Nearly 10 years ago the filmmakers started to meet with her; this was long before Netflix got involved. Sister Catherine Cesnik is pictured with her father, Joseph Cesnik. The Baltimore police has since reopened its investigation. 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. A search of the park turned up nothing, and there was no lead on her whereabouts for almost two months. ', The comments below have not been moderated, By James Maskell, A. Joseph Maskells uncle, is a similarly powerful and threatening figure that deserves to be prodded harder. Netflix's documentary series "The Keepers" dives into the case and uncovers a web of abuse that may . Both . And the oldest was in her 20's.. In the show, the audience briefly hears about the fact that Ireland has claims on A. Joseph Maskell, as well, that the Catholic Church continues to cover up. An autopsy attributed her death to a skull fracture caused by a blow to her left temple with a blunt instrument. The service at the at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Pinehurst, North Carolina lasted 1 hour. 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 . Those who knew her at the time said that she wouldn't allow any conversation about Cesnik's death, saying that was her life before, and that she now had a new life. Huffpost added that choke marks colored her neck, and a quarter-sized hole in the back of her skull pointed to her actual cause of death blunt force trauma, leading to a skull fracture and brain hemorrhaging. The sisters were incredibly close, even after Cesnik felt that God had called out to her to become a nun. Jerry Oppenheimer For Dailymail.com They were last known to have been at shopping centers in the area, the same as Cesnik. But I can whole-heartedly say, Cathy has been very much a part of all this.. 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. Many of the parents in the area would regularly attend his masses and let him baptize their children. The case remains open and unsolved. Leads dried up quickly and no one came forward with information about Cathy's whereabouts, and the search dragged on for months. "Our best hope for solving this case at this point lies with the people who are still alive. 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. 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White is unconvinced that the DNA found at the scene on a cigarette butt would match A. Joseph Maskells DNA, but he remains positive that, eventually, someone will catch whoever murdered Sister Cathy and theyll finally figure out why. There are a lot of people that are living that should be behind bars, she said. "The Keepers" premieres on Netflix May 19. She'd spin stories and excuses, telling Maskell that they were studying or otherwise occupied by something that they couldn't get away from. Something was clearly wrong, and so, according to the Baltimore Sun, Helen Russell Phillips called on the help of a few friends revs. [7] She cashed a paycheck at First National Bank in Catonsville that night. Ryan White says hes seen a lot of people doubt whether the story is true at all, and insists that Koob is absolutely certain this happened, while the police are absolutely certain it did not. So-called Grandma Nancy Drew Gemma Hoskins has spent years asking for the federal case files on Joyce Maleckis murder. But investigators found only a few inconsistencies in some statements, and detectives were unable to find any damning evidence against the priest. 'There were a lot of layers that if you peeled them back went a lot deeper. Oddly, her Ford Maverick, which she had recently purchased, was found just a block from her apartment parked illegally in a no parking area and unlocked. 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. Unless some brave sleuths or particularly inspired detectives go digging, Keough High School is now, for better or worse, closed to a continuing story. Another article put out by the Baltimore Sun tried to paint a clearer image of the evening. The trial court dismissed the action as time-barred by the statute of limitations. ', One former student, Teresa Lancaster, told WJZ-TV in Baltimore, that Sister Cathy had 'confronted' Maskell 'and she lost her life for it.'. . In 2016, the Baltimore County Police Department (BCPD) reassigned the case due to retiring officers, prompting new interviews and further investigation into the alleged sexual abuse at Keough. 15:36 EST 18 May 2017 Peter McKeon and Gerard J. Koob. Many people first met Gemma Hoskins through her appearance on "The Keepers," a 2017 Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries, that focused on the death of Sister Cathy Cesnik and cases of sexual abuse at . Maskell was a police chaplain and he knew people in high places that's how they got away with it. Jean claims that Father Maskell took her to Sister Cathy's body and said to her, "See what happens when you say bad things about people.". However, this is a small step towards justice. I'm not going to name names right now but they know stuff. On January 3, 1970, her body was found by a hunter and his son in an informal landfill located on the 2100 block of Monumental Road, in a remote area of Lansdowne. Even after Cesnik left her job at Keough and took a position at Western, she still gave the girls a safe space to talk. There are countless untold stories backing up the accusations made against A. Joseph Maskell and the Catholic Church that the docuseries doesnt even begin to explore. In 2013, Facebook page was started by an alum of the school, and more women told of their abuse at the hands of Maskell and others. Pamela Lynn Conyers, 16, was last seen at the shopping mall in Glen Burnie on October 16, 1970, police said. One of those calls went to a retired Baltimore County teacher, Gemma Hoskins. And you know it really just began as us with our camera, taking these trips to Baltimore not knowing that it would ever even become anything.. It didn't take long for him to lose his position as a pastor, spending some time in a psychiatric hospital (though he was released shortly after, apparently perfectly fit to work at another church). It was apparently a fixation for Maskell, who would then perform his own mock "exams" on the girls, flaunting his authority and power. According to the Baltimore Sun, as evening fell on Nov. 7, 1969, Sister Catherine Cesnik left her unassuming apartment, heading to the Edmondson Village Shopping Center around 7:30 p.m. As far as her roommate, Sister Helen Russell Phillips, could tell, she was headed out to buy an engagement gift for her sister, as well as run a few errands. There were actually six different murders that might all be connected with each other three teenage girls, a teenage boy, Cesnik, and Joyce Malecki. In that case, Cesnik might've been killed to stop her from actually being able to do that. The plaintiffs suits are thus barred by the statute of limitation. However, they say theres nothing, even though Jean Wehner found many victims willing to come forward simply by sending out letters in the mail. 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. ", Up Next: Netflix Hidden Gems For Sci-Fi And Fantasy Lovers. I can still feel her touch my cheek, said Hargadon-Wehner, in a recent interview. One of the friends Helen Phillips had called upon, Koob had been dating Catherine Cesnik at the time. Phillips never saw her roommate again after she left that evening, and even a store clerk couldn't confirm Cesnik's presence there that night. This seven-episode docuseries explores the still-unsolved murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland. They already knew the murderer, but looking further would unearth information he wasn't supposed to know. Hoskins says at a minimum she wants to see records on Father Maskell. 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). Though White says he included absolutely all the information he knew in the documentary, he did contradict himself later by saying, The project was heavily vetted by lawyers there were times when I believed we knew somebody that was involved in the abuse, but we couldn't include a name for legal reasons. True crime buffs will know that this often happens, that the law tangles everything up in red tape so details like names and dates will be removed from stories. I think this is it, Hoskins said, in a recent interview. Police took DNA samples from the corpse to check against a DNA profile developed from evidence taken in 1970 from the scene in Maryland where the badly decomposed body of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik had been found by a father and son out hunting. Koob had an alibi for the night he'd been out at a movie with another priest and claimed not to know anything. Giangrasso, pointing to the discovery of the car, and the fact that it was returned close to where Sister Cathy lived, theorized that the killer was someone who she knew and possibly whom she trusted. ', The cop, who died in 2009, said it was a shame because he was certain the priest 'knew more than he was telling. [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. Except for that day, she said. White can only say this about it: Her story is chilling.. More than 40 years after her death, the case of Sister Cathy Cesnik's murder is still unsolved A young, conspicuously attractive woman, 1 she connected with her students. 1 of 40. Youtube. The weapon that caused it? The week prior, Sister Cathy Cesnik, a popular young nun who taught English and drama at Keough, had vanished while on a Friday-night shopping trip. The 26-year-old nun had been missing for nearly two months. They filed a $40 million civil lawsuit against him, the Baltimore Archdiocese, the sisters who ran the school, and a local gynecologist. 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. Or does White know more than hes telling his audience? With that came the ominous warning "You see what happens when you say bad things about people?" Now, WJZ has learned Baltimore County Police may be closer than ever to solving the murder of 26-year-old Sister Cathy Cesnik. It's just a theory one that makes sense, but also one that the police actually can't prove. [10], Wehner says that, two months before Cesnik's body was discovered, and only a day or two after Cesnik disappeared on November 1969, Maskell drove her to a wooded site near Fort Meade and showed her the body. 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. Her body was found January 3, 1970. Autopsy findings reportedly narrowed the time of death to between 4:30 a.m. and as late as 7:30 a.m. an hour after Krauseneck claimed to have left the house. In the 1990s, sexual assault and abuse allegations began to surface against Maskell, who had served as a chaplain at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore. And why should they? There was a general backlash against it, and a Catholic psychiatrist argued that memories like that couldn't be repressed then recovered. One of them, Jean Wehner, was the student who claimed Maskell had taken her to view Cesnik's body in the dump. Either way, theyre lying and withholding information that would be helpful to the case. 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", court of Appeals of Maryland, No. Around 7:30pm on . On Nov. 13, 1969, six days after Sister Cathy Cesnik vanished, not to be found murdered for two long months, a second young woman20-year-old Joyce Maleckiwas found strangled and stabbed to death in a small creek located on the U.S. Army's Fort Meade military base in Anne Arundel County, only a few miles from where Cesnik's body would . Not every story that Ryan White heard gets told in The Keepers. Detective Nick Giangrasso still thought it was someone tied to the church, though, and began to look into Father A. Joseph Maskell. The student let herself out right away but could tell that Maskell knew what was happening. On May 17, the Baltimore Sun reported that his DNA did not match a sample that was taken. It made sense that she'd gone into some kind of wooded area, and with Leakin Park near where the car was found, it was a place to start. 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. The autopsy reportedly found that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. One night, he invited Wehner into his car, only to take her to see Cesnik's dead body, long before it was discovered. The Huffington Post reported that Maskell told Wehner, "You see what happens when you say bad things about people?"[1]. Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. ', While the murder of Sister Cathy is in the forefront of the series, White noted that there were other crimes 'happening before and after, and still filter down to today and may be linked to her murder. Cesnik, a 26 . LA Sheriff's Deputies are investigating who in the department may have leaked graphic Kobe Bryant helicopter crash photos, some reportedly showing remains of the victims. Each of their bodies was found in different law enforcement jurisdictions, delaying any connections from being made for many years, according to Armacost. by Caralynn Lippo. However, she didnt want to go on the record. Outwardly, it seemed like there was little wrong with him. And she has not stopped looking into the murder of her former teacher. Instead, it made more sense if someone Catherine Cesnik already knew coerced her from the car. Like a scene out of a horror movie, the high school junior was driven to a garbage dump by the school's 30-year-old spiritual counselor, Father Joseph Maskell - who died in 2001 - and reportedly told the 16-year-old student: 'You see what happens when you say bad things about people?'. Friends which, reportedly, also included uniformed police officers. As in, a three-year-old who remembers it. Copyright 2023 PopCulture.com. And I can hear Cathy saying 'I told you I'd take care of this' and I said, I didn't think you meant 20 years later. 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. In 2017, Netflix released an original documentary called The Keepers which reignited interest in the unsolved murders of Sister Cathy Cesnik and Joyce Malecki in 1969. 'Father Maskell picked me up, took me to a wooded area where there was a lot of policemen gathered around, he left me in the backseat and two policemen abused me while Maskell stood next to the car. 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. - May 30, 2017 05:42 pm EDT. 'After that we had to break away from him. Did you encounter any technical issues? Stuff being crimes, and they're walking around.. In another scenario, James Maskell arrested a man named Phillip Shane after the two of them got into an altercation and Maskell lied about how they came to blows. Updated Her body was discovered on January 3, 1970, near a garbage dump in the Baltimore suburb of Lansdowne.Her unsolved murder served as the basis for . While she was still working at Keough, she definitely had some idea of what Maskell was doing, and when he called one of the students in for "therapy," she did what she could. It started with a freelance journalist, Tom Nugent. According to the Baltimore Sun report on Cesnik's death, Malecki was a 20-year-old from nearby Lansdowne at the time of her death. Photos hit the internet, many of which have been taken down, that where morbid and graphic of the crash site where Kobe's helicopter went down, killing 9 people. Not two decades. They got in touch with the local police, reporting that Cesnik had gone missing. Another dead end, apparently. Cesnik went missing on the night of Nov. 7, 1969 after stopping by a local shopping center to pick up buns from a bakery, cash a check and buy an engagement present for her sister, the Sun . RELATED:Netflixs Tiger King: 15 Best Joe Exotic Quotes. He ignored the order, only to be forced into an early retirement (via Inside Baltimore). Investigating a Catholic priest presented challenges, especially in Baltimore a predominantly Catholic city (via Huffpost). Reply. Sister Catherine Cesnik is pictured with her father, Joseph Cesnik. Almost 50 years ago, a Baltimore nun named Sister Catherine Cesnik was found choked and beaten to death . Several days later, on November 13, 1969, the body of Joyce Malecki, a 20-year-old woman who looked like Wehner, was discovered by two hunters in the same wooded location where Maskell had driven Wehner. (Cesnik) was a nun. In spite of the Freedom of Information Act, the federal government has continuously neglected to provide Gemma Hoskins with this information. Meteorological records also reveal that temperatures during the week in question were warm enough for maggots to hatch. Her co-workers had kind words to say about her. Wehner says she remembers trying repeatedly to brush off the maggots crawling on Cesnik's face while frantically repeating the words, "Help me, help me." Students, parents and the local media buzzed about the 26-year-old's disappearance. Her body was found in Lansdowne, south of Baltimore, on January 3, 1970. They say they were trying to find enough evidence for viewers to conclude that the nun's murder, and the sexual abuse must be related. May 11, 2017 at 2:54 pm. Sharon May states firmly and rudely in her interview that she had absolutely no involvement in any sort of cover-up. Really, the whole thing raises a lot of questions, summarized by Huffpost. 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. 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 scandals were always covered up by reassigning the offending priests to new parishes or just saying they were "on sick leave.". ', 'Before I knew it, there was a big man on top of me and then I thought that would be it and another policeman came in and I could hear Maskell in the distance talking and laughing. In Keeping On, Gemma takes readers on a journey of her life, from her childhood and her time as Sister Cathy's student at Archbishop Keough High . Many have speculated on the identity of this mysterious Brother Bob, with most pointing to Ed (Edgar Davidson) as being the most obvious answer, but some are now speculating that Father Robert Flaherty is Brother Bob. [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. The body was in poor condition but an autopsy revealed that Sister Cesnick died from a blow to her left temple by a blunt . Former students of the Catholic school have maintained that the priest was somehow involved in Sister Cathy's murder. In 1992, two female former students came forward to say Maskell abused them. It started with a freelance journalist, Tom Nugent. Theres no question she told them she would do something about it.. Something was clearly wrong, and so, according to the Baltimore Sun, Helen Russell Phillips called on the help of a few friends revs. Four former students also claimed that they were abused by Maskell, and a Baltimore Archdiocese spokesman acknowledged that Maskell was 'credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors. 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. It came with the threat that he would tell her father that she'd been "whoring around," and that those consequences would be far worse. RELATED: 10 Exciting New Netflix Originals Still Coming In 2019. 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. A writ of certiorari was granted by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which upheld the lower court decision, ruling in part, "that the mental process of repression of memories of past sexual abuse does not activate the discovery rule. ', He theorized that because there had been no signs of a struggle, 'it looked too clean. "The Keepers" premieres on Netflix May 19. Sister Catherine Cesnik is pictured with her father, Joseph Cesnik. She had moved to an apartment outside the convent with another nun and began teaching at Western High School in Baltimore on November 7, 1969, when she left her apartment to run an errand at Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore, according to Armacost. She also talked about what happened after Sister Cathy found out about it. 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. Investigating detectives found no leads on Cesnik's death, and the investigation was later abandoned. One of the most famous pieces of evidence from the show is the cigarette butt shown in episode six, found near Sister Cathys body. More than 40 years after her death, the case of Sister Cathy Cesnik's murder is still unsolved. 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. 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). Nearly 20 years ago, Nugent had been calling many former students from the now-closed Archbishop Keough High School, for a story on Sister Cesnik, who was murdered in 1969. The details go on, and none of them are pretty. The murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik remains unsolved to this day. It seems that either the Archdiocese is lying about having investigated the accusations, or the Archdiocese is lying about having internal records on A. Joseph Maskell. She still spends at least part of every day trying to find those people. 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. Now, police are awaiting results of DNA from the body of Maskell, a priest who was accused in the 1990s of sexually assaulting young women. He then left to work as pastor of a church in Baltimore, but later returned to his duties after an archdiocese investigation failed to support the abuse allegations. 9:08 PM EDT, Tue May 9, 2017, Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik; Rev. prior to the release of the Netflix documentary series 'The Keepers', for DNA testing involving the murder of Cathy Cesnik. A 1994 story in the Baltimore Sun, revealed that she had information about Cesnik's murdered condition, such as the maggots on her face, known only to the cops. "Buried in Baltimore: The Mysterious Murder of a Nun Who Knew Too Much", "Justice for Sister Cathy is Long Overdue", "With New Lead, Police Reopen Old Murder Case", "Timeline: The Sister Catherine Cesnik Case", "Sister Catherine Cesnik Case: Missing Nun's Body Found in Lansdowne", "Baltimore Priest Victim: Police Were in on Sexual Abuse", "Jane Doe et al. 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. , 2017, Sister Catherine Cesnik remains unsolved to this death cathy cesnik autopsy photos ; Rev his masses and let him baptize children! Oppenheimer for Dailymail.com they were last known to have been at shopping centers in the area would attend. 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