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Cold Case Files

Unholy Secret

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In Toledo, Ohio in 1980, a woman's body was found in a chapel, covered only by an altar cloth. She had been stabbed 31 times. The woman's name? Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Somebody had murdered a nun.

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this podcast one production, available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts

0:04.4

and Podcast One.

0:08.0

Thank you for listening to this podcast one production, available on Apple Podcasts and

0:12.7

podcast one.

0:16.4

But still, if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you probably know that

0:21.8

it's not all that uncommon for us to come across cases where a person dies from dozens

0:26.1

of stab wounds.

0:28.6

But what if I told you that woman was a Catholic nun, with the full habit and everything?

0:34.9

We picture nuns as being isolated from the anger and violence of the outside world.

0:40.9

So what if I told you that her body was found not in the outside world, but on the floor

0:46.2

of a chapel?

0:48.2

And perhaps the most surprising fact of all, what if I told you the main suspect was a priest?

0:57.1

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast.

1:02.0

I'm Brooke, and this story, adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files,

1:07.6

is told by the distinguished Bill Curtis.

1:15.6

It's an investigation that begins with two detectives inside the cold case section of the Toledo Police Department.

1:34.3

We're headed to the Detective Bureau at the safety building here in Toledo. Tom Ross and Steve Forrester are cold case investigators.

1:38.3

In 2003, they reopened the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Paul.

1:42.3

This is Sister Paul, and this is Father Robinson.

1:47.0

This was at the dedication of a new intensive care unit.

1:52.0

On Easter Saturday, 23 years earlier,

1:55.0

Sister Paul's body was discovered on the floor of a chapel,

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