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In this original and persuasive true-crime report, journalist and author David Yonke presents and analyzes really the only case in US record when a Roman Catholic priest was caught for the murder of a nun. Dad Gerald Robinson of Toledo, whom friends and associates referred to as a timid and mild-mannered man, was caught by cold-case detectives in Apr, 2004, and costed in the brutal slaying of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl 24 years earlier. The 71-year-old nun had been choked to the edge of death, protected with an altar cloth, and stabbed 31 times in the face, neck, and breasts. Her body was found in the sacristy of a Catholic medical center, her habit taken up to her breasts and her undergarments around her ankles. It had been Holy Saturday morning, 1980, the day before Easter and the day prior to the victim's 72nd birthday. Cold-case investigators said the first nine stab wounds, made over the nun's heart, were in the shape of an ugly cross, among the many signals that Sister Margaret Ann was the victim of a ritual getting rid of. "Sin, Shame & Secrets" unveils how cold-case investigators made a decision to reopen the truth in 2003 after a Toledo nun testified that Dad Robinson abused her in satanic rituals when she was a kid. The nun's testimony prior to the Toledo Catholic Diocese's Review Panel also alleged that a number of children had been killed by the cult. A lengthy police investigation used, resulting in Robinson's arrest at age 66 on Apr 23, 2004. After a three-week trial, protected gavel-to-gavel by Courtroom Tv set (now truTV), the priest was convicted of murder on, may 11, 2006, and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Yonke, the award-winning ex - Faith Editor and reporter with the Toledo Blade, reviewed hundreds of police files, interviewed dozens of principles, and protected every minute of the trial to provide listeners a thorough and examined check out occurrences as they unfolded, as well as providing qualifications information for the story and people
