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This PEDOPHILE Priest Got Away With MURDER · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: The Keepers is a documentary series on Netflix that attempted
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Speaker 1: to expose a massive that was operating at a Catholic school,
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Speaker 1: and members of this ring, which included nuns, priests, and
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Speaker 1: school faculty members, allegedly murdered one of their own, one
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Speaker 1: of the sisters or nuns at the Catholic High school.
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Speaker 1: This story is incredibly disturbing and contained some distressing details.
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Speaker 1: As always, I want to warn you all that this
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Speaker 1: is going to be a graphic report. All parties are
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Speaker 1: presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Speaker 1: The resources that we use to craft and research this
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Speaker 1: story will be published on a document linked in the
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Speaker 1: description of this video, And as always, I don't plan
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Speaker 1: on doing anything to myself or going anywhere in the
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Speaker 1: near future. Welcome to the Conspiracy Files. So, as you
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Speaker 1: guys know, the Catholic Church has had a problem with
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Speaker 1: for a very very long time. I mean there have
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Speaker 1: been hundreds thousands of clergymen that have been outed as
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Speaker 1: being serial offenders. And I'm talking about really really bad
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Speaker 1: things that these people have done, like victimizing hundreds of
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Speaker 1: children throughout their careers, praying on kids in schools, praying
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Speaker 1: on kids that were impoverished. And these are supposed to
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Speaker 1: be the holiest people you know in society, the people
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Speaker 1: that many other folks come to for advice on morality
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Speaker 1: and how to live your life and how to get
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Speaker 1: right with the big guy upstairs. And yet we've seen
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Speaker 1: so many times that these people who are trusted numbers
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Speaker 1: of society, they've turned out to be just the worst
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Speaker 1: type of individual that you could possibly come across. And
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Speaker 1: it's disturbing. This is a known phenomenon. I don't know
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Speaker 1: exactly what it is with specifically the Catholic priests and
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Speaker 1: why this is such a thing, but this behavior goes
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Speaker 1: back centuries. This isn't anything new. It's just that in
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Speaker 1: the last few decades or so, people have really felt
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Speaker 1: comfortable coming forward and sharing their stories about the violence
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Speaker 1: and that they've suffered at the end of these individuals.
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Speaker 1: And finally we're at a time in history where we're
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Speaker 1: seeing prosecutions and we're seeing people held accountable for what
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Speaker 1: they've done. Now that's not to say that I believe
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Speaker 1: that the problem has been rectified. In fact, I think
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Speaker 1: there's still a very long ways to go. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we see reports all the time even to this day
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Speaker 1: in this year twenty twenty five, about a priest that
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Speaker 1: was accused back in the eighties of victimizing twenty children,
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Speaker 1: and then we hear that his superior didn't report him
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Speaker 1: to the police. He didn't do anything to actually help
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Speaker 1: these children. He just moved the priest around to another
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Speaker 1: church or school. I mean, it's disturbing. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how these people have gotten away with these crimes so
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Speaker 1: many times. But it's really like the wolf in sheepskin
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Speaker 1: type of thing, where this is a person that you're
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Speaker 1: supposed to be able to trust your children, your babies with,
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Speaker 1: and so many times we've seen them exposed as cereal.
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Speaker 1: And in today's sorry, that's what we're talking about. We're
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Speaker 1: talking about a ring of just like this that actually
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Speaker 1: murdered one of their own to protect themselves and stop
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Speaker 1: the truth from coming out. I want to thank Rebecca
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Speaker 1: Wagner for helping write and research today's episode. And I
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Speaker 1: from YouTube. But anyways, let's get into it. The Keepers
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Speaker 1: is a Netflix documentary series that covered the of hundreds
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Speaker 1: of children. These six hundred children were victims of the
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Speaker 1: Baltimore Catholic Church. Is said to have taken place from
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Speaker 1: the nineteen forties until two thousand and two at Archbishop
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Speaker 1: Keyo High School in Maryland. Former Maryland Attorney General Brian
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Speaker 1: Frosch launched an investigation into this ring in twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 1: an investigation which concluded in November of twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: In that investigation, investigators reviewed over one hundred thousand pages
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Speaker 1: of documents that went back to the nineteen forties. The
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Speaker 1: investigation team interviewed hundreds of individuals, both victims and witnesses.
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Speaker 1: A report from April twenty twenty three states that over
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Speaker 1: one hundred priests and other archdiocese personnel participated in the
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Speaker 1: repeated in their own community. So what happened? Why have
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Speaker 1: there been no convictions? Why has nobody really been held
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Speaker 1: accountable to the fullest extent of the law. Well, we
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Speaker 1: have to talk about Sister Kathy. Sister Kathy was a
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Speaker 1: teacher at Archbishop Keeo High School who taught English and drama.
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Speaker 1: She was on a year's leave of absence from the
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Speaker 1: School Sisters of Notre Dame to teach in the baltim
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Speaker 1: More Public school system. Now, Sister Kathy was happy to
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Speaker 1: be there in Baltimore. She was almost, you know, a
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Speaker 1: visiting sister. She was teaching English and developing relationships with
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Speaker 1: her students. She loved to teach, But unfortunately she had
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Speaker 1: been placed into the center of a dark and dangerous
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Speaker 1: hornet's nest. You see, Sister Kathy was first made aware
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Speaker 1: of Father Mascals by one of her students, and shortly
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Speaker 1: after she was made aware of this, she disappeared. So
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Speaker 1: you have to imagine Sister Kathy is teaching One day
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Speaker 1: after class, her student comes to her and says, Sister Kathy,
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Speaker 1: I have to tell you about something that father Mascal
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Speaker 1: did to me, something inappropriate and something disturbing. So the
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Speaker 1: student tells Sister Kathy and what's she to do? Well,
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Speaker 1: what people thought she was going to do was inform
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Speaker 1: the authorities or least someone else at the school about
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Speaker 1: what was going on, and they couldn't have that, and
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Speaker 1: thus shortly after this she disappeared. Here's the timeline of
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Speaker 1: the day of Sister Kathy's disappearance. So, according to police statements,
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Speaker 1: on November sixth, nineteen sixty nine, two students visited Sister
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Speaker 1: Kathy at her apartment to complain about so that was
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Speaker 1: happening at their school. While they were there, Father Maskell
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Speaker 1: interrupted them, and witnesses claimed that he was very very angry,
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Speaker 1: yelling profanities about Sister Kathy. A report that was generated
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Speaker 1: also said that Father Maskell threatened to kill one of
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Speaker 1: the students if they reported the ongoings happening at the school.
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Speaker 1: So shortly after learning all this, Sister Kathy left her
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Speaker 1: apartment the next day, on November seventh, nineteen sixty nine,
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Speaker 1: that day, she was headed to the Edmonston Village shopping center,
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Speaker 1: and that same night, on November seventh, she cashed a
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Speaker 1: check at the First National Bank in Catonsville, Maryland. And
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Speaker 1: what happened from there we still don't really fully understand.
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Speaker 1: Sister Kathy's car was found at four forty am the
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Speaker 1: morning of November eighth by two of her friends, father
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Speaker 1: Peter McKeon and father Gerard J. Coob. Sister Kathy's car
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Speaker 1: was in a muddy condition and was parked illegally across
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Speaker 1: the street from her residence. Residents of the apartment building
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Speaker 1: that she lived in said that they noticed sister Kathy's
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Speaker 1: car parked at eight thirty pm the night before, so
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Speaker 1: she'd been there all night, they claimed. Other tenants claimed
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Speaker 1: that they had seen her car illegally parked two hours
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Speaker 1: later around ten thirty pm, So there's some inconsistencies there.
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Speaker 1: People were saying they saw her car at different times.
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Speaker 1: No one knew where sister Kathy was. She cashed a
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Speaker 1: check that evening. She knew that something was going on,
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Speaker 1: but Sister Kathy was gone, and that's when the investigation began.
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Speaker 1: So right away the police announced that they were going
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Speaker 1: to begin the search for Sister Kathy's body. Now, this
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Speaker 1: is some bizarre wording that they used at the time,
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Speaker 1: and it's strange. Why would they claim that they're looking
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Speaker 1: for her body and why wouldn't they look for her
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Speaker 1: while she was still alive. I mean, it seemed like
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Speaker 1: immediately the police knew that she was dead. And obviously,
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Speaker 1: at first the police's search yielded no results. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Sister Kathy's body wasn't found until January third, nineteen seventy
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Speaker 1: that's almost two months later. She was found in a
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Speaker 1: landfill near Lansdowne, Maryland, and her corps was discovered by
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Speaker 1: a hunter and his son who were out that day hunting.
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Speaker 1: Little physical evidence was found at the crime scene, and
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Speaker 1: nobody really knew what happened to her. Autopsy results ruled
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Speaker 1: that the cause of Sister Kathy's death was blunt force trauma.
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Speaker 1: Due to the condition of her body, they were unable
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Speaker 1: to determine at the time if she had been her
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Speaker 1: body had already decayed to that sort of condition where
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Speaker 1: they couldn't really tell what had happened before her death.
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Speaker 1: Through the year nineteen seventy seven, the case was active
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Speaker 1: and for all those years, nobody knew who killed Sister Kathy.
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Speaker 1: This was an open case. They were looking at everybody
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Speaker 1: in her life. Several interviews were conducted at the time,
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Speaker 1: interviews that included polygraph tests. But by the year nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy seven, seven years after Sister Kathy's murder, all the
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Speaker 1: leads started to fizzle out, and at that point the
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Speaker 1: case became dormant. There were no answers. Someone had killed
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Speaker 1: a nun who taught at a local Catholic high school,
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Speaker 1: and no one had been held accountable. The police received
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Speaker 1: a little new information throughout their entire investigation. They had
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Speaker 1: no idea why she would have been killed, what exactly
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Speaker 1: would have happened, or who could have done it. A
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Speaker 1: quote directly from the Baltimore County Police Department media release
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Speaker 1: regarding the timeline of their own investigation read quote. They
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Speaker 1: received no phone calls from witnesses nor victims, alleging from
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Speaker 1: associates of Sister Ssnick's in the Catholic church end quote.
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Speaker 1: So the police weren't turning up any leads. And it
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Speaker 1: seems like those two children who came to see Sister
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Speaker 1: Cathy to whistle blow about they were suffering they had
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Speaker 1: been lying because according to the police and the investigation,
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Speaker 1: there was no At this point, we have to jump
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Speaker 1: fifteen years into the future. It's now the year nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety two. Sister Cathy has been dead for over twenty years.
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Speaker 1: There are still no leads in her murder. She's been
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Speaker 1: forgotten by everybody in Baltimore. It's a very sad case.
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Speaker 1: But in that year, the Baltimore City Police received the
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Speaker 1: first allegations of against father maskew from two former Chillo students.
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Speaker 1: One of the students who came to the police claimed
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Speaker 1: to have met a random man in father Maskell's office,
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Speaker 1: and the student reported to the that this random man
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Speaker 1: had told her that he had been the one that
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Speaker 1: had beaten sister Kathy to death because the nun knew
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Speaker 1: of this girl who was whistleblowing. Claimed that the man
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Speaker 1: and the priest said that she would suffer the same
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Speaker 1: fate aka she would be murdered if she told this
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Speaker 1: story to anyone else. So Father Maskell was obviously trying
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Speaker 1: to cover his tracks, and they were murdering and threatening
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Speaker 1: anybody who knew anything about the rampant that had been
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Speaker 1: taking place at the school. Now those students came forward
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Speaker 1: to the police. They told them this information about this
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Speaker 1: man who had claimed he had beaten sister Kathy to death.
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Speaker 1: They reported the rampant so it was happening at the school.
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Speaker 1: The police did nothing. Two years later, in nineteen ninety four,
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Speaker 1: those same two students filed a forty million dollar lawsuit
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Speaker 1: for the earth that they suffered at the hands of
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Speaker 1: father Maskell. So at this point, they've come forward with
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Speaker 1: these allegations, they've come to the police, they've tried to
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Speaker 1: whistle blow about this whole thing, but the detectives seemed
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Speaker 1: like they wanted to take down these witnesses. The first
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Speaker 1: thing that they did was publicly state that the detectives
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Speaker 1: had noticed inconsistencies in one of the student's accounts. They
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Speaker 1: also then announced that father Maskell was not considered a suspect.
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Speaker 1: At that time, they were basically saying, you know what,
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Speaker 1: file the lawsuit. We don't believe that anything's happening here.
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Speaker 1: We're the police, we would know, so you guys are
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Speaker 1: just lying. Then in nineteen ninety four, sister Kathy's case
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Speaker 1: is looked at again by detectives. They're interested this time
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Speaker 1: in recent technology advancements involving DNA, but nothing happens. From
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four well into the two thousands, the DNA
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Speaker 1: profiles of around a half of a dozen individuals were
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Speaker 1: made and compared to DNA evidence recovered from the crime scene. AKA, essentially,
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Speaker 1: they found some suspects, they took their DNA and they
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Speaker 1: compared it against this DNA that had been found on
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Speaker 1: or near Sister Kathy's dead body. But none of those
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Speaker 1: DNA samples were a match. And still there's no public outcry,
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Speaker 1: there's no anything, there's no public effort to try solve
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Speaker 1: the murder of this nun. There was no reports in
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Speaker 1: the local newspapers about that was happening at that high school.
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Speaker 1: That is until the year twenty sixteen, when the Archdiocese
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Speaker 1: of Baltimore confirmed that they had been paying out settlements
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Speaker 1: to victims by Father Maskell since twenty and eleven. In
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, Sister Kathy's case was reassigned to new detectives
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Speaker 1: due to the retirement of the previous detectives, and activity
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Speaker 1: on the case increases at this point due to individuals
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Speaker 1: who alleged they were and at this point the activity
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Speaker 1: on the case really takes off. That's because multiple individuals
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Speaker 1: had come forward and made allegations against the faculty at
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Speaker 1: that high school, including Father Maskell and other people that
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Speaker 1: were in Sister Kathy's circle. So they were starting to
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Speaker 1: get a clue maybe this was a little more widespread
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Speaker 1: than we had initially thought it was. And on February
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Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty seventeen, Father Maskell's body was exhumed to
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Speaker 1: gather DNA for his involvement in Sister Kathy's murder. Now, sadly,
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Speaker 1: even though they dug his body up from the grave
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Speaker 1: to test his DNA, there was no match. His DNA
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Speaker 1: did not match the DNA that was found near or
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Speaker 1: on sister Kathy's body, but keep in mind that doesn't
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Speaker 1: rule him out of having any involvement in her death.
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Speaker 1: In May of twenty seventeen, a woman came forward alleging
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Speaker 1: that she had been by a police officer who was
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Speaker 1: now dead in the early nineteen seventies, and as it
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Speaker 1: turned out, the officer in question that had allegedly this
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Speaker 1: young girl had been associated with Sister Kathy and Father
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Speaker 1: Maskell in the past. This woman, who was alleging that
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Speaker 1: she had been victimized was then contacted by the Baltimore
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Speaker 1: County Police Homicide Unit, but she refused to be interviewed
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Speaker 1: because she wanted to remain anonymous. She was afraid of
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Speaker 1: the retribution she might face if those she accused found
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Speaker 1: out that she was the accuser. So the case was
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Speaker 1: still unsolved. And something I find really bizarre about this
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Speaker 1: whole thing is that the authorities in Baltimore seemed to
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Speaker 1: be acting like they had no idea who possibly could
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Speaker 1: have harmed sister Kathy. They were playing at KOI and saying, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, we've had these people testifying and these people
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Speaker 1: telling us and giving us these leads, but we still
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Speaker 1: don't know even where to really look. It seemed like
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Speaker 1: they were trying their hardest not to investigate this thing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, in the past, they had gotten a ton
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Speaker 1: of different information from a ton of different people, and
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Speaker 1: yet they still did nothing. For example, there was a
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Speaker 1: woman named Teresa Lancaster, a survivor herself, who stated during
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Speaker 1: an interview with the high ranking Baltimore law enforcement officer
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Speaker 1: that she had been told in the past that the
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Speaker 1: police knew that a priest was involved. Other sources claimed
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Speaker 1: on the record that the local Catholic Church or archdiocese
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Speaker 1: and the Baltimore Police had been working together to cover
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Speaker 1: up Sister Cathy's murder for decades. Another nun who had
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Speaker 1: worked in the same area, Sister Mary Florida, said that
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Speaker 1: she knew many of the children at Keyo High School
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Speaker 1: and that one of them told her that three or
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Speaker 1: four of the girls being by Father Maskell, had gone
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Speaker 1: to Sister Cathy for help shortly before she was killed.
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Speaker 1: Sister Mary also stated that in the mid nineteen nineties,
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Speaker 1: two police detectives visited her and told her that, quote,
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Speaker 1: we know the priest was involved in Sister Cathy's death
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Speaker 1: end quote. This statement supports Teresa's statement regarding the police
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Speaker 1: knowing that a priest was involved. So there's allegedly a
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Speaker 1: being run at this Catholic high school and throughout the
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Speaker 1: Catholic church system in the Baltimore area. One of the
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Speaker 1: sisters ends up murdered blunt force trauma in a landfill.
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Speaker 1: They find her body there, and there's no leads, there's
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Speaker 1: no convictions, there are no solid suspects, at least according
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Speaker 1: to the police, and the police themselves seem like they're
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Speaker 1: helping to cover this whole thing up. I mean, now
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Speaker 1: you have multiple witnesses who are claiming that they had
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Speaker 1: been told by police officers that the police knew a
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Speaker 1: priest was involved. Then you have people that have testified
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Speaker 1: to the authorities in Baltimore saying, this is the priest
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Speaker 1: that was involved. This priestsed me, and a man that
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Speaker 1: was with this priest told me that he was the
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Speaker 1: one who murdered sister Kathy. And yet it goes nowhere.
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Speaker 1: But here's where it starts to get unbelievably strange. So
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Speaker 1: at one point throughout all of this, a pair of
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Speaker 1: city detectives stated on the record that they had been
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Speaker 1: interviewing a local priest about Sister Cathy's death. They were
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Speaker 1: asking this priest, you know, what do you know about
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Speaker 1: sister Kathy. What do you know about her murder? Do
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Speaker 1: you have any idea who may have done it? But
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Speaker 1: in the middle of this interview, the police commissioner was
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Speaker 1: visited by representatives from the local Catholic archdiocese. So apparently
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Speaker 1: somebody had told the archdiocese that one of their priests
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Speaker 1: was being interviewed about Sister Kathy's murder. They sent down
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Speaker 1: these representatives to the police commissioner and suddenly the police
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Speaker 1: commissioner told the detectives, we got to stop the interview.
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Speaker 1: They just cut the guy loose, and the city detectives,
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Speaker 1: you know, talked about this. This was incredibly strange. They
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Speaker 1: were in the middle of interviewing this priest when they
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Speaker 1: were interrupted and told to stop interviewing him. I mean,
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Speaker 1: how bizarre is that. A county officer also said that
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Speaker 1: they had to destroy investigative documents because of quote church sensitivity.
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Speaker 1: So this county officer was instructed by the higher ups
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Speaker 1: in the police department to destroy documents related to this
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Speaker 1: murder investigation because the church was a sensitive topic, or
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Speaker 1: they didn't want bad press leaking out about the church.
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Speaker 1: I guess maybe, you know, oh, we don't want to
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Speaker 1: frame it like somebody who isn't involved is the killer,
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Speaker 1: you know, at least that's what they told them. Now.
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Speaker 1: In the two thousands, officials at the archdiocese in Baltimore
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Speaker 1: stated that they did not attempt to interfere with the
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Speaker 1: investigation into Sister Kathy's murder. The archdiocese also stated that
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Speaker 1: they had no record of any verbal or written report
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Speaker 1: of that was made by Sister Kathy, so This whole
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Speaker 1: thing is incredibly strange. You have this nun once again
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Speaker 1: who's informed by her students that there are children being
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Speaker 1: at the high school and throughout you know, the church system.
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Speaker 1: This nun is then reportedly told there are people who
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Speaker 1: witnessed father Maskell, who's the guy that was being accused
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Speaker 1: of these children. He was threatening to he was threatening
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Speaker 1: sister Kathy. That was a report that was also made.
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Speaker 1: Then shortly afterwards, sometime the next evening, sister Kathy is
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Speaker 1: murdered blunt force trauma and her body is dumped in
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Speaker 1: a landfill. Years past, decades pass and every single time
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Speaker 1: that people come forward and start talking about this ring
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Speaker 1: that was operating in this Catholic high school and throughout
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Speaker 1: this church system, they're shut down. Every time the detectives
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Speaker 1: trying to look into this, their superior step in and
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Speaker 1: say you got to stop this investigation. There are also
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Speaker 1: officials that are instructed to destroy investigative documents. Why, Well,
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Speaker 1: we know why, and that's because there was a robust
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Speaker 1: cast of unsavory characters that were operating this in the
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Speaker 1: local Catholic high school. So let's go through some of
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Speaker 1: these sick. The first guy we got to talk about
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Speaker 1: is the accused himself, the man who definitely was involved
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Speaker 1: in Sister Kathy's murder, Father Maskew. The first allegations stating
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Speaker 1: that Father Maskell may have been involved in the murder
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Speaker 1: occurred in the year nineteen ninety four. During that year,
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Speaker 1: a witness stated that Sister Kathy had told them that
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Speaker 1: she had told father Maskell that he had a couple
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Speaker 1: of days to resign from his position or she would
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Speaker 1: report him for the students. Based on father Maskell's reputation,
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Speaker 1: this may have been enough for him to commit or
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Speaker 1: have had someone commit the murder. So here's this father
19:00
Speaker 1: that there have been multiple children that have testified that
19:02
Speaker 1: he hears them, and he's told by Sister Cathy that
19:05
Speaker 1: either he resigns or she's going to report him to
19:07
Speaker 1: the authorities that he's a and shortly afterwards sister Cathy's debt.
19:12
Speaker 1: There's also that unknown man that someone testified they saw
19:15
Speaker 1: in father Maskell's office, the unknown man that one of
19:18
Speaker 1: the victims alleged she met in Maskal's office. Remember, told
19:23
Speaker 1: this victim that he was the one who murdered sister Cathy.
19:26
Speaker 1: He openly admitted to it and threatened this victim that
19:29
Speaker 1: if she were to tell anybody about this, she might
19:31
Speaker 1: be killed too. But he can't talk about the people
19:34
Speaker 1: who committed this murder without bringing up the Boston and
19:37
Speaker 1: anne Arundel County police departments themselves. Well, they weren't complicit
19:41
Speaker 1: in the murders themselves, you know, to the best of
19:43
Speaker 1: my knowledge, many people made statements that the police were
19:46
Speaker 1: helping to cover up the murders in recent years. A
19:49
Speaker 1: retired Baltimore police officer went on the record in the
19:52
Speaker 1: local news and even stated that quote several people in
19:55
Speaker 1: the police department had mentioned the cover up on the
19:58
Speaker 1: Sesnik murder. Another individual, Jacqueline Bierman, tried investigating the Nuns
20:02
Speaker 1: murder on her own while she was an officer with
20:05
Speaker 1: the anne Arundel County Police And when she started up
20:07
Speaker 1: this investigation that she was doing completely independently out of
20:11
Speaker 1: the goodness of her heart, she was instructed by her
20:13
Speaker 1: superiors at the police department not to ask questions about
20:17
Speaker 1: that specific case. But why why would the police care
20:20
Speaker 1: so much about helping cover up this murder? Why would
20:24
Speaker 1: the police not want people to know that there was
20:27
Speaker 1: a being run out of a local Catholic High School. Well,
20:31
Speaker 1: as we found out later on, the police department had
20:34
Speaker 1: some pretty close ties to father Maskell, the man behind
20:38
Speaker 1: the murder, and the and this is insane. You see,
20:41
Speaker 1: father Maskell's brother was a high ranking police officer in
20:44
Speaker 1: that local department. Now I'm not saying that his brother
20:47
Speaker 1: was actively involved in this cover up or anything like that,
20:50
Speaker 1: but this does show that there was a direct connection
20:54
Speaker 1: between this guy who's accused of either hiring someone to
20:57
Speaker 1: kill sister Cathy or killing her himself, and the police.
21:00
Speaker 1: There are also statements that the police were a part
21:03
Speaker 1: of father Mascal's Father Maskell himself was also a police
21:08
Speaker 1: chaplain who often worked closely with police officers in his
21:12
Speaker 1: local town. So all this is really weird. You've got
21:15
Speaker 1: the police helping to cover up this, You've got the
21:18
Speaker 1: police helping to cover up this murder. We have the
21:21
Speaker 1: dead body of a nun and no killer. Nobody's been
21:24
Speaker 1: convicted of any of this stuff. And in addition, there
21:27
Speaker 1: are loads of victims that have come forward and claimed
21:30
Speaker 1: that they were by multiple men while they went to school,
21:36
Speaker 1: at that high school and at church. But if you
21:38
Speaker 1: think that sister Cathy was the only person that this
21:42
Speaker 1: may have possibly murdered to protect themselves. Then what I'm
21:45
Speaker 1: about to tell you will shock you. Between February twenty
21:48
Speaker 1: eleven and January twenty seventeen, the Baltimore County Police Department
21:53
Speaker 1: started to take a look at three different unsolved murders
21:56
Speaker 1: that they believed could possibly have some sort of connection
22:00
Speaker 1: to the murder of sister Cathy. The first murder we
22:02
Speaker 1: have to talk about is that of Joyce Malecki, a
22:05
Speaker 1: murder that was investigated by the FBI. Joyce was an
22:08
Speaker 1: office worker at a liquor distributor in town. She was
22:10
Speaker 1: only twenty years old when she disappeared on November eleventh,
22:14
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine. Now keep in mind, Joyce disappeared just
22:18
Speaker 1: four days after sister Cathy did. On the day of
22:21
Speaker 1: her disappearance, Joyce went shopping at a mall in glen
22:24
Speaker 1: Burnie and was scheduled to meet her boyfriend later that evening. However,
22:28
Speaker 1: she would never end up meeting with her boyfriend because
22:30
Speaker 1: at that point she was already gone. Joyce's body was
22:33
Speaker 1: later discovered partially submerged in the Little Potoxin River on
22:37
Speaker 1: November thirteenth, nineteen sixty nine. Once again, in a weird coincidence,
22:41
Speaker 1: her body was discovered by two hunters. Joyce's body was
22:45
Speaker 1: found with her hands tied behind her back and her
22:47
Speaker 1: body was covered with bruises and scratches and on tops.
22:51
Speaker 1: She stated that Joyce's cause of death was either choking
22:54
Speaker 1: or drowning. Due to the bruises and scratches on her body,
22:57
Speaker 1: it was thought that she had put up a fight
22:59
Speaker 1: before she was killed. She also had a knife wound
23:01
Speaker 1: on her neck, but it wasn't severe enough to have
23:03
Speaker 1: been the cause of her death. The FBI initially oversaw
23:07
Speaker 1: the investigation into Joyce's murder as her body was found
23:10
Speaker 1: on federal property, and the FBI were the first ones
23:13
Speaker 1: to speculate that Joyce's murder may have been related to
23:16
Speaker 1: that of sister Kathy's. Both women had similar builds, both
23:20
Speaker 1: women were shopping in locations that were close to one another,
23:22
Speaker 1: and both women disappeared within a week of each other,
23:25
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, the FBI was
23:27
Speaker 1: unable to conclude that the two murders were officially related.
23:30
Speaker 1: In fact, the FBI stated that they had handed over
23:33
Speaker 1: the case at the time to the Anne Arundel County
23:36
Speaker 1: Police department and the county police told the filmmakers behind
23:39
Speaker 1: the Netflix series The Keepers that they never received any
23:42
Speaker 1: information from the FBI regarding Malechi's investigation. It's obviously thought
23:47
Speaker 1: now by most people that Joyce's murder was never fully investigated,
23:51
Speaker 1: and this case is still ongoing. Joyce's body, in fact,
23:54
Speaker 1: was exhumed at the end of twenty twenty three as
23:57
Speaker 1: a part of an ongoing investigation, and we still have
23:59
Speaker 1: no follow ups on what exactly they did with her body,
24:02
Speaker 1: what they found out. We don't know if that exhumation
24:05
Speaker 1: generated any new leads. But this story just keeps getting
24:08
Speaker 1: crazier and crazier. I mean right there, the FBI claims
24:10
Speaker 1: that they handed over all their investigative notes and research
24:13
Speaker 1: on Joyce's murder to the anne Arundel County Police, the
24:16
Speaker 1: same department that was accused of having been involved with
24:20
Speaker 1: the murder of sister Kathy, and that police department, the
24:22
Speaker 1: ann Arundel County Police states they never received a single
24:26
Speaker 1: document from the FBI. Hmm strange, right, But that's not
24:30
Speaker 1: the only murder. There's also the death of Pamela Lynn Conyers,
24:33
Speaker 1: who was sixteen years old, a murder that was investigated
24:36
Speaker 1: by once again the anne Arundel County Police. Now, Pamela
24:41
Speaker 1: was last seen at the same mall that Joyce Malechi
24:44
Speaker 1: was seen at the Hurrundel Mall on October sixteenth, nineteen seventy.
24:48
Speaker 1: She was found four days later on October twentieth of
24:51
Speaker 1: that same year. Weird, right, a girl with a similar
24:54
Speaker 1: look and build to a previous victim who had gone
24:57
Speaker 1: missing from the same mall. She's found dead in almost
24:59
Speaker 1: the same manner in the same couple of years. She's
25:03
Speaker 1: underage sixteen years old, and her death has still never
25:06
Speaker 1: been solved. There's also the death of sixteen year old
25:09
Speaker 1: Grace Elizabeth Montaigne, a death which was investigated by the
25:12
Speaker 1: Baltimore City Police. Now. Grace was last seen at Franklin
25:16
Speaker 1: High School after meeting a stranger in nearby Risertown at
25:20
Speaker 1: a shopping center. Grace was found dead on September twenty ninth,
25:24
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one, in South Baltimore. Grace's killer has also
25:28
Speaker 1: never been caught. But here you go, you have young
25:31
Speaker 1: girls going missing from similar areas, having gone I don't
25:34
Speaker 1: know why, to shopping centers right before their disappearances. They're
25:37
Speaker 1: all found dead after a few days, and all of
25:39
Speaker 1: their murders are unsolved. I don't believe in coincidences, and
25:43
Speaker 1: there's so much more we could get into here, but
25:45
Speaker 1: I could talk about this all day. A massive development
25:48
Speaker 1: in this case happened in the year twenty twenty three,
25:51
Speaker 1: when the Maryland Attorney General's Office released their report on
25:55
Speaker 1: the child's so that had happened inside of the Archdiocese
25:58
Speaker 1: of Baltimore. Investigation into the archdiocese began formally in September
26:03
Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, and interestingly enough, some sources have stated
26:07
Speaker 1: that they believe that what sparked the investigation was the
26:10
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen release of the docuseries The Keepers on Netflix.
26:14
Speaker 1: If that's true, then the documentary filmmakers who created that
26:18
Speaker 1: series helped to turn this investigation and injustice into a
26:22
Speaker 1: search for justice and truth and answers. In that twenty
26:26
Speaker 1: twenty three report published by the Attorney General, it was
26:28
Speaker 1: stated that thirty nine people claimed in the past that
26:32
Speaker 1: Father Maskell had been towards them or someone that they knew.
26:36
Speaker 1: In the report, father Maskell was accused dozens of times
26:39
Speaker 1: by dozens of different people of but he was also
26:44
Speaker 1: accused of helping other priests do the same thing, and
26:47
Speaker 1: Father Maskell seems to be one of the integral central
26:51
Speaker 1: parts of this. His name, in fact, is found over
26:54
Speaker 1: two hundred times in the four hundred and fifty page report.
26:57
Speaker 1: That means that his name is found throughout the entire report,
27:00
Speaker 1: and it just shows that this guy was intimately involved
27:03
Speaker 1: in the running of this. The report also includes victims
27:07
Speaker 1: accounts which were all very similar, and these accounts stated
27:10
Speaker 1: that these children had been they had then been they
27:14
Speaker 1: had been subjected to and afterwards, when they talked about
27:18
Speaker 1: how bad they felt, and you know, after the was over,
27:21
Speaker 1: they were threatened, both verbally and sometimes even with a
27:25
Speaker 1: gun into silence. So these men were these children. These
27:28
Speaker 1: I want to state clearly too, these priests and these
27:32
Speaker 1: clergymen and these holy figures were these young children. They
27:36
Speaker 1: were these young children. They were examining their and after
27:42
Speaker 1: they were done with this, they were then threatening to
27:46
Speaker 1: if they ever talked about what they had done to them,
27:48
Speaker 1: sometimes with a gun. It was even said by some
27:50
Speaker 1: victims that Father Maskell threatened to expel the students if
27:54
Speaker 1: they didn't obey and do exactly what he told them to.
27:57
Speaker 1: In the report, a total of sixteen different victims vi
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Speaker 1: ided detailed accounts of the father Maskell inflicted on them
28:04
Speaker 1: while they attended koh High School. There are also reports
28:07
Speaker 1: that happened to younger children, reports that a nine year
28:11
Speaker 1: old girl and an eleven year old boy. Now, interestingly,
28:15
Speaker 1: the archdiocese had done some work behind the scenes, and
28:18
Speaker 1: they've reached settlements with fifteen of Maskell's victims. But in
28:22
Speaker 1: a move that I think shows extreme complicitness and in
28:26
Speaker 1: my belief, proves that the archdiocese was complicit in the
28:30
Speaker 1: murder of Sister Kathy, the archdiocese continued to financially support
28:35
Speaker 1: Father Maskell through the year two thousand. So even though
28:39
Speaker 1: they knew that this guy was a serial and a repeat,
28:43
Speaker 1: and they had been made aware of many allegations that
28:46
Speaker 1: he was involved in the murder of one of their own,
28:48
Speaker 1: a nun who worked with them and through them, they
28:51
Speaker 1: still continued to financially support the guy. That to me
28:54
Speaker 1: screams guilt, and if it doesn't, I don't know it does.
28:57
Speaker 1: Here are a few of the victims of the Baltimore
28:59
Speaker 1: Diocese who've gone on the record to share their stories.
29:02
Speaker 1: We've already talked about her already, But there was Teresa
29:04
Speaker 1: Lancaster survivor who went to a school counselor to get
29:08
Speaker 1: advice on what to do because she was being repeatedly
29:12
Speaker 1: and she told them that she had been by Father
29:15
Speaker 1: maskeal Teresa stated that Father Maskell had girls to other people.
29:19
Speaker 1: She believes that Father Maskell played a key role in
29:22
Speaker 1: the murder of sister Kathy. Teresa also claimed that Father
29:25
Speaker 1: Maskell drove her to a location where students usually gathered.
29:29
Speaker 1: When she arrived there with Father Maskell, two police officers
29:32
Speaker 1: approached and told all the students who were hanging out
29:34
Speaker 1: in the area to leave. Once the students left, according
29:37
Speaker 1: to Teresa, the police officers well father Maskell waited outside
29:42
Speaker 1: of the car. Teresa was eventually awarded forty thousand dollars
29:45
Speaker 1: by the church for her injuries. This was documented by
29:50
Speaker 1: doctors and she also received free psychological counseling. Ironically from
29:54
Speaker 1: the church, Teresa was given the money in return for
29:57
Speaker 1: signing a release document written by the Archdice of Baltimore.
30:00
Speaker 1: Teresa received a letter from the archdiocese apologizing for what
30:04
Speaker 1: she had went through. One of the lines of the
30:05
Speaker 1: letter is especially haunting, as it points to the church
30:08
Speaker 1: being very aware of the ongoing inflicted on children by
30:12
Speaker 1: those who were a part of their organization. The line
30:14
Speaker 1: from this letter read, quote, it has long been the
30:17
Speaker 1: policy of the archdiocese to offer counseling assistance to anyone
30:20
Speaker 1: who may have been harmed by a cleric or other
30:22
Speaker 1: representative of the church. End quote, long been the policy.
30:27
Speaker 1: Think about that. So just in that letter, they say,
30:30
Speaker 1: this has long been the policy. If we're made aware
30:34
Speaker 1: that one of our students or one of the children
30:36
Speaker 1: in our care has been by somebody who works for us,
30:40
Speaker 1: it's long been our policy to provide them counseling. How
30:43
Speaker 1: long has it been that policy, you know, for years, years, decades.
30:47
Speaker 1: They claim that there was zero evidence of a single
30:50
Speaker 1: child being within the archdiocese and all the system that
30:54
Speaker 1: it controlled. And now in this letter to a victim,
30:56
Speaker 1: they're saying, it's long been the policy to offer these
30:59
Speaker 1: services to anyone who's been I mean guilt once again guilt.
31:04
Speaker 1: Another victim was Jean Hadad and Wenner. Jean stated that
31:08
Speaker 1: Father Maskell once again was the one who Jean came
31:11
Speaker 1: forward and said that she was one of the girls
31:14
Speaker 1: who initially went to sister Kathy to tell her what
31:16
Speaker 1: had happened to her. Sister Kathy had then told Jean
31:19
Speaker 1: that she would take care of this for her, but
31:21
Speaker 1: soon afterwards she was murdered. Jane claimed that two months
31:24
Speaker 1: before sister Kathy's body was discovered, Father Maskell drove her
31:28
Speaker 1: to a wooded area and showed her sister Kathy's body.
31:31
Speaker 1: She stated that she remembered trying to wipe the maggots
31:34
Speaker 1: off of sister Kathy's face while tears flowed from her eyes.
31:37
Speaker 1: Scientific evidence showed that it would be impossible for maggots
31:41
Speaker 1: to be alive at that time of the year, although
31:42
Speaker 1: an individual who worked on the case did confirm that
31:45
Speaker 1: there had been maggots in sister Kathy's mouth and trachia
31:49
Speaker 1: when her body was discovered. Once again, weird, so trying
31:52
Speaker 1: to disprove this girl's account of what she had seen
31:56
Speaker 1: and looks like it failed because they did end up
31:58
Speaker 1: finding maggots in her mouth than trachia. So yeah, I mean,
32:02
Speaker 1: it's just this whole thing is just crazy now. According
32:04
Speaker 1: to Jean, father Maskell told her, quote, you see what
32:07
Speaker 1: happens when you say bad things about people? End quote.
32:10
Speaker 1: This father was clearly involved in the murder, and he
32:12
Speaker 1: drove this young girl who he had already worked in
32:15
Speaker 1: the past, and forced her to stare at the body
32:18
Speaker 1: of the nun who she trusted, who either he murdered
32:21
Speaker 1: or he had someone murdered for him. I mean, this
32:23
Speaker 1: guy was sick at and this guy is a priest,
32:26
Speaker 1: a police chaplain, a trusted member of the community. There
32:29
Speaker 1: was also a boy named Charles Franz now Charles and
32:33
Speaker 1: his mother came forward in the year nineteen sixty seven.
32:36
Speaker 1: This was before sister Kathy's murder. Charles at the time
32:39
Speaker 1: stated that he had been forced by father Maskell to
32:41
Speaker 1: drink wine and that he had then been by the priest.
32:45
Speaker 1: There's also Kathy Hobek. Kathy Hobek was the other girl
32:48
Speaker 1: who came forward and said that she had told sister
32:51
Speaker 1: Kathy about the she was suffering two days before she
32:54
Speaker 1: was murdered. So Kathy was once again just by the
32:58
Speaker 1: same group of those operating in this high school system.
33:01
Speaker 1: There were also two unnamed victims in Ireland. Even though
33:04
Speaker 1: the victims were in Ireland, they were still victims of
33:07
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Diocese. But how did these kids in Ireland
33:10
Speaker 1: play into this story well. Father Maskell, even though he
33:13
Speaker 1: had been questioned about sister Kathy's murder and people obviously
33:16
Speaker 1: believed that he was complicit in it, he was never
33:18
Speaker 1: charged for any of these crimes. Instead, the local diocese
33:22
Speaker 1: placed him on leave and during that time he was
33:24
Speaker 1: able to get out of the country and travel to Ireland.
33:27
Speaker 1: And while he was in Ireland, he more children, two
33:31
Speaker 1: confirmed victims. The negligence of the diocese is directly responsible
33:35
Speaker 1: for those victims in Ireland. They knew this guy was
33:38
Speaker 1: probably a murderer. I mean, in my opinion, I think
33:40
Speaker 1: they knew fully that he was a murderer. They knew
33:43
Speaker 1: that he was a serial of children, and yet instead
33:46
Speaker 1: of turning him over to the authorities, they protected him
33:49
Speaker 1: and let him go off to Ireland where he was
33:51
Speaker 1: able to more kids. So those are the victims. But
33:55
Speaker 1: who were the people that participated in this. Well, for one,
33:59
Speaker 1: there's the entire Archdiocese of Baltimore as a whole. There
34:03
Speaker 1: were multiple people involved in the archdiocese that were known
34:06
Speaker 1: to have children, and they typically targeted children who were
34:10
Speaker 1: altar servers, choir members, participants of church youth organizations, and
34:15
Speaker 1: church scout troops, and obviously throughout this whole story, you've
34:18
Speaker 1: seen that the archdiocese has not been cooperative with any
34:22
Speaker 1: investigation related to the murder of Sister Kathy or investigations
34:26
Speaker 1: into the rampant, so it's happening inside of their own walls.
34:30
Speaker 1: Jean the victim, remember when she went to the archdiocese
34:33
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety two to report Father Maskell. She alleged
34:37
Speaker 1: that the archdiocese Stonewallter refused to hear her out and
34:40
Speaker 1: basically said, we're not interesting in hearing these allegations that
34:43
Speaker 1: you're making. But the main guy, the main bad guy
34:45
Speaker 1: in this story really is Father Joseph Maskell himself. Joseph
34:49
Speaker 1: was ordained in nineteen sixty five and spent thirty years
34:53
Speaker 1: working for the Catholic Church in Maryland. Joseph is believed
34:56
Speaker 1: to have participated in the of multiple dozens of children
35:01
Speaker 1: for years. In the late nineteen sixties, it was said
35:04
Speaker 1: by witnesses that Father Maskell would summon girls over the
35:08
Speaker 1: PA system in the high school and ask them to
35:10
Speaker 1: come see him in his office, where he would then
35:13
Speaker 1: on school grounds during the school day. When Charles Franz
35:16
Speaker 1: that young kid in the nineteen sixties accused Father Maskeal
35:20
Speaker 1: of He wasn't charged and he wasn't even removed from
35:23
Speaker 1: the church by the archdiocese. Instead, like I said, has
35:26
Speaker 1: happened so many times, he was sent to a new
35:29
Speaker 1: parish where he was then able to get access to
35:32
Speaker 1: an insanely large amount of children. Once again, Father Maskell
35:35
Speaker 1: was said to have been removed from one institution for
35:38
Speaker 1: asking boy scouts young children young boys about their during
35:43
Speaker 1: one scouting outing. From nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety three,
35:46
Speaker 1: Joseph Maskell was sent for treatment at a psychiatric facility.
35:50
Speaker 1: The place was called the Institute for Living and it
35:52
Speaker 1: was run by the Archdiocese. He was sent there over
35:55
Speaker 1: allegations of that he had allegedly, according to the church,
36:00
Speaker 1: committed now Joseph Maskell was removed from the church in
36:03
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, forced towards students at several schools within
36:07
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Diocese, and in nineteen ninety four, instead of
36:11
Speaker 1: reporting Father Maskeal to the police, remember, the Archdiocese cut
36:14
Speaker 1: him loose and he fled to Wexford, Ireland, where he
36:17
Speaker 1: was ordered not to perform any of his duties as
36:19
Speaker 1: a priest, but the diocese that Mascal fled to became
36:23
Speaker 1: notorious for the number of priests who committed there and
36:26
Speaker 1: the bishop who did not take any action to address
36:29
Speaker 1: any of those allegations. So he essentially fled America where
36:33
Speaker 1: he was known to be a but no one ever
36:36
Speaker 1: turned him into the police. He fled America. He's also
36:39
Speaker 1: a wanted murder suspect or people know that he was
36:42
Speaker 1: involved in the murder of a nun, so he's allowed
36:44
Speaker 1: to flee America. He goes to another diocese and he
36:47
Speaker 1: immediately becomes a priest again where he gets access to
36:50
Speaker 1: more children. And then all the other priests at this
36:53
Speaker 1: specific diocese in Ireland, they all turn out to be two.
36:57
Speaker 1: I mean, you literally cannot make this. It is so
37:00
Speaker 1: obscene and it's so antithetical to what Christianity you know,
37:05
Speaker 1: is and what it promotes, the values that it promotes.
37:08
Speaker 1: Now towards the end of his life and this is
37:10
Speaker 1: disturbing as well. Joseph Maskell, after quitting his job as
37:14
Speaker 1: a priest, worked as a clinical psychologist for the Southeastern
37:18
Speaker 1: Health Board, where he counseled children. Children were his main
37:21
Speaker 1: patients as he was working for the Children Welfare Service,
37:25
Speaker 1: and the former head of the board stated that Joseph
37:28
Speaker 1: Maskell his job would have been to counsel victims of
37:32
Speaker 1: so he quits being a priest and he starts up
37:35
Speaker 1: a new career as essentially a counselor working with children
37:38
Speaker 1: and specifically working with children who were victims of I mean,
37:43
Speaker 1: the story is crazier and crazier. The parents of one
37:46
Speaker 1: of Joseph's patients didn't know that he had been a
37:49
Speaker 1: priest because he signed reports as a Joseph Maskell Clinical psychologist.
37:54
Speaker 1: They only found out that he was this priest that
37:56
Speaker 1: had been accused of being a after someone else who
37:59
Speaker 1: found out this information informed them. The Roman Catholic Diocese
38:03
Speaker 1: of Ferns in Ireland did not know that Joseph Maskell
38:06
Speaker 1: was in Ireland. They weren't aware until Father Maskell celebrated
38:10
Speaker 1: Mass and conducted a ceremony without their approval. Normally, when
38:14
Speaker 1: there's a visiting priest, the diocese would have been made aware,
38:17
Speaker 1: but for some reason, Joseph Maskell was able to slip
38:21
Speaker 1: into these situations and dioceses without being noticed. The Ferns
38:25
Speaker 1: Diocese kept their own file on Joseph Maskell from nineteen
38:28
Speaker 1: ninety five to nineteen ninety eight, and during that time
38:30
Speaker 1: the Ferns Diocese received information from the Baltimore Diocese regarding Maskell.
38:35
Speaker 1: They were informed that Joseph was placed on leave before
38:38
Speaker 1: he fled America following claims of against children that he
38:42
Speaker 1: had committed. And of course we've reached the part of
38:44
Speaker 1: the story that will really really father Joseph Maskell, who
38:52
Speaker 1: dozens of children across the planet, A man who more
38:56
Speaker 1: than likely had his hands in the murders of multiple
38:59
Speaker 1: young girls and a nun, A man who was the
39:02
Speaker 1: definition of a demon. He died in two thousand and
39:05
Speaker 1: one without ever being formally charged, without ever being formally questioned,
39:10
Speaker 1: and without ever being publicly accused of doing what he
39:13
Speaker 1: had done, so he essentially, throughout his whole life got
39:16
Speaker 1: a get out of jail free handed to him by
39:19
Speaker 1: the Archdiocese in Baltimore. And of course, right up until
39:22
Speaker 1: his death in two thousand and one, Joseph Maskell denied
39:26
Speaker 1: all of the accusations, so he never paid for his crimes,
39:29
Speaker 1: He never admitted to his crimes, and he claimed that
39:32
Speaker 1: he was an innocent man. It was reported in twenty
39:35
Speaker 1: sixteen that the Archdiocese of Baltimore had been paying out
39:38
Speaker 1: settlements to Joseph Maskell's alleged victims since the year twenty eleven,
39:42
Speaker 1: even though they hadn't publicly discussed this. There were a
39:45
Speaker 1: total of sixteen victims that were eventually paid out, sixteen
39:48
Speaker 1: victims that they believed were legitimate that actually had suffered
39:52
Speaker 1: at the hands of Joseph Maskell, and the total paid
39:54
Speaker 1: out by this church was four hundred and seventy two
39:56
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. There's also Father Neil Magnus. Jane Wenner stated
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Speaker 1: that she went to Father Magnus to confide in him
40:03
Speaker 1: that she was being by her own uncle. Jeane alleged
40:07
Speaker 1: that Father Magnus then proceeded to after she had confided
40:11
Speaker 1: in him about what her uncle was doing to her,
40:14
Speaker 1: and she even stated that Father Magnus, that priest, blamed
40:17
Speaker 1: Jane forgetting for being promiscuous. He basically said, it's your
40:22
Speaker 1: fault that you're being not only by me, but also
40:25
Speaker 1: by your uncle, because you, the child, are promiscuous. It
40:29
Speaker 1: also should be stated once again that Father Joseph Maskell
40:33
Speaker 1: had in the past joined in on the end of gene.
40:35
Speaker 1: There were also those two unnamed police officers that Teresa Lancaster. Now,
40:41
Speaker 1: a lawsuit was filed by two individuals against the Archdiocese
40:44
Speaker 1: of Baltimore, Cardinal William H. Keeler Christian Richter, the school gynecologist,
40:48
Speaker 1: which is really bizarre that they even had one of
40:51
Speaker 1: those school gynecologists. Specifically, the lawsuit was filed against the
40:54
Speaker 1: school sisters of Notre Dame and finally against Father Joseph Maskell.
40:59
Speaker 1: But the lawsuit was dismissed as the authorities in the
41:01
Speaker 1: state and the courts believed that this whole thing was
41:04
Speaker 1: past the statute of limitations. There should never be a
41:07
Speaker 1: statute of limitations in my belief, for crimes against children.
41:11
Speaker 1: I mean, it's literally just saying, yeah, you did it,
41:13
Speaker 1: but if you would have done it last year, you'd
41:15
Speaker 1: be in prison for eighty years to life. But since
41:18
Speaker 1: he did it thirty years ago, yeah, it's fine. And
41:21
Speaker 1: when you hear the details of this lawsuit, you're going
41:23
Speaker 1: to be The lawsuit included the following description of quote.
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Speaker 1: Joseph Maskell subjected the girls to repeated physical and psychological
41:33
Speaker 1: including intercourse intercourse conne lingis fillatio and with a vibrator,
41:40
Speaker 1: administration of enema's hypnosis, threats of physical violence, course and
41:47
Speaker 1: other loot acts physically striking the plaintiff and forcing the
41:51
Speaker 1: plaintiff to perform acts with the police officer end quote.
41:55
Speaker 1: And this is once again going to even though all
41:57
Speaker 1: of those details were made public, that lawsuit against these
42:01
Speaker 1: organizations that protected these people that had done this to
42:04
Speaker 1: these kids. The statute of limitations that the time was
42:07
Speaker 1: quote a civil action at law shall be filed within
42:10
Speaker 1: three years from the date it accrues, unless another provision
42:13
Speaker 1: of the code provides a different period of time within
42:15
Speaker 1: which an action shall be commenced end quote. So the
42:19
Speaker 1: two individuals who filed the lawsuit used the fact that
42:22
Speaker 1: their memories were repressed and that the statute of limitations
42:25
Speaker 1: should not be enforced. Due to this, a decision was
42:28
Speaker 1: made that the claim of repressed memories did not have
42:30
Speaker 1: enough scientific evidence to allow for the statute of limitations
42:34
Speaker 1: to not be used. So, essentially, these victims tried to
42:37
Speaker 1: finally speak out and get justice and make all this
42:39
Speaker 1: public and hold those people accountable who had allowed this
42:44
Speaker 1: rampant and this to happen, and the United States government
42:49
Speaker 1: sided with the pops in this case, and they said,
42:52
Speaker 1: statute of limitations. Sorry, we're gonna let these guys go.
42:56
Speaker 1: Makes you lose faith in your government time after time
42:59
Speaker 1: after here all this, but we have to go back
43:01
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty three. On the same day that the
43:03
Speaker 1: Maryland Attorney General's Office released their final report into these allegations,
43:08
Speaker 1: on April fifth, twenty twenty three, the Maryland House approved
43:11
Speaker 1: a bill that would limit the statute of limitations on
43:14
Speaker 1: childs and the governor signed the bill into law. That's
43:18
Speaker 1: a great thing, and the bill went into effect on
43:20
Speaker 1: October first, twenty twenty three. But in a disturbing move
43:24
Speaker 1: related to this act. In this law being passed, the
43:27
Speaker 1: Archdiocese of Baltimore filed for bankruptcy protection on September twenty ninth,
43:32
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, as they prepared for the act to
43:35
Speaker 1: become effective. This was clearly a preemptive move to the
43:39
Speaker 1: lawsuits that they expected to be filed once the statute
43:43
Speaker 1: of limitations was removed. Any lawsuit that followed had to
43:46
Speaker 1: be made a part of their bankruptcy proceedings. This move
43:49
Speaker 1: protected the archdiocese further while leaving these victims without a
43:54
Speaker 1: chance to tell their stories in civil court. It also
43:57
Speaker 1: limited the payouts that the victims could receive. And now
44:00
Speaker 1: before we end this, I just want to give you
44:02
Speaker 1: some names to show you how widespread this and the
44:06
Speaker 1: problem of was throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore in the
44:11
Speaker 1: years when this entire thing was unfurling. This list is
44:14
Speaker 1: not fully comprehensive. Obviously, there are a lot of people
44:16
Speaker 1: that have gotten away with their crimes in the past,
44:19
Speaker 1: but just hearing these names and listening to this list
44:22
Speaker 1: is going to shock you. This is essentially just a
44:24
Speaker 1: list of some of the that had worked in the
44:27
Speaker 1: Archdiocese of Baltimore throughout the years. It's also interesting to
44:31
Speaker 1: note that several of these individuals only have one individual
44:34
Speaker 1: listed as being victimized by them, and it makes you
44:36
Speaker 1: wonder how many other children who were terrorized and by
44:41
Speaker 1: these men never came forward. The Archdiocese listed approximately one
44:45
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three individuals who had been identified as
44:49
Speaker 1: allegedly committing acts of against children. Not all the names
44:53
Speaker 1: are included here due to the number of individuals, but
44:55
Speaker 1: to give you a general idea, I've included the names
44:58
Speaker 1: of thirty five individuals. I don't want people to forget
45:01
Speaker 1: that these people were monsters. They victimized children. They are
45:04
Speaker 1: the scum of the earth. And I know that these people,
45:07
Speaker 1: some of them are dead, some of them aren't. But
45:09
Speaker 1: in a few decades, I know that all of these
45:11
Speaker 1: people are going to be looking up at us, even
45:14
Speaker 1: though they lived the most pious life trying to get
45:16
Speaker 1: right with the big guy upstairs. I know exactly where
45:19
Speaker 1: they're going when they die, and it won't be heaven.
45:22
Speaker 1: There was Luis Africa who attacked two miners in the
45:24
Speaker 1: mid to late nineteen seventies. Bruce E. Ball, who had
45:27
Speaker 1: two claims against him during his time in Baltimore. Michael Barnes,
45:31
Speaker 1: who was sentenced in two thousand and nine because he
45:33
Speaker 1: was found guilty of one count of from nineteen seventy
45:37
Speaker 1: seven to eighty three. Thomas Bounerfield, who was alleged to
45:40
Speaker 1: have one miner in the mid nineteen seventies. Vincent Bechtel,
45:44
Speaker 1: he had multiple allegations of victimization of children, Ronald Belschner
45:49
Speaker 1: one allegation of in the mid nineteen seventies. Thomas Bevitt,
45:53
Speaker 1: sentenced to eighteen months home detention for the of a
45:57
Speaker 1: male miner in the nineteen seventies. Murray Pace Blackwell, who
46:01
Speaker 1: had multiple allegations ranging from the sixties to the nineties.
46:04
Speaker 1: William Braun, an individual claimed that he was by William
46:08
Speaker 1: in the nineteen forties. Robert Callahan, who was accused of
46:11
Speaker 1: two miners, John Carney, he acknowledged that he engaged in
46:15
Speaker 1: inappropriate conduct when an individual alleged that he had John Corbett,
46:20
Speaker 1: who committed in the nineteen forties and fifties. Brian Cox
46:25
Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty five. Joseph Davies,
46:29
Speaker 1: who had numerous allegations of The first was in nineteen
46:32
Speaker 1: ninety three, when a man in his fifties said that
46:34
Speaker 1: he had been used by Davies in the fifties. James Downing,
46:38
Speaker 1: who himself admitted that he had victimized two miners in
46:41
Speaker 1: the late nineteen seventies to early nineteen eighties. Robert Duerr
46:44
Speaker 1: alleged to have a child in the nineteen fifties. Frederick Duke,
46:48
Speaker 1: who admitted to many children between nineteen forty nine and
46:52
Speaker 1: sixty one. Luigis Pasito, allegations of which occurred in the
46:57
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. Kenneth Farebauugh, who allegedly one miner, Joseph Gallagher,
47:02
Speaker 1: who admitted to inappropriate conduct with a miner around nineteen eighty.
47:06
Speaker 1: Stephen Girard one individual accused him of in the early
47:10
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties. Edward Hailman two allegations of in the nineteen seventies.
47:15
Speaker 1: Marion Helliwitch pled guilty to a involving a miner in
47:19
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. Two other individuals also accused Marion of
47:23
Speaker 1: victimizing them as well. George Hopkins accused of in the
47:27
Speaker 1: early nineteen fifties. Joseph Hopkins, one individual accused him of
47:31
Speaker 1: the nineteen forty eight. Robert Hopkins two individuals allegedly word
47:35
Speaker 1: by him in the nineteen seventies. Robert also admitted to
47:40
Speaker 1: miners from the late fifties to the early nineteen eighties.
47:42
Speaker 1: Albert Julian accused of two miners. Joseph Kenny who two
47:48
Speaker 1: miners in the late nineteen forties to early nineteen fifties,
47:51
Speaker 1: Simon E. Kenny one allegation of in the early nineteen eighties.
47:55
Speaker 1: Joseph Crack. During treatment he received in nineteen ninety, he
47:58
Speaker 1: admitted that he had the past engaged in with miners.
48:03
Speaker 1: Joseph Kruse, a man who admitted to from the mid
48:06
Speaker 1: to late nineteen eighties. Ross Laporta accused of by one child.
48:11
Speaker 1: Regis F. Larkett, a man who was accused of one
48:14
Speaker 1: count of in the nineteen fifties and then another in
48:17
Speaker 1: the late nineteen seventies to early nineteen eighties. Francis Lefev
48:21
Speaker 1: admitted two of numerous miners in the nineteen seventies and
48:25
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. Robert Lentz accused of children in the mid
48:29
Speaker 1: to late nineteen sixties. There's over one hundred and thirty
48:33
Speaker 1: more people that were involved just in the Baltimore Archdiocese
48:36
Speaker 1: who were outed as being in that report. So all
48:40
Speaker 1: those names I just read you, and all those accusations,
48:43
Speaker 1: there are one hundred and thirty plus more of them
48:46
Speaker 1: in that report. And those are just the documented allegations.
48:50
Speaker 1: And that's just one archdiocese. One. If there was a
48:55
Speaker 1: school that had a problem like that, Like let's say
48:57
Speaker 1: there's this elementary school in Maryland, one of the teachers
49:01
Speaker 1: is found to be a p they get arrested, they
49:03
Speaker 1: go away. Later that year, another teacher is found to
49:06
Speaker 1: be a P. He gets arrested after you know, three years.
49:09
Speaker 1: Let's say, if they find out that twenty of the
49:12
Speaker 1: teachers were, there would be a massive federal investigation into
49:17
Speaker 1: the school and they'd probably shut the school down, bulldoze
49:21
Speaker 1: the building, and start brand new. But here you have
49:23
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty plus of these whose allegations had
49:27
Speaker 1: been known for decades and nothing was done. There's no
49:31
Speaker 1: federal investigation, and the archdiocese itself never presented any of
49:36
Speaker 1: these allegations to authorities. They kept it all inside of
49:40
Speaker 1: their organization in a closed book. And that is disgusting.
49:45
Speaker 1: And I hope those people rot in hell. I hope
49:48
Speaker 1: every single person who was complicit in the of these
49:51
Speaker 1: children rots in hell. And I know that they will,
49:56
Speaker 1: but I just hope, I really hope that they do
49:58
Speaker 1: as well, because it's just insane. And then this is
50:01
Speaker 1: just the microcosm of the problem. This isn't even close
50:05
Speaker 1: to the macro view of this whole thing. This is
50:08
Speaker 1: one archdiocese of which there are thousands just in America alone,
50:12
Speaker 1: let alone worldwide. But it's time for my closing thoughts. Well,
50:16
Speaker 1: based on the research and the ties that Joseph Maskell
50:19
Speaker 1: head to the local Police Department. It's highly likely that
50:22
Speaker 1: Joseph Maskell or an associate of his murdered sister Kathy.
50:26
Speaker 1: There was plenty of motivation to commit the crime. Sister
50:29
Speaker 1: Kathy had been informed of the that was occurring against
50:32
Speaker 1: children at the high school, and there was a very
50:34
Speaker 1: high probability that she would have reported Joseph Maskell. She
50:38
Speaker 1: even allegedly told him to his face, you either have
50:40
Speaker 1: to go turn yourself in and step down, or I'll
50:43
Speaker 1: do it for you. But this is only one priest
50:46
Speaker 1: who was not held accountable for his actions, and many
50:49
Speaker 1: victims who suffered due to his actions, including sister Kathy
50:52
Speaker 1: who lost her life, and also those other three women
50:55
Speaker 1: whose murders have never been solved. At around the same time,
50:58
Speaker 1: could they have been murdered on camera for some sort
51:00
Speaker 1: of production? Were they were any of these children filmed
51:05
Speaker 1: or photographed throughout all of this? What were they doing?
51:07
Speaker 1: What were the charges of you know, these children? Who
51:11
Speaker 1: else was coming into the church to these kids? Were
51:14
Speaker 1: there non church individuals that were being invited into victimize
51:17
Speaker 1: these children? How many more police officers were involved in
51:20
Speaker 1: all of this? Was that man who was with Joseph
51:22
Speaker 1: Maskell A police officer who murdered sister Cathy. As outlined
51:26
Speaker 1: in the above information, the Archdiocese of Baltimore was well
51:29
Speaker 1: aware that there may have been a high number of
51:31
Speaker 1: people coming forward with and their first course of action
51:36
Speaker 1: was to protect themselves and protect the church. They shut
51:39
Speaker 1: themselves down, declared bankruptcy so they wouldn't be forced to
51:42
Speaker 1: pay out money to these children who had been victimized.
51:45
Speaker 1: And they also did this so that the details of
51:47
Speaker 1: these cases, you know, wouldn't be revealed in civil court.
51:49
Speaker 1: What about protecting the victims? Though? Isn't that what a
51:52
Speaker 1: church is supposed to do? Isn't that what religion is
51:55
Speaker 1: supposed to do? Isn't that what God instructs his followers
51:58
Speaker 1: to do, to protect the needy, to protect the helpless?
52:00
Speaker 1: And it begs the question in how many other cities
52:03
Speaker 1: did events like this also happen just here in America?
52:06
Speaker 1: And in what cities are rings like this still operating?
52:09
Speaker 1: What Catholic churches nowadays are operating as affront to serve
52:13
Speaker 1: the disgusting needs of their priests. How many on this
52:17
Speaker 1: archdiocese's list were actually jailed? Now I told you that
52:23
Speaker 1: list right, and I mentioned all these people and all
52:26
Speaker 1: these accusations against them, all these men, but that list,
52:29
Speaker 1: I want to remind you, it doesn't mean that these
52:31
Speaker 1: people actually were arrested for these crimes. I mentioned a
52:34
Speaker 1: few times that one or two of the people were jailed,
52:37
Speaker 1: but for the most part, those men got away with it.
52:39
Speaker 1: And that's because the Church protects its own, as this
52:42
Speaker 1: whole case demonstrates. All those men, all those allegations that
52:46
Speaker 1: were turned in, the Church would look at them basically
52:48
Speaker 1: slap them on the wrist with the ruler and say, oh, father,
52:51
Speaker 1: you need to stop doing that. We'll just move you
52:54
Speaker 1: over here. They didn't actually do anything to save these kids,
52:56
Speaker 1: and that's why they're all going to help. I know
52:58
Speaker 1: that they are. And I think a fitting quote to
53:00
Speaker 1: wrap this up with was stated by Teresa Lancaster, one
53:03
Speaker 1: of the victims in this case, to WJYZ News Baltimore
53:07
Speaker 1: regarding sister Kathy and the possibility of Father Maskell being
53:11
Speaker 1: involved in her murder. She said, quote, there are so
53:13
Speaker 1: many things that coincide here. I don't believe in coincidence.
53:18
Speaker 1: End quote. So what do you guys think was sister
53:22
Speaker 1: Kathy murdered because of her knowledge of this? Is this
53:26
Speaker 1: just some completely random killing that has nothing to do
53:30
Speaker 1: with the rampants so children, that was happening in the
53:32
Speaker 1: same church that they were actively covering up for decades.
53:35
Speaker 1: You know my thoughts, and I think we all know
53:38
Speaker 1: the answer here. And until somebody opens their mouth and
53:42
Speaker 1: starts speaking the truth in this case, there will be
53:45
Speaker 1: no solution. There will never be any solution or proper
53:49
Speaker 1: ending to the story. Sister Kathy is dead in the ground.
53:52
Speaker 1: She's been there for over fifty years, and still nobody
53:57
Speaker 1: has ever been held publicly accountable for her killing. And
54:00
Speaker 1: even with all of this information, why can't the Baltimore
54:03
Speaker 1: Police Department admit that Father Maskell had something to do
54:07
Speaker 1: with her death? I don't know. It just blows my mind.
54:10
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Speaker 1: and yeah, this is just, this is insane and I'm
54:35
Speaker 1: at a loss for words. After this one, I'm gonna
54:37
Speaker 1: have to take a long break. And yeah, it's just,
54:40
Speaker 1: it's just it's a deep, dark world that we that
54:42
Speaker 1: we live in. But until next time, everybody, always question everything,
54:46
Speaker 1: keep that tinfoil hat on, stay suspicious, stay safe, and
54:49
Speaker 1: I'll see you next week.