UNITED STATES
Christian Post
BY FELIX N. CODILLA III , CHRISTIAN POST CONTRIBUTOR
Jun 26, 2017
“The Keepers,” one of Netflix’s highly successful shows, chronicles the ongoing investigation into the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a nun teaching at a high school in Baltimore, Maryland. The 26-year-old English went missing on Nov. 7, 1969, and her body was found two months later in a garbage dump outside the city.
But the original true crime documentary isn’t about Sister Cathy’s mysterious death but the cover-up of her story. The nun was apparently threatening to expose a widespread child sex abuse case going on at the all-girls Archbishop Keough High School where she taught.
“There’s the on-the-record public story of what happened to Sister Cathy and then there’s the world beneath,” a community member said on the series’ trailer. The nun was bludgeoned to death with a hammer while her neck bore strangulation marks. Making things more sinister was the disappearance or murder of four other girls that time.
Everything disturbing and criminal about the series led to one figure: Father A. Joseph Maskell, the school chaplain. The priest was highly influential in the Baltimore area, having served as chaplain for the Baltimore County Police, the Maryland State Police and the Maryland National Guard.
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