Baltimore: Sister Cathy, Nightmares Alive in the Night

Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast

Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode beckons listeners into the haunting echo of an unsolved past. Join hosts Shane and Gemma as they sit down with Mary Spence, a former student of Archbishop Keough High School, who on the night of Sister Cathy Cesnik's disappearance heard something that would haunt the corridors of her memory for decades to come.

In "Episode 35 - Yelling in the Night," Mary transports listeners back to that cold November evening, her narrative imbued with the unsettling clarity of a moment frozen in time. The sound of yelling that night, a startling disruption in an otherwise quiet neighborhood, may hold more significance than was ever initially realized.

Through her vivid recollection, Mary adds an essential voice to the ongoing chorus calling for truth in the darkness of uncertainty. Shane and Gemma meticulously unspool the threads of Mary's story, contextualizing her experiences with the broader events surrounding Sister Cathy's disappearance.

Could the nocturnal outbursts heard by Mary provide missing pieces to a puzzle that has remained incomplete for over half a century? This gripping installment of "Foul Play" offers more than just another chapter in the true crime genre, it's an auditory passage into the past, an invitation to explore the fears and facts surrounding one of Baltimore's most enduring mysteries.

Dial in for Episode 35 and join the quest to examine a narrative as enigmatic as it is enduring. It's a promise of chilling revelations, expert storytelling, and the relentless pursuit of truth that defines the best of true crime podcasting.
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0:00.0	I'm going to Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hi everybody this is Jomat and Shane and I always am excited to talk to people that I know and this person you all know and love because she was in the keepers and this is my friend Mary Spence and Mary and I
0:49.1	Appreciate each other's eccentricity because she is one of the most creative, interesting, adorable people I've ever met in my whole life and today we're going to welcome her to the program.
1:02.0	Hi Mary. Yay! glad to be here. How are you? We're good. Okay.
1:10.0	Kim, here's something you should talk about, how we know each other from way, way back, which maybe I knew you more so than you knew me.
1:19.6	We attended the same bull, we both went to St. William of York. You were about two years ahead of me. I was in the same class with Theresa Lancaster for seven years, so I do know her. Although when we got to high school, you know how it is, people drift
1:36.5	off with different groups of friends and we didn't really hang around in high school together.
1:42.0	Yeah, a lot of people don't know that Theresa Lancaster was
1:45.2	Theresa Harris. Correct. And Joe Harris was my chemistry teacher at Archip. Okay.
1:51.3	For older brother.
1:53.0	My first day of first grade I met Theresa Harris because when we left school, I was supposed to be in
2:01.0	patrol two. I wasn't really sure what patrol two was. It was you went out in a group and you all
2:08.4	went home together and patrol two crossed Edmondson Avenue and went home a certain way.
2:15.0	And I was mixed up and I was standing out on Cook Lane.
2:19.0	And along came a really nice lady who said,
2:22.0	Are you large? lady who said, are you large?
2:24.2	And I said, oh, I'm not sure it's about the strangers
2:27.2	who's this lady.
2:28.9	And it turned out to be Theresa Harris's mother
2:31.6	and she blamed Theresa with her daughter and so I let her take me home I got in her car
2:38.9	Ooh and that's how Theresa and I really met and played together sometimes and whatnot when we were younger.
2:47.0	You talk about how Sister Kathy motivated you to be a great teacher,
2:53.0	don't forget your own mother was a great teacher.
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