A young, conspicuously attractive woman, 1 she connected with her students. 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. However, the material was never entered into evidence. Stories shared by Capital Gazette showed that Cesnik was thought of fondly by all the people she'd worked with, despite being a teacher at Western High School for only a couple months. 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. 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. > Licensing inquiries: Email tim.thomas@baltsun.com. Netflix's latest true-crime documentary The Keepers is a hit and everyone who has watched the series has only one question: who killed Sister Cathy Cesnik? Reunion on 'Blue Bloods', 'Sister Wives' Star Meri Brown Clarifies Her Sexuality After Split From Kody. appreciated. When he was removed from the ministry he fled to Ireland, where he lived for a time before returning to the Baltimore area, according to police. 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 . A Warner Bros. v. A. Joseph Maskell et al. 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. But some thirty women soon came forward with accounts of sexual abuse at the school. Her co-workers had kind words to say about her.
Maskell denied involvement in any form of abuse. An undated photo of Sister Cathy Cesnik, whose body was found at a dumping area Jan . I agree. Joyce Helen Malecki, 20, disappeared from Harundale Mall a few days after Cesnik; her . Born in Pittsburgh, Penn., in 1942, reports the Baltimore Sun, Cesnik was described by her younger sister as devoted and rather ambitious. ', Asked how they could get away with such a crime, Lancaster told the TV news interviewer, 'Power and fear. When she didnt come home, her roommate reported her missing the next day. Even after Cesnik left her job at Keough and took a position at Western, she still gave the girls a safe space to talk. 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. [6], Immediately after Cesnik's disappearance, police searched the area for her body without success. But when he was questioned by the police, he had an ironclad alibi for the night of Sister Cathy's disappearance. As the next morning rolled around, Catherine Cesnik still hadn't returned to the apartment, and her roommate became very concerned. Sister Catherine Cesnik, a nun from the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a teaching order, began her career at Archbishop Keough High School, a private, all-girls Catholic School. Because the federal government keeps stalling and refusing to release information under the FOIA regarding Joyce Maleckis murder, there are likely countless pieces of possibly helpful evidence related to the homicides of both Joyce Malecki and Sister Cathy. Advocates, filmmakers say they have not given up. Source:https://www.spreaker.com/user/americancrimecast/sister-cathy-cesnik-part-5-if-i-told-i-wThis episode may not be appropriate for all listeners. 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. 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 . The body was in poor condition but an autopsy revealed that Sister Cesnick died from a blow to her left temple by a blunt . 9:08 PM EDT, Tue May 9, 2017, Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik; Rev. But the autopsy results, which were not . The series also renewed the investigations into the murders of two women, Sister Cathy Cesnik and Joyce Malecki. Authorities said results will take up to six more weeks. Father A. Joseph Maskell was a person of interest for a reason, it seemed. As documentary-maker Ryan White asserted: 'What we discovered during the filmmaking process is that everything wasn't as it appeared to be. Another woman, Teresa Lancaster, also came forward. Locating that stash, investigators found, among other things, nude pictures of underage girls. Later in 1994, authorities exhumed boxes Maskell had buried in a Baltimore cemetery and found one to contain child pornography. 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?'. Shortly before her disappearance, he'd called her again, telling her that he was still in love with her. I think that the impact of The Keepers has far exceeded our expectations, Hargrave said. Either way, theyre lying and withholding information that would be helpful to the case. Another article put out by the Baltimore Sun tried to paint a clearer image of the evening. Cesnik attended St. Mary's School on 57th Street and St. Augustine High School, both in Lawrenceville. Gemma Hoskins has helped dozens of victims get in touch with their investigators. When she was reported missing later that night, several dozen cops and half-a-dozen dog teams unsuccessfully searched a wide swath of Baltimore's southwest neighborhood searching for clues to her whereabouts. 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). Jean and other former students of Sister Cathy believe that the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the authorities covered up Sister Cathy's murder after she suspected Father Maskell was sexually abusing several young girls at the school. 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. He ignored the order, only to be forced into an early retirement (via Inside Baltimore). She "was found strangled and stabbed to death in a small creek . Jan. 3, 1970, changed that. ', He theorized that because there had been no signs of a struggle, 'it looked too clean. I think this is it, Hoskins said, in a recent interview. But that argument didn't fly in the 90s. All rights reserved. It's just a theory one that makes sense, but also one that the police actually can't prove. (Handout photo courtesy of Netflix), Catherine Cesnik, a 26-year-old nun, disappeared after leaving her Southwest Baltimore apartment to go shopping in November 1969. Another detective was looking into the case, only for a superior to tell him to stop. 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. A. Joseph Maskell after securing an order from the states attorney, according to Elise Armacost, director of public affairs for Baltimore County Police. In 1994, two women identified only as 'Jane Doe' and 'Jane Roe' alleged that Maskell had raped them when they were students at Sister Cathy's school. According to People, Jean Wehner suspected that Cesnik had planned to go to police, finally exposing Maskell for what he was. This photo was not uploaded . Netflix's documentary series "The Keepers" dives into the case and uncovers a web of abuse that may . In only seven episodes, The Keepers covers a lot of ground, retreading the 1969 murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik and the gruesome allegations that shadowed it. The Murder Of Catherine Cesnik, The Nun Who Knew Too Much. The news shook a lot of people, to put it lightly. We know this speculation about the circumstances is not false, because Jean Hargadon Wehner tells us in the show that she has evidence proving otherwise. On November 7, 1969, 26-year-old Sister Catherine Cesnik vanished. Except for that day, she said. The sisters were incredibly close, even after Cesnik felt that God had called out to her to become a nun. 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. 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." She believes they might contain the names of people who were complicit in his crimes, or in covering them up. [15] The series features interviews with women who were Cesnik's students, with some who say they were sexually abused by Maskell and others.[16]. Jean Wehner also added that, one day, Cesnik took her aside, just to ask if the priests were hurting her. White can only say this about it: Her story is chilling.. One of them, Jean Wehner, was the student who claimed Maskell had taken her to view Cesnik's body in the dump. 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. Outwardly, it seemed like there was little wrong with him. . The plaintiffs suits are thus barred by the statute of limitation. There was a general backlash against it, and a Catholic psychiatrist argued that memories like that couldn't be repressed then recovered. They were always invited to come to her apartment, where she checked in on the situation regarding Maskell. They have another project scheduled to come out later this year. 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. 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. But, somehow, that evidence vanished, never making it to court. 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. I always felt like there was some reason for me to be here and I didn't know what it was. 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. Another dead end, apparently. 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. Nicole currently resides in Massachusetts with their husband and two best friends. Either she or Phillips would always make to stop on every second Friday to cash their paychecks. One of the major theories that The Keepers hypothesizes is that Maskell either killed Sister Cathy or had her killed. However, with each day that passes, internet sleuths and hard-boiled detectives alike unveil a new connection or a potential piece of evidence that had been overlooked before in the case. Many of the parents in the area would regularly attend his masses and let him baptize their children. 2. Despite the time, speculation, and later surge of interest in the case, Catherine Cesnik's murder has still gone unsolved. She was last seen just before leaving . 'There were a lot of layers that if you peeled them back went a lot deeper. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much It would be two months later, on January 3, 1970, that a couple of hunters came upon Sister Cathy's decomposed, frozen and mutilated body, and notified police. 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. 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. NEXT:10 Creepy Documentaries To Watch If You Loved The Keepers. It was apparently a fixation for Maskell, who would then perform his own mock "exams" on the girls, flaunting his authority and power. May 11, 2017 at 2:54 pm. Sister Cesnik had been reported as a missing person on November 7, 1969, from her residence at the Carriage House Apartments in Baltimore City, 21229. ', They were told to 'stop harassing him,' he said. Catherine Cesnik's disappearance scared a lot of people. The Keepers, a 7-part documentary, is currently available to stream on Netflix. Investigators didn't really buy that, thinking that he knew more than he let on, but the church forced them to stop searching. The mutilated body of the 26-year-old teacher was found on January 3, 1970. The exact area couldn't actually be reached by car, meaning that she would've been forced to walk there, or possibly carried. 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. 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. 2023 Cable News Network. Given that Catherine Cesnik actively fought against Joseph Maskell's abuse by standing up for the girls, as well as Maskell's propensity toward really terrible threats, it's easiest to assume that the motive for her murder laid somewhere in that area. One of the initial persons of interest was a Jesuit priest who had been romantically involved with the pretty nun, and had once asked her to marry him, before she took her vows. Hargadon-Wehner's new book "Walking With Aletheia" details her healing process, and what she's learned from - she says - communicating with several different aspects of her personality. 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. Maybe that was why a homicide detective was told to drop the case in the 1970s, blocked from investigating because higher-ups were "protecting someone." Sharon May states firmly and rudely in her interview that she had absolutely no involvement in any sort of cover-up. 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. The only evidence that she had been out, were the buns she had bought at the bakery. Cesnik, a 26 . Ultimately, Maskell died in 2001, having never been charged for a thing. The women have since been more vocal about the abuses they suffered at Joseph Maskell's hands, and all the stories are universally awful (via Huffpost). [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. [1] Her body was discovered on January 3, 1970, near a garbage dump in the Baltimore suburb of Lansdowne. But Maskell's case was complicated further by his ties to the police force through his work as a military chaplain. They already knew the murderer, but looking further would unearth information he wasn't supposed to know. What the show doesnt get into is that the FBI has pushed back the date even further now. As time would tell, she had good reason to keep quiet. In a school where a number of the teachers seemed to know Joseph Maskell was "weird" but sent students to him at his request, Catherine Cesnik offered a light in a very dark, twisted place. Two women, both with close ties to an unnamed man who may have been . There, on the ground, still clad, her face covered with maggots, was the body of Sister Cathy. [2] Her paternal grandparents, John (Jan) and Johanna Tomec esnik, were Slovenians who emigrated from Yugoslavia,[3] while her maternal grandfather, Joseph Omulac, came from Yugoslavia and maternal grandmother, Martha Hudok, came from Austria. November 1969: Sister Cathy Cesnik disappears. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. Whats worse than considering the fact that A. Joseph Maskell terrorized one community? - May 30, 2017 05:42 pm EDT. The church was her life and the people important to her were in the church, said Armacost. There were actually six different murders that might all be connected with each other three teenage girls, a teenage boy, Cesnik, and Joyce Malecki. It started with a freelance journalist, Tom Nugent. CNN reported in 2017 that police had the okay to exhume his body for DNA testing, but even then, the DNA wasn't a match with what was found at the crime scene. The filmmakers said they were not trying to solve the murder of Sister Cathy, or the murder of Joyce Malecki, which is also featured in the series. In The Keepers another Keough graduate - Jean Hargadon-Wehner - talked on camera about her abuse by two priests, Neil Magnus and Joseph Maskell, and other men at the school. On February 28, police opened the grave of Rev. 1. The mysterious Brother Bob is, in many ways, even more chilling a figure than A. Joseph Maskell. And now the streaming, seven-part Netflix documentary, The Keepers, has investigated the case and will feature interviews with victims of the school abuse, and new revelations. 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. Inside, a bakery box filled with buns sat on the front seat (probably from Edmondson Village), along with some leaves and twigs. 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. Grace Elizabeth Montanye, 16, met a stranger at a shopping mall on Sept 29, 1971, northwest of Baltimore, according to police. More: Every Original Series Cancelled By Netflix. The same happened in 1994. However, Spitz, who worked on the case, later confirmed that there had been maggots in both the victim's mouth and trachea when found. Joyce Helen Malecki (born June 12, 1949; disappeared November 11, 1969) was a 20-year-old American office worker from Baltimore, Maryland, who was employed at a liquor distributor.She disappeared on November 11, 1969, and was found dead two days later at the Soldier Park training area of Fort Meade.Malecki's murder remains unsolved; the Netflix documentary series The Keepers, released in May . Almost 50 years ago, a Baltimore nun named Sister Catherine Cesnik was found choked and beaten to 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. . More than 40 years after her death, the case of Sister Cathy Cesnik's murder is still unsolved. She was found dead two months later. Sister Cathy Cesnik was reported missing after she failed to return home from a shopping trip in November 1969. 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. Investigating detectives found no leads on Cesnik's death, and the investigation was later abandoned. There are a lot of different stories about how Maskell threatened the girls into silence, and Huffpost has the details. 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. Jane Doe (Jean Wehner) is quoted as recalling a man she knew only as Brother Bob, who she can hardly remember from being traumatized so badly by him, whispering to her that he was the one who had killed Sister Cathy. 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