Baltimore: Sister Cathy and the Trench Coat Mystery
Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast
Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
4.5 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As co-host Gemma Hoskins dives deeper into the secrets of this case, we uncover startling new insights that beg the question, what if the smallest detail holds the key to solving the entire case? As cold cases age, their secrets often grow colder with them. But the flame of truth is hard to extinguish, especially when a new witness steps forward.
Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters analyze a witness account that could shake the very foundations of what we thought we knew about the days leading up to Sister Cathy's disappearance. A first-hand sighting of a man in a trench coat may bring us closer to understanding the dark events that unfolded at Archbishop Keough High School.
Did Sister Russell, Cathy's friend, and roommate, know more than she ever let on? What did the authorities miss, and how does this change the established narrative? This deep dive into the enigma surrounding the renowned case intertwines careful research with riveting storytelling, inviting our audience to partake in piecing together the puzzle.
Prepare to question everything and We chase down leads, confront the past, and uncover revelations that could illuminate the path to justice for Sister Cathy. Make sure to listen, rate, and review as Foul Play: Crime Series brings new life to a case that has whispered for justice for decades.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hi everybody we have a special guest this week I would like to introduce all of you to one of my |
| 0:38.0 | co- colleagues that I didn't even know until this past week. |
| 0:43.0 | This is Sharon Hamel Bush. |
| 0:46.5 | Some of you have seen her new postings on the Keepers' Page. |
| 0:50.6 | And of course, we were all curious |
| 0:52.4 | because she seemed to know a lot and so |
| 0:55.1 | Sharon is gracious enough to share her story with us. So welcome Sharon. Thank you. |
| 1:01.2 | Thank you. I hope I can be of some help. I think you will. Absolutely. So the first |
| 1:07.1 | thing I'm going to ask you to do is just to share with us how you got to know sister Russell and sister Kathy. I went to |
| 1:16.7 | Archbishop Keow High School. I was in the first class of 1965 when it started. |
| 1:21.4 | Kathy was my English teacher and Russ was my math teacher. It was a student |
| 1:27.0 | teacher relationship for four years and then when Kathy and Russ decided to leave the convent in June of 1969 after our graduation, |
| 1:37.5 | I became very close with Russell, not so much with Kathy. I knew Kathy and they were roommates, |
| 1:42.3 | but Russell was very close |
| 1:44.1 | friend of mine and my families and you had already graduated from Kio is |
| 1:48.6 | that yes I graduated in June of 1969. |
| 1:52.5 | And then were you getting ready for college? |
| 1:54.8 | What were you going to do? |
| 1:56.2 | Yes, I was getting ready to go to college to Frostburg |
| 1:58.7 | in the fall. |
| 1:59.7 | I went briefly, but then I came home. |
| 2:01.8 | So I wasn't there very long, maybe four or five weeks. It didn't work out for me, so I came home and I took a year off of college before I went back again. I worked for that year. |
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