Evidence that Wuerl orchestrated a misleading exaggeration, in the Cipolla Case

 

The man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla, chaplain of a Padre Pio Prayer Group, was fatally ejected from his car on August 30, 2016, two days after his 73rd birthday.  He was a defrocked multiple heart surgery patient said to have undergone an arrhythmia, while driving, and during a time of great emotional distress caused by Randy Engel's 2016 article about him.  

 

That article was hate-filled defamation against him.  The three-part article was a gossipy hag's ritualistic cursing of Cipolla, with the hag being too financially meager to be sued.  Her dupe ... the actual writer of the article ... became the epitome of self-righteous, holier-than-art-thou, arrogant worthlessness. 

 

It was found ... through intense fact-checking which even included finding a 1978 witness through the Pittsburgh Steeler Organization ... that Engel's 2016 Damnation of Cipolla article was wall-to-wall lies.  Those lies have been line-itemized & detailed already, in post after post after post, at the Wuerl-of-Hurt site.  Being that the string of defamation remains online, the Cipolla Case is NOT closed, as if it's only consigned to random history books. 

 

The first example I use, to show Randy Engel to be a liar, is the claim that accuser Diane Thompson had a husband in 1965 who was severely injured in a "special forces" training exercise" at the Spartanburg military base which was completely closed-down in 1947 and then turned into a State Park in 1949, where military training exercises have been expressly forbidden, for the past 77 years.

 

Then comes the lie about Cipolla getting arrested in 1978, accompanied by the media insinuating that Cipolla molested Tucker Thompson ... and his brother ... dozens of times, in a 12 to 24 month period.  

 

HOWEVER, the official Pittsburgh Police O/I Report stated that Tucker and his mother only claimed that Cipolla molested Tucker TWO TIMES, and only with one finger and then with one hand.  No mention of Cipolla molesting the older brother was mentioned in the July 25, 1978 Report.  

 

Concerning the 12 year old, no search for corroborating witnesses or physical evidence was done, because the one detective of the 1978 case who did testify in the 2018 PA Grand Jury Inquest that he believed all that the young Frank Labiaux said, because of his belief that no 12 year old male would ever lie to the police.

 

Moreover, the other assigned detective of the 1978 Cipolla Case died in 2012.  So, his angle of observation on the whole case wasn't stated for any record, especially the record of 2018.  And also for the record, former detective and former desk sergeant Warren Broz died during May of 2020.

 

For those unaware, Frank Labiaux was/is a step brother or half brother of Tucker Thompson.  Being that newspaper and digital articles involving Diane Thompson are inconsistent with the facts, a person has trouble keeping score of Frank's true DNA relationship to the Diane Thompson who now goes by a different name that begins with the letter, "M."  

 

In 1978, Tucker was nine and Frank was twelve years of age.  Also in 1978, Diane Thompson couldn't pay her apartment rent and asked for help from Cipolla.  Shortly after getting no financial assistance through him, she accused him of having molested a son.  

 

Very shortly after that, the mathematics changed to two sons molested by Cipolla.  The oldest one was claimed to have been first molested by Cipolla in Michigan, in 1977.  Let us proceed with Wuerl's most blatant hypocrisy in the Cipolla Case:

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For those new here, the Cipolla Case was the one which rocketed Cardinal Donald Wuerl into stardom.  The man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla was made out to be a monster molester who was allowed to "get away with it" until mighty Donald Wuerl (all 5'4 inches of that elevator-shoed narcissist) came on to the scene.

Wuerl's Excuse for Defrocking Cipolla was Psychic Defect, involving a Maryland clinic's diagnosis of Depression & Suicidal Tendencies only

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette made it look as if Wuerl were having Cipolla tried at the Vatican for molestation.  This is a falsehood.  Wuerl only pleaded that Cipolla had to be removed from ministry, on account of the Depression and Suicidal Tendencies Diagnosis he received at St. Luke's of Maryland.  

The technical Vatican phrase was, Psychic Defect.  None the less, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette made it look as if Cipolla were diagnosed with a depraved psychological sexual dysfunction.  Only Clinic Depression.

Now, Chicago journalist, Mike Volpe, and I saw the official paperwork which only mentioned Depression & Suicidal Tendencies as the diagnosis conferred upon Cipolla.  So, you can ask Mike, as a corroborative witness ... for concurring confirmation.

Incidentally, Mike is Jewish and NOT Italian.  I mention this, so that you will not think that I have an "Italians-only club."  In fact, my DNA is half-Irish and people have noticed the green in the eyes, to the point of briefly giving me the nickname, "Cat Eyes."  So, the pro-Italian prejudice isn't there.  

Plus, Michael Volpe is NOT Catholic.  This means that propagandist Bill Donohue of the one-man Catholic League can't accuse him of being a disgruntled-conservative-Catholic-right-wing-kook. Donohue is going to have to employ another ploy, to get the reading public to shun Mike Volpe.

Anyway, in his Vatican Signatura pleadings of 1993, Wuerl made it sound as if Anthony Cipolla were so immersed in suicidal tendencies that Wuerl had to dismiss him from all ministry.  Wuerl made the Saint Luke's diagnosis his justification.

In as much, tell me something.  Q:  What is deadly wrong with this picture painted by Wuerl and later by the press?

ANS:  If Donald Wuerl really did believe that Anthony Cipolla were severely suicidal, then he would have called the police and filed a "302" on Cipolla, thereby getting Cipolla involuntarily committed in a mental institution, on account of him "being a danger to himself."

Wuerl did not do so.  This means that Wuerl didn't think that Cipolla was suicidal.  Wuerl was merely looking for a scapegoat, so as to create a diversionary tactic which hid from the Public & the Police Donald Wuerl's true molesters ... concerning those priests who hadn't yet gotten arrested.

Plus, if Cipolla really were pathologically suicidal, then the police would have eventually caught wind of it, and Cipolla would have been taken to a mental institution without delay.   He was never committed into a mental institution.

For those unaware, a 302 in Pennsylvania law is the 72 Hour Observation law.  It means that, when the police show cause, you are taken to a mental institution, and put under observation there for 72 hours, in order for the mental health professionals to assess your state of mental health.  If you turn out to be a danger to yourself, then you stay longer than three days.

The fact that Wuerl never filed a 302 on Cipolla proves that Wuerl didn't care about Cipolla's well-being and that Cipolla was NOT so severely mentally ill that he had to be removed from ministry.

Wuerl made sure that Cipolla would never return to diocesan ministry, because Wuerl was frightened of the D.A. John C Pettit who simultaneously indicted Wolk, Zula, and Pucci, while letting the public know that he did NOT appreciate the stone-walling and lack of cooperation from Wuerl's diocese.

If Donald Wuerl would have put Cipolla back into ministry, due to Bendig's accusations, investigations in the plural would have simultaneously been commenced.  Wuerl's private life and the private life of his former boss, John Cardinal Wright, would have also been uncovered.  The investigators would have learned about John Hoehl, John Wellinger, and Edward Huff, as well as a handful of others.

If Wuerl didn't use Cipolla as a scapegoat, then Wuerl would not have reached the height of UNDESERVED power he attained, mostly with the help of the Nazi Pope, Joseph "Hitler Youth" Ratzinger.

I already stated in print that I saw Wuerl lie and intimidate his way to the top.  I mostly saw it in the eyes and facial expressions of those victimized by him.

Proven: A 12 year old Frank Labiaux did NOT vandalize a church out of "molestation revenge." Two teens, aged 14 & 15, did the vandalizing 15 months AFTER Rand Engel said it was..

The 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury narration of the Cipolla Case was a much more tame version of the case.  The Pgh Post Gazette 1995 version and the 2016 Randy Engel version were hyper-exaggerations.  Real cover-ups are sneaky, silent, snakelike, pernicious, and subtle.

PREVIEW:  Randy Engel stated that, between August 15 and 17, 1977, twelve year old Frank Labiaux was molested by Anthony Cipolla for the first time ever, in a Dearborn Michigan motel room.  This molestation, according to Engel, was followed by Frank vandalizing a church near his Mexico Street home, one week later.

Engel stated that twelve-year-old Frank and another youth entered through a church window, and took a fire extinguisher, unleashing its foam upon a podium and pews.

Now, there was a church on California Avenue, very near to St. Francis Xavier Parish, which was vandalized via fire extinguisher foam.  HOWEVER, it happens in NOVEMBER of 1978, fifteen months after Engel said it happened.

Plus, the two vandals were aged 14 and 15.  They did NOT include a twelve year old Frank Labiaux.  Furthermore, two weeks later, the same two youths went back to the same church and slit the tires of the cars in the parking lot during a Protestant Revival Meeting there.

The pastor of the church quickly recognized the youths as the same ones who committed the fire extinguisher vandalism, two weeks prior.  Neither of the two was Frank Labiaux.  Diane Thompson and Randy Engel lied.  Frank Labiaux lied. 

Incidentally, the church was the Avery Memorial AME Zion Church, located at 3403 California Ave, Pgh 15212.  See: Pittsburgh Post Gazette archives, at the SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1978 edition, at PAGE 18.

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The one excerpt exposed here is so blatant a falsehood that it should set a spark in your mind, in having you realize that the damning accusations in the Cipolla Case were a series of orchestrated lies.  This one cannot be defended by the Engel People, in any capacity.

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At this point, however, keep in mind that Cipolla was NEVER tried at the Vatican for molesting Tim Bendig.  He was tried for a diagnosis of Depression & Suicidal Tendencies, making that case a procedural law case, only.

Wuerl refused to let Cipolla back into ministry out of fear for District Attorney John C Pettit who publicly announced that Wuerl's  cooperation in the investigation which lead to the indictments of Frs. Wolk, Zula, and Pucci was MINIMAL at best.   

 

Pettit also mentioned that investigations would continue.  Therefore, putting Cipolla back into ministry would have triggered the very Grand Jury Investigation that was performed upon the Diocese of Pittsburgh in 2018.

Now, as the usual preamble, I state that I am more than willing to declare the man formerly known as Father Anthony Cipolla an egregious molester who earned a one-way ticket to Hell.  But, the fact-checking of the accusations against Cipolla resulted in finding that Diane Thompson/Mangum lied, lied some more, and lied again.  It was found that even Frank Labiaux lied to Randy Engel.  We continue.

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This post/article details an elaborate lie told by Diane Thompson/ Mangum and published as if it were a fact-checked truth by Randy Engel.   That specific assertion concerns the claim that a young Frank Labiaux co-committed vandalism upon a church near his Mexico Street domicile in 1977, out of frustration for having been molested.  Well, that church was vandalized in late 1978, 15 months later than Randy Engel said it was.

The fact-checking on this one is so exact that it should finally jar the most stubborn person into realizing that the Engel article is nothing more than a collection of easily provable falsehoods, and thereby, a long-winded piece of vicious and actionable libel.

Ladies and gentlemen,  Randy Engel wrote that, between August 15 and 17 of 1977, Anthony Cipolla molested Frank Labiaux in a Dearborn Michigan motel.  Frank was 12 years of age plus 10 or 11 months.  She asserted that Cipolla took 3 or 4 lads to Michigan, to see the Henry Ford Museum.  The other boys weren't molested according to her.  Only Frank was.

In fact, Engel stated that it was a long and tiring trip from Pittsburgh, and therefore, Cipolla didn't have the energy to molest anyone on the first night.  

Now, concerning the trip to Dearborn being long and tiresome, BULL CRAP!  I know this from personal experience, being that I had a girlfriend in Grand Rapids whom I would visit via highway travel, and the drive to the Detroit area was only halfway to Grand Rapids and not tiring at all.  In fact,  Pittsburghers used to travel to Detroit and buy cars there.  They would then return to Pittsburgh on the same day.

The trip to the Ann Arbor / Dearborn / Detroit area is only FOUR hours.  Now, I have traveled as far as 1,000 miles in a day (from South Carolina's Coastline to Texas) and I did more than one 14 hour trip between Pittsburgh and the Carolina coastline.  

 

A four hour drive is nothing.  The sign of a liar is exaggeration.  Engel exaggerated on purpose, insulting the intelligence of any American used to really long road travel.

We need to keep the following in mind:

Diane Thompson wrote to me and specifically stated that Frank was molested at the PIME seminary, and NOT at a motel.  Then, I produced a witness who went to the seminary with Tim Bendig and Anthony Cipolla.  He said that nothing immoral happened there.  He said that Cipolla did NOT do anything queer.  

 

Immediately thereafter, Diane Thompson/Mangum ever-so-coincidentally changed her story and placed the molestation in a motel room.  Quite frankly, people who drive to the Henry Ford Museum can easily drive back to Pittsburgh on the exact same day.

We continue:

Engel wrote that one week after the motel molestation which is highly unlikely to have occurred, Frank vandalized a church near his Mexico Street home, using a fire extinguisher as the weapon of vandalism.  That would be AUGUST 24, 1977.   

Engel wrote that Frank and an accomplice entered a church window and sprayed fire extinguisher foam on to a podium and church pews, resulting in his arrest and visit to juvenile court.  Got it?  Let's continue.

On California Avenue, near Saint Xavier Parish, a church was vandalized by means of fire extinguisher abuse, damaging furniture and carpets.  It was the Avery Memorial AME Zion Church, located at 3403 California Avenue.  

HOWEVER, it was NOT vandalized on August 24, 1977.  In fact, it was NOT vandalized in 1977, at all.  It wasn't vandalized until November 1978, fifteen months after Engel said that it was.

Now, Engel stated that Diane Thompson took her family in flight to Cleveland, in the middle of September 1978, after she was harassed into dropping criminal charges that were never filed in the first place.  Yet, the vandalism did not occur until November of 1978.  And and and, the vandals were a 14 year old youth and a 15 year old youth who would then commit vandalism at the same church two weeks later, sometime around November 3rd and 17th, 1978.

 

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In as much,  if Diane Thompson fled Pittsburgh in September 1978, then how did she know about the fire extinguisher vandalism of November 1978?  

 

After all, there was no internet in 1978, and local news items didn't make its way between major American metropolises, being that there was enough news to cover in each individual metropolis.  

 

This would indicate that Diane Thompson  did NOT leave Pittsburgh in Mid-September 1978, as was reported by Engel.  After all, if you fail to pay your rent, there was/is a 30 to 60 day process, before eviction.

 

 

The Second November 1978 Vandalism Spree at the AME Church did NOT involve 12-year-old Frank Labiaux, either.

 

In their second vandalism spree, the two boys ... aged 14 and 15 ... slit the tires of the cars in the parking during a Protestant Revival Meeting.

 

The pastor recognized those two boys as the ones who did the fire extinguisher vandalizing two weeks prior.  And neither one of the boys was Frank Labiaux.  Thus, Diane Thompson lied through her teeth, and we now have evidence to prove that Frank Labiaux also lied about the Cipolla Case.

Now, you can do the fact-checking for yourself.  Go to the:

Pittsburgh Post Gazette archives, at the SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1978 edition, at PAGE 18.

It mentions both acts of vandalism, including the one that Diane Thompson claims to have been done by Frank a year and a quarter before it actually happened.  

 

In as much, I can assure you that Frank was NOT taken to Juvenile Lockup & Court, as Randy Engel claimed.  Thus, Frank Labiaux was NOT frustrated for having been molested, and therefore, he probably was NOT molested.  After all, he was certainly NOT ARRESTED for vengeance vandalism or any other variety of vandalism.

This one lie should break the hypnotic trance upon you, in thinking that Engel is the holiest woman alive.  You might then say, "Hey, she was in Vietnam as the voice of Saigon."  Uhhhm, the Voice of Saigon headquarters was in Dayton Ohio where one can find the Wright-Patterson air base.  That is the air base which has the memorial plaque of the my father's Air Force Bomb Group.  

 

None the less, we now have very convincing evidence that Diane Thompson and her children orchestrated a theatrical lie about Cipolla molesting the family.  And why?

ANS:  The custody of two grand children who were 12 and 14 in 2016.

Moreover, if Frank said that he did this act of vandalism upon the AME Zion Church in his interview with Randy Engel, then it's proven that he IS a LIAR.

Ladies & gentlemen, this is the southern end of the very
short Mexico St about which Randy Engel wrote.
It's a glorified back alley and little more than that.

We now address Engel's mention of two "detectives."   Firstly, one's name was NOT Nehouser, as Engel stated.   It was NINEHOUSER.   Mark Ninehouser.  

As far as goes the R. Fogle mentioned by Engel, it was ROBERT W FOGLE, Ninehouser's police patrol partner.  And yes, at times, Fogle would do "plain clothes stake-out" assignments.

 

None the less, in later years, Mark Ninehouser became the NFL Security Representative in Pittsburgh.  In fact, before becoming a police officer, Ninehouser was a welder.

None the less, in the 1978 case, we were dealing with a private criminal complaint form and NOT a police criminal complaint form which is known as a Police Affidavit.  

Concerning Fogle & Ninehouser

The irony here is that both police officers were involved in a murder that they could have prevented, on October 4, 1978.  The murder took place on Buena Vista Avenue, when a man named Robert Tucker was shot to death by a Tyrone DeVaughn.  Tucker was walking from the police station and was then shot dead.  

You see, Fogle and Ninehouser gave the man a private criminal com-
plaint form to fill-out, upon which one of the officers went to night court to get a motions judge to sign-off on it.  It would get DeVaughn arrested and processed ... if if if the judge would have signed-off on it before Robert Tucker was murdered.   

 

This October 1978 murder case shows that Engel and Diane Thompson lied about their description of Anthony Cipolla's pretend July 1978 arrest.  At no time did they mention a judge's signature, and I told my readers on multiple occasions that you either need a judge to sign-off on a complaint or an assistant DA to approve a complaint.  Such a complaint directs the local magistrate to "issue process."  To issue process means to "Book him, Danno," as was said at the end of most episodes of the hit CBS TV show, Hawaii Five-0
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Another 1978 case involving Robert W Fogle should give light on how high the bail would have been imposed upon Anthony Cipolla IF he actually were arrested.  And remember, Cipolla only received a summary notice that was only signed by Diane Thompson by which he was to appear before city court magistrate Stephen Laffey, to see IF Laffey would issue process on Cipolla or not.  

It was up to Thompson to show probable cause.  She simply dismissed her complaint the day before the hearing.

None the less, once upon a time Fogle had undercover (plain clothes) duty, and he caught two thugs assaulting and robbing two 80+ year old sisters.  The two alleged robbers were John Knox and Samuel Wade.  Both were held on $10,000  bond each.  

 

Thus, if Cipolla molested Tucker Thompson in 1978, he would have been held at a high price tag.  Probably $10,000.  He would NOT have been released on his own recognizance.  Thompson lied. 

 

Of course, Engel said that the police let Cipolla go on  his own "cognisance" (it's recognizance, in real life).  But, only a judge can order a man released on his own recognizance, at a courthouse or at a magistrate's office.  Plus, there are no arraignments in police stations.  Thompson lied ... yet again. 

 

 

By the way, concerning the Officers Robert Fogle and Mark Ninehouser case that involved the murderer Tyrone DeVaughn, go to the Wednesday, February 28, 1979 edition of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, at Page 18.

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Above:  Formerly St. Francis Xavier Parish.  It's name was changed to Risen Lord Parish. California Ave, Northside.

The fact that Thompson/Mangum ridiculed a retaliation victim of a corrupt bishop shows that she was not one of us.  There is an unwritten code of respect among us.  Thompson showed zero respect for me.  

Plus, Thompson was found to have lied repeatedly.  Do the math as to whether or not Diane Thompson suffered a priest's retaliation, and keep in mind that Frank Labiaux is now proven to be a liar, concerning the AME Zion Church Vandalism which occurred 15 months after he claimed to have done the vandalism.

 

Now for the real detectives of the 1978 Case. 

 

This is the third time this has been mentioned, meaning that that which appears below is also in two other posts.

 

Plus, there were not the "two detectives" that Randy Engel named as being the ones in the 1978 Cipolla Case.  Instead of "Nehouser & Fogle," there was Broz & Marchetti.  

 

Now, Broz was known as a desk sergeant for about 20 years.  That created a shadow over the fact that he actually was a detective at one time.  That info was enlightening, and if Randy Engel didn't irresponsibly shoot from the hip and instead allowed calm to prevail, correct things would have surfaced a whole lot sooner.

 

For the record, her damning article was so traumatic to Cipolla that I first gave up, saying, "Hey wait a minute.  Let me figure this out."  It was followed by me hurrying to assuage Cipolla's trauma by citing any falsehood in the 2016 Engel article that I could.  This included the 1965 Spartanburg military base lie. 

 

The real detectives 

The detectives given the 1978 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.  This resulted in the assumption that there was only one detective assigned to the case in 1978.  After all, there was only one suspect, so you assume there was only one detective.

Plus, Broz was known ... for 20 years ... as a Northside desk sergeant.  Thus, finding out that he was a detective at one time was a surprise. 

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 Broz who said that he believed everything that Frank Labiaux told him, because Detective Broz believed that no 12 year child would ever lie to a police officer.  Now, it's understood what was transpiring.  

With the new understanding comes a new frustration:  Why didn't Broz and Marchetti keep the case open and continue investigating?  Broz simply testified that he said to Diane Thompson in 1978 something to the effect that "If Cipolla ever does this again, I promise you, I'll bust him."  Well, it was guaranteed that Cipolla was not going to be anywhere near young Tucker ... or Frank ... again.

However, keep in mind that there actually was NO DEFINITIVE EVIDENCE against Cipolla in 1978.  There was that stethoscope, but Cipolla claimed that he saved medical equipment for the missionary religious order to which he was associated as a seminarian.  This is why Broz and Marchetti shouldn't have given-up so quickly. 

This leaves a new question:  Who was the assistant DA in charge of assessing the 1978 case and in deciding if the DA's office should have indicted Cipolla or leave the decision up to a magistrate, in a Probable Cause Hearing?

For the record, Warren Broz became a desk sergeant later in his career, and he was involved in the Municipal Police Officers' Education & Training Commission.  And yes, while in college ... including Allegheny County Community College, he did study criminal justice.  He wanted this as a career.   And then, he burned out.  He wasn't the first one to do so.

He was also involved in a Law Enforcement Peer Support Team which reached out to officers going through burn-out or some forms 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 & EMT's ... and not only police.  

The Most Supreme Asininity in the 1978 Anthony Cipolla Case ... which has been in front of everyone's face, all along

Since the 1990's, when Diane Thompson was anonymously interviewed for a Pittsburgh area newspaper article, the thesis statement on the 1978 Cipolla Case was that the case was rigged by corrupt local government.  Pressure was applied upon a single mother, and then the catch was conveniently dismissed.  

The assertion was that there was no way Cipolla could ever be taken to court and made to answer for the accusations of a Diane Thompson who was 32 years old at the time.

The Missed Epiphany 

The mantra was that Cipolla walked away, with the help of "the suits" who suddenly intervened on August 28th, 1978, resulting in him never having to answer for two accusations pertaining to July 1978.

Ladies & gentlemen, what is wrong with this picture?

ANS: Well, in late July or early August of 1978, a twelve year old Frank Labiaux told Detective Warren Broz ... and maybe even Leo Marchetti ... that Cipolla took him to Michigan one or two times to a Red Roof Inn, and molested him there ... in August of 1977.  

Now, even in the Year 2018, former detective and retired desk sergeant, Warren Broz, said that he believed everything Frank told him, because Broz believed that no twelve year old child would ever lie to a police officer.  Apparently no twelve year old ever lied to a police officer after having been caught violating curfew or after having been caught shoplifting or after having broken a window or two.

Okay then, if, in the Summer of 1978, Warren Broz had been so sure that Frank Labiaux was telling the truth about the Michigan Red Roof Inn molestation of 1977, then the then-Detective Broz believed that Cipolla committed a federal offense, pursuant to 18 USC 2423.  It's known as the Transportation of Minors law.

So, why didn't Broz contact the FBI?  Why didn't Marchetti contact the FBI?   Why didn't Diane Thompson contact the FBI?  Why didn't Broz and/or Marchetti and/or Thompson contact anyone in the Federal Dept of Justice?  

Or is it that they knew that they had a very weak case against Cipolla, being that the children had no marks or semen to show, and being that they had no bruises, cuts, or bleeding to show?  If Broz was so sure that Cipolla was guilty, then why didn't Broz and Marchetti continue the investigation ... or at least let the feds know of the case's existence, and let the feds continue with the investigation?

Or is it that someone did contact the federal justice department, followed by an investigation which literally cleared Cipolla of any suspicion?  No matter what, if Cipolla actually did molest Frank Labiaux at the Michigan, he wasn't going to be prosecuted for it in Pennsylvania.  So, why not go to the feds?

That particular 18 USC 2423 statue had attached to it a ten year minimum sentence.  In fact, that statue became United States federal law in 1948. 

Hello?  Is anybody home?  Was anybody home, in 1978?

Engel Lie #3: The claim that the 1978 Cipolla case had DNA evidence

If you are low on brain cells, let me help.  The 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury report ... on Cipolla ... was much different than the 2016 report of Randy Engel.  That 2018 report proved the 2016 Engel article to be a lie.  After all,  the detective in charge expressly spoke of how Cipolla was not arrested and how the "magistrate went along with" not having him indicted.

In the 2018 report, there was no mention of the evidence Engel claimed to have existed.  I already illustrated that it did NOT exist, and the Diane Thompson is a mere liar.  For example, the 1978 case began with a phone call on July 25th, 1978.  It ended 35 days later, with Diane Thompson withdrawing her private criminal complaint.  Well, in 1978, it took 52 days for a forensics lab to produce DNA test results.  

That which Randy Engel claimed to exist as damning evidence in her 2016 article did not exist in the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report. 

The Cipolla Case had zero physical evidence to present to a magistrate.  Diane Thompson's eldest son had no corroborating witnesses to confirm any of his damning allegations.  And the sole detective of that 1978 case testified to the PA Grand Jury that he only believed that Cipolla was guilty, because the detective believed that no 12 year child would ever lie to a police officer.  

That one 12 year child's words which had NO CORROBORATING witness attached to it and no physical "evidentiary support" to confirm anything spoken by the 12 year old child was the detective's sole case.  The detective could have asked a judge to order a grand jury for investigating Cipolla, but you need evidence for that to be done.

 

Allegation Easy to IMPEACH 

           Before all else, you need to learn the following things through concurrence and confirmation.  The blue blocks of information below are my way of saying, "I told you so."  Those blocks of 2026 confirm as TRUE that which I stated back in 2016, 2017, etc.

More specifically, Cipolla was served with a Summary Notice to appear at a Probable Cause Hearing, on August 28, 1978.  Yet the 1978 journalist described the Summary Notice as an indictment.  The incompetent journalist of 1978 described it as an arrest.  

 

The reason why a Probable Caused Hearing was scheduled was because the police had no evidence against Cipolla, and therefore, the police could not file a police criminal complaint, otherwise known as a Police Affidavit.  

 

If there existed the evidence that Diane Thompson and her then-twelve old son claimed that there was, Cipolla would have been placed in handcuffs without being summoned to an August 28th, 1978 hearing.  Therefore ====>

 

The truth is that the scheduled August 28th hearing was to see if there were due cause to file an indictment against Cipolla, in the first place.  The hearing was to see if he was going to be arrested.  No arrest transpired.  

                                 

Below is a timeline consensus, from AI

 

In review, in order to prevent air-headed misunderstanding:  The 1978 Cipolla Case lasted 34 days, and there was NO ARREST.  There was only a scheduled PROBABLE CAUSE HEARING, and such hearings were designed to discern if whether or not there were cause to file charges in the first place.  

 

Moreover, the Grand Jury Act of 1974 abolished  what is known as Indicting Grand Juries and replaced them with Probable Cause Hearings.  The phrase "preliminary hearing" became synonymous with Probable Cause Hearing.

The August 1978 hearing was cancelled an hour or so before it started, by Diane Thompson, herself.  

 

The 34 day time span is pivotal to note, because, in 1978, it took approximately 52 days for the results of a seminal fluid test to be issued by any lab.  There was NO POSITIVE seminal fluid evidence involved in 1978 Cipolla case, at all. 

 

 

Concerning Diane Thompson's false claim about semen in 1978, even if there were such a thing found on Tucker, the test results would not have come before the August 28th Probable Cause.  And if there were evidence found, then there would have no probable cause hearing needed in August of 1978:

In as much, Diane Thompson lied ... yet again.  Randy Engel was stupid enough to have believed her ... yet again.  There was no seminal fluid report in the 1978 Cipolla Case, and there was none in the 1989 Tim Bendig Case, concerning a Tim Bendig who was repeatedly accused of being a lying con artist throughout the years.

Engel Lie #4: The claim that Cipolla was arrested, that civilians can drop a criminal charge once its filed ... and that there were two detectives in the 1978 case.

 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.

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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.