April 17, 2006

Priest Headed to Trial Over Nun's Slaying

TOLEDO (OH)
CBS News

TOLEDO, Ohio, Apr. 17, 2006

(AP) When Sister Margaret Ann Pahl's body was found the day before Easter 26 years ago, she had been strangled and stabbed in a hospital chapel. The wounds on her chest and neck resembled a cross.

Jury selection was to begin Monday in the murder trial of the man accused of her killing, the Rev. Gerald Robinson, the same Roman Catholic priest who presided at Pahl's funeral Mass.

Robinson, 68, is accused of strangling and stabbing Pahl in 1980 at the hospital where they worked. Investigators have not disclosed a motive for the slaying but said it may have been some kind of ritual slaying.

Posted by kshaw at April 17, 2006 06:49 AM