Observe another example of the outright LIES in the 2016 Randy Engel article that was eventually published by Renew America. According to Engel's 2016 article:
Response: Firstly, once criminal charges are filed anywhere in the USA, a civilian CANNOT "drop the charges." This includes Diane Thompson. I repeatedly explained this in prior posts. Only a judge or a prosecutor can drop criminal charges once they are filed.
Thus, it was IMPOSSIBLE for the Diocese of Pittsburgh to intimidate Diane Thompson into "dropping charges against Cipolla" WHICH WERE NEVER FILED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Furthermore, there was ZERO semen found on Tucker Thompson, and there was ZERO DNA test of any kind performed in the 1978 case. This was already explained in detail in other posts.
Secondly, the name was NOT "Nehouser." It was Mark Ninehouser and he was NOT a detective. In fact, I spoke with Mark at length, person to person, and Mark came off as a Most Excellent Gentleman, in the Keanu Reeves definition of the phrase.
Randy Engel did NOT speak with Mark. I did. She wouldn't have even known how to get in touch with him.
In 1978, Mark Ninehouser and Robert Fogle were uniformed police officers ... men in blue ... who were sent to Diane Thompson's apartment, on July 25th, 1978. They did nothing more than jot down her story, transposed it on an official form, and then handed it over to the detective's desk, never to speak with Diane Thompson again.
Ninehouser & Fogle did NOT drive her or Tucker or Frank to any court venue, talking to her while driving. They talked to her once only, on July 25, 1978. They gave her no sheet of paper, saying that she was going to need it in the future.
Oh, and as a general and non-specific fact concerning any sheet of paper being proven as an authentic one from 1978, and NOT a newly forged one in 2016, such a sheet paper needs to be slightly yellowed ... and NOT jet white. Even at that, I am only stating a general, at-large fact.
Now, Fogle did do "undercover" & "plain clothes" police duty. But, this is different than being a detective. Cases have one detective only who does the mental work. The problem is that Diane Thompson watched too many episodes of the fictional TV series, Starsky & Hutch.
Cipolla was never criminally indicted and/or arrested in the first place, and in order to be arraigned and then to schedule a preliminary hearing, you have to first be arrested.
As I stated a half dozen times previously, I personally spoke at length, in a polite and informative conversation, with Mark Ninehouser. Moreover, I located him through the Pittsburgh Steeler Organization.
Mark clearly explained what I ... and what you ... needed to know about Diane Thompson's very false assertion of him and his partner being detectives assigned to the Cipolla Case, as if they were Starsky & Hutch.
In fact, Mark explained how Randy Engel LIED in her descriptions of where a defendant in Pittsburgh gets arraigned, in the first place. In 1978, no one got arraigned at Police Station #9, near Bidwell St. Defendants got arraigned at GRANT STREET, in a courtroom and NOT in a police station. Or they got arraigned at the night court venue.
Engel mentioned, in her defamatory 2016 article that hearings in the Cipolla case ... in a couple of instances ... occurred at police stations. The proper response to that assertion is:
The whole "Nehouser" & Fogle detective duo story was a lie. It was another one of Diane Thompson's many falsehoods, and Randy Engel fell for it as she fell for a catalogue of Diane Thompson's MANY LIES which were easy to prove as LIES.
The real detectives
The detectives given the 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's Roman Catholic diocese. This resulted in the assumption that there was only one detective assigned to the case in 1978, being that there was only one suspect.
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 he who said that he believed everything that Frank Labiaux said to him, because Detective Broz believed that no 12 year child would ever lie to a police officer. Now, it's understood.
For the record, Warren Broz later became a desk sergeant and he was involved in the Municipal Police Officers' Education & Training Commission. He was also involved in a Law Enforcement Peer Support Team which helped officers going through burn-out or some form 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 ... and not only police.
