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| Above: The former headquarters of the newspaper that was originally scheduled for the end-of-publishing, as of May 2026. This was due to its significantly low subscriber numbers and its OVERALL UNPOPULARITY. This is the newspaper which made Donald Wuerl look like a god. The public, however, was NOT impressed. |
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"Very simply, no civilian anywhere in the United States has the power to "drop the charges" in any criminal case. This is because the power to drop criminal charges is reserved solely to the sovereign governing authority which is referred to as "the State," but which includes the federal governing authority in federal jurisdiction cases.
Thus, if there had been anything signed by Diane Thompson in Bob Colville's office, on August 28th, 1978, it was something that was NOT going to "drop the charges" against an Anthony Cipolla who had no charges filed against him, in the first place."
Another preview of this same post goes as follows:
"HOWEVER, in order for a "complainant" to withdraw her Private Citizen's Criminal Complaint in the 1970s, the "COMPLAINANT" had to ...
... appear AT THE CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE in person, to get the paperwork done, and NOT in any county District Attorney's office. This included Bob Colville's office, in 1978."
Preview of the supportive facts of a case that was/is flagrantly misrepresented
Always remember. The Cipolla case is what rocketed Donald Wuerl to his undeserved stardom, and that case, as it was presented by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, was an outlay of falsehoods that Wuerl let be believed by all. Thus, Wuerl rose to power & influence through LIES.
The narration of the 1978 Cipolla Case .. as was reported in the early 1990s by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette ... and as was later narrated by Randy Engel in 2016 ... claimed that Cipolla was as guilty as sin, yet DA Bob Colville forced Diane Thompson to sign a sheet of paper which "dropped the charges."
And of course, according to Diane Thompson, the very false reason why Cipolla was as guilty as sin was because, one or two or even three days after Tucker's July 25th exam, the Allegheny General Hospital lab identified semen gathered from Tucker as belonging to Cipolla, via DNA test results. The problem is that this entire story is an easily provable lie.
Firstly, as is proven by referring to the July 25th, 1978 O/I Report, Allegheny General Hospital did NOT mention the presence of semen on Tucker Thompson or on his clothing or on his property. All that was mentioned was that Tucker's medical condition was "GOOD." More this later. For now:
1] The great falsehood in Diane Thompson's DNA claim is that, in 1978, it took an average of 52 days to produce a DNA test result, meaning that, if there were DNA testing done in the Cipolla Case, the results would not have been submitted until middle to late September. Yet, the Cipolla case only lasted 35 days, ending on August 28th.
Plus plus plus, DNA testing, in the 1970s, occurred in NIH labs, and NOT in hospitals. This fact, alone, proves the Diane Thompson narrative, as was published in various "venues," was an undoubted lie.
2] Moreover, there was NO MENTION of semen being found on Tucker in the July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incidence Report signed by the Officer Mark Ninehouser with whom I personally spoke at length.
In fact, the only statement from Allegheny General Hospital which was recorded in the July 25th O/I Report was that "Thomas Thompson's" medical condition was GOOD. There were two blank spaces after the word, GOOD. If an injury or abnormality or evidence of criminal conduct was found, then it would have been stated in that blank space.
2b] For the sake of clarity, take note that the presence of semen anywhere on Tucker was NEVER mentioned in the July 25th O/I Report, meaning that there was no semen found on Tucker. This would only be because there was no semen on Tucker, in the first place.
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Above is the top part ... about a quarter of ... the one-page July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incident Report, signed by Mark Ninehouser. Look at the bottom line, right-hand side of the photo above. The 9 year old Thomas Thompson's medical condition was GOOD. Below that line, there are two empty lines reserved for medical exam comments. Thus, the empty space means that there was found by the examiner(s): 1] NO BLEEDING, 2] NO BRUISES, 3] NO SCRAPES & NO LACERATIONS, 4] NO SEMEN, 5] NO RECTAL OR GENITAL ABNORMALITIES, 6] NO BROKEN BONES, 7] NO VASELINE or other lubricant on or near rectal area ... ... and as time proceeded, 8] NO EVIDENCE OF ANY STD. This means that there was NO EVIDENCE that any crime had been committed on July 25th, 1978 against Tucker Thompson, in the first place. Even at that, Tucker alleged to have been molested only TWICE; once near the July 4th holiday season and on September 25, 1978, shortly after Diane Thompson's request for apartment rent money from Anthony Cipolla's parish was denied. 3] The biggest lie of Diane Thompson's Horror Tale consisted in her claim that DA Bob Colville forced her to sign a sheet of paper which "dropped the charges" against Cipolla. 3a] Firstly, there were no charges yet filed. That's why there was scheduled an August 28th, 1978 Probable Cause Hearing. It was a hearing to decide if whether or not charges were gonna be filed against Cipolla. 3b] Secondly, the power to drop criminal charges is rests within the State; NOT within civilian Diane Thompson. 3c] Never was there a civilian in America who ever had the power to unilaterally drop criminal charges in any criminal case. Thus, Diane Thompson LIED when she claimed ... in a 1995 Post Gazette article ... that she was forced to "drop the charges" against Cipolla. Observe: |
Concerning Diane Thompson asking Cipolla to get his pastor to have the parish pay her monthly apartment rent:
Cipolla would have instantly known that Diane Thompson was soon to be evicted from her apartment. This meant that, IF Cipolla wanted to molest Frank Labiaux and Tucker Thompson with "free rein," then Cipolla would have gone out of his way to make sure that Diane Thompson's rent would be paid monthly.
Cipolla did NOT do that. Cipolla showed that he was more than willing to let Diane Thompson, Tucker, and Frank Labiaux go far far away from him, to another domicile.
The thesis statement here is that: IF Cipolla wanted to molest those two youths on a long-term basis, he would have made sure that Diane Thompson got her monthly rent money.
In as much, that fact that Cipolla did NOT go out of his way to make sure that Labiaux and Tucker would continue living nearby him shows that Cipolla WAS NOT grooming the two youths for long-term sexual abuse, as Randy Engel claimed. End of Preview
Original Intro of this Post:
For those unaware, it was the extremely MISREPRESENTED Anthony Cipolla Case which rocketed Cardinal Donald Wuerl to his undeserved stardom. That stardom lasted until the conclusion of the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Inquest which revealed the actual Donald Wuerl.
Throughout the decades, Cipolla was severely demonized. Even after his death, when he could not defend himself, the attacks against him continued.
Even when he was alive, newspapers did not give him the opportunity to defend himself. It was all one-sided reporting, much like the reporting of Nazi Germany, under Nuremberg defendant and eventual death-penalty convict, Julius Streicher.
The OHIO LIE of none other than Diane You-Know-Whom
For the record, as was previously mentioned in another post, that the most recent defamation against Cipolla was the claim that people in Ohio were coming out of the proverbial woodwork, accusing him of molestation and filing lawsuits against him ... four and five years AFTER his death.
For those of you in a hurry and who are only skimming this text, the allegation came in 2021 or 2022 or so.
Well, in the entire history of Ohio, from the first day when the first white man walked on its terrain, all the way to August 31, 2026, not a single person in Ohio or originally from Ohio ever accused Anthony Cipolla of molestation. This was yet another Diane Thompson LIE.
The presentation of that case was one sick joke. Those falsehoods are addressed in sufficient detail, at the Wuerl-of-Hurt site. Go see for yourself, line-item by line-item ... in the August 2026 archive.
The 1990s, when cover-up artist, Wuerl, artificially became a star
The 1990s newspaper narration of Diane Thompson being coerced into signing a 1978 sheet of paper in Bob Colville's office that was needed to "drop the charges" against Anthony Cipolla ... which were never filed in the first place ... shows how much of a liar she was and how much of a bunch of liars were the editors of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
This also showed how much of a liar Wuerl was, in not correcting the falsehoods being reported as fact. After all, this is the lying newspaper whose people spent over a decade very falsely calling the blatantly manipulative and even vengeful Donald Wuerl the Bishop of Zero Tolerance ... as well as the Model of Zero Tolerance.
And of course, Wuerl displayed much tolerance toward Wolk, Zula, Pucci, Zirwas, Hoehl, Burchianti, Huff, and other priests of a criminal nature.
None the less, this is also the newspaper whose subscriber numbers were so low ... in the newspaper's unpopularity ... that management decided to close down all operations of it, by May of 2026. Then, a non-profit organization purchased it, designating it to release publications two days a week, on Thursdays and Saturdays.
The Bob Colville Coercion Tale proved that the Thompson Clan and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette editors were clueless as to basic procedural law in the United States
In review, for those of you who are exceptionally stubborn, exceptionally bigoted, and/or exceptionally brainwashed by either the Pittsburgh Post Gazette or Randy Engel or any Wuerl-influenced entity:
The entire narration of the August 1978 Bob Colville Coercion Tale was was a harrowing one, where Diane Thompson was brought into Bob Colville's office and was then illegally detained there ... until she signed a sheet of paper that was needed "to drop the charges" filed against Anthony Cipolla.
Yet, as of August 28th, 1978, Cipolla had neither been put in handcuffs nor put behind county jail bars, simply because no charges were filed against him. The entire "filing of charges" thing was a deliberate lie. Meanwhile, the "dropping the charges" thing was a bigger lie.
In as much, here is a Reality Check for you people out there who never studied law. It concerns the very false presumption that a civilian in America can sign a sheet of paper and have criminal charges dismissed:
"Very simply, no civilian anywhere in the United States has the power to "drop the charges" in any criminal case. This is because the power to drop charges is reserved solely to the sovereign governing authority which is referred to as "the State," but which includes the federal governing authority in federal jurisdiction cases.
Thus, if there had been anything signed by Diane Thompson in Bob Colville's office, on August 28th, 1978, it was something that was NOT going to "drop the charges" against an Anthony Cipolla who had no charges filed against him, in the first place."
Whatever Diane Thompson would have signed in the DA's office in August 1978 would have had absolutely no bearing on the Cipolla Case. That is to say, if Thompson would have signed any sheet of paper under duress in Bob Colville's office in August of 1978, there would have been nowhere for Colville to have taken that sheet of paper. It would have been a very useless piece of paper.
So, what did she do on August 28th ... 1978?
Well, ladies & gentlemen, the only procedural thing that Diane Thompson could have done on Monday, August 28th, 1978 was "withdraw her private criminal complaint."
Now, a private criminal complaint is a petition to the "court of jurisdiction" to file charges. It is NOT the act of filing charges.
Then, there is the matter of withdrawing a private criminal complaint. Firstly, if the DA acts upon the private criminal complaint and does file charges, then the complainant cannot file a withdrawal. A complainant can only withdraw her criminal complaint IF neither the DA nor a presiding judge filed charges against the accused.
This is because, as soon as criminal charges are filed anywhere in the United States, the case is put solely in the hands of the prosecutor and the judge.
No civilian anywhere on Earth can "drop the charges" against any defendant anywhere in United States jurisdiction, in criminal law. NOT even Diane Thompson could have done this in Bob Colville's office, in 1978.
Procedural Review
As a quick lesson, if the DA's office has not yet acted on the private criminal complaint, and if the judge did not yet "issue process" and have the accused person arrested, then a private citizen can withdraw his/her complaint.
HOWEVER, in order for a "complainant" to have withdrawn her Private Citizen's Criminal Complaint in the 1970s, the "COMPLAINANT" had to ...
... appear AT THE CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE in person, and NOT in any county District Attorney's office, to get the paperwork done. This included Bob Colville's office.
When you file a private criminal complaint, you are asking the court to file the charges for you. The court you are asking is the one who has jurisdiction over your case.
It is never a matter of you filing charges. Thus, when you file a private criminal complaint, you are not filing charges. When you file such a complaint, charges are only "pending" and charges in your personal case may never get filed, if the Burden of Proof standard is NOT satisfied.
In a Probable Cause Hearing the Burden of Proof Standard is lower than the standard for a "full hearing based on the merits." None the less, one requirement for a judge to approve an indictment is that the complainant has to "show reasonable grounds that a violation has probably occurred."
Now, according to the July 25th, 1978, Offense/Incident Report signed by Officer Mark Ninehouser, there was no evidence that Tucker Thompson, aka Thomas Thompson, was violated. After all, the Allegheny General Hospital finding of Tucker's condition was classified as "GOOD."
No mention of bruises, blood stains, cut marks, scratch marks, red marks, semen, or anything similar.
Contrary to what Randy Engel very falsely wrote about Allegheny General quickly identifying semen on Tucker, there was no mention of any such semen being found on Tucker, at Allegheny General, according to the O/I Report of July 25, 1978.
And of course, being that the average amount of time it took for DNA test results to be produced in 1978 was 52 days, there wasn't the time for any DNA test result to be submitted into evidence, even if there were semen found on Tucker.
The Cipolla Case lasted for only 35 days. There was no DNA evidence to show to Judge Laffey, on August 28th, 1978. Plus, being that there were no bruises, no cuts, no abrasions, no semen, no Vaseline, and no blood reported to have been found on Tucker, during the July 25th, 1978 exam, the O/I Report signed by Mark Ninehouser was worthless for Diane Thompson.
That report exonerated Cipolla. It did NOT prove guilt. In as much, the allegation within it was Diane Thompson's and even Tucker Thompson's statement. It was NOT the conclusion of the police officer. It was literally a close-enough quote of what the Thompson Clan alleged. There was no cross-examination done at that time.
All in all, on August 28th, 1978, Diane Thompson was not able to even to show to Judge Laffey that a violation had probably occurred on her son. Thus, her attendance at an August Probable Cause Hearing was a certain loss for Diane Thompson. So, she had to make up a harrowing tale of the DA forcing her to drop the charges and then to lie about evidence that did NOT exist.
The general rule of the private citizen's criminal compaint
When it comes a private citizen's criminal complaint, it is never a matter of you pressing charges. If any person could file criminal charges, then there would be total chaos in the court system. Con artists and vengeful people would be filing charges to the point of overloading the legal system and causing it to be unable to operate.
If neither judge nor prosecutor approved of the private citizen's criminal complaint
If neither a DA nor a judge approved the private criminal complaint, it used to be that the "complainant" was left to do the prosecuting, himself/herself. But, the civilian did the prosecuting under the watchful eye of an assistant DA. And of course, it has always been a rarity for a private citizen to prosecute a case in America.
Today, the last time I looked, if a private citizen is denied his/her request to have criminal charges filed against the accused, then that private citizen can file in United States District Court, asking for an injunction ordering the DA to file criminal charges.
Moreover, if a police officer submits a POLICE AFFIDAVIT, then the presiding judge can declare due cause, pursuant to the police affidavit, and indict the accused person(s). In that case, no private citizen's complaint is needed.
Here is the pertinent question, concerning the 1978 Cipolla Case:
Q: Which actual persons caused criminal charges to be filed against Anthony Cipolla, according to Diane Thompson's fictional tale?
ANS: According to Diane Thompson and certain writers, the filing of charges against Cipolla in 1978 ... which were never filed in the first place ... was done by "Detectives" Nehouser and Fogle.
In reality, the detectives were the late Warren Broz who died in 2020 or so, and the Detective Marchetti who died in 2012. They did NOT arrest Cipolla. In fact, Broz ended up becoming a desk sergeant for a long period of time, after having been a detective.
So, process this contradiction in your mind:
According to Diane Thompson, two guys named Nehouser and Fogle arrested Cipolla, filing criminal charges against him, in late July 1978. Then, Diane Thompson magically had the power to drop the charges, by signing a sheet of paper in Bob Colville's office, in late August of 1978.
If she did not do the filing of charges, then how is it that she got the power to dismiss the charges? The answer is that her whole Colville Signing Story is a wall-to-wall lie. Cipolla was never charged, in the first place. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette was either too dishonest or too incompetent to fact-check this damning story which defamed Colville as much as it defamed Cipolla.
None the less, if Diane Thompson's private criminal complaint had been accepted by the DA's office or by a judge in 1978, then, from that point in time and onward, she would not have had the power to withdraw her complaint. Once criminal charges are filed anywhere in the United States, it's out of civilians' hands.
In Review, for those exceptionally stubborn:
In review, the only person who can drop criminal charges in America is ======> an officer of the Court. That would be either the prosecutor or the judge. NOT Diane Thompson. Thus, Bob Colville had no power to make Diane Thompson or any other civilian in America drop charges in any criminal case, through signing a sheet of paper in Colville's office.
All in all, Diane Thompson LIED. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette repeated her LIE. And Randy Engel LIED, while acting as if to be a law professor, when she was nothing more than a babbling buffoon.
Of course, Engel spent a third of her article mentioning how the detectives ... which were given the wrong names by Engel ... were telling Thompson how they hoped that she would stand strong and NOT succumb to being pressured into dropping charges by the Diocese of Pittsburgh and Cipolla's lawyer. Well, Diane Thompson had zero authority to drop any criminal charges anywhere in 1978.
Now, as far as went Diane Thompson withdrawing her private criminal complaint, it would only have been because she had not the needed evidence to prosecute Cipolla and because she had no idea how to prosecute a case herself.
None the less, perceive what the Post Gazette and Thompson were accusing the 1978 DA's office of having done.
This shows that Diane Thompson & the Pittsburgh Post Gazette personnel ... in the 1990s & in the 2010s ... were nothing but a bunch of liars thinking that Pittsburghers are stupid enough to believe anything stated by the Post Gazette, as if it were the Infallible Voice of God.
Well, it's only the Voice of Annoyance and it was been an Insult to the Intelligence of the Reasonable Pennsylvanian. It's grand DECLINE in subscribers in the 2010s & 2020s proves this to be so. Plus, the Post Gazette management was not very kind to its employees. Due to low subscriber numbers, the Gazette could NOT afford to be kind to its employees.
It's no wonder why the Post Gazette underwent a decline in subscriber numbers so significant that its management planned to shut down operations in May of 2026. Then, a certain non-profit organization purchased it. Well, that non-profit organization purchased a severe liability.