MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
Alison Knezevich
The Baltimore Sun
DNA evidence from a priest whose remains were exhumed does not match crime-scene evidence from the unsolved killing of Baltimore nun Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, Baltimore County police said Wednesday.
The Randallstown grave of the Rev. A. Joseph Maskell was exhumed in February so detectives could compare his DNA to physical evidence. Police had previously tested the DNA of about six other suspects in the nun’s death.
“The fact that the DNA profiles of the various suspects have not matched the crime scene evidence — it doesn’t necessarily exonerate them,” police spokeswoman Elise Armacost said.
Cesnik, who taught at Archbishop Keough and Western high schools, went missing in November 1969. Her body was found in January 1970 in Lansdowne.
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