This day in history: The body of Sister Catherine Cesnik, was found in a wooded area in Baltimore County on this day in 1970.
Catherine Anne Cesnik SSND was a Roman Catholic religious sister and a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland. On November 7, 1969, Cesnik disappeared. Her body was discovered on January 3, 1970, near a garbage dump in the Baltimore suburb of Lansdowne. Her unsolved murder served as the basis for the Netflix documentary series The Keepers in 2017.
Immediately after Cesnik's disappearance, police searched the area for her body without success. On January 3, 1970, her body was found by a hunter and his son in an informal landfill located on the 2100 block of Monumental Road, in a remote area of Lansdowne. The cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the head.
In 2016, the Baltimore County Police Department (BCoPD) reassigned the case, prompting new interviews and further investigation into the alleged sexual abuse at Keough. After obtaining permission from the state's attorney's office, the BCoPD exhumed the body of Maskell, who died of a major stroke in 2001, but did not find a DNA match to evidence from the crime scene. Police spokeswoman Elise Armacost announced that this discovery does not exclude Maskell from being a suspect in the case.
In 2015 The Huffington Post, and in 2017 CBS Baltimore repeated the three women's allegations that during Cesnik's tenure at Archbishop Keough High School, two priests at the school, Maskell and E. Neil Magnus, were sexually abusing the girls at the school in addition to trafficking them to others.
In 2023 investigation of similar crimes in the Baltimore area has shed new light on this case.
The murder of Sister Cesnik contributed to the 2023 bankruptcy decision of the Baltimore Catholic Archdiocese.
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