MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
Alison Knezevich
The Baltimore Sun
The grave of a priest who died in 2001 has been dug up as part of the investigation into the slaying of a Baltimore nun more than 40 years ago, Baltimore County police say.
A. Joseph Maskell’s body was exhumed, county police spokeswoman Elise Armacost said. County police are handling the cold case of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, whose body was found in Lansdowne in 1970.
The case is the subject of the upcoming Netflix documentary “The Keepers,” which premieres May 19.
In the 1990s, a woman who came forward with allegations of abuse by the priest — who worked at Archbishop Keough High School — implicated him in the nun’s death.
Last year, The Baltimore Sun reported that the Archdiocese of Baltimore reached settlements with about a dozen people who said they were sexually abused by Maskell.
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