OHIO
Toledo Blade
BY ALEXANDRA MESTER AND RONEISHA MULLEN
BLADE STAFF WRITERS
A Toledo priest convicted of murder in 2006 for the 1980 slaying of a nun died early Friday in a prison hospital.
Father Gerald Robinson, 76, was in hospice at Franklin Medical Center, a Columbus hospital run by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, when he died at 4:15 a.m.
His attorney, Rick Kerger, said an official cause of death had not yet been disclosed.
Robinson had been in the facility for heart problems.
The priest was serving 15 years to life in prison for the slaying of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, who was killed on April 5, 1980 — a day before Easter and a day before she would have turned 72.
Sister Margaret Ann’s body was found on the floor of the sacristy of the former Mercy Hospital on Holy Saturday. Evidence showed that she had been choked to the edge of death and stabbed 32 times in the chest, the neck, and the face.
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