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)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/05/05/police-exhume-body-of-priest-as-they-investigate-1969-slaying-of-baltimore-nun/

“Maryland Court Rejects Repressed Memory Argument” by  Amy Argetsinger (The Washington Post, January 29, 1996) 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/07/30/md-court-rejects-repressed-memory-argument/195e1784-2205-4a9b-8a8f-61dc82379bfe/

“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

https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/news%20documents/OAG_redacted_Report_on_Child_Sexual_Abuse.pdf

“Baltimore Archdiocese unveils plan to close two-thirds of its parishes amid financial pressures” by Scott Maucione (WYPR, April 24, 2024)

https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news/2024-04-15/baltimore-archdiocese-unveils-plan-to-close-two-thirds-of-its-parishes-amid-financial-pressures

“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)

https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/us/priest-dna-not-a-match-joseph-maskell-catherine-ann-cesnik/index.html

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