OHIO
The New York Times
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
JULY 4, 2014
The Rev. Gerald Robinson, a Catholic priest who was convicted in 2006 of murdering a nun more than 20 years earlier, died on Friday in Columbus, Ohio. He was 76.
Father Robinson had a heart attack in May, and since then, he had been in a hospice at Franklin Medical Center, which is run by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. His lawyer, Richard Kerger, confirmed his death.
Father Robinson had worked at Mercy Hospital in Toledo with Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, 71, when she was killed the day before Easter in 1980. She was found in the hospital chapel, where she had been preparing for Easter services. She had been strangled, draped with an altar cloth and stabbed 31 times, including nine wounds in the shape of an upside-down cross. There was a smear of blood across her forehead, as if she had been anointed in last rites.
Father Robinson was questioned, and he would later admit to making up a story that someone else had confessed to the murder. But the case was soon dropped for lack of evidence.
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