MARYLAND
CBS Baltimore
May 3, 2017 By Denise Koch
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Nearly 50 years ago, the body of sister Cathy Cesnik was found in a ditch.
For months WJZ has been investigating the case that’s haunted the community.
Baltimore County police revealed only to WJZ that they’ve dug up the body of a powerful priest who has long been suspected in Cesnik’s death, to get his DNA.
In January of 1970, the decomposed body of 26-year-old Cathy Cesnik was discovered in a field in Lansdowne.
It’s a murder that’s gone unsolved for decades. A recent WJZ investigation revealed that many women who were sexually abused by Father Joseph Maskell, believed that sister Cathy was killed because she was about to blow the whistle on his dirty secret.
“She confronted him and she lost her life for it,” Teresa Lancaster said.
In the 60’s and 70’s, Father Maskell, a counselor at Archbishop Keough High School, was accused of molesting dozens of students, mostly women.
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