This is actually a preview of the original post which addressed the fact that Thompson lied when claiming to have been "forced" to drop criminal charges in 1978, against a Father Anthony Cipolla who never had any charges filed against him, in the first place.
This preview is also a tutorial which addresses Diane Thompson's very false claim that DNA evidence was quickly produced in a few days, by a local hospital, proving Cipolla to have been as guilty as sin, in the Summer of 1978.
For the record, there was no DNA evidence in the 1978 Cipolla Case, and such a type of evidence would take at least 7 weeks to produce in the 1970s. Plus, NIH labs did the testing; NOT the local hospitals.
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Above: The newspaper whose subscriber numbers were so low that its management ... after a strike & an unfavorable US Supreme Court ruling ... scheduled it for complete end-of-operations, as of May 3rd, 2026. A guardian of candidness & fairness, this media entity was NOT. A propaganda arm of Donald William Wuerl it certainly was, especially with the help of the woman formerly known as Ann Rodgers Melnick. Below are three previews of the original post which inspired the need of this particular tutorial. Of course, the need for this comes from the observation that Americans, on average, know very little about American legal procedure, as well as forensic protocol. This tutorial is provided as a service to those on Planet Earth who understand the English language and who would like to read facts & truthful explanations, as opposed to the lying propaganda of grifters & political opportunists: |
Preview #2, literally a quote from the original post ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
"Very simply, no civilian anywhere in the United States has the power to "drop the charges" in any criminal case. This included the Diane Thompson of 1978, especially concerning an Anthony Cipolla who was NOT charged for any crime in the same year of 1978.
This is because the power to drop criminal charges is reserved solely to the sovereign-governing-authority which is referred to as "the State." This includes the federal governing authority in federal jurisdiction cases, being that the federal government is also regarded as "the State." After all, the United States has an administrative authority called the Secretary of STATE.
Every criminal case in America begins with "The State of Such-and-Such vs defendant-of-the-case." Even federal criminal cases begin with "the United States vs defendant-of-the-case."
Therefore, only the court officers of the prosecuting State or the United States have the power to dismiss charges that have already been filed in the name of a prosecuting State or in the name of the United States.
And of course, this means "dismiss the charges," "withdraw the charges," "drop the charges," and "Nolle Prosequi." Each phrase means the same thing.
If Diane Thompson did sign something under duress in Bob Colville's office on August 28th, 1978, then it was pointless, because Bob Colville would have had nowhere to have taken that sheet of paper. It would have been a very useless sheet of paper."
Moreover, any other procedural matter concerning Anthony Cipolla would have occurred at the CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE, and not in the office of DA Bob Colville."
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"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.
Moreover, there is a decisive difference between a citizen filing a private criminal complaint and a government authority filing criminal charges.
A private citizen's complaint is NOT the filing of charges It's a request for the government to file charges. Thus, if charges have not yet been filed, then a private citizen may withdraw his/her private citizen's complaint. If charges have already been filed, then the private citizen CANNOT withdraw his/her private citizen's complaint."
Let us commence:
As far back as the 1990s, the Post-Gazette joined forces with the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson and reported that Anthony Cipolla was found to be as guilty as sin through DNA testing, was then arrested, and was then rescued by the county D.A. who forced this Diane Thompson to drop the charges.
Firstly, there was no DNA evidence of any kind involved with the case which only lasted for 35 days. As I stated 8 to 12 times previously, it took an average of 52 days for DNA testing to produce results, in 1978.
The Cipolla Case only lasted for 35 days, from July 25 to August 28th, 1978. Meanwhile, 52 days after July 25th is/was September 15th. Thus, even if there were DNA testing which was started on the first day of the Cipolla Case, it was not enough time for there to have been DNA test results presented in the Cipolla Case, to Judge Laffey ... or even to the DA's office.
Plus, there was no mention of any presence of any semen anywhere on Tucker Thompson, in the July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incident Report signed by the Officer Mark Ninehouser with whom I personally spoke at length.
That report's medical section reported zero harm done to the young Tucker whose name appears on the report as "Thomas Thompson." It was therefore reported that there was no medical evidence that any crime had been committed against the young Tucker, on July 25th, 1978. Period.
Secondly, Cipolla was never arrested, meaning that he was never charged with any kind of crime, and he was never arraigned. After all, there is a decisive difference between an August 28th, 1978, Probable Cause Hearing which was scheduled for Anthony Cipolla and an indictment which never occurred in the Case of Anthony Cipolla.
Civilians in the United States are incapable of dropping any criminal charge of any kind; NOT even in Bob Colville's office, in 1978. So, for those followers of Randy Engel and similar writers, perceive clearly the following declarative statements:
The supportive facts of a flagrantly misrepresented case
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 uncorrected. 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 later by Randy Engel ... 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."
Let us review one more time, for those who are stubborn and in denial that Diane Thompson LIED ... that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette spread her lies through publication ...
... and that Randy Engel presented those defamatory lies as fact, shortly before Anthony Cipolla's fatal heart arrhythmia
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 said to have been gathered from Tucker as belonging to Cipolla, via DNA test results. Then, some time around July 30th Cipolla was arrested by "Detectives Nehouser & Fogle."
The problem is that this entire story is an easily provable lie. Firstly, in 1978, there were no "Detectives Nehouser & Fogle." Now, there was a Mark NINEHOUSER who was a uniformed officer, and I did speak with him at length. In fact, I located him through the Pittsburgh Steeler organization. None the less, Mark Ninehouser clearly made it known to me that he did NOT arrest Anthony Cipolla, ever.
Moreover, 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."
This means that there was no semen found, and therefore, no semen was involved. If it were, then the July 25th O/I report would have mentioned it.
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, DNA testing in the 1970s occurred in NIH labs, and NOT in hospitals.
2a] Below is posted more confirmation that there actually was NO MENTION of semen being found on Tucker in the July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incidence Report. 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.
2b] There were two blank spaces after the word, GOOD. If an injury or abnormality or evidence of criminal conduct had been found, then it would have been stated in that blank space.
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Above is the top part ... about a third of ... the one-page July 25th, 1978 Offense/Incident Report, signed by Officer Mark Ninehouser with whom I personally spoke at length. 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 lines reserved for medical exam comments. There were no medical comments made on those two lines. This means that there was found by the licensed & board-certified examiner: 1] NO BLEEDING, 2] NO BRUISES, 3] NO SCRAPES, 4] NO LACERATIONS, 5] NO SEMEN, 6] NO RECTAL OR GENITAL ABNORMALITIES, 7] NO BROKEN BONES, 8] NO VASELINE or other lubricant on or near rectal area ... and as time proceeded, 9] 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 claimed that he was molested only TWICE by Cipolla; once near the July 4th holiday season and once on September 25, 1978, shortly after Diane Thompson's request for apartment rent money from Anthony Cipolla's parish was denied. More specifically, Diane Thompson first asked Cipolla if he could get the ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY to donate the rent money on a monthly basis. Then came the speech from Cipolla's superior mentioning how the parish was not a charity organization. Now, the St Vincent de Paul Society was a charity organization. But, its currency came from "current donations" in the 1970s, as opposed to endowment accounts and retained dollars. In the 1970s, there was a decline in the Faith, and people were not as charity-minded to religion as much as to sociological justice groups and political organizations. Moreover, in the general history of the Catholic Church, its predominant wealth comprised =====> real estate ... land holdings ... more than currency. Simultaneously came invaluable art, such as that which the Byzantine Empire produced. Its art was literally made of gold, from time to time. 2c] Concerning this Summer of 1978 timeline, why didn't Diane Thompson have the wisdom "to drag out of Tucker" the deep, dark secret of the alleged July 4th holiday season molestation, as she quickly did on July 25th? ANS: The only answer would be that she ALLEGEDLY lied to police on July 25th, desperate over the fact that Cipolla told her that his parish ... or the St Vincent de Paul Society ... could not afford to pay her apartment rent. Engel came up with a backward conclusion; a conclusion in reverse Concerning Randy Engel's claim that Cipolla hunted down the two lads, for a time of "grooming," Diane Thompson ALLEGEDLY approached Cipolla and his pastor first. It was NOT visa-versa. She was undoubtedly "hard-up for money" and she gravitated toward the parish where Cipolla was stationed. She was looking for charity dollars. None the less, Diane Thompson LIED when she claimed ... in a 1995 Post Gazette article & in a 2016 Randy Engel article ... that she was forced to "drop the charges" against Cipolla. And of course, in her easily provable LIE, she went theatrical and claimed that the tears in her eyes made it impossible for her to see the paper she was signing. Well, if she couldn't see the sheet of paper, she would have missed the line where she needed to write her name which would have been written in Fantasyland, being that there is no such thing as a paper for a civilian to sign which would drop criminal charges already filed. In fact, Diane Thompson would have signed this paper in Double Fantasyland, being that Cipolla was not charged, in the first place. For those still in stubborn denial and believed Randy Engel's defamatory 2016 article to be factual, when it was wall-to-wall lies, the blocks of info below reinforce, confirm, affirm, and concur with that which was already written here, at the Wuerl-of-Hurt site. Observe and then please get into reality: |
Concerning Diane Thompson asking Cipolla to get his pastor to have the parish pay her monthly apartment rent. This is a very important note:
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For the scrupulous record, Diane Thompson literally asked Cipolla if he could get the St Vincent de Paul Society to start paying her monthly apartment rent for her. Cipolla then conferred this matter with his parish pastor.
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 on a long-term basis ... with "free rein" ... then Cipolla would have gone out of his way to make sure that Diane Thompson's rent would get paid monthly.
Cipolla did NOT do that. Cipolla showed that he was more than willing to let Diane Thompson, Tucker Thompson, and Frank Labiaux go far far away from him, to another domicile.
In as much, thet 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.
Now remember, this post is basically a tutorial, being that Americans know very little of American law. The original article which inspired this tutorial can be found by clicking here:
https://www.donaldwuerl.com/2026/09/clerk-of-courts-at-your-service.html
