She chose not to charge Maskell, saying the case lacked evidence. NEXT:10 Creepy Documentaries To Watch If You Loved The Keepers. The series also renewed the investigations into the murders of two women, Sister Cathy Cesnik and Joyce Malecki. Were you scared of taking on the Catholic Church? [7] She cashed a paycheck at First National Bank in Catonsville that night. "The Keepers" premieres on Netflix May 19. In 1969, at 26 years old, Cesnik faced an impasse in her life and career, Radakovic says. He was well connected to the local community and to the police departments, at both the county and state levels. Amateur sleuths have continued tracking the famous cold case in a new podcast series. I can still feel her touch my cheek, said Hargadon-Wehner, in a recent interview. There are a lot of people that are living that should be behind bars, she said. She may have made a purchase at Muhly's Bakery in Edmondson Village, since a box of buns from that bakery was found in the front seat of her car. Ryan White's aunt attended Archbishop Keough High School, and had stayed in touch with Jean Hargadon-Wehner. Wehner alleged that there was frequent sexual abuse at Sister Cathy's school. I agree with TheWrap's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and provide my consent to receive marketing communications from them. So much of the investigationof the murder disappeared and we ran into that time and time again. Police then announced that the DNA taken from A. Joseph Maskell was not a direct match to the DNA found at the two-month-old murder scene, where 26-year-old Sister Cathy was found decomposing in 1970. Netflix's latest true-crime documentary The Keepers is a hit and everyone who has watched the series has only one question: who killed Sister Cathy Cesnik? Here's our quick guide to all the people in "The Keepers" you need to know. Around the same time as Cesnik's disappearance, a 29-year-old woman named Joyce Malecki also went missing and was found dead two days later. She was very, very, very important to me.. And we hope that someone will be able to come forward with conclusive information about the murder. White tells us there is some dogged reporting happening right now in Ireland, digging deeper into the time that A. Joseph Maskell spent there, in addition to his time spent in the United States. But I do think that there are individuals who are still living who know exactly what happened, she said. Audiences reacted poorly to how cold, smarmy, and arrogant Sharon May appeared to be, and with good reason: they have every reason to believe she was very much involved in a cover-up for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, evident enough from her complete inaction throughout the case. She was described as a tall, thin girl -- standing about 5 feet, 7 inches and weighing 112 pounds. A 1994 story in the Baltimore Sun, revealed that she had information about Cesnik's murdered condition, such as the maggots on her face, known only to the cops. In the 1990s, Jean Wehner came forward and alleged that Father Maskell had sexually abused her and allowed other men to do the same. Whats really funny about Gemma, shes taking criminologyclasses right now which I find hilarious. And although the seven-episode seriesexplores through its lead investigators Gemma Hoskins and Abbie Schaub three main suspects, including Father Maskell, who diedin 2001, White does havehis own theory on who abducted and murdered the nun. All rights reserved. If you were part of the Facebookgroup, people got to know us very well. Still wondering what happened to Baltimore's Sister Cathy? The church has denied the charges, but it has settled dozens of sexual abuse cases in the matter of Father Maskell. He was said to have allowed girls at the school to talk about sex and drugs in his office, and even permitted alcohol and cigarettes during gatherings in his rectory living quarters. There are countless untold stories backing up the accusations made against A. Joseph Maskell and the Catholic Church that the docuseries doesnt even begin to explore. The theory that people in position of authority and power are ableto decide what we as the populous know or dont know or whether survivors of abuse are validated or not I also liked the institutional meaning of The Keepers.. Her former students believe that Sister Cathy was murdered as part of a cover-up to protect a priest at the school, A. Joseph Maskell, who Cesnik suspected was guilty of sexual abuse of students. The fall before she died, Cesnik transferred from Keough to a local public school in Baltimore and had asked for a leave of absence from her order. Her life had been threatened and she had allegedly been abused by the priest. I never grew up knowing her teacher had been murdered. He had been a chaplain and counselor at Archbishop Keough while she taught there. It would be two months later, on January 3, 1970, that a couple of hunters came upon Sister Cathy's decomposed, frozen and mutilated body, and notified police. Both had . Father A. Joseph MaskellAn administrator, psychologist and counselor at Keough when Sister Cathy was a teacher there, Maskell has been accused by dozens of students and other children of sexual abuse. He was accused of sexual abuse and aiding Maskell, and was also named in a 1994 lawsuit. Gerald KoobA close friend of Sister Cathys, who says his relationship with her was almost romantic. I don't understand what happens on the other side, she said. Though she spent years in the dark, Radakovic is now regularly in touch with cold-case detectives after first meeting with them in the spring of 2016. This is huge news regarding Sister Cathy's case. Joseph Cesnik in 1930 Census; Census Place: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; 1930 United States Federal Census; National Archives and Records Administration. I do believe in so many other things than I ever did before. The prime suspect in Sister Cathys murder was a priest, the late Father A. Joseph Maskell. When she realized Sister Cathy was missing, she called Koob, and together with him and McKeon, the three later called the police. Days later, after an engagement party with her then-fiancs family, Radakovic got a call from her mother. Throughout the series,the devastation experienced bysurvivors is laid bare,as is theirstrength in confronting unthinkable childhood horrors. However, they say theres nothing, even though Jean Wehner found many victims willing to come forward simply by sending out letters in the mail. 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He claims he interviewed more than 100 girls in the case who knew of or were involved in sexual abuse. After the series premiered, messages started to arrive from around the world with new information. [11] Cesnik's body was not found until January 3, 1970, and its discovery by two hunters was not in the wooded location near Fort Meade, but on the open hill trash dump of a small business property in Lansdowne. ', One former student, Teresa Lancaster, told WJZ-TV in Baltimore, that Sister Cathy had 'confronted' Maskell 'and she lost her life for it. Their interactions have sometimes been fraught, and she tells PEOPLE, Theres a lot that we still would like to see them do.. White is unconvinced that the DNA found at the scene on a cigarette butt would match A. Joseph Maskells DNA, but he remains positive that, eventually, someone will catch whoever murdered Sister Cathy and theyll finally figure out why. After a week of teaching, Sister Cathy, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame, and the daughter of a Pennsylvania postal worker, decided on Friday night that she was going to go shopping. I wont tell you my theory, but I will say: I believe Jean, and I have corroboratedJean, that this is a woman who was telling the truth from the beginning. Maskell left Baltimore for Ireland where he obtained amployment as a psychologist. But he never found the killer of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik; he died of complications from diabetes on June 10, at age 79. Mine isdifferent than Gemmas theory, but we were all looking at the various versions of the truth and deciding what we believed was true. We know this speculation about the circumstances is not false, because Jean Hargadon Wehner tells us in the show that she has evidence proving otherwise. Following her disappearance, investigators plotted her movements and determined she had cashed her $255 paycheck at a bank before heading to a small shopping center where she bought some baked goods. Kathy HobeckIn addition to Wehner and Lancaster, Kathy Hobeck is one of six abuse victims who appears in "The Keepers." This family evidence of anger problems, assaults on others, using a position of power over others to avoid punishment, and the assault on a young woman much like Sister Cathy all point towards a potential pre-existing rage in A. Joseph Maskell that nobody has ever explored. The letters contents and its link to the case, if any, have never been confirmed by police, though the family turned it over as evidence soon after Radakovic got it. By William Cannon They talked about Radakovics impending college graduation and that she might move to Baltimore and stay in Cesniks apartment. Teresa Lancaster (Jane Roe)The second plaintiff in the 1994 lawsuit against Maskell, Lancaster was known in the case as Jane Roe. After the failed lawsuit, she went to law school and became a lawyer, working with Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, or SNAP. This is presumed to be the source of the DNA sample found at the murder scene, but Ryan White knows theres even more that Baltimore County Police arent saying. The plaintiffs appealed. 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The idea that he terrorized many, and that the Catholic Church chose not to stop him. We would go to Baltimore every two months for the last three years, so people started to feel comfortable around us Survivors would reach out to us on Facebook. It started with a freelance journalist, Tom Nugent. In the nearly two months between that discovery and her disappearance, Radakovic, then 20 years old, remained certain her sister was alive somewhere. Donna VonDenBoschDonna VonDenBosch also has come forward as one of Maskell's abuse victims as a member of the Keough class of 1974. Her cousin was soon to be married and Sister Cathy wanted to shop for an engagement gift, she told her roommate, Sister Helen Phillips, with whom she shared a small garden apartment in Southwest Baltimore, a blue-collar area of the city. In 2004, a retired Baltimore homicide detective told the Baltimore City Paper that the church lawyers had 'stepped in and they talked to the higher-ups at the police department. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. [13], Netflix produced a seven-part documentary series about the case called The Keepers, which debuted on May 19, 2017. The Huffington Post reported that Maskell told Wehner, "You see what happens when you say bad things about people?"[1]. Jean claims that Father Maskell took her to Sister Cathy's body and said to her, "See what happens when you say bad things about people.". Nugent reported that three Keough graduates, who each received settlements from the Archdiocese of Baltimore for injuries of $40,000 or more as parties to this case, during the past years have told Inside Baltimore that they were also raped by policemen with the approval of the depraved Father Maskell. She was found dead two months later. One of the students who was abused told Nugent that Sister Cathy was a very brave women who tried her best to help those who were abused and she paid for it with her life., The victim continued: I honor her spirit and I still feel very close to her, even today.