Another time, he pressed his gun to the side of Jean Wehner's head, actually pulling the trigger only for her to realize it was unloaded. An autopsy attributed her death to a skull fracture caused by a blow to her left temple with a blunt instrument. He'd mostly target students who were struggling, either academically or at home, calling them in for "therapy," where he used his charms to manipulate them into believing he knew what was best for them. They were always invited to come to her apartment, where she checked in on the situation regarding Maskell. Anyone who saw The Keepers remembers former priest Gerry Koob and his story about the police bringing in Sister Cathys genitals wrapped in newspaper and tossing them on a table in front of Koob. By They are waiting to learn if those results link Maskell to the death of a nun who, according to an attorney, was a confidant to young women who had been assaulted by the priest. Really, the whole thing raises a lot of questions, summarized by Huffpost. This begs the question, though, that if White says he included everything he knew, and we know he had to remove names for legal reasons where in the documentary does he reveal these hidden suspects? But, on top of that, she had a natural gift for teaching. Sister Cathy Cesnik was reported missing after she failed to return home from a shopping trip in November 1969. According to the autopsy, she had been struck on the back of her head by either a hammer or a brick, there was a hole the size of a quarter in her skull , and there were strangulation marks on her neck. Eluding police questioning, Maskell eventually ran off to Ireland in 1994 to work as a priest. An autopsy soon revealed the victim was Sister Cathy Cesnik, a beloved 26-year-old nun who taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough High School and had vanished two months earlier during a Friday night shopping trip. The Keepers, a 7-part documentary, is currently available to stream on Netflix. RELATED:16 TV Shows Too Disturbing To Binge-Watch, Most dont believe Gerry Koob when he talks, but a member of the police force, Detective Roemer, claimed that Koob confessed to having a sexual relationship with Sister Cathy before her disappearance. The mutilated body of the 26-year-old teacher was found on January 3, 1970. People from all over Baltimore County helped the police comb local parks and wooded areas for any sign of her. Her body was left out in the open on a slight rise. While the case remains open, allegations of sexual abuse by Father Maskell, and Sister's Cathy's plan to blow the whistle along with a possible cover up by the Catholic Church with close ties to law enforcement are at the heart of the horrendous case. Stirred to action, the Police exhumed the remains of A. Joseph Maskell, the former priest accused of murdering Sister Cathy, and took a DNA sample to test against DNA found at the murder scene. Reply. Later in 1994, authorities exhumed boxes Maskell had buried in a Baltimore cemetery and found one to contain child pornography. Now, WJZ has learned Baltimore County Police may be closer than ever to solving the murder of 26-year-old Sister Cathy Cesnik. But it's not the only theory. Jan. 3, 1970, changed that. If the Archdiocese is willing to blatantly lie about this, what else are they lying about? As time would tell, she had good reason to keep quiet. They revealed themselves in "The Keepers" thanks to documentary filmmakers Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave. Another woman, Teresa Lancaster, also came forward. Another dead end, apparently. ', They were told to 'stop harassing him,' he said. The service at the at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Pinehurst, North Carolina lasted 1 hour. They filed a $40 million civil lawsuit against him, the Baltimore Archdiocese, the sisters who ran the school, and a local gynecologist. I can still feel her touch my cheek, said Hargadon-Wehner, in a recent interview. It's been almost five decades since 26-year-old nun and teacher Sister Cathy Cesnik was senselessly murdered back in 1969 and to this day, those closest to her are still looking for answers . Catherine Anne Cesnik was born on November 17, 1942, in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As the next morning rolled around, Catherine Cesnik still hadn't returned to the apartment, and her roommate became very concerned. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. More: Every Original Series Cancelled By Netflix. While police were never able to bring charges against the priest, Caine said that 16 people who said Maskell abused them have since received money from the archdiocese as part of financial agreements. Every bit of it, vividly. I don't understand what happens on the other side, she said. [4] Cesnik had three siblings. The autopsy concluded her cause of death . Both women have said that she was the only member of the school's staff who helped them and other girls abused by Maskell, et al., and have said that she was murdered prior to discussing the matter with the archdiocese of Baltimore. Granted, there was the argument that this was, technically, still within three years Jean Wehner and Teresa Lancaster had just recovered those memories. And to end. A little more digging brought with it the fact that neighbors had seen the car parked there since 10:30 p.m., though it had been in her assigned parking spot behind the building just two hours earlier (via Baltimore Sun). , updated With new evidence cropping up recently, this article has been updated to reflect evenmorefacts and clues that the docuseries overlooked. Police then announced that the DNA taken from A. Joseph Maskell was not a direct match to the DNA found at the two-month-old murder scene, where 26-year-old Sister Cathy was found decomposing in 1970. Instead, it made more sense if someone Catherine Cesnik already knew coerced her from the car. I think that the impact of The Keepers has far exceeded our expectations, Hargrave said. Advocates, filmmakers say they have not given up. One of the most frustrating aspects of being a true crime fan is dealing with endless cover-ups from authorities and government entities, like police and the FBI. According to People, Jean Wehner suspected that Cesnik had planned to go to police, finally exposing Maskell for what he was. No one really knows exactly what happened to Cesnik. Sharon Mays husband, V. Eric W. May, Sr., was a state cop while Sharon was a prosecutor, providing the two of them even more opportunity to participate in a cover-up. Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik was 26 when she disappeared in 1969; her body was found weeks later, Baltimore County Police exhumed the body of a priest for DNA testing in the case. Many believe a quiet cover-up orchestrated by the Catholic Church and . Ultimately, Maskell died in 2001, having never been charged for a thing. But that argument didn't fly in the 90s. It continues to be one of several theories.. White can only say this about it: Her story is chilling.. The words scared Wehner into silence for decades. Their work is featured prominently, in "The Keepers.. As for filmmakers Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave, after The Keepers they produced a documentary with Dr. Ruth, and then another one about the two women who assassinated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's brother. Frightened and feeling threatened by the strapping, dominating clergyman who was popular with churchgoers for his Sunday masses the girl decided to keep secret her gruesome discovery. In that case, Cesnik might've been killed to stop her from actually being able to do that. Ryan White's aunt attended Archbishop Keough High School, and had stayed in touch with Jean Hargadon-Wehner. [7] She cashed a paycheck at First National Bank in Catonsville that night. He was said to have allowed girls at the school to talk about sex and drugs in his office, and even permitted alcohol and cigarettes during gatherings in his rectory living quarters. All six murders are still unsolved, so technically, the similarities could just be coincidence, but despite the lack of evidence, experience tells investigators that there's some connection. 1 of 40. In the decades since the nuns killing and as DNA testing has become a vital investigative tool, Baltimore County police have compared the DNA of several other people as part of their investigation into the never-closed case, according to Armacost, but those tests did not match the DNA profile from 1970. Almost 50 years ago, a Baltimore nun named Sister Catherine Cesnik was found choked and beaten to death . This is presumed to be the source of the DNA sample found at the murder scene, but Ryan White knows theres even more that Baltimore County Police arent saying. Her cousin was soon to be married and Sister Cathy wanted to shop for an engagement gift, she told her roommate, Sister Helen Phillips, with whom she shared a small garden apartment in Southwest Baltimore, a blue-collar area of the city. A girl who did threaten to report him soon found his gun in her mouth, as he told her that no one would believe her he had a fancy degree from Johns Hopkins, after all. It had to be somebody who knew her.'. The investigation into her disappearance and death revealed rampant abuse at her place of employment, Keough High School, a prominent Catholic school in Baltimore, Maryland. But that charming faade was shattered in 1992. But that's where things get hazy. All rights reserved. Koob had an alibi for the night he'd been out at a movie with another priest and claimed not to know anything. As it turned out, he had close ties to the police: his brother was a lieutenant, and Maskell was chaplain for the Baltimore County force, along with the state police and the Maryland National Guard. [11] Cesnik's body was not found until January 3, 1970, and its discovery by two hunters was not in the wooded location near Fort Meade, but on the open hill trash dump of a small business property in Lansdowne. Two women, both with close ties to an unnamed man who may have been . ', One former student, Teresa Lancaster, told WJZ-TV in Baltimore, that Sister Cathy had 'confronted' Maskell 'and she lost her life for it.'. Gerard Koob it depends on the report) found her car unlocked around 4:40 a.m. on the day after her disappearance. It was actual, hard evidence that would at least be enough to arrest Maskell for possessing child pornography. Though, of course, they insist theyre doing everything they can to help victims of abuse, on the subject of Maskell, they remain as vague and unhelpful as ever. And she has not stopped looking into the murder of her former teacher. Joanne Suder, an attorney for many of Maskells sexual abuse victims, said, If law enforcement, in general, had done their job back in 1970, theyd have brought Maskell in then and this wouldnt have all been necessary in 2017., Theres no question that my clients told Sister Cathy (Cesnik) what was going on, Suder said. They scared the living hell out of us.'. This family evidence of anger problems, assaults on others, using a position of power over others to avoid punishment, and the assault on a young woman much like Sister Cathy all point towards a potential pre-existing rage in A. Joseph Maskell that nobody has ever explored. Without getting into a bunch of complicated legal jargon, victims of abuse would've had three years to come forward. She was found dead two months later. Western's principal noted that she was an especially "fine teacher," while others pointed out that she was known for her compassion. The weapon that caused it? For all the press and notoriety that this case would get in the long run, it started out exceedingly normal. He later became a Methodist minister, but before that (and before Cesnik had taken her final vows as a nun), he'd asked her to marry him. The Catholic Church seems to know how to clean up its messes in general, withThe Guardian uncovering a much wider scandal in Boston (which led to worldwide concerns). Updated The mysterious Brother Bob is, in many ways, even more chilling a figure than A. Joseph Maskell. The show is responsible for initiating a deeper look into the case of A. Joseph Maskell and Sister Cathy Cesnik, as Baltimore County Police start investigating again due to a public outcry. The case made against Joseph Maskell in the 1990s didn't actually last. [8], In 1995, Teresa Lancaster and Jean Wehner (ne Hargadon), former students at Keough who say they were sexually abused by Maskell, filed a lawsuit against him, the school, gynecologist Christian Richter, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and William H. Keeler. On May 17, the Baltimore Sun reported that his DNA did not match a sample that was taken. "Our best hope for solving this case at this point lies with the people who are still alive. Baltimore Detective Lt. Sam Bowerman always believed Sister Cathy was killed by a man who either lived in, or was familiar with, the area around the Carriage House Apartments, knew the location off Monument Avenue where her body was dumped, and that the murder was unplanned. After a week of teaching, Sister Cathy, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame, and the daughter of a Pennsylvania postal worker, decided on Friday night that she was going to go shopping. She'd said no, but they still kept writing love letters and spending time together. Rather conveniently, they also couldn't find any other corroborating statements regarding Joseph Maskell's abuse (Jean Wehner's lawyers had no trouble). By William Cannon It started with a freelance journalist, Tom Nugent. She was warm and energetic, always ready to engage with her students, writing musicals for them to perform on stage, or inventing games to encourage them to teach each other new vocabulary. It just means that there's no link between Maskell and the crime scene. - May 30, 2017 05:42 pm EDT. Does he ever reveal them? Whats worse than considering the fact that A. Joseph Maskell terrorized one community? 'There were a lot of layers that if you peeled them back went a lot deeper. [12] After obtaining permission from the state's attorney's office, the BCPD exhumed the body of Maskell, who died of a major stroke in 2001, but did not find a DNA match to evidence from the crime scene. The body was in poor condition but an autopsy revealed that Sister Cesnick died from a blow to her left temple by a blunt . It's hard to say what's true. Hoskins did write about her theory on the killer in her book "Keeping On: How I came To Know Why I Was Born.. (Aside from reports that Maskell invited uniformed officers to assault the girls). Detective Nick Giangrasso still thought it was someone tied to the church, though, and began to look into Father A. Joseph Maskell. Except for that day, she said. [5] On November 7, 1969, she left the apartment she shared with Helen Russell Phillips at the Carriage House Apartments, at 131 North Bend Road in Catonsville, en route to the Edmondson Village Shopping Center to purchase a gift for her sister's engagement at Hecht's jewelry store. Gemma Hoskins has helped dozens of victims get in touch with their investigators. The same happened in 1994. May 19, 2017. Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik was last seen alive on November 7, 1969. According to Armacost, Baltimore County police in 1994 took the alleged victims statement seriously and interviewed Maskell, himself once the chaplain for the Baltimore County Police and other area law enforcement agencies. Priests regularly got away scot-free. None of these cases have been solved. Today, almost a half-century later, the murder of Sister Cathy who was once compared to Julie Andrews' character in 'The Sound of Music' because of her beauty and bubbly personality is still one of law enforcement's most mysterious cold cases. Part 1 - Victim Featured in The Keepers Tells Story of Survival in New Book, Part 2 - Attorney Believes Criminal Charges A Possibility in Sex Abuse Investigation. In fact, people around the world were so distraught at learning about Sister Cathy's case that they started flooding the Baltimore County Police with calls. Police have also looked into whether Cesniks death is related to the deaths of three other young women in the Baltimore area around the same time. With twigs and branches found in the car, police thought that they might have a pretty good lead, as the Baltimore Sun explained. Photo of Sister Cathy Cesnik (Image Source: Daily Mail) On November 7, 1969, Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik disappeared. v. A. Joseph Maskell et al. She Was Found Fatally Beaten Two Months After Disappearing in 1969. One of those calls went to a retired Baltimore County teacher, Gemma Hoskins. Sister Catherine Cesnik is pictured with her father, Joseph Cesnik. But that lead didn't go anywhere. I'm not going to name names right now but they know stuff. So we didn't want to set that as our bar, Hargrave said. The exhumation of a Catholic priests body by Baltimore County Police could hold the key to solving the 47-year-old cold case of a murdered nun. Because of the condition of Cesnik's corpse, police were unable to tell if she had been sexually assaulted. Catherine Cesnik was born in 1942, she was a devoted catholic nun who taught drama and English at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland. 102, September Term 1995, "Baltimore Archdiocese Pays Settlements to a Dozen People Alleging Abuse by Late Priest", "Netflix's 'The Keepers' generates interest in other Md. She left for Baltimore at 18 to join the School Sisters of Notre Dame, eventually going on to teach at Archbishop Keough High School. Pamela Lynn Conyers, 16, was last seen at the shopping mall in Glen Burnie on October 16, 1970, police said. The plaintiffs appealed. The green 1970 Maverick had been parked illegally near the apartment. Even after Cesnik left her job at Keough and took a position at Western, she still gave the girls a safe space to talk. But beyond that, all of them had ties of some kind to Maskell, either working with him or attending churches where he was a priest. There is even more to this than meets the eye; White said there are about thirty-five other survivors just like her, and more reaching out all the time. It was no wonder that in the wake of the news, the students were all quietly shocked, worried that the police might stop looking for her. Sean Caine, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, said the archdiocese removed Maskell from his post as soon as they learned of the allegations in 1992, in order to conduct their own investigation. No one, not even fellow Keough graduates, knew that Jean Hargadon-Wehner was the so-called "Jane Doe" who came forward in the early 1990's and accused the Archdiocese of Baltimore of allowing the abuse to continue. At some point probably the first thing on her trip Cesnik stopped by a Catonsville bank and cashed a check for $255, part of a pretty regular routine. Prior to the funeral, the city of Frederick put purple ribbons [Shan'ann's favorite color] all over the city. The theory that she was killed because she knew something about abuse that was going on by priests within the church continues to be a theory, but is not the only theory. Youtube. Just a few days before she vanished, the priest reportedly called her and, once again expressing his love, had asked her to marry him. More than 40 years after her death, the case of Sister Cathy Cesnik's murder is still unsolved. More than a month later, her partly clad body was found near a garbage dump in a Baltimore suburb. The murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik remains unsolved to this day. "The Keepers" premieres on Netflix May 19. They got in touch with the local police, reporting that Cesnik had gone missing. Detectives investigating her death believe she may have encountered her murderer outside her apartment since her car was found parked in the complex the day after her disappearance. 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