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Warlocks biker gang member, Michael DiMauro, 51, faces life without parole after his conviction for killing recruit in cemetery, hiding body in crypt, where it was found 3 years later

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Michael DiMauro a member of the outlawed Warlocks Motorcycle Club in Philadelphia&comma;&comma; was found guilty on Tuesday of slaying 33-year-old David Rossillo&comma; Jr&period; in Dec 2017<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>DiMauro&comma; 51&comma; who was convicted on charges of first-degree murder&comma; conspiracy and abuse of corpse&comma; will be sentenced to life without possibility of parole later in August <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>DiMauro shot David Rossillo Jr&period;&comma; four times&comma; then tied a rope around his neck&comma; dragged him with a car&comma; and left him in an underground crypt at <strong><strong>Mount Moriah Cemetery in southwest Philly<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Rossillo Jr&comma; a Warlock MC associate was missing for nearly three years before his body was found alongside another associate Keith Palumbo&comma; a musician and tattoo artist&comma; who had disappeared<&sol;strong> <&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Crime came to light after the bodies of Palumbo and Rossillo Jr&comma; were found in crypt at the cemetery&comma; in May 2020 <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Another biker club member <strong>Michael DeLuca&comma; 41&comma; who was arrested in 2021 in Palumbo’s killing&comma; pled guilty to third degree murder in January 2023<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;David-Rossillo-Jr&period;-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446685" style&equals;"width&colon;839px&semi;height&colon;980px" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"980"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Victim&colon; Michael DiMauro shot David Rossillo Jr&period; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; four times in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Dec 2017&period; DiMauro will be sentenced to life without possibility of parole later this month&period; Killer and victim belonged to the Warlocks motorcycle gang<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A biker gang member who couldn’t keep his macabre secret buried forever&comma; ultimately faced justice&period;<br>c&comma; a member of an outlaw Warlocks Motorcycle Club&comma; accused of killing an associate member and leaving his body in a crypt at a Philadelphia cemetery has been convicted of murder and other charges&period; <br>DiMauro&comma; 51&comma; who represented himself at trial&comma; will be sentenced to life without possibility of parole later this month&comma; District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a statement&comma; following his conviction on all charges&comma; including first-degree murder&comma; conspiracy and abuse of corpse&period; <br>The jury returned the verdict after a short jury deliberation&period;<br>DiMauro and Rossillo met at the Mount Moriah Cemetery in southwest Philadelphia after a member of the graveyard’s nonprofit board let them in&comma; the DA’s office said&period; There&comma; DiMauro shot the Warlock recruit four times in December 2017&period; <br>Prosecutors said&comma; DiMauro then tied a rope around the victim&&num;8217&semi;s neck&comma; dragged him across the property with a car&comma; and left him in an underground crypt&period;<br>Rossillo Jr&period; was missing for nearly three years before his body was found in April 2020&comma; as authorities searched for Keith Palumbo&comma; another Warlocks motorcycle associate who had disappeared&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Michael-DiMauro-killed-David-Rosillo-in-2017-and-then-hid-his-body-inside-a-cemetery-crypt-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446656" style&equals;"width&colon;842px&semi;height&colon;545px" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"545"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Michael DiMauro shot and killed David Rossillo in 2017 and then hid his body inside a cemetery crypt&comma; but could no longer keep the secret after investigators searching for another missing biker found both bodies<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Palumbo&comma; who went missing Feb&period; 6&comma; 2020&comma; was believed to have been shot inside a building the Paschall section of Southwest Philadelphia that belonged to Warlocks MC&period; There was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;blood inside that residence” on the first floor&comma; investigators said&period;<br>Investigators found Palumbo&&num;8217&semi;s remains in the crypt two months later&comma; in May 2020&period; The body of Rossillo Jr&period; was also found in the crypt&period;<br>Authorities said&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s still not clear why either man was killed&comma; but two cooperating witnesses implicated DiMauro in the murder&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;We are committed to bringing justice in cold cases like this&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Krasner in a statement&period; <br>The jury returned their verdict after within hours of beginning deliberation&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I believe that these convictions should send a message to any persons who think they can murder others and hide the evidence of their heinous crimes&colon; We will solve these cases and we will bring you to justice&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Krasner added&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Keith-Palumbo-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446667" style&equals;"width&colon;845px&semi;height&colon;457px" width&equals;"845" height&equals;"457"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Victim&colon; Rossillo was missing for nearly three years before his body was found in April 2020&comma; as authorities searched for Keith Palumbo &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&period; Both bodies were recovered in the crypt<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">On April 3&comma; 2020&comma; Rossillo Jr&&num;8217&semi;s remains were found alongside Keith Palumbo&comma; a musician and tattoo artist who had known his biker club killer from childhood who went missing two months before the gruesome discovery&period; <br>DNA taken from their remains led to their identification by investigators in August of that same year&period; DiMauro was arrested just a month later&period;  <br>Ex-con Michael DeLuca&comma; 41&comma; an alleged member of Warlocks MC&comma; was arrested in 2021 and pled guilty to third degree murder in the death of Keith Palumbo&period;<br>Three other co-conspirators&comma; Donna Morelli&comma; 51&comma; Buck Evans&comma; 49&comma; and Billy Gibson&comma; 50&comma; previously pled guilty to their roles in helping dispose of the bodies of the slain men&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Mount-Moriah-Cemetery-in-southwest-Philadelphia&period;-PA-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446662" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;565px" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"565"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>In April&comma; investigators going through the mostly abandoned<strong> Mount Moriah Cemetery in southwest Philadelphia&comma; <&sol;strong>found this crypt’s top marble slab slightly ajar&comma; with fresh with fresh scratches at the base where someone had pried it open<&sol;strong>&period; <strong>The vault housed the remains of Capt&period; A&period;H&period; Cain and his family&comma; from the 1800s <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;image-28&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446676" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;451px" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"451"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Investigators found Rosillo’s body and the remains of another man in the crypt <strong>at Mount Moriah Cemetery <&sol;strong>on April 3&comma; 2020&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Buck Evans&comma; who has a lengthy criminal history&comma; was convicted for helping cover up the murder of Palumbo&comma; while Gibson and Morelli were convicted on charges of abusing of corpse for allegedly helping dispose of Palumbo&&num;8217&semi;s body&period; <br>According to police&comma; Palumbo was fatally shot in the face inside a Philadelphia building owned by the notorious Warlocks Motorcycle Club back in February&comma; as <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;inquirer&period;com&sol;news&sol;philadelphia-mount-moriah-cemetery-buck-evans-charged-abuse-of-corpse-keith-palumbo-warlocks-motorcycle-club-20200720&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Philadelphia Inquirer<&sol;a> first reported&period; <br>His body was discovered two months later inside a crypt at the shuttered Mount Moriah Cemetery&comma; along with that of an unidentified badly decomposing male corpse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;image-30&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446677" style&equals;"width&colon;841px&semi;height&colon;1240px" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"1240"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The body of Rossillo Jr&period; was also found in the crypt&comma; authorities said&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s still not clear why either man was killed<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Investigators-bring-out-David-Rosillos-body-from-crypt-wher-it-was-kept-by-Michael-DiMauro-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446673" style&equals;"width&colon;841px&semi;height&colon;557px" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"557"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>DiMauro shot David Rossillo Jr&period;&comma; 33&comma; four times in Mount Moriah Cemetery in December 2017&comma; prosecutors said&comma; then tied a rope around his neck&comma; dragged him across the property with a car&comma; and left him in an underground crypt<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Following his arrest&comma; Evans was questioned by police and allegedly told them that DeLuca had Keith shot Palumbo&comma; in the face in his presence&period;<br>According to a probable cause affidavit&comma; Evans said he was standing so close to Palumbo that he was splattered with his blood&period; <br>Palumbo&comma; a 36-year-old musician and tattoo artist from Delaware County&comma; knew DeLuca from childhood hung out with them&comma; but had no interest in joining the biker gang&comma; according to the version by his relatives&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Buck-Evans-left-and-Bill-Gibson-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446697" style&equals;"width&colon;845px&semi;height&colon;534px" width&equals;"845" height&equals;"534"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Buck Evans &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; previously pled guilty to his roles in helping dispose of the bodies along with Donna Morelli and Billy Gibson &lbrack;right&rsqb;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Donna-Morelli-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446710" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;387px" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"387"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>After the bodies were found Donna Morelli sought to warn Michael DiMauro that police had found David Rossillo Jr&period;&&num;8217&semi;s body&period; She gave him a note telling him &&num;8220&semi;run now&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;image-31&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446680" style&equals;"width&colon;843px&semi;height&colon;578px" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"578"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Michael DeLuca&comma; 41&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; an alleged member of Warlocks MC&comma; was arrested in 2021 in Palumbo’s killing&period; He and pled guilty to third degree murder in January 2023<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The document makes no mention of a possible motive behind the killing&period;<br>DeLuca then allegedly went to Morelli&&num;8217&semi;s home&comma; told her he had killed Palumbo and asked for her help getting rid of his body&period;<br>After the three other co-conspirators&comma; Donna Morelli&comma; 51&comma; of Philadelphia&comma; and Buck Evans&comma; 49&comma; and Billy Gibson&comma; 50&comma; both of Upper Darby&comma; pled guilty to their roles in helping dispose of the bodies&comma; Gibson and Evans were sentenced to two years of probation&period; Morelli was sentenced to up to two years in prison&period;<br>Police said members of the vicious biker gang referred to themselves as themselves &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;one-percenters&comma;” or the 1&percnt; of the population that doesn’t follow the rules&period; <br>The two murder victims&comma; Rossillo and Palumbo&comma; were prospective club members&comma; working toward full status&comma; Wainwright said&period; Their killers&comma; and those who helped dispose of their bodies&comma; were full-fledged members&period;<br>Morelli&comma; who was a member of Mount Moriah Cemetery’s board of directors&comma; was previously married to the former president of the Warlocks&comma; and acted as a de facto leader after he died in 2015&comma; DA Larry Krasner said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Larry-Krasner-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446682" style&equals;"width&colon;843px&semi;height&colon;431px" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"431"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong><strong>DNA taken from their remains led to Palumbo and Rossillo Jr&period;&&num;8217&semi;s identification by investigators in August of that same year&period; <strong>&&num;8216&semi;We are committed to bringing justice in cold cases like this&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said District Attorney Larry Krasner in a statement<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Morelli allegedly told police she and the other suspects threw the victim&&num;8217&semi;s body into the crypt&comma; and then she burned Evans&&num;8217&semi; bloodstained clothes&period;<br>When Palumbo&&num;8217&semi;s body was discovered on April 3&comma; a second corpse was found in the same crypt&comma; later revealed to be Rossillo Jr&&num;8217&semi;s&period;<br>According to an obituary&comma; Rossillo Jr&period; &&num;8216&semi;had dreams and aspirations to become a personal trainer&period; He enjoyed healthy eating and taking care of his body&comma;&&num;8217&semi; as well as enjoying time with family and friends&period; <br>DiMauro will be sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole later this month&comma; the DA’s office said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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