The body of a Catholic priest from
Baltimore, whose sexual assaults on teenage girls in the 1960s and 1970s
caused the Archdiocese of Baltimore to pay out a dozen settlements last
year, has been exhumed by Baltimore County police still trying to solve
the 1969 slaying of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, police said Thursday.
Cesnik's death has long been one of
Baltimore's most puzzling homicides, and is the focus of a new
documentary series, "The Keepers," to be released on Netflix on May 19.
The longtime suspect in her death is the Rev. A. Joseph Maskell, who was
the chaplain at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore and also a
chaplain for the police in both Baltimore city and county. He was
removed from priestly duties in 1992 when allegations of sexual abuse
against him were first made to the church, he fled the country in 1994,
and was never charged with a crime before his death in 2001.
