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Cosmo DiNardo killings to get true-crime TV treatment in ID special ‘The Lost Boys of Bucks County’

The two-part special is planned for the first quarter of 2020.

Photos of three of Cosmo DiNardo's victims (from left) Jimi Tar Patrick, Dean A. Finocchiaro, and Thomas C. Meo, rest behind their families and lawyers at a March 5, 2018, press conference in Philadelphia. The cable network Investigation Discovery is planning a two-part special on the case, called "The Lost Boys of Bucks County."
Photos of three of Cosmo DiNardo's victims (from left) Jimi Tar Patrick, Dean A. Finocchiaro, and Thomas C. Meo, rest behind their families and lawyers at a March 5, 2018, press conference in Philadelphia. The cable network Investigation Discovery is planning a two-part special on the case, called "The Lost Boys of Bucks County."Read moreJames Blocker / File Photograph
    by Ellen Gray
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Investigation Discovery can’t seem to get enough of the Philadelphia area.

The true-crime network, which on Wednesday will premiere the second season of its Philly-focused series Homicide City, is planning a two-hour special for next year on the July 2017 murders of four young men in Bucks County: Jimi Patrick, 19, of Newtown Township; Dean Finocchiaro, 19, of Middletown Township; Thomas Meo, 21, of Plumstead Township; and Mark Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg.

Cosmo DiNardo last year pleaded guilty to the killings and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms. His cousin Sean Kratz still faces trial on charges of helping DiNardo kill and bury three of the four victims, whose bodies were discovered on the DiNardo family farm in Solebury Township.

Called The Lost Boys of Bucks County, the special appears to be focusing on Megan Freer, a Middletown police officer who last year was presented with the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Policing by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions for her work on the case.

Here’s how the cable network is describing the project, which is being produced by Story House Productions and which is scheduled for the first quarter of 2020:

In a gripping limited true-crime special, The Lost Boys of Bucks County unravels the shocking serial murders that set ablaze a small community and rocked it to its core. Over the course of two days in July 2017, four young men go missing in an idyllic, sleepy suburb of Philadelphia. Blue blood born-and-bred Megan Freer is new to the force, but what she lacks in experience she makes up for in instinct and ambition. With not only a connection to the area, Freer is also familiar with the families of some of the lost boys, further fueling her passion for to solve the mystery. In the face of great evil, Freer is thrust into a dark and twisted path, forced to follow her intuition to put together the pieces hiding in plain sight that bring a brutal serial killer to justice.

Investigation Discovery describes itself as the No. 1 network for women 25-54 across the total day.