MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
David Zurawik
The Baltimore Sun
It is hard to imagine a true-crime docu-series that has more winning story elements than “The Keepers.”
More elements than Netflix’s “Making a Murderer,” HBO’s “The Jinx” or even the “Serial” podcast that dealt with young love, death and a Muslim man who is still in a Maryland prison for a crime he might not have committed.
The seven-part production that arrives Friday on Netflix features a decades-old unsolved murder involving a beloved 26-year-old Baltimore nun, Sister Catherine Cesnik, who went shopping at a local mall on a Friday night in 1969 and never returned to her apartment.
Alongside that core narrative is the allegation of a horrifying sexual abuse ring that preyed upon high school girls at the school where the nun taught. And at the center of the ring is a priest who served as guidance counselor, a clergyman whom survivors describe as a monster, the Rev. A. Joseph Maskell.
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