Unholy Secret
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K 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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