Hi, I'm Charlie Spicer and this is Case Closed, a show about the times the bad guy didn't get away with it.

We'll be back with a new episode next week, but today I want to share a special clip from another True Crime podcast you're really going to like. It's called Unsolved.

Unsolved investigates a new murder every season. This season is about the murder of a Catholic priest named Father Alfred Coons more than 20 years ago.

He was in his parish school in 1998 when someone slid his throat. Father Coons was very attached to ancient traditions and he even did exorcisms.

Some of the suspects include one of the teachers at the parish school, a Marine claiming to be Claire Voint, and a man who feared the end of the world.

You'll even hear audio of Friar Coons before his death. So you'll be able to get some insight into why his beliefs and the group of people he called friends made his murder so hard to solve.

Unsolved is hosted by reporter Gina Barton at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Check out Unsolved Season 3, The Devil You Know, on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to our favorite shows.

But first, keep listening to hear a little audio from the show. Enjoy.

There's an empty hollow feeling in the church today. The congregation's long time well-loved leader was found murdered this morning.

In March 1998, Father Alfred Coons bled to death in the hallway of St. Michael School in Dane, Wisconsin. Someone slid his throat.

Dave Katna, a Dane County Sheriff's Deputy, responded to the 911 call.

I walked up to the subject and it was pretty clear that this individual at the seat was a large pool of blood and there was a very gruesome injury to the...

...to the throat area of the individual who turned out obviously to be Father Coons.

Dave Mahoney was a detective back then. Now, he's the Dane County Sheriff. He had actually met Father Coons at the St. Michael Fish Prize, where Father Coons was known for putting on an apron and cooking the cod himself.

Well, my initial response was one of whom murders a Catholic priest. What issue could you have to have murdered a Catholic priest?

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this is Unsolved, Season 3. The Devil You Know. I'm Gina Barton.

I've been hearing about the murder of Father Coons since I moved to Milwaukee back in 2002. It's a mystery that has all kinds of strange twists and turns.

As I was trying to decide which story to tell in Season 3 of Unsolved, this one kept rising to the top of the list.

First, one of my editors said I should look into Father Coons' case, and this editor still had a stack of police reports from 1998 in his desk, which was crazy, but not totally unexpected if you've ever been in a newsroom.

And then one of my friends, who is also a reporter here and who covered the case back when it happened, suggested that Father Coons would be perfect for Season 3, so I started looking into it.

Then, I found out Father Coons used to do a radio show with one of his parishioners, an attorney named Peter Kelly.

Peter still had recordings of the radio shows, and he was willing to share them with me. That was really, really exciting. It meant Father Coons could tell some of his own story for himself, and we could hear him from beyond the grave.

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