S1 E11 The Murder Mind: Crime Traveler - An Unholy Murder

On Holy Saturday in 1980, 71-year-old Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was found murdered inside a chapel area at Mercy Hospital in Toledo, Ohio.

She had been strangled and stabbed 31 times. Her body was partially covered by an altar cloth, and several wounds on her chest were widely described as forming an inverted cross.

Among the people investigators questioned was the hospital chaplain, Father Gerald Robinson. Police discovered a sword-shaped letter opener in his possession, but the forensic tools available in 1980 could only take investigators so far.

The case remained unsolved for more than two decades.

Then investigators went back to the evidence.

In this episode of The Murder Mind: Crime Traveler, retired Atlanta homicide detective Vince Velazquez examines the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, the investigation of Gerald Robinson, the forensic evidence that helped prosecutors finally bring the case to trial, and the myths that grew around the murder during the years it remained unsolved.

Robinson was convicted of murder in 2006 and sentenced to 15 years to life. He maintained his innocence until his death in prison in 2014.

Vince also asks how this same murder would be investigated if it happened today — using modern forensic science, digital evidence, 3-D crime-scene mapping and investigative techniques unavailable to detectives in 1980.

It's a case about murder, faith, forensic science and an uncomfortable lesson for investigators:

Sometimes old evidence is still waiting to speak.

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