Baltimore News Station Uncovers Lost Video That Could Answer Questions about Case

By Christian Schaffer
9 WCPO-TV
October 6, 2017

http://www.wcpo.com/news/national/the-keepers-baltimore-news-station-uncovers-lost-video-that-could-answer-questions-about-case

A video that could hold vital answers to questions posed in Netflix’s true crime documentary “The Keepers” has been found in the archives of a Baltimore newsroom.

Journalists at WMAR in Baltimore — one of our sister stations— have uncovered video of Catholic Church documents being dug up at a local cemetery in 1994. The video, which shows black plastic bags and papers at the bottom of the a deep hole in a Baltimore cemetery, confirms the existence of documents discussed on “The Keepers,” and gives new insight into what Father Joseph Maskell hid amid accusations of sexual abuse.

“The Keepers” investigates the murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik — a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School who was killed in 1970. It also looks into allegations of sexual abuse by Maskell, a former chaplain at the school.

According to “The Keepers,” Maskell ordered dozens of boxes of documents to be buried at a local cemetery in 1990 — documents that activists say contained proof of sexual abuse of minors.

In August of 1994, the boxes were dug up. The WMAR video shows that among the documents that were buried is a version of the "Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory,” or MCMI.

According to Gemma Hoskins, an activist featured prominently in “The Keepers,” the MCMI is used to diagnose serious personality disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. "The Keepers” claims Maskell used psychological techniques when abusing students at Archbishop Keough.