Why The Keepers is the best documentary of its kind and we need more women like Gemma and Abbie

UNITED KINGDOM
Metro

Kate Leaver
Saturday 3 Jun 2017

If only the world had more people like Abbie Schaub and Gemma Hoskins.
These two retirees from Baltimore, USA, are the unspoken heroes of the Netflix true crimes series, The Keepers.

If you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about here – they’re crime-fighting goddesses who basically got to their 60s and said, ‘The police ain’t gonna solve this crime? We’ll take it from here, boys; we have Microsoft Word and a library card’.

Here’s how Schaub and Hoskins became the fastidious sleuths they are today.

Their beloved English teacher, Sister Cathy Cesnik, went missing in 1969.

She got into her car, drove to a shopping mall, bought her sister an engagement present, and simply never returned.

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