“Whether or not those persons of interest will become actual suspects, we’re not certain at this point, but the investigation is very much open and ongoing,” he said.īelmont County Sheriff David Lucas declined to comment on the matter, citing the ongoing investigation of the double murder. Gagin said law enforcement is reviewing other evidence, such as cellphone records. “At the moment, there are one or more persons of interest that the sheriff’s department is still running down.” The murder investigation is still open and ongoing. Time is actually a pretty big constraint when it comes to 3D printing, so I went with something small this week so that a) if the print got messed up, it wouldnt be too big a deal, and b) I wouldnt hold up. This week we did, you guessed it, 3D printing (and scanning). “They have, at this point and time, been eliminated as suspects in the murder. back: 3D scanning and printing: 3D scanning and printing. “The couple were initially looked at in connection with the murders because of the extortion plot that was uncovered,” Gagin said. Gagin said the extortion is being treated as an entirely separate crime that is unrelated to the murders. Gagin noted Smith and Dibacco were living in Wheeling for a time before moving to Ohio and continuing the extortion. He commended the Wheeling Police Department, who collected evidence and shared it with Belmont County law enforcement. Gagin added that he believes Smith and Dibacco have conducted similar schemes in the past, but he said Smith had not been previously convicted of extortion. “I played this in open court during the motion hearing on Friday, and it was after she watched herself that she decided to enter the plea,” Gagin said. Gagin referred to a video recording of Smith’s interrogation in which she described the crimes, stating that Dibacco would pretend to be her and text Strussion to demand money. Smith “was a dancer at Godfather’s (Gentleman’s Club in Wheeling) and they met on certain websites,” Gagin said. Gagin said the affair apparently occurred from October 2020 through November or December of that year, and the extortion occurred from December 2020 through May 2021, several months prior to the murders. “They used various means to extort money from him.” “We found information from text messages, from a handwritten ledger that Dibacco kept, and also from the interrogation statements that both Smith and Dibacco made to the Belmont County Sheriff’s Department,” Gagin said. The murder investigation uncovered evidence that Strussion was being extorted. Their deaths were ruled a double homicide. 21, when first responders were called to a structure fire there. Strussion and his wife, Angela, were found dead inside their home along Trail’s End Drive near Belmont on Sept.
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