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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Baltimore Co. Police Say Former Priest's DNA Doesn't Match Scene Of Nun's Killing

A DNA sample from the exhumed remains of a former priest doesn't match DNA from the murder scene of a Catholic nun whose death has attracted renewed interest 47 years later.

Baltimore County police on Wednesday said they got the results from an accredited laboratory that ruled out A. Joseph Maskell as a contributor to DNA preserved from the scene where Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik was killed.

Her body was found in a Lansdowne dumping area in January 1970. She was last seen alive at her Baltimore City apartment before she left to run errands in Edmonson Village the previous November. Police believe whoever killed Cesnik accosted her as she was returning from the store and forced her back into her car. They believe she was driven to Monumental Avenue, where she was assaulted and murdered. Her car was found in the early morning hours the next day.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Funny how that works isn't it???? I wonder if cops lied to make the charges stick to this priest???? Funny how they also wait until 40 or 50 years later to actually check... By then the damage is done...

Anonymous said...

That does not mean that he was not involved with her murder. His DNA may prove him guilty. The lack of his DNA does not prove him innocent. One of his many cop friends could have done it.