Amy Giordano: Missing Boyfriend Now a Wanted Man with "Possible Organized Crime" Ties"

Too late, too late -- authorities have FINALLY decided to charge Roy Digirolamo, the boyfriend of the missing young mother Amy Giordano, with a crime -- abandoning the couple's baby. Cell phone records tracked him from his home in New Jersey to Delaware, where Michael, his little toddler boy, was abandoned. Amy remains missing (i.e. dead) and Roy, who is now being investigated for possible mob ties (i predicted this!!!) is free as a bird in Italy, where he fled while Hightstown police detective Ben Miller sat on his thumbs and claimed that "no crime had been committed" (i.e. he was bribed to make time for the killer's getaway). The FBI has finally stepped in, but the murderer is long gone from the scene. This one was a cold case before poor Amy Giordano's body reached room temperature, thanks to New Jersey police corruption.

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NJ man sought in missing mom case fails to return from Italy
By CHRIS NEWMARKER
Associated Press Writer

June 29, 2007, 6:07 PM EDT

TRENTON, N.J. -- Rosario Digirolamo took a round-trip
flight from Newark Liberty International Airport to
Italy more than two weeks ago.

He never came back. And authorities would like to know
why, especially since the married Millstone Township
man's girlfriend is missing, their baby boy in foster
care after being abandoned outside a Delaware hospital.

"It certainly gives the appearance that he's fled and I
would like to know why," said Mercer County Prosecutor
Joseph L. Bocchini Jr.

The boy's mother, Amy Giordano, 27, of Hightstown,
hasn't been heard from since June 8, when she had a
telephone conversation with her 6-year-old son, who
lives in New York City with her ex-husband.

A June 7 surveillance video from an East Windsor
ShopRite supermarket, released Friday by Bocchini's
office, is the last known time Giordano was seen in
public.

Lugging a large handbag, the Hightstown mom is walking
ahead of a grocery cart pushed by Rosario Digirolamo
and their son, Michael Digirolamo, is riding in it.

About 45 minutes later, Giordano is following behind
Rosario Digirolamo as he pushes a cart with grocery
bags, a package of diapers and their son.

"It looks like any other couple leaving a supermarket
with diapers," Bocchini said.

But what has happened since then is anything but
normal.

Delaware State Police want Rosario Digirolamo on
reckless endangering and child abandonment charges.

According to Delaware State Police, Digirolamo made a
cell phone call that utilized a signal tower in the
area of a Newark, Del., hospital on June 9 _ the same
day Michael Digirolamo was abandoned there.

It took nearly a week for authorities to identify the
baby. By then, Rosario Digirolamo had taken a
Continental Airlines flight from Newark Liberty
International Airport to Milan, Italy, according to
prosecutors.

Digirolamo, according to authorities, had a passport
and driver's license; Giordano had neither.

Rosario Digirolamo's ticket had him returning to Newark
on Thursday, but he didn't, Bocchini said.

Bocchini's office continues to classify Giordano's
disappearance as a missing person's case, and not a
criminal investigation. But state and federal
authorities, including the FBI, have been brought in.

FBI offices in Italy are aware that Digirolamo is
wanted in the United States, according to FBI agent
William Evanina.

Digirolamo's wife, who reportedly never knew about her
husband's second family in Hightstown, has been
cooperating with investigators, prosecutors said.

Authorities are investigating whether Digirolamo had
ties with organized crime, Bocchini said.

A U.S. citizen who worked as a computer analyst, he
didn't have a previous criminal record, according to
prosecutors. But his Millstone Township home formerly
belonged to Stefano "Steve the Truck Driver" Vitabile,
the reputed consigliere of New Jersey's DeCavalcante
crime family. Vitabile was sentenced last year to life
in prison for his involvement in mob-related killings.

Investigators on Friday were still looking through
computers removed from Giordano's apartment and
Digirolamo's home, as well as a 1998 Lexus driven by
Digirolamo, which was found parked on a residential
street in Staten Island.

Authorities had yet to find signs of foul play,
according to Bocchini.
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