NEW YORK
The Buffalo News
By Alan Pergament
Published Fri, Jun 2, 2017
I have a beef with Netflix. The streaming service is premiering too many interesting programs too close to each other.
I suppose the one positive development from the lousy May weather was it forced me inside to binge on even some Netflix programs I had no intention of watching.
During the hit-and-miss weather on the extended Memorial Day weekend, I began watching the true crime documentary series “The Keepers” about the 1969 murder of a beloved Baltimore nun.
The series had me at hello when it quickly introduced a retired Baltimore journalist, Tom Nugent, who is as big a pack rat as I am. He was up in his cluttered attic, roaming through all his stories about the murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik.
I had to laugh a little in recognition because I recently cleaned up my office and discovered some of my papers from my college journalism classes in 1969.
That was the last laugh I had in a series that played out like a horror story.
I watched with my fiancé, a graduate of a local Catholic high school and the proud niece of a Sister of Mercy.
We were both horrified as two 60-something citizen journalists, Gemma Hoskins and Abbie Schaub, led an investigation into the death of their high school teacher. These amateur Jessica Fletcher’s uncovered sexual abuse by a priest of multiple high school girls that was covered up by the Baltimore diocese with the possible help of law enforcement authorities and politicians.
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