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The Kansas City Star
BY KANTELE FRANKO AND JOHN SEEWER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
07/04/2014 12:08 PM 07/04/2014
A Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun inside a chapel a day before Easter 1980 died Friday at a Columbus prison hospice unit, a day after a federal judge refused his request to be released to family care so he could die in his hometown of Toledo.
Attorney Richard Kerger said the Rev. Gerald Robinson’s sister-in-law told him the priest died Friday morning. He was 76.
Robinson had been serving a sentence of 15 years to life. He was arrested 24 years after the nun’s death and was found guilty in 2006 of stabbing and strangling Sister Margaret Ann Pahl at a Toledo hospital where they both worked.
Church historians have said it’s the only documented case of a Catholic priest killing a nun.
Robinson and Pahl had worked closely together at the hospital where he was a chaplain and she was caretaker of the chapel. He presided at the funeral Mass for her.
The 71-year-old nun was killed while she was preparing the chapel for Easter services in 1980. She was choked and then stabbed 31 times.
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