This is a supplement to a previous post addressing the fact that the woman formerly known as Diane Thompson BLATANTLY LIED when having claimed that D.A. Bob Colville pressured her into dropping criminal charges in 1978 ... concerning a Father Anthony Cipolla who never had any charges filed against him, in the first place.
The scene she narrated ... which was the scene Randy Engel described in her 2016 anti-Cipolla article ... was contrary to standard procedural law, from A to Z. This means that none of those things happened.
The accompanying outrage in the Cipolla Case was that Donald Wuerl and his lawyers ... as well as Wuerl's de facto minister of propaganda ... neglected to inform Americans that the media's report on the Cipolla Case was filled with falsehoods, thereby leaving Americans deceived for decades.
I was one of those deceived Americans. Years later, however, a box of Cipolla Case documents was literally placed in front of me, for me to take, and to view the contents within it. As a result, I learned from experience ... as well as from detailed research ... to NOT trust anything produced by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Period.
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Above: The newspaper whose subscriber base was so low that its management ... after a strike & an unfavorable US Supreme Court ruling ... designated it for end-of-operations, as of May 3rd, 2026. Then, a non-profit group purchased it and its potentially huge liability, in terms of long-term defamation. For people who think that they are reasonably familiar with the Anthony Cipolla Case, here is your Instant Reality Check:
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In the 2018 grand jury testimony of a former detective who actually was assigned to the 1978 Cipolla Case, he admitted that he had absolutely ZERO EVIDENCE against Anthony Cipolla
When he gave his inclusive assessment of pre-teens in general ... during the 2018 grand jury inquest ... Droz Lied to the Public. Youths ... including those 12 years of age ... have been caught lying to the police ... and to juries ... and to whoever else was in authority.
In fact, there was one case in the 21st Century where THREE 12 YEAR OLD GIRLS ended up being arrested for lying to the police. They were convicted, spent a short time in juvenile detention, and then were additionally sentenced to NINE YEARS PROBATION ... for doing something that Warren Broz said that 12 year old children never do, namely lie to police. Technically, they started their lie at the age of 11.
https://www.deseret.com/2004/2/11/19811582/3-girls-are-handcuffed-after-story-proves-false/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-little-girls-tell-big-lies/
Moreover, there were youths who were found to have been coached by a parent or a guardian or even corrupt police officers in their false testimonies.
In fact, close to the year 1978 was the year when the wrongful murder conviction of Ricky Jackson and his two co-defendants transpired, based solely on the testimony of one 13 year old who lied in police documentation and who then lied in court. He was pushed by police into keep lying.
Ricky was originally sentenced to death, along with his two co-defendants. Like the Cipolla Case, there was no forensic evidence in his case. There was only a pre-teen with a string of lies.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/exonerated-man-meets-the-liar-who-put-him-away-for-39-years/
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https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/11687
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Furthermore, Diane Thompson doubly lied, when she claimed that Cipolla was released on his own recognizance, after she falsely claimed that he was charged with a felony of indecent assault on a minor. This is because, in addition to Cipolla never having been arrested, a defendant of indecent assault charges was usually assigned a $10,000 bail amount, in the 1970s. There was no release on one's own recognizance for that type of charge.
If Cipolla would have been charged with indecent assault, he would NOT have been given anything less than a $10,000 bail amount. Thus, Diane Thompson lied yet again.
None the less, this usual bail amount shows that an indecent assault charge was taken very seriously in the 1970s, meaning that accusing someone of such a serious crime was not something to be taken lightly.
Yet, Warren Bud Droz wanted the accusation against Cipolla to be taken very lightly, to the point of it becoming a reckless endeavor where Cipolla would be arrested, even though former Detective Warren Droz admitted, during the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Inquest, that he had NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AGAINST CIPOLLA in 1978.
Broz didn't have the evidence needed to file a police affidavit and get issued a warrant for Cipolla's arrest. Droz needed Judge Laffey to sign a warrant immediately after the scheduled August 28th Probable Cause Hearing which never transpired, because Diane Thompson walked away from the case on August 28th, 1978.
Diane Thompson walked away from the case without ever signing anything in Bob Colville's office that would dismiss the case, being that signing anything in a D.A.'s office has zero effect on any criminal case on-any-docket, anywhere in the USA. The Clerk of Courts Office is the place were legal filings are done.
But, as far as goes dismissing criminal charges, that's within the power of a judge or prosecutor, and never a civilian such as Diane Thompson. Such a thing is solely within the Power of the State and its delegated officers.
It's a Balance-of-Power stipulation, where the DA is part of the executive branch of government, and the Clerk of Courts is part of the judicial branch of government.
This lying-to-police thing has been done by pre-teens and has been documented as such, showing that Droz was 100% wrong in his audacious declarative statement made in 2018. This means that, just because a pre-teen says something, it doesn't automatically make it the truth. This definitely remains the circumstance even when the 12 year old becomes 50 years old and says the same unproven accusations before a grand jury.
The reality is that the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette forever sticks to its 1995 lies, while Diane Thompson forever lies. She had 250,000 motives in her defamatory story telling. Yes, she cashed-in significantly on her very non-factual story telling, showing us how low in intelligence or how low in honesty were those at the decision-making offices of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, in the 2010s & 2020s
Wuerl's MotiveMeanwhile, Wuerl had the motive of making Cipolla his scapegoat as far back as 1988, by which the Cipolla Tale was a smokescreen & diversionary tactic behind which Wuerl hid from public view the undisputed abusive priests of his diocese.
The more the Post-Gazette demonized Anthony Cipolla, the more the real molester priests got comfortably away from the spotlight, with the vast majority of the Public being left in the dark. This technique even made those priests who were indicted & convicted forgotten by the public.
It got to the point where the Post-Gazette was acting as if there were no appreciable number of sexually abusive priests under Wuerl's watch, at all. The diocese operated by Wuerl was regarded as being relatively unscathed during the priest corruption scandal. Then came 2018, where the Post-Gazette was found to be the liar. Wuerl turned out to be the Model of Corruption and Cover-up.
The Public was finally taken out of the dark, in 2018. The bishop whom the Post-Gazette called the Model of Zero Tolerance was extending a lot of tolerance to Wolk, Zula, Pucci, Zirwas, Huff, Burchianti, and Hoehl, as well as to Paone, Wellinger, and the Brother Bernard Hartman who taught at North Catholic, from 1986 to 1997, and also from 1961 to 1979.
In addition, Wuerl was very tolerant toward Father Krawczyk after he was found guilty of manslaughter.
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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 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."
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."
As far as goes Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Massachusetts, their criminal complaints begin with "the Commonwealth of ... vs defendant-of-the-case."
All in all, 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. Diane Thompson did NOT have this power, in 1978."
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 the rules of criminal procedure and Anthony Cipolla would have occurred at the CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE, and not in the office of DA Bob Colville." Any Civil Court matter involving Cipolla would have involved paperwork done at the Prothonotary Office.
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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."
"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.
This shows that no one can say, without lying, that Diane Thompson was actually signing a withdrawal of her July 1978 Private Citizen's Criminal Complaint in Bob Colville's office, and was forced to do that. This is because a person did NOT sign withdrawal papers in a DA's office in 1978. A person went to the Clerk of Court's Office and did all the withdrawal paperwork there.
Let us continue:
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 as guilty as sin through 1978 DNA testing. It also reported that Cipolla was then arrested, and was then rescued by the county D.A. who forced this Diane Thompson to drop the charges.
There was no DNA evidence of any kind involved with the Anthony Cipolla Case which only lasted for 35 days. This is because it took an average of 52 days for DNA testing to produce results, in 1978.
The Cipolla Case only lasted from July 25 to August 28th, 1978. Meanwhile, 52 days after July 25th is/was September 15th. Thus, even if there had been DNA testing started on the first day of the Cipolla Case, it was not enough time for there to have been DNA test results presented to Judge Laffey, on August 28th ... or even to the DA's office prior to August 28th.
Plus, there was no mention of any presence of 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 nine-year-old Tucker whose name appears on the report as "Thomas Thompson." It was therefore officially reported that there existed no medical evidence that any crime had been committed against Tucker, on July 25th, 1978. Period.
The supportive facts of a flagrantly misrepresented case
Always remember that the Cipolla case is what rocketed Donald Wuerl to his undeserved stardom. It was a case presented by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as nothing more than an outlay of falsehoods that Donald Wuerl let go uncorrected. Thus, Wuerl rose to power & influence through LIES that he let stay intact.
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." That professional medical assessment, alone, exonerates Cipolla, at least in the case of the nine-year-old Tucker.
1] Concerning Diane Thompson's DNA claim of Allegheny General Hospital's lab identifying incriminating evidence against Cipolla in a very short period of time:
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. Now, on the O/I Report, Tucker is referred to as Thomas Thompson, and 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. This exonerates Cipolla. Period.
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 sufficiently enough 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 are two lines reserved for medical exam comments. There were no medical exam notes made on those two lines, meaning that it was a very unremarkable exam with no injuries or abnormalities found. 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 TORN LIGAMENTS, 8] BROKEN BONES, 9] NO VASELINE or other lubricant on or near the rectal area ... and as time proceeded, 10] 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. Tucker said it happened only twice, in all the time narrated by Randy Engel in her defamatory 2016 article which suggested that Cipolla sexually imposed himself on the young Tucker for four, seven, or fourteen consecutive months. Even at that, Tucker claimed that he was molested only TWICE by Cipolla ... ever; once near the July 4th holiday season in 1978 and once on September 25, 1978, shortly after Diane Thompson's request for apartment rent money from & through 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, as well as fundraising drives for specific terminally ill neighbors and youth sports organizations. Also in the late 1970s, there was a priest shortage. In fact, the common American assumption was that interest in Catholicism would dwindle down to virtually nothing by the Year 2000 or maybe 2010.  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. Plus, castle interiors were lined with artistic tapestries. They were basically a layer of insulation, literally. And let us not forget about the Italian Renaissance's contribution to the world of art. European museums surely haven't. Include mosaic art in the Catholic World, also. 2c] Concerning the July 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 quickly as she did on July 25th? ANS: The only answer would be that she ALLEGEDLY lied to police on July 25th, ALLEGEDLY 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. Randy 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. Moreover, she ALLEGEDLY sought to be spared of the destiny of being a single white mom living in the projects, under a HUD voucher. Concerning Diane Thompson asking Cipolla to get his pastor to have the St Vincent de Paul Society pay her monthly apartment rent, below is a very important note: Keep in mind that Cipolla did confer Diane Thompson's request for rent money with his parish pastor. Cipolla would have instantly known that Diane Thompson was soon to be evicted from her apartment, after a 60 to 90 day eviction process. 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 have gotten 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, the 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. Concerning the 2018 PA Grand Jury InquestKeep in mind that, during the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Inquest ... ... when archive files could easily be accessed by a PA constable with a search warrant ... and when previously hidden accusers could come forth and be heard on record ... ... there were ZERO hidden files on Cipolla found and/or presented, and there were ZERO new faces who came forth to accuse Cipolla as having molested them in the past. Plus, it's equally important to keep in mind that a detective of the 1978 Cipolla Case testified in 2018 that the only reason why he believed everything Frank Labiaux told him in 1978 was because he believed that no 12-year-old youth would ever lie to a police officer. In as much:    Next comes a response to Warren Bud Broz commenting on the moment four men in suits showed-up near the August 28th, 1978, courtroom of Judge Laffey. Broz said, "I knew the fix was in." If Broz were so sure that 12-yr-old Frank Labiaux was telling the truth about Cipolla, then why was Broz incapable of producing evidence and then composing a Police Affidavit that would have gotten Cipolla indicted with a judge's warrant long before an August 28th Probable Cause Hearing arrived on the calendar? Was it because Broz was lazy? Was it because Broz was incompetent? Was Broz already burnt-out in his police work? Or is it that there wasn't any evidence to support Labiaux's claims, in the first place? One more thing: The fact the Broz did NOT recognize those four suited men in the August 28th hallway shows that none of them were from the D.A.'s department. Thus, the concept of the DA bullying Diane Thompson into submission was a liar's theatrics. Those four unidentified men had to have come from the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and you can be assured that at least one of them was empowered to handover $10,000 worth of bail money ASAP, as well as being there to plead for a night court arraignment, if circumstances got to that point. You can think of them as the Just-in-case Men, and you can regard the bail money manager as the Extractor. There's a difference Also keep in mind that the July 25th Offense/Incident Report was NOT a Police Report and it was NOT a Police Affidavit. It's center contents simply contained Diane Thompson's & young Thomas Thompson's accusations with no commentary from police. These were accusations which still needed to be proven as true in a court of law. The accusations in the July 25th O/I Report did NOT involve any police acceptance of the accusations. It did NOT involve police concurring with the accusations. It did NOT involve the police acknowledging the accusations as being true. It was simply Diane Thompson's accusations, and therefore, it was merely the starting point of the case ... and NOT the conclusion of any police investigation. That particular O/I Report showed that the Thompson Household's accusations did NOT concur with the Allegheny Hospital medical exam of young Tucker, aka the nine-year-old Thomas. The medical exam showed that there was no evidence of any physical crime or any physical intrusion upon the young nine-year-old Thompson child who was claimed to have been molested only a few hours previously. The O/I Report additionally stated that Tucker, aka Thomas, claimed that he was only molested twice by Cipolla. Meanwhile, a number of "journalists" or "propagandists" insinuated that Cipolla was molesting Tucker for consecutive months. Also concerning the Anthony Cipolla Case of 1978 In addition, the burden of proof requirement was not met in Frank Labiaux's accusations, to ensue a warrant for Cipolla's arrest. So, Detective Droz compensated, talking about the "fix being in," as an excuse as to why he failed to obtain a warrant of Cipolla's arrest ... or an indictment of Cipolla from the D.A.'s office ... or the convocation of a grand jury. Bendig was not credible, as two county DA offices declined to indict Cipolla As far as goes Tim Bendig, he is a repeatedly ALLEGED LIAR. I personally witnessed his lying, myself. Even his baseline accusation against Cipolla erased his credibility. This is because Cipolla was not stationed at St Canice after December 1983, meaning that he wasn't there, in Knoxville, to molest Bendig, in 1984, 1985, or 1986. Plus, my former neighbor, John Conte, along with his law firm, lined-up dozens of character witnesses for Cipolla, concerning the 1993 Bendig lawsuit trial which never happened, due to an out-of-court settlement that Bendig quickly squandered. Plus, Bendig was NOT given $800,000. That $800,000 settlement was for brothers victimized by Wolk, Zula, and Pucci. The report on Bendig was that it was somewhere between 200,000 and $250,000. For the sake of comparison, the sexual abuse victim known as Victim #1 in the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report received an out-of-court-settlement of $60,000. His aggressor was allegedly Fr Castelucci, a priest who got arrested for molestation in Ohio, while on a personal leave from Wuerl's Diocese of Pittsburgh. The $45 entrance fee lie of none other than Diane Thompson By the way, Diane Thompson LIED YET AGAIN, when she claimed that she had to pay a $45 entrance fee, for Frank to go to Michigan and visit the P.I.M.E grounds there. She also mentioned a Henry Ford museum visit type of a thing. In reality, it was all for free, because the purpose of P.I.M.E. holding those weekend visits was to inspire youths to pursue a priesthood vocation. Those were literally Priest Recruiting Youth Camps.  BTW, some of the character witnesses of the Bendig lawsuit trial were witnesses only because they were taken to Michigan too, and each one of them said that Cipolla did nothing to them there ... or anywhere. They also said that they saw no monkey business being performed by Cipolla on anyone there, including Tim Bendig, the reputed liar who lied to me personally four times in a row. Of course, Frank Labiaux claimed that Cipolla molested him in Michigan. A cross-examination of Labiaux's accusations, done in the Court of Public Opinion, is necessary, for the sake of Truth & Justice. This post is basically an introductory tutorial, being that Americans know very little about American law. This includes people out there, such as Randy Engel, who present themselves as experts in legal procedure, when they are babbling buffoons who don't know the first thing about it. The original article which inspired this tutorial can be found by clicking here: |
