious order.  The purpose of that yearly trip was to inspire Catholic youth to aspire to the priesthood.

Anyway, the 2018 testimony of the sole detective of the 1978 case also said:

And I was kind of ignored, to be honest about it. And the case was dropped, thrown out, whatever you want to call it, and it was nothing that the police – – that we could do because the Magistrate went along with it and dumped the case.  So here we are today.

Randy Engel should have first studied Anatomy
 
Now, if Cipolla did molest Tucker, it was NOT the way Randy Engel said it was repeatedly done.  Such an action would have caused any nine year a lot of physical pain.  This is due to the Science of Anatomy.  And quite frankly, I do NOT want to get graphic here.

Once again, the 1978 detective did NOT test the youth's allegations for contradictions.  He immediately believed anything the youth said, simply because the youth was a youth and youths were immaculately honest people who were incapable of lying ... NOT.

If the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson were in the danger she later claimed she was ... at the hands of Cipolla in 1978 ... police would have had due cause to arrest multiple persons, including Cipolla.  Thus, she would NOT have had to have fled her apartment.  
 
The conjecture is that Diane Thompson failed to pay rent and faced eviction.  Cipolla wasn't out to get her.  All that Cipolla had to do was relocate and stay as far away from her as possible.
 
Her Lies about Yours Truly, shows that she IS a liar, per se 

This Diane Thompson also claimed that you could search the internet all day and not find any proof of my existence.  She simultaneously claimed that Cipolla was operating this site, under my name, while operating some kind of sex ring.  
 
Now, if you have money and you state about me what Thompson did ... and I learn of it ... I'm going to sue you with the intention of utterly destroying the sum total of your defamatory existence.  Your attorney can be the one giving you lessons on law and civil court, as well as the history of Italian vengeance.  I suffered too much in life than to die defamed.   
 
And of course, the attorneys with whom I consulted, to sue Diane Thompson for defamation, simply mentioned the word, "uncoverable."  This refers to the fact that suing her was not going to result in any cash award actually being obtained by the law firm.  Therefore, no lawyer was out there who was going to file a defamation lawsuit against someone who had no vast bank account.
 
Wuerl benefited by letting financially impoverished people commit defamation for him ... by committing defamation which benefited Wuerl.  Those people were surrogates doing his "bidding" for him.  
 
None the less, it has been ten years since Cipolla's violent death, and this site continues to be operated.  That, alone, is proof that I exist ... or else Cipolla's ghost is operating this site.  That would make this site haunted.  
 
Therefore, if you go to this site, and cups and saucers suddenly start flying around you, with kitchen drawers opening and closing at will, then this site is being operated by Cipolla's ghost.  If not, then you know Diane Thompson to be nothing but a liar.  
 
None the less, if you claim as true anything defamatory that the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson stated about me, get a lawyer.  And remember, I'm Italian.  So, do the math on what that means ... and go for it.

Was revealed to me

Now, something was revealed to me about Diane Thompson's mindset, during the days when she originally learned that I repeatedly caught her lying ... in the 2010s.  She was in utter traumatic distress, because she was in a position to loose a massive settlement, if the authorities of the Pittsburgh Diocese weren't either corrupt or utterly stupid.  

She WAS terrified of me and wanted me out of the picture.  She even doxed me, enabling some fanatic to find me and to violently take me out of the picture.

The revelation about Diane Thompson being terrified of me came from the mouth of someone in her camp, into my ears.  The Diane Thompson People were ... and probably still are ... really, really, REALLY stupid.  

Enter the Self-Righteous Randy Engel, judge of us all

The importance of the female writer named Randy Engel is that she used to be the one who edited Anthony Cipolla's Padre Pio Group periodical, called "Thorns & Roses," for consecutive years after Wuerl defrocked Cipolla on account of the St. Luke Institute's diagnosis of Clinical Depression & Suicidal Tendencies.  She knew all about the accusations against Cipolla, but dispelled them ... for years.  

As you read her 2016 text, you instantly see that Engel didn't know the first thing about the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.  This is because Engel's narration of a 1978 arrest and  arraignment which never happened in the first place was NOT the way defendants were processed in Pennsylvania.  That, alone, proves the 2016 Engel text to be  defamatory fiction. 

In addition, Wuerl hyper-publicized and misrepresented the Cipolla Case as a diversionary tactic which concealed from the public all of Wuerl's actual cover-ups of priests who actually did get convicted in criminal courts of law ... or who should have been convicted.

Wuerl obstructed justice, and he used the hyped-up version of the Cipolla case in the obstruction thereof.   But, in 2018, all came tumbling down for Donald Wuerl.  He was found to be the opposite of the super-hero he was made-out to be.

In addition, a third person did contact Ann Rodgers-Melnick, reporting a priest cover-up of Donald Wuerl.  But of course, she ignored that third person.

Once again, in my private citizen's personal opinion of a public figure ... as is protected under NY Times v Sullivan (1964) ...  Donald William Wuerl was the opposite of St Francis of Assisi, St Francis Xavier, St Francis de Sales and every other St. Francis in the Catholic Church's list of saints.  That list is called, the Roman Martyrology.  Incidentally, martyr means "witness."

Concerning Randy Engel's age, she began journalism shortly after her college  graduation which occurred in 1961.  Thus, one can assume that Randy was born somewhere in the vicinity of 1940 or so.  Therefore, she was in her 70s in 2016.  Incidentally, Randy was a grad of the State University of New York at Cortland; SUNY Cortland.  

I personally knew Randy.  In fact, she, Mike Ference, and I were simultaneously interviewed on some type of internet radio talk show thing, in the early 2010s.  

One of the two interviewers turned out to be my long lost cousin ... literally.  He was a second-cousin raised somewhere near the Penn State campus.  His mom ... a woman I did meet ... had a restaurant near the Nittany Lion stadium.  Yes, it was a super coincidence.

Cipolla died the same year as the Engel Text ... from a heart attack
 
In 2016, Randy Engel seemed to have seen herself as Cipolla's executioner, in letting him endure untold emotional distress which lead to his 2016 death.  That was sick and twisted of her. 

Simply because a person speaks or writes with confidence, in an assured tone (or rhythm), it doesn't mean that the person is telling the truth.  The 1980s McMartin Case, alone, proved this to be so.