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Unsolved

S3: Season Three: The Devil You Know

Unsolved

USA TODAY and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

True Crime

3.9792 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

The body of Fr. Alfred Kunz was found on the floor of St. Michael School in Dane on March 4, 1998. Twenty years later, his murder remains unsolved.

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0:00.0

There's an empty hollow feeling in the church today.

0:05.7

The congregation's longtime well-loved leader was found murdered this morning.

0:10.1

Just the extent of the injuries wasn't, you know, it wasn't a stab in the heart.

0:15.2

It wasn't a stab in the chest.

0:16.5

It wasn't a stab in the neck.

0:18.7

I mean, someone spent some seconds or minutes inflicting these

0:23.7

injury on Father Coens. In March 1998, Father Alfred Coons bled to death in the hallway of St. Michael's

0:31.3

School in the small town of Dane, Wisconsin, after someone slit his throat. The blood from that man stretched from one side of the hallway

0:41.0

to the other side of the hallway locker to locker with him in the pool of it.

0:48.1

Father Coons was an old school Catholic.

0:50.6

He preached fire and brimstone on a weekly radio show.

0:54.2

Many people loved him, but his teachings didn't sit so well with everyone.

0:59.1

He inherits or he deserves the same consequences as Satan himself.

1:07.1

The cops still can't agree on who killed Father Coons or why.

1:11.6

And I remember him insisting that he was absolutely convinced that Father Coons was killed by

1:17.6

Luciferians, you know, Satanists.

1:20.6

There was definitely relationships that Father Coons had sexual relationships with women and other Prit impressioners.

1:29.3

On a refrigerator was a drawing of a knife, a military knife.

1:34.3

I think it might be the murder weapon.

1:36.3

This entire case is so full of mystery,

1:39.3

combined with gaps in reliable information,

1:43.3

that it's just compelling everywhere you look.

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