Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One.

Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One.

But still, if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you probably know that it's not all that uncommon for us to come across cases where a person dies from dozens of stab wounds.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm Brooke, and this story, adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files, is told by the distinguished Bill Curtis.

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

We're headed to the Detective Bureau at the Safety Building here in Toledo.

Tom Ross and Steve Forester are Cold Case Investigators. In 2003, they reopened the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Paul.

This is Sister Paul, and this is Father Robinson. This was at the dedication of a new intensive care unit.

On Easter Saturday, 23 years earlier, Sister Paul's body was discovered on the floor of a chapel, with an altar cloth covering it.

Lieutenant Bill Keena was the original detective assigned to the case.

She was stabbed 31 times in the chest and in the neck and face area, even in the ear.

To slaughter a person in that manner, there had to be a deep seated hatred attempt to defile the victim besides killing her to defile her.

There were lots of people that they looked into. After the first week, the focus was clearly on the priest.

Father Gerald Robinson was considered a prime suspect at the time of the murder. Found inside his quarters, a letter opener, shaped like a dagger.

We were at the desk, and I'm right next to Art, and he opened up the center drawer, and he said, oh, what have we got here? He reached in there with his fingers and pulled out this dagger type letter opener with a knuckle guard and blade about eight inches, ten inches long.

Father Robinson was given a polygraph in 1980 and showed signs of deception. Before charges could be filed, the Catholic church, in the form of the local mon senior stepped in, and the case was dropped.

The deputy chief in charge of the detective bureau was standing there, and behind him was a mon senior from the Catholic church diocese, and behind him was a defense attorney.

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