Theres no question she told them she would do something about it.. So-called Grandma Nancy Drew Gemma Hoskins has spent years asking for the federal case files on Joyce Maleckis murder. 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. The body was in poor condition but an autopsy revealed that Sister Cesnick died from a blow to her left temple by a blunt . Catherine Anne Cesnik was born on November 17, 1942, in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. No one really knows exactly what happened to Cesnik. On May 17, the Baltimore Sun reported that his DNA did not match a sample that was taken. 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 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 spite of the Freedom of Information Act, the federal government has continuously neglected to provide Gemma Hoskins with this information. The series also renewed the investigations into the murders of two women, Sister Cathy Cesnik and Joyce Malecki. Well, for all the fans with remaining questions, there has been an update in the murder case. And the oldest was in her 20's.. The youngest I've talked to myself was three, Hoskins said. With new evidence cropping up recently, this article has been updated to reflect evenmorefacts and clues that the docuseries overlooked. 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. And why should they? What we do know is that the FBIs continuing failure to contribute meaningfully to this case has negatively impacted any chance at an ending to the story. Father Joseph Maskell's body was exhumed from a Baltimore cemetery earlier this year as part of the investigation into the unsolved slaying. I can still feel her touch my cheek, said Hargadon-Wehner, in a recent interview. One of them, Jean Wehner, was the student who claimed Maskell had taken her to view Cesnik's body in the dump. Her account was brought into question by scientific evidence showing that it would have been impossible for maggots to be alive at that time of year. Catherine Cesnik's disappearance scared a lot of people. Nearly 10 years ago the filmmakers started to meet with her; this was long before Netflix got involved. Sister Catherine 'Cathy' Cesnik, a pretty and popular 26-year-old nun who taught at an all-girls Catholic school in Baltimore, was last seen by her roommate, another nun, going off to shop on the evening of Friday November 7, 1969. Catherine Anne Cesnik SSND (born November 17, 1942; disappeared November 7, 1969) was an American Catholic religious sister who taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland. A lot of power. She'd said no, but they still kept writing love letters and spending time together. Determining whether Maskells DNA matches the evidence remaining from the crime scene is a box that must be checked, said Armacost. 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. The case remains open and unsolved. 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. After the complaints were made to the archdiocese, Maskell was temporarily removed from his post at the school for psychological evaluation. Some of the women recalled feeling drugged during those events, during which Maskell would basically share them with his friends as he saw fit. 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. On January 3, 1970, the body of Catherine Cesnik was found by two hunters. Regardless of why the school is closing, the walls will never be able to talk now. He died in 2001, police said. Western's principal noted that she was an especially "fine teacher," while others pointed out that she was known for her compassion. 1 of 40. Detective Nick Giangrasso still thought it was someone tied to the church, though, and began to look into Father A. Joseph Maskell. 16:14 EST 18 May 2017, A New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer latest book, 'The Kardashians: An American Drama,' will be published in September. Maskell was a police chaplain and he knew people in high places that's how they got away with it. Unfortunately, Russell is . 9:08 PM EDT, Tue May 9, 2017, Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik; Rev. ', He theorized that because there had been no signs of a struggle, 'it looked too clean. The words scared Wehner into silence for decades. The sisters were incredibly close, even after Cesnik felt that God had called out to her to become a nun. Father A. Joseph Maskell was a person of interest for a reason, it seemed. prior to the release of the Netflix documentary series 'The Keepers', for DNA testing involving the murder of Cathy Cesnik. On the evening she disappeared, Sister Cathy was reportedly counseling one of the abused girls when Maskell unexpectedly showed up. She may have made a purchase at Muhly's Bakery in Edmondson Village, since a box of buns from that bakery was found in the front seat of her car. Gerard Koob was an initial person of interest. It was actual, hard evidence that would at least be enough to arrest Maskell for possessing child pornography. The only evidence that she had been out, were the buns she had bought at the bakery. Investigators dug up Maskell's grav to compare the DNA of Maskell, to evidence from the crime scene. . The weapon that caused it? (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. "Our best hope for solving this case at this point lies with the people who are still alive. 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. 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. Leads dried up quickly and no one came forward with information about Cathy's whereabouts, and the search dragged on for months. 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. I agree. Feb 7, 2019 - Justice for Sister Cathy . It started with a freelance journalist, Tom Nugent. In 2004, a retired Baltimore homicide detective told the Baltimore City Paper that the church lawyers had 'stepped in and they talked to the higher-ups at the police department. By According to police, Joyce Helen Malecki, 20, disappeared from a shopping mall only days after Cesnik on November 11, 1969, in Glen Burnie, a suburb of Baltimore. 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. . 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 . 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 . 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. 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. Really, the whole thing raises a lot of questions, summarized by Huffpost. Cesnik attended St. Mary's School on 57th Street and St. Augustine High School, both in Lawrenceville. None of these cases have been solved. Sister Cathy's life and death have both deeply inspired and haunted Gemma in a number of ways, and she's made it her life s purpose to uncover what really happened on that November night in 1969. As the next morning rolled around, Catherine Cesnik still hadn't returned to the apartment, and her roommate became very concerned. For all the press and notoriety that this case would get in the long run, it started out exceedingly normal. 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. And it was the students who really benefited from that, as Huffpost describes. Investigators didn't really buy that, thinking that he knew more than he let on, but the church forced them to stop searching. 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. It's hard to say what's true. The case made against Joseph Maskell in the 1990s didn't actually last. She also talked about what happened after Sister Cathy found out about it. 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. 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. 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. In 1992, two female former students came forward to say Maskell abused them. But that argument didn't fly in the 90s. Beyond just being a generically good teacher, she even let her students drop by her apartment on weekends for a chat or a bit of music. RELATED:Everything Available At Launch On HBO Max. > Licensing inquiries: Email tim.thomas@baltsun.com. However, the Catholic Church is completely unwilling to share these documents, even though White says he would love for them to be transparent and show the world what they have.. A Warner Bros. 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. Teresa Lancaster also mentioned times when he would take them to a gynecologist Dr. Christian Richter for check-ups, during which he would occasionally assault them on the table (Richter would later deny being a part of the abuse). 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. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. Sister Cathy was left in a remote area of Lansdowne, near a garbage dump. Outwardly, it seemed like there was little wrong with him. As the next morning rolled around, Catherine Cesnik still hadn't returned to the apartment, and her roommate became very concerned. Maskell denied involvement in any form of abuse. 15:36 EST 18 May 2017 Baltimore County Police exhumed the body of a priest for DNA testing in the case They were all young, attractive women, police said, who looked similar. The unsolved slaying of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik in Baltimore in 1969 hit another dead end Wednesday when police learned that DNA from a long-deceased priest did not match crime scene evidence . Either she or Phillips would always make to stop on every second Friday to cash their paychecks. 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. The murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik remains unsolved to this day. And when those kids got older, Maskell would give them rides home or to appointments. When she didnt come home, her roommate reported her missing the next day. Unless some brave sleuths or particularly inspired detectives go digging, Keough High School is now, for better or worse, closed to a continuing story. 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? Father Maskell was a counselor and chaplain at Archbishop Keough from 1967 to 1975. Maskell's DNA did not match the forensic profile from 1970, although investigators noted that this . Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik was last seen alive on November 7, 1969. Fans of The Keepers may be surprised to hear that Keough High School, where Sister Cathy and A. Joseph Maskell both taught, closed in July of 2017, following confirmation from the Archdiocese of Baltimore that they paid settlements out to students who had been sexually abused by Maskell. 2023 Cable News Network. All of them took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s generally around the Baltimore area, with many of the crime scenes and bodies sharing physical characteristics. James Maskell, A. Joseph Maskells uncle, is a similarly powerful and threatening figure that deserves to be prodded harder. In that case, Cesnik might've been killed to stop her from actually being able to do that. The trial court dismissed the action as time-barred by the statute of limitations. She was "Jane Roe" in that ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit. The 26-year-old nun had been missing for nearly two months. 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. Advocates, filmmakers say they have not given up. There were actually six different murders that might all be connected with each other three teenage girls, a teenage boy, Cesnik, and Joyce Malecki. Sister Cathy was a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School and went missing in Baltimore in 1969. More than 40 years after her death, the case of Sister Cathy Cesnik's murder is still unsolved We are no longer accepting comments on this article. A few more branches were caught on the radio antenna, while another twig was found stuck to the turn signal lever on the steering wheel, a piece of yellow thread caught onto it. As time would tell, she had good reason to keep quiet. 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. They did stuff. On February 28, police opened the grave of Rev. 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. Investigating detectives found no leads on Cesnik's death, and the investigation was later abandoned. Ultimately, Maskell died in 2001, having never been charged for a thing. May 19, 2017. 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. All Rights Reserved. Jean Wehner also added that, one day, Cesnik took her aside, just to ask if the priests were hurting her. It was apparently a fixation for Maskell, who would then perform his own mock "exams" on the girls, flaunting his authority and power. At the time of her disappearance, Sister Cesnik was on a sabbatical from the Roman Catholic Church and was teaching at Western High School in Baltimore City. The girl left but the next day, she later claimed, Maskell waved a gun at her, warning he'd kill her and her family if she revealed the abuse. They scared the living hell out of us.'. The seven-episode docuseries explores the 1969 death of Catholic nun and Baltimore schoolteacher Sister Cathy Cesnik and touches on 20-year-old Joyce Malecki's murder mere days later. 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. Updated 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. The green 1970 Maverick had been parked illegally near the apartment. 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. "The Keepers" premieres on Netflix May 19. Wehner alleged that there was frequent sexual abuse at Sister Cathy's school. ', '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. 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.. They got in touch with the local police, reporting that Cesnik had gone missing. Ghosts of the past might've followed her, though, punishing her for what she knew and the good she did. ', He claimed that the detectives were told to either charge the priest 'or let him go. 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. They revealed themselves in "The Keepers" thanks to documentary filmmakers Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave. Because of the condition of Cesnik's corpse, police were unable to tell if she had been sexually assaulted. Eluding police questioning, Maskell eventually ran off to Ireland in 1994 to work as a priest. 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. A. Joseph Maskell. But, on top of that, she had a natural gift for teaching. - May 30, 2017 05:42 pm EDT. A search of the park turned up nothing, and there was no lead on her whereabouts for almost two months. An autopsy found Cesnik died from blunt force trauma to the head, according to police. 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. However, this is a small step towards justice. 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. Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik was 26 when she disappeared in 1969; her body was found weeks later. 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. There might have been more going on here than just bad luck. In the 1990s, Jean Wehner came forward and alleged that Father Maskell had sexually abused her and allowed other men to do the same. White can only say this about it: Her story is chilling.. Youtube. But, again, that didn't go anywhere, with Maskell always conveniently too busy to talk. According to People, Jean Wehner suspected that Cesnik had planned to go to police, finally exposing Maskell for what he was. So it probably wasn't the result of some random act of violence. However, the material was never entered into evidence. 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. According to Hollywoodlife.com, Joseph Maskell's body was exhumed in Feb. 2017 and his DNA was tested by a forensics lab against DNA evidence found near the crime scene of Sister Cathy. Or does White know more than hes telling his audience? A headline in a Baltimore newspaper blared: 'City Police Fail To Find Missing Nun.'. The service at the at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Pinehurst, North Carolina lasted 1 hour. There, on the ground, still clad, her face covered with maggots, was the body of Sister Cathy. 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. Both . According to Crime Museum, a hunter and his son found Catherine Cesnik's body at an informal garbage dump in Landsowne, Md. 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 Baltimore Sun reported in late 2016 that since 2011 the archdiocese has paid out settlements to Maskell's alleged victims. Sister Catherine Cesnik is pictured with her father, Joseph Cesnik. Copyright 2023 PopCulture.com. Following her disappearance, investigators plotted her movements and determined she had cashed her $255 paycheck at a bank before heading to a small shopping center where she bought some baked goods. Even after Cesnik left her job at Keough and took a position at Western, she still gave the girls a safe space to talk. 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. [4] Cesnik had three siblings. And to end. Pamela Lynn Conyers, 16, was last seen at the shopping mall in Glen Burnie on October 16, 1970, police said. ", court of Appeals of Maryland, No. Armacost says the timing of Maskells exhumation has nothing to do with the documentary, and opening the priests grave was simply a step that cold-case investigators felt needed to be taken to leave no stone unturned. 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. On occasion, they will attempt to combine all three, as there really isnt too much to life overall than fear, love, and laughter. An autopsy attributed her death to a skull fracture caused by a blow to her left temple with a blunt instrument. v. A. Joseph Maskell et al. Around 7:30pm on . 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. Then there was a Baltimore gravedigger who told the police Maskell had ordered him to dig a hole in 1991 to bury files. More than 40 years after her death, the case of Sister Cathy Cesnik's murder is still unsolved. I don't understand what happens on the other side, she said. 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 . After that, it seemed like she paid a visit to Muhly's Bakery inside the Hecht Company store in Edmondson Village. The plaintiffs suits are thus barred by the statute of limitation. She was valedictorian at the graduation of her high school class in 1960, after being the May Queen and the president of the senior class and the student council. There is no word on whether the Attorney General's investigators will gain access to those records. ', 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. The next time the young nun was seen, it was by a female student from Cesnik's school, Archbishop Keough High School. However, they say theres nothing, even though Jean Wehner found many victims willing to come forward simply by sending out letters in the mail. . Read on to learn about the victim. The scandals were always covered up by reassigning the offending priests to new parishes or just saying they were "on sick leave.". Their work is featured prominently, in "The Keepers.. But Maskell's case was complicated further by his ties to the police force through his work as a military chaplain. catherine cesnik autopsy photos. Catherine Anne Cesnik SSND (born November 17, 1942; disappeared November 7, 1969) was an American Catholic religious sister who taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland.On November 7, 1969, Cesnik disappeared. I've talked to the hunter that found Cathy, and he said that since the day he found her the police have never talked to him. Exposs on the Catholic Church have been steadily being released, with more and more people coming forward over time, but the Church refuses to make a clear statement in the case of A. Joseph Maskell. 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. '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. 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. Catherine (Cathy) Cesnik was a Catholic sister and taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough (later renamed Seton Keough), an all-girls Catholic high school in Baltimore. ", Up Next: Netflix Hidden Gems For Sci-Fi And Fantasy Lovers. 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. She Was Found Fatally Beaten Two Months After Disappearing in 1969. Another article put out by the Baltimore Sun tried to paint a clearer image of the evening. Detectives revealed on Wednesday that after weeks of testing, Maskell's DNA did not match evidence found from the murder scene nearly 50 years ago. 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. Now, WJZ has learned Baltimore County Police may be closer than ever to solving the murder of 26-year-old Sister Cathy Cesnik. 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. [5], In the fall of 1969, Cesnik was teaching drama and English at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland,[6] a school for girls that had opened in 1965. Cold cases", "About the BCoPD Cold Case Unit and the Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik Homicide", "Police: Exhumed Priest's DNA Does Not Match Evidence from Crime Scene Killing of Sister Cathy", "Priest's Body Exhumed from Randallstown Cemetery in Investigation of Baltimore Nun's Decades-Old Killing", "The Dead Nun, the School Sex Scandal, and the Amateur Detectives Fighting for Justice", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_Catherine_Cesnik&oldid=1117759661, This page was last edited on 23 October 2022, at 12:23. One of the friends Helen Phillips had called upon, Koob had been dating Catherine Cesnik at the time. 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. 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