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	25-Year-Old Murder Focuses on Priest United Press International April 22, 2006 http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060422-072403-8701r Toledo, Ohio, April 22 (UPI) -- The 1980 murder of a 71-year-old nun in Ohio is being tried after a woman came forward saying a priest had molested her as a child in Satanic rituals. Father Gerald Robinson -- a popular and now frail 68-year-old Roman Catholic priest who helped preside over the nun's funeral Mass -- is being tried for her death, The Los Angeles Times reported. Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was choked so hard that the blood vessels in her eyes burst and bones in her neck were crushed. While she was still breathing, her killer stabbed her 31 times -- and some of the wounds formed the shape of an upside-down cross. Pahl's mutilated body was found sprawled on the floor of the church sacristy, below a small wooden crucifix. Robinson's attorney Alan Konop said none of the evidence directly ties his client to the crime. DNA evidence, including samples taken from beneath Pahl's fingernails, did not match Robinson. Prosecutor Dean Mandros said cuts in an altar cloth, as well as entry wounds on the nun's body, matched the four-sided blace of Robinson's letter opener. The priest, who is on leave from the church and free on bail, could face life in prison.
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