Rosario DiGirolamo thought he found a way to save $$

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Rosario DiGirolamo has posted $1 million bond and has been released from jail. Conditions include confinement to his parent's home and wearing an electronic tracking device.

DiGirolamo is accused of killing his girlfriend and dumping her dismembered body in a Staten Island pond.

Amy Giordano, 27, had a son with DiGirolamo, 33, and was living in Hightstown when, according to prosecutors, DiGirolamo killed her by striking her head with a metal tool on June 7 or June 8, 2007. DiGirolamo also allegedly sawed Giordano's body apart, stuffed some of the remains in a suitcase, then dropped the suitcase in a pond in Staten Island on June 9.

DiGirolamo later left the couple's 11-month-old son, Michael S. DiGirolamo, outside a hospital in Delaware. The father later pleaded guilty to child abandonment charges originating in that state.

Authorities were led to the suitcase by John R. Russo Jr., an old friend of DiGirolamo's, who was also charged with tampering with evidence in March.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/200...g_hightst.html

Surveillance images inside a supermarket June 7th are the last photos ever taken of 27-year-old Amy Giordano. They show her with DiGirolamo and their baby son Michael. Hours later, investigators say DiGirolamo called his best friend and confessed he had dismembered her body. "The defendant said to Mr. Russo that the sawzall that he initially used did not work very well, so he had to use a hand saw or a hacksaw," Meidt revealed.

Just last weekend, detectives found a suitcase and body parts in a pond on Staten Island. Investigators have not officially said it's Giordano. DNA will do that, but one clue in particular convinced them it's her. "There were pictures of Michael DiGirolamo, the child, in the suitcase as well," Meidt said.

The prosecutor told the judge DiGirolamo planned the murder in detail. Meidt said DiGirolamo told his best friend beforehand, and bought an electric saw, drain cleaner, and garbage bags-- the same kind found in the pond. Meidt said DiGirolamo confessed to two other friends afterward. "He ultimately told them that he struck Amy in the head... and then disposed of Ms. Giordano's body in two separate locations." Detectives have not found the second location.

As for motive, the prosecutor said DiGirolamo complained about the financial drain of supporting Giordano and their baby, as well as his wife and their young son.

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/myfox/pag...Y&pageId=3.2.1

[Abroad]

That case.....

I remember when the boy turned up unaccompanied and how everybody was up in arms that the mother had discarded him. The kindest were the ones who assumed that she had probably watched from some car until he was picked up. And then gradually the horrible suspicion dawning that whatever else the mother had done she had not abandoned the child herself......

Such a sad story. I am glad they found her; but ...... How is the son ever going to come to terms with this?

[Tazzzz]

John Russo - clean up crew


Amy Giordano




11-month-old abandoned son Michael DiGirolamo

Cops say they're learning quite a bit about DiGirolamo from their investigation -- including that DiGirolamo is married to another woman and has another young son, who he lived with in Millstone Township, N.J. His wife was reportedly unaware of DiGirolamo's alleged affair with Amy Giordano and the child she shared with DiGirolamo.

Authorities believe the remains are Giordano's because pictures of her son, whom DiGirolamo fathered, were in the suitcase, Meidt said. DNA tests are pending.

Meidt said that DiGirolamo killed his 27-year-old mistress because he could no longer afford to support two households and that he told Russo beforehand of his intentions.

Additonally, cops say they're investigating a possible link between DiGirolamo and organized crime. The home DiGirolamo owned in Millstone Township reportedly previously belonged to a prominent member of the state's DeCavalcante crime family. While cops say there is no evidence of foul play at this point in the investigation, they are not ruling out any possible angles to this case.

"Why sit in your parent's house, with your passport in a dresser drawer, with a four-hour head start if you're not an innocent man?" he said.

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Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Meidt emphasized to Kelly that Russo, 43, is cooperating with the prosecution and came in on Easter Sunday. Later that day, Russo led them to the pond where a suitcase, containing bones believed to be Giordano's, was found. Meidt said the results of DNA tests on those remains are still pending, but a photograph of Giordano's son was found inside.

Meidt said that witnesses had seen Russo, 43, at Giordano's Hightstown apartment on June 8, one day after the victim was seen alive. Meidt said he believes that Russo helped DiGirolamo to clean up the aftermath of the bloody murder scene and so is charged with tampering with evidence.

At an earlier hearing for DiGirolamo, Meidt said, that detectives believe that he used a pry-bar type tool to beat her to death in that apartment, then took a saw and chopped up her corpse, putting it into heavy-duty plastic bags.

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2..._clean_up.html

[impqueen]

I covered Amy Giordano for another crime blog back in the day, and spent some time emailing back and forth with her brother.

I'm really glad Ro DiGirolamo is finally going to pay for this shit.

[crickett]

I don't think that his crime (mob) family are going to be very happy that he has put them and their busines out on front street. Maybe they could just save the taxpayers a little money and?

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Nearly two years after Rosario DiGirolamo was charged in New Jersey with killing mistress Amy Giordano and parts of her skeleton were fished from a pond, he's living at his parents' home with no trial date on the horizon.

Had DiGirolamo been indicted in Delaware -- where he abandoned the couple's child -- he would almost certainly have been tried by now. Almost all Delaware cases, including high-profile murders, get resolved within a year of indictment.

Instead, former computer analyst DiGirolamo, 35, faces trial in Mercer County, which has the second-worst criminal case backlog in New Jersey. Mercer has seen murder cases languish for five years, DiGirolamo's prosecutor said.

There was an outside chance DiGirolamo's trial could have been scheduled last Thursday, officials said, but the week's snowstorm postponed a status conference. Even if a trial date is set soon, it would be several months away in a case where neither side has even filed a pretrial motion.
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In Delaware, charges against DiGirolamo were resolved more than two years ago. In July 2007, while DiGirolamo was hiding in Italy, authorities here charged him with leaving his 11-month-old son, Michael, in Christiana Hospital's parking lot. That November, he pleaded guilty to endangering and abandoning his son. DiGirolamo was put on probation that expires in May. Delaware officials have since placed the boy, who will turn 4 in July, into adoption with an unidentified relative of the man accused of killing his mother.
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http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/2...WS01/100216008

He is charged in her June 2007 death - arrested in March 2008 and indicted in January 2009.

Her cousin is fuming:

"The guy's out on bail on house arrest when he already should be spending the rest of his life behind bars," Fishbaum said. "He's home and celebrating Thanksgiving and having Christmas dinner. It doesn't seem fair to me."

[DamagedGoods]

"Why sit in your parent's house, with your passport in a dresser drawer, with a four-hour head start if you're not an innocent man?" he said.

Because you're the same Artard who left personally identifiable evidence with the person you murdered?