On Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980, Catholic nun Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was murdered in a chapel in Toledo, Ohio in a ritualistic manner many thought was a human sacrifice to the devil.

There was only one suspect, a moody and brooding priest named Father Gerald Robinson; but, in what many considered an elaborate conspiracy involving police, bishops, prosecutors and church officials, no charges were ever filed and the case went unsolved.

Over twenty years later, as the Catholic Church erupted in sex abuse scandals, the case was reopened, exposing numerous allegations of a cult of Satanic priests, sadomasochistic sex rituals, secret files hidden by church officials to cover abuse and murder, prostitution, and ritualistic killings, culminating in the first conviction of an American priest in the killing of a nun.

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REFERENCES:

Court TV's complete coverage of Gerald Robinson murder case

Sin, Shame, And Secrets: The Murder of a Nun, the Conviction of a Priest, and Cover-up in the Catholic Church by David Yonke. Contimuum Press 2006. ISBN 978-0826417558

The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime by Michael H. Stone, M.D. & Gary Brucato, Ph.D., Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-63388-532-5.

New York Times, 12 May 2006 "Priest Found Guilty of Nun's 1980 Murder"

NBC NEWS May 11, 2006 Priest convicted of slaying nun

Columbus Dispatch April 7, 2011 by David Yonke Supreme Court Rejects Woman's Lawsuit Claiming Satanic Abuse by Toledo Priest

NBC NEWS April 21, 2006 Prosecutor: Priest’s blade fits nun’s wounds

FOX NEWS May 11, 2006 Fast Facts: Timeline of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl's Killing | Fox News

Porterville Recorder, July 4, 2014 "Priest convicted of killing nun dies in prison".

Murder of Margaret Ann Pahl - Wikipedia

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