Episode 105: The Nun’s Skeleton PT 2
On today’s episode, the second half of a two-parter, Paul and Kate return to 1970 Baltimore to discuss the case of a murdered nun and the various suspects. The testimony of a local student brings into question the controversial use of recovered memories.
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Sources:
“The Keepers”
https://www.netflix.com/title/80122179
“Who Killed Sister Cathy” by Tom Nugent (The Baltimore City Paper, January 5, 2005)
https://insidebaltimore.org/who-killed-sister-cathy/
“Murder He Wrote” by Robert A. Erlandson, (The Baltimore City Paper, January 12, 2005)
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2005_01_06/2005_01_12_Erlandson_MurderHe.htm
“Decades after a nun was slain, police exhume a priest’s body. This cold case is Netflix’s latest mystery” by Tom Jackman (The Washington Post, May 5, 2017)
“Maryland Court Rejects Repressed Memory Argument” by Amy Argetsinger (The Washington Post, January 29, 1996)
“Body of Nun Discovered at Dump” (AP, January 5, 1970)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/21198939/?match=1&terms=Cesnik%20
“Two Sue Priest, Alleging Sex Abuse” by Joe Nowrozki and Robert A. Erlandson (The Baltimore Sun, August 25, 1994)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/373769360/?match=1&terms=Jane%20Doe%20maskell
“Werner Spitz, ‘Medical Detective’ in High-Profile Murders, Dies at 97” by Trip Gabriel
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/werner-spitz-dead.html
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2005_01_06/2005_01_12_Erlandson_MurderHe.htm
“Attorney General’s Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore” (April, 2023)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/us/catholic-church-abuse-baltimore.html
“Baltimore Archdiocese unveils plan to close two-thirds of its parishes amid financial pressures” by Scott Maucione (WYPR, April 24, 2024)
“Exhumation in Unsolved 1969 Killing Raises Hopes for Answers” by Christine Hauser and Emily Schmall (The New York Times, December 16, 2023)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/us/exhume-joyce-malecki-maryland-netflix-keepers.html
“A break in 1970 cold case of 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers” by Mark Roper (WMAR, March 10, 2023)
https://www.wmar2news.com/local/a-break-in-1970-cold-case-of-16-year-old-pamela-lynn-conyers
“Priest’s DNA does not match profile from cold-case murder of nun” by Chris Boyette (CNN, March 17, 2017)