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Saturday 15 July 2017
FBI: Buried body is fugitive accused in police chief slaying

him over for running a stop The FBI said investigators
sign. believe Webb died about
Webb, then 49, was a jew- 17 years ago. Gregg Mil-
elry thief from Massachu- iote, a spokesman for the
setts with connections to Bristol County District Attor-
the New England mob. Po- ney’s Office in Massachu-
lice believe he was in Sax- setts said Webb’s cause of
onburg, outside Pittsburgh, death has not yet been de-
to case a jewelry store he termined, but it “does not
planned to rob when Ad- appear his death was the
ams stopped his car. result of a violent act.”
Webb disappeared after The police chief’s widow,
the killing, but his car was Mary Ann Jones, said she is
found two weeks later in livid that Lillian Webb kept
a parking lot in Warwick, her ex-husband’s where-
Rhode Island. Within weeks abouts hidden for years,
of the killing, a federal ar- as Jones and her two sons
rest warrant was issued struggled with their loss and
for Webb after he was the thought that the killer
charged with unlawful flight was still at large.
to avoid prosecution and “I guess I’m angry at her
charged in Pennsylvania at this point because she
with first-degree murder. could do that to my fam-
Authorities carry lighting equipment to the backyard of the home of Lillian Webb, wife of fugitive Police were led to Webb’s ily — hide him for years and
Donald Eugene Webb, in Dartmouth, Mass., Thursday, July 13, 2017. Authorities began a dig at the body Thursday by his ex- then bury him so we never
home Thursday hoping to find evidence in their decadeslong quest to find the man wanted in the wife, Lillian, who showed know,” Jones said. “Why
slaying of a Pennsylvania police chief in 1980.
(Mike Valeri/Standard Times via AP) them where he was buried hide him? Why not allow us
in her back yard in Dart- closure?”
By DENISE LAVOIE thorities positively identified fugitives on the FBI’s “Ten mouth, Massachusetts. Lillian Webb could not be
AP Legal Affairs Writer remains found buried in a Most Wanted Fugitives” list, Prosecutors in both Massa- reached for comment Fri-
BOSTON (AP) — A de- Massachusetts yard as the appearing there from 1981 chusetts and Pennsylvania day. A message was left at
cadeslong search for a fu- man they have long sus- to 2007. Authorities believe confirmed to The Associat- her home.Adams was 31
gitive charged in the 1980 pected in the fatal shoot- Webb shot and killed Sax- ed Press on Friday that au- when he was killed, leaving
killing of a Pennsylvania ing. onburg police Chief Greg- thorities have agreed not his wife to raise two young
police chief came to a Donald Eugene Webb was ory Adams in December to prosecute Lillian Webb sons. She eventually remar-
dramatic end Friday as au- one of the longest-tenured 1980 after Adams pulled in the investigation. ried. q

Papers reveal pot dealer’s grisly confession in 4 slayings

By MARYCLAIRE DALE $800 to buy $8,000 worth later. to get these boys home,” agreement with DiNardo,
MICHAEL R. SISAK of pot. DiNardo, who’s Three of the slain men were Weintraub said, explaining Weintraub said.
Associated Press charged along with his buried at the farm, in Sole- the surprise plea agree- “It was so far away (from
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A cousin, said he shot anoth- bury, in an oil tank that had ment forged Thursday that the others on the farm)
marijuana dealer gave po- er man in the back as he been converted into a led to the final body. that I started to get sick to
lice a grisly account of kill- tried to run away. cooker. The FBI found them DiNardo told police where my stomach on the ride,”
ing four men on his family’s DiNardo, 22, pinned one of Wednesday after four days to find 19-year-old Loyola he said. DiNardo’s history
farm, saying he crushed the deaths on his cousin, of methodical hand-dig- University of Maryland of mental illness includes
one of them with a back- who was charged Friday, ging and sifting in a spot on student Jimi Taro Patrick, involuntary commitment,
hoe after shooting him and although the cousin told the 90-acre farm that dogs who was a year behind Di- a schizophrenia diagno-
tried to set three of the police that DiNardo shot all had sniffed out.Authorities Nardo at Holy Ghost Prep sis and repeated contacts
bodies on fire in a metal bin four of the victims. might never have found School near Bensalem, and with police. He also suffered
with the help of his cousin, The only motive disclosed the fourth body unless agreed to plead guilty to a head injury last year in an
according to court papers by investigators was that they worked with DiNardo, four counts of first-degree ATV accident.
filed Friday. DiNardo said he wanted Bucks County District At- murder. In exchange, he The commitment meant he
Cosmo DiNardo, who grad- to set the victims up when torney Matthew Weintraub will be spared the death was barred from possessing
uated from a Catholic prep they went to the farm to said. penalty. guns, but nonetheless he
school two years ago, said buy marijuana. One man “I don’t know what con- Investigators would still be had one in February when
he killed a former school- vanished July 5, and the vinced him (to confess). looking for Patrick’s body police charged him with
mate when he arrived with others vanished two days I’d like to think he wanted had they not made the having a shotgun.q