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Unsolved

S3 Ep8: 'Comfort the Sorrowful'

Unsolved

USA TODAY and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

True Crime

3.9792 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Immediately after Father Alfred Kunz’s death, St. Michael teacher Brian Jackson moved in with Kunz’s best friend, Father Charles Fiore. Detective Kevin Hughes was convinced Jackson was the killer.

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0:00.0

Previously on Unsolved.

0:12.9

John Kavanaugh believed that Joe could very well have been involved

0:18.6

or could have committed the murder of Father Coons because that he had,

0:23.3

the nephew had at some point supposedly asked Father Coons for money and was turned down.

0:28.9

Do you still feel the same way you did back then when you called them?

0:32.2

Yeah.

0:32.3

Yeah. I think he killed the Father Coontz.

0:35.4

Okay.

0:35.9

Yeah. That's what I think. From the Father Quince. Okay. Yeah. That's what I think.

0:39.3

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this is Unsolved Season 3.

0:44.3

The Devil You Know.

0:46.3

I'm Gina Barton.

0:50.3

Ten years after Father Coons' death, a lieutenant at the Dane County Sheriff's Department went public, saying they knew who the killer was, but the prosecutor wouldn't charge him.

1:02.4

That was news to some of his own investigators who had worked on the case, including detectives Gwen Rupert and Jennifer Niebuhr.

1:10.0

He made a statement on camera.

1:11.8

We have a suspect, it's imminent.

1:13.8

Yeah.

1:14.2

In 2008.

1:15.1

Mm-hmm.

1:15.6

Okay.

1:15.9

Because we all went.

1:17.0

We're like, what?

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