MARYLAND
Daily Mail (UK)
By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Baltimore detectives have exhumed the body of a priest as part of the investigation into the unsolved murder of a nun whose 1969 killing is the subject of Netflix’s latest true-crime series, threatening to spoil the entire documentary before it even airs.
Father Joseph Maskell was exhumed from a Baltimore cemetery on February 28.
Baltimore County homicide detectives took a sample of his DNA immediately to test it against evidence found near the body of Sister Cathy Cessnik.
Sister Cathy was found dead at a garbage dump in November 1969, two months after she vanished. Her murder has haunted the community for years and is the subject of the The Keepers: Who Killed Sister Cathy? which will launch on the streaming site on May 19.
Police expect a result on the DNA test by the end of next week and say it will be a ‘huge breakthrough’ if Maskell’s sample matches the evidence found at the scene.
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