IRELAND
The Journal
NETFLIX’S NEW TRUE crime documentary The Keepers is sparking fresh interest in a 48-year-old murder case.
The seven-part series opens with the story of 26-year-old Sister Cathy Cesnik, a beloved nun and teacher at the all-girls Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland.
Sister Cathy went missing on 7 November 1969 and nearly two months later her body was found.
To this day, her murder remains unsolved.
The series looks into suggestions that Sister Cathy was murdered because she threatened to reveal cases of sexual abuse occurring at Keough.
The Keepers doesn’t solve Sister Cathy’s death and it doesn’t definitively link the main suspect, the school’s chaplain and abuser Father Joseph Maskell, to the murder.
However, it delves into the long-term effects that the sexual abuse had on the graduates of Keough, along with revealing an alleged paedophile ring involving the school’s priests and a section of the police force in Baltimore.
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