Hello everyone,
I binge watched this program last weekend and it has not really left my mind all week. I have found that at the time of Sr Cathy's murder, and Joyce Malecki there was also two other young women that were found and there were very similar MO's surrounding their deaths. However, I cant find anywhere that these have all been seriously looked at. It seems the investigation as per the doco is centred around Sr Cathy's connection with Keogh and the abuse and this seems to take over any links with the 3 other murders around the same time. I have no doubts that what went on at Keogh and in other parishes nearby related to Maskell,I just feel the church connection has blotted out any other form of investigation linking these four horrible deaths.
In addition to Joyce Malecki, who's murder is discussed in the documentary, there are the cases of 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers, whose body was found in Anne Arundel County in 1970 and 16-year-old Grace Elizabeth "Gay" Montanye, whose body was found in 1971 in South Baltimore.
There is little information available on these cases but, from what I can tell, Pamela Conyers was abducted from the Harundale Mall near her home in Glen Burnie. She left her home at 8:30 PM Oct 16th 1970 and had purchased the shoe polish she set out to get. No one reported seeing her after that so it is assumed that she was abducted as she returned to her car. Her body was found in a wooded area between the north and southbound lanes of route 100 that was under construction near what is now the Waterford road overpass. Her car was found abandoned near where her body was found.
On Sept 29, 1971 Grace Elizabeth Montanye, junior at Franklin HS in Reistertown, Md. told friends she was going to meet some guy about a modeling job. Her body was dumped near Mt Auburn Cemetary in Baltimore City. I can find no indication that any vehicle that she had procession of was involved.
Joyce Malecki was abducted from the parking lot of a Korvette Dept Store in Glen Burnie on Nov 13, 1969. Her body was found in a creek on Ft Meade Military Base. Her vehicle was found abandoned behind a bar nowhere near either the abduction site or the body dump site. (I am unable to determine the exact location).
The Montanye case has several differences from the other cases so that it is likely unrelated. The Malecki case and the Conyers case occurred in the same city, the same basic MO and less than a year apart. A significant similarity is that the victim's vehicle was used in the abduction but it does not appear to have been used to returning the abduction site (where the abductor would be expected to leave his car).
The big question is whether or not they are related to the Cesnik case. Sr. Cathy died of a blow to the head, her hands were unbound and she was not sexually assaulted. Joyce Malecki was stabbed to death, her hands were bound and, while I can not verify she was sexually assaulted, her clothing was partially removed suggesting a sexual motive. I can find no information on the other two women but the assumption is that the crimes were sexually motivated.
The significance of the other cases is that they raise the possibility that Sister Cathy may have been a victim of a sexual predator and her case had nothing to do with the "problems" at Keough.
Joyce Malecki had very peripheral links to Fr Manskell so there is the speculation that her case is tied to the Keough "problems" but, on the surface, it appears to be a sex crime. A comparison of all evidence should establish the likelihood of any connection to the Conyers case which appears to have been a sex crime with no links to Keough.
In spite of all the tantalizing evidence turned up in the documentary, we can't rule out the possibility that Sr Cathy was not just the victim of a sexual predator who followed her to her Apt from where she had been shopping.
