TOLEDO (OH)
New York Daily News
Justice Story: Killer priest murders nun in chapel sacristy, leaves demonic stab pattern over her heart
By David J. Krajicek / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Sunday, September 23, 2012
The nun’s killer left behind a pointed message.
Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, 71, was murdered on the morning before Easter in 1980, an ungodly act on Holy Saturday. Her body was found in the chapel sacristy at Mercy Hospital in Toledo, Ohio.
She had been confronted by her killer as she prepared for that day’s services. Pahl was choked to death’s door, jabbed mercilessly with a letter opener, and then sexually violated. She was found with an altar cloth shrouding her torso.
It was a ritual murder with hallmarks of pathological rage.
Among 31 stab wounds, nine punctures over her heart formed the outline of an inverted Crucifix, a demonic symbol. She had been stripped below the waist and defiled with a cross.
The homicide was unthinkable. Who would do such a thing to an elderly nun?
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