Baltimore: Sister Cathy's Silenced Truth
Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast
Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
4.5 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As co-hosts Shane Waters and Gemma Hoskins explore new angles and unfurl evidence not seen in the Netflix series "The Keepers," this podcast continues the mission to bring justice to light. With Gemma's firsthand insights from starring in "The Keepers" and Shane's investigative prowess, the series takes listeners beyond the documentary into uncharted territory.
The team engages with both familiar faces from the series and new voices that emerge from the past, bringing fresh perspectives to the fore. Each episode of this ongoing series offers a deep dive into the context of Sister Cathy's life, the dark secrets she may have stumbled upon, and the subsequent efforts to bury the truth alongside her.
We confront head-on the possibilities of a cover-up intertwined with institutions of trust and the immeasurable cost of silence. The story of Sister Cathy Cesnik extends far beyond a simple true crime narrative, it touches upon the systemic failures that allow abuse to flourish in the shadows.
As new episodes are released periodically, Shane and Gemma commit to unwrapping this complex tapestry, episode by episode, until the full picture of Sister Cathy's story is revealed. Join us on this gripping investigative journey, where each piece of evidence reveals the darker corners of Baltimore's history and seeks to honor Sister Cathy's legacy by fighting for the truth.
This is more than just a case file; it's a fight for resolution and reform. "Sister Cathy: The Silenced Truth" is your invitation to be part of a movement that demands answers for Sister Cathy and so many like her.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,th, 2017, Netflix released its newest docu series titled The Keepers. |
| 0:38.0 | In this series, Director Ryan White explores the unsolved murder of Sister Kathy Cessnick, who taught English and drama at |
| 0:46.2 | Baltimore's Archbishop Keio High School, and the believed cover-up by authorities |
| 0:51.8 | in the Baltimore Catholic Church of sexual abuse of students |
| 0:56.2 | by Father Joseph Maskell. |
| 0:59.4 | Prior to Netflix's release, I created a three-part episode on Sister Kathy's murder, and one of the people |
| 1:06.5 | I interviewed was Jima Hoskins. |
| 1:09.0 | Jima joined me last season to help with the Redhead Murder series and together we will be exploring into detail |
| 1:15.5 | Sister Kathy's murder and the impact the Keepers continue to make in the world. |
| 1:21.2 | My name is Jama Hoskins. I was a student of Kathy Seznick when I was at Archbishop |
| 1:28.5 | Keio High School and I have since retired from teaching but she's really the reason I became a teacher. |
| 1:37.2 | She was a breath of fresh air in that building and in that life for me. I was very fortunate that I was never abused by anybody. |
| 1:48.0 | I came from a pretty functional family in the 50s and my parents were very involved in school. My sister and I were |
| 1:55.9 | both at Kio at the same time and dad was there, my mother came to everything and we did not have issues that some of the other girls who are now |
| 2:06.9 | women may have gone to him about in terms of counseling. About three to four years ago, Tom Nugent, who's a journalist, got in touch with me. |
| 2:18.0 | He was tracking down as many people from Keio Yearbooks as he could because he wanted to write a story and that was the story who killed |
| 2:26.4 | Sister Kathy. And so I helped him with that. I talked to him about what she meant to me. |
| 2:33.9 | I was fortunate, very fortunate that as a teacher, |
| 2:38.2 | I was named the Maryland Teacher of the Year |
| 2:41.5 | and I owe that to her because she was an amazing teacher and I |
| 2:46.6 | copied what she did and it worked. Tom felt like that would give his story |
| 2:50.8 | credibility and so he and I began a nice long distance |
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