Fr. Richard Hiester
Monsignor. Parish priest, military chaplain during WW II, Cathedral Choir director, director of Camp St. Malo 1954-1968. (In 1958 a boy disappeared from the camp; his remains were found a year later. Hiester waited three days to notify police that the remains were found.) Accused in a lawsuit filed in 11/2023 of sexually abusing an altar boy, age 6, in the 1970s. The boy and his family attended Notre Dame Parish in Denver, where Hiester was assigned. Two other priests are also accused in the lawsuit of sexually abusing the boy over a 10-year period. Hiester died in 1993.
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