Allegations renew nun's death case

Update.

Ohio News Network, OH on May 4, 2004

Toledo: Gathering Of Priest's Supporters Turns Into Shouting Match
A gathering Monday night by supporters of a Toledo priest accused of killing a nun turned into a shouting and shoving match.
A woman carrying a porcelain doll of a nun began yelling at the crowd. Pauline Garcia of Cleveland said she was there to honor the suffering of Sister Pahl, the nun who was murdered in 1980.
The woman then scuffled with a man in the crowd after he took the doll because she hit him with it. She later threw a container of water in the man's face.
The gathering was supposed to be a celebration the Reverend Gerald Robinson's release from jail Monday after supporters put together enough property to post a $400,000 bond.
He didn't attend Monday night's gathering.
A Lucas County grand jury indicted Robinson Monday on a charge of aggravated murder. His lawyer says he will plead not guilty.
He can't face the death penalty because it wasn't in effect at the time of the killing.

Pauline Garcia of Cleveland said she was there to honor the suffering of Sister Pahl - when you think about it, what a stupid moron she is!

The "suffering of Sister Pahl" 24 years ago had nothing to do with Fr. Robinson's suffering today. Unless she, or anyone, can prove that Fr. Robinson was involved in the 1980 murder. Until there is a witness, or admission of guilt or a shred of evidence, Fr. Robinson remains a good and well-loved priest, innocent of any wrongdoing.

It appears they dropped for good the casket with cockroaches, human eyeball, killing kids, mutilating dogs and penetration with a snake by a group of Catholic priests.

No, they did not :-D

Straits Times, Singapore on May 5, 2004

Slain nun mystery returns to haunt town
Popular priest arrested 24 years after 'ritual slaying'
TOLEDO (Ohio) - The murder scene today remains cordoned off, even though the grisly crime occurred 24 years ago.
Many of the witnesses - doctors, nurses, police officers and nuns who saw the mutilated body of a nun in the early part of 1980 - are long dead. Others say they have tried to forget that horrific day.
[...] a woman in her 40s [...] described satanic ceremonies in which priests put her in a coffin full of cockroaches, forced her to ingest what she believed to be a human eyeball, and penetrated her with a snake 'to consecrate these orifices to Satan', according to the newspaper.
The woman also alleged the priests had killed two children and mutilated dogs. [...]

It shows that any sick imagination can generate worldwide "news" as long as it involves Catholic priests.

Pauline Garcia of Cleveland...

"Ohio News Network" didn't get the name straight. All other reports have it: Pauline Garcia Cleveland - Cleveland being her last name.

Update.

Toledo Blade on May 5, 2004,

Woman accused of violating court order
Judge will decide if she's in contempt

Cleveland
A South Toledo woman who carried a nun doll and scuffled with a man at a gathering marking the jail release of a priest indicted in the murder of a nun is scheduled to appear in court next week on a separate matter. Pauline Garcia Cleveland, 49, is slated to appear Monday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court for allegedly violating a civil stalking protection order issued last year against her.
Judge Frederick McDonald issued the protection order against Ms. Cleveland on May 22, 2003, after Roberta Girardot, of South Toledo, filed a civil complaint alleging that Ms. Cleveland had been making harassing telephone calls to her home.
Judge McDonald will decide whether Ms. Cleveland should be held in contempt of court for violating the protection order. If found in contempt, she could be sentenced to jail.
The protection order was placed on Ms. Cleveland until May, 2008. She was restricted from assaulting, threatening, abusing, harassing, following, interfering, or stalking Mrs. Girardot and her husband, Joseph Girardot. She was also told to stay at least 500 yards away from the couple.
On Monday, Ms. Cleveland screamed and attacked a supporter of Father Gerald Robinson during a gathering at the Scott Park Banquet Hall on Nebraska Avenue. Earlier in the day, the 66-year-old priest was indicted for aggravated murder in the 1980 death of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl in the sacristy of a Mercy Hospital chapel. The 71-year-old nun was strangled and stabbed.
Father Robinson was released from jail after family and friends posted their homes and the priest's for a property bond.
His supporters then gathered at the banquet hall, where Ms. Cleveland shouted objections to them, the priest, and Roman Catholics in general. She struck one of the supporters, Richard Napierala, and threw a pitcher of water at him.
Mr. Napierala filed a police report after the incident. As of yesterday afternoon, no charges had been filed in Toledo Municipal Court. Ms. Cleveland could not be reached for comment.

That's what swallowing a human eyeball does to ya. ;-D

This diocese and the city carrying its name needs a gigantic exorcism.

This is not exactly an UPDATE. The following Yahoo News slideshow is dated Monday, May 3, 2004.

For the "shock and awe" purposes Yahoo News decided to repeat the, already debunked by the Toledo Police, part that says, "her body was found in a hospital chapel, surrounded by lit candles, her arms folded across her chest." I guess, only a priest would murder in a chapel, cross hands of the corpse and light candles around his victim. ;)

Enjoy!

The Rev. Gerald Robinson, center, flanked by supporters, walks away from the Lucas County Corrections Center in downtown Toledo, Ohio, Monday, May 3, 2004. [...]

The Reverend Gerald Robinson, center, exits the Lucas County Corrections Center in downtown Toledo, Ohio, May 3, 2004. Robinson was released on $400,000 property bond [...]

Our Lady Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo, Ohio, is photographed Wednesday, April 28, 2004. The Roman Catholic bishop of Toledo has suspended the Rev. Gerald Robinson, 66, who is charged in the 1980 killing of a nun whose body was found covered by an altar cloth and surrounded by burning candles in a hospital chapel. Robinson, 66, was arrested and charged with murder in the death of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Robinson was ordained at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral in 1964.

The old wing of Toledo's Mercy Hospital, shown in this aerial view Monday, April 26, 2004, is where the Rev. Gerald Robinson used to be chaplain. Robinson, 66, was charged Friday with killing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, who was strangled and stabbed about 30 times on April 5, 1980. Her body was found in a hospital chapel, surrounded by lit candles with her arms folded across her chest.

Rev. Gerald Robinson stands during his initial appearance in Toledo, Ohio Municipal Court, Monday morning, April 26, 2004. [...] A plea was not entered.

Parishioners at St. Anthony Church, in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday, April 26, 2004 in Toledo, Ohio, were setting up a legal defense fund for their former pastor The Rev. Gerald Robinson. Robinson, 66, who was charged Friday in the 1980 killing of 71-year-old Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Her strangled and stabbed body was found in a hospital chapel, surrounded by lit candles, her arms folded across her chest. Robinson later performed her funeral.

Rev. Gerald Robinson stands behing his attorney John Thebes during his initial appearance in Toledo Municipal Court, Monday , April 26, 2004. [...] Judge Mary Trimboli set bond at $200,000 and scheduled a preliminary hearing for May 3. Robinson did not enter a plea.

This diocese and the city carrying its name needs a gigantic exorcism.

Because some Catholic US Bishops thought that ordaining homosexual perverts to the priesthood and then protecting them from accountability was a marvelous idea, now every allegation against a priest, no matter how good has he been, no matter how outrageous the accusations or how old, are all taken at a face value.

All the "satanic ritual" references are pure drivel in this particular case as well as in the "fair and balanced" "news" reports of it.

Please, pray for Fr. Robinson, no matter what you believe in this case.

Toledo Blade on Tuesday, May 4, 2004,

Charge stuns those who recall Robinson fondly
by Christina Hall
The Rev. Gerald Robinson was considered part of Mary Chrzanowski's family, someone she would never believe could be accused of murder.
The Macomb County Michigan circuit court judge said the Catholic priest offered grace at holiday dinners at her aunt's North Toledo residence from the early 1970s through 1991. He was there for baptisms and weddings.
Ms. Chrzanowski, whose aunt was friends with Father Robinson, said she recalls him as a reserved, quiet, and soft-spoken man.
That's why it's hard for her to believe the 66-year-old is accused of killing a nun 24 years ago.
"He never raised his voice. He never got in any type of argument," Ms. Chrzanowski said of Father Robinson.
"This guy was the epitome of a priest. I never heard him swear or say anything cross about anybody. He is not a violent individual," she said.
Father Robinson was indicted yesterday for aggravated murder in the 1980 death of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl in the sacristy of a Mercy Hospital chapel.
Sister Margaret Ann was strangled, then stabbed up to 32 times. Last week, the Toledo diocese placed Father Robinson on a leave of absence.
Those who know him, before and after he became a priest, said they were surprised to learn of the accusation.
Lucas County Dog Warden Tom Skeldon said he knew Father Robinson when the priest was a young man who worked summers at the Toledo Zoo.
Mr. Skeldon said Father Robinson worked in the concession stands, mostly in the main stand in the middle of the zoo.
"[Zoo administrators] thought highly of him. He was polite - a little bit older than the rest of us working the stands - and studying to be a priest," Mr. Skeldon said.
[...]

Below, crazy gal in action - Paulina Garcia Cleveland pouring water on Rick Napierala (see post #164).

From Toledo Blade

Toledo Blade on Sunday, May 9, 2004

Media glare intense for decades-old murder case

By Robin Erb blade staff writer

The television crews have broken camp and the siege of phone calls to Lucas County and Toledo investigators has subsided. But it's clear that the national spotlight - focused here after April 23 when a local priest was arrested for the 24-year-old murder of a nun - has shifted only temporarily. Toledo-area residents linked to the case say they continue to field calls from representatives of national media outlets, ranging from prime-time news shows such as Dateline and 48 Hours to People and even Playboy magazines.

There has been talk of movie and book deals.

"Speaking in terms of the nonfiction genre they called true crime, [the case] involves the church, there's a murder, and there's this intimation of satanic worship," said Barret Neville, a New York-based author and publisher who is interested in publishing a book on the case.

"It's consistent of what you hear about in these movies of the week," Mr. Neville said.

Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was found dead April 5, 1980, the day before Easter and her 72nd birthday, in the sacristy of a chapel at the former Mercy Hospital. She had been strangled, her body covered with a cloth, and then stabbed repeatedly.

Investigators said Father Gerald Robinson, a hospital chaplain, emerged as a suspect early on. They seized a letter opener from his quarters that the Lucas County coroner's office determined at the time could have been used in the attack. Still, tests at the time were inconclusive, and detectives said they were stymied by a lack of evidence.

News of Father Robinson's arrest for the murder case was amplified when it was revealed that the case was reopened last year after a woman's bizarre, unrelated allegations involving Satanic worship and sexual abuse against other men in the area.

The woman did not link Father Robinson to the claims of the Satanic worship, but she did accuse him of participating in a sadomasochistic sexual assault on her when she was a teenager.

Investigators say the woman's claims have been neither dismissed nor substantiated.

But the allegations were enough that the Lucas County cold case squad dusted off the old murder file, used some blood spatter analysis not available at the time of the killing, and arrested the priest.

Father Robinson, described by shocked supporters as a kind and shy man who couldn't possibly have been involved in such heinous acts, entered a plea of not guilty at his arraignment Friday and remains free on a property bond that family and friends helped post.

That's when reporters and producers from the New York Times, the Today Show, and many other national media came to Toledo. Among the first they were interested in talking with was former Toledo police Officer Dave Davison, who first told The Blade in an April 26 story that he believed the Toledo police department had not aggressively pursued Father Robinson as a suspect at the time because many of those investigating or overseeing the case for the department were Catholics. In a city with a decidedly majority Catholic religious bent, such allegations might be devastating to the church.

In interviews with The Blade, the investigators have flatly denied any claims of a cover-up, noting that as Catholics and police officers they would never turn their eyes from the murder of a nun.

Nevertheless, Mr. Davison's phone began ringing early April 26: "Sixty-six calls the first day," he said.

Within days, he said, a California producer had offered him $100,000 for movie rights.

"I tell them 'This is blood money,'?" he said. "If I want that kind of money, I'll go to the blood bank, [and] get 25 bucks."

He isn't the only one in the spotlight.

Television crews began calling or appearing at the homes and offices of others close to the case. In a tiny corner of rural Williams County, the home to Sister Margaret Ann's two surviving blood sisters, suddenly became the destination for reporters from places like New York and Chicago.

Art Marx's phone began ringing too. One of the lead investigators on the case in 1980, he said many reporters offered "exclusives."

He laughed: "I said, it doesn't matter. I'm not interested anyway."

In response to the media blitz and concerns about Father Robinson's right to a fair trial, the Toledo Catholic Diocese, Toledo police, and the Lucas County Prosecutor's office issued statements that they would no longer comment on the case. Defense attorneys have done likewise.

"It's important for counsel not to make any personal statements about Father Robinson or the facts of the case, and that's in order to ensure a fair trial," said Alan Konop, one of Father Robinson's defense attorneys. He said he and John Thebes, the first defense attorney named in the case, have fielded a "floodgate of calls."

"Much of whether there can be a fair trail," he continued, "is how the media behaves itself."

Mr. Konop, who originally commented on the case as a legal analyst for Channel 13 before becoming a member of the defense team, referred to a 2002 case he handled from Wapakoneta, Ohio.

A woman there had confessed to the shooting death of her husband, a Wapakoneta attorney, but said she did it in self-defense. Because of local media attention over the case, the trial was moved to Wood County.

She eventually was acquitted of the charges.

For two weeks now, Mercy Health Partners spokesman Sarah Bednarski has been fielding media and other inquiries to the Sisters of Mercy - to which Sister Margaret Ann belonged - seeking information about the slain nun from those who knew her. Ms. Bednarski was charged with putting together details about Sister Margaret Ann's life serving God and shielding Sister Margaret Ann's colleagues, many of whom are elderly.

She said her "strangest" call was from a newspaper overseas. She was stunned.

"I said, 'Dublin? As in Ireland? As in Ireland, the country?'?" she asked.

Even those involved only on the periphery of the case have been surprised to find reporters at their front door.

Shirley Lucas was a housekeeper at the time of Sister Margaret Ann's murder. She remembered Sister Margaret Ann as quiet but intently committed to God and to the details of the chapel, the maintenance of which was Sister Margaret Ann's.

Though she lit a candle at St. Adalbert's church each Easter for the slain Sister, Ms. Lucas said she had assumed the case would never be solved. "It kept on and on and there's nothing and nothing and nothing, and you kind of gave up on it," she said.

Then, detectives came knocking on her door for information. Soon after the priest's arrests, reporters appeared at Ms. Lucas' door.

She laughs when she remembers one of her first meetings with Sister Margaret Ann. Ms. Lucas, then a new employee, was cleaning the convent when the nun approached her and asked her to return to the restroom Ms. Lucas had just cleaned.

The nuns, especially Sister Margaret Ann, were adamant that nothing be wasted, Ms. Lucas said. That included the slivers of soap that are left when a bar of soap is nearly used up.

"She said I shouldn't be wasting the soap. She went over to the sink and showed me how to wet it and stick it together" with a new bar of soap, Ms. Lucas said. "I felt like a little kid in kindergarten."

Nevertheless, the two were on friendly terms after that, Ms. Lucas said.

After a pretrial hearing later this month, it will probably be many months before the murder case is ready for trial, at which time the case will likely draw national interest again.

"I can see how it could go to your head if you were young," Lucas County prosecutor Julia Bates said of the countless calls her office has taken about the murder case.

Mrs. Bates recalls other tragedies in the Toledo area which have attracted national media. Among them: two brothers who were serial killers and a teenager who murdered his foster mother.

"You could get seduced by it," she said of the attention. "And if you had aspirations for higher office, this would throw you into the spotlight and your name could be a household word."

Mrs. Bates made it clear that she's not interested. "I don't care if I'm a household word."

Contact Robin Erb at
robinerb@theblade.com
or 419-724-6133

The Toledo Blade, Thursday May 13, 2004,

Stranger haunts memory of student; mysterious man was never found

By David Yonke - Blade religion editor

A former nursing student said she is still haunted by memories of the stranger she spotted near the Mercy Hospital chapel on Holy Saturday, 1980, on the morning Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was murdered.

Karen Raszka of Sylvania normally stopped to pray in the chapel at the downtown Catholic hospital before and after each shift, but shortly after 7:30 a.m. on April 5, she saw that the chapel doors were shut.

"It was my habit to stop at the chapel, whether coming or going to school, but that day, for the first time ever, the chapel doors were closed," Mrs. Raszka said this week.

At first she thought it was closed because of preparations for Easter Sunday the next day.

But Mrs. Raszka, 44, later learned that 71-year-old Sister Margaret Ann had been strangled to death that morning in the chapel's sacristy, then stabbed up to 32 times in what investigators said was part of a ceremonial slaying.

A Toledo diocesan priest, the Rev. Gerald Robinson, 66, was arrested last month and charged with aggravated murder in the 1980 slaying. He pleaded innocent and is out of jail on a $400,000 property bond.

Police reports from the initial murder investigation include interviews with Mrs. Raszka, and she was recently interviewed by a member of the cold-case squad that reopened the investigation last month.

A resident nursing student at Mercy, Mrs. Raszka had worked a double shift from 3 p.m. Good Friday until about 7:30 a.m. Holy Saturday, at which time she took an elevator to the hospital basement to punch her time card, then rode the elevator back to the first floor and headed for the chapel.

As she walked down the hallway, an office door popped open and a man she did not recognize stepped out.

Two days later, Mrs. Raszka described him to police, saying he was a good-looking, clean-shaven, slim white male, about 5-foot-8 or 5-foot-9, between 24 and 30 years old, with collar-length blond hair.

The stranger was well-dressed, she said, remembering his beige, camel's hair sport coat.

She said she never saw the man before or since.

"I didn't know him, I was not familiar with him from either the school or the hospital," Mrs. Raszka said.

"The only thing I know for sure is that Father Robinson is not the man I saw that morning," she said.

She knew Father Robinson, the hospital's chaplain, from attending services in Mercy's chapel and from seeing the priest around the building.

The door the stranger walked through was either a rest room for the nuns or the office of the nun who at the time was the hospital's director of public relations, according to police.

After Mrs. Raszka walked further down the hall, she said she turned and saw that the man was still watching her.

A police artist drew a sketch of the man based on her description, she said.

Officers also asked Mrs. Raszka to be on the lookout for the man she spotted in the hallway at Sister Margaret Ann's funeral, over which Father Robinson presided.

"The nurses went as a color guard for the funeral, and I was positioned so I could watch and see whether that man was at the funeral," Mrs. Raszka said.

Police feared for her safety because the killer was still at large, she said, and they provided her with an escort to and from the hospital for several weeks after the murder.

Retired Detective Art Marx, one of the lead investigators on the case in 1980, said this week that he does not recall a sketch of a suspect in the nun's death, nor does he recall a potential witness being escorted to and from work.

But he did not rule out such a possibility, noting that details of the investigation have faded from memory in the 24 years since the murder.

"Off the top of my head, I can't say I remember it," he said.

Mrs. Raszka said that despite recent reports that law-enforcement officials always considered Father Robinson a prime suspect, officers told her at the time that they suspected Sister Margaret Ann's killer was a disgruntled female employee.

"I've known Father Robinson over the years, and he is a very mild and meek man," Mrs. Raszka said. "He's very quiet, a phenomenal listener. I always felt that his calling was working with the sick and infirm because he's so quiet. He's not one to be in the spotlight."

She said the priest visited her mother-in-law twice when she was hospitalized.

Blade staff writer Robin Erb contributed to this report.

The Toledo Blade, Tuesday May 25, 2004,

Murder trial of priest unlikely to occur in '04

Gary Cook, an assistant Lucas County prosecutor, says it's unlikely a Roman Catholic priest indicted for the 1980 aggravated murder of a nun will stand trial before the end of the year.

Before a pretrial hearing in Lucas County Common Pleas Court yesterday, prosecutors gave the defense team for the Rev. Gerald Robinson 107 pages of documents and a videotaped interview with the priest. Judge Patrick Foley set another hearing for July 13. The judge said a trial date might be set then.

Mr. Cook said afterward he doesn't know when the trial will start, but it might be difficult to begin it before year's end.

Father Robinson was arrested in April after prosecutors re-opened the 24-year-old murder case of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, 71, who was found dead April 5, 1980, in the sacristy of a chapel at the former Mercy Hospital. She had been strangled, her body covered with a cloth, and then stabbed repeatedly.

Mr. Cook said afterward he doesn't know when the trial will start, but it might be difficult to begin it before year's end.

Being convinced that Father Robinson is innocent and a little tweaking of the evidence took place, I think the delay is to his advantage.

I only wish the Toledo Diocese Bishop were more courageous and not jump to suspend his good priest of 40 years based on bogus allegations.

I assume the Bishop will wait till the time of the jury verdict to lift the suspension of Fr. Robinson. Will he be happy then to hear from the jury that Father Robinson didn't do anything wrong? Will he rejoice? Will he celebrate? Or, will he be shamed?

The "news" about Fr. Robinson get scarce.

As of today, the most recent news about his case via Google were dated May 25, 2004.

I admire your courage in supporting this priest.

I will defer to your knowledge of him and presume his innocence.

Thank you Sink.

Ohio News Network, July 10, 2004,

Investigators exhume body of nun killed in chapel

TOLEDO, Ohio -- Investigators have exhumed and examined the body of a Roman Catholic nun to look for new evidence as part of the probe into her slaying in a hospital chapel in 1980.

The Rev. Gerald Robinson, 66, is charged with strangling and stabbing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. He has pleaded innocent to aggravated murder.

Robinson, long a suspect in the death of Pahl, 71, was arrested April 23. Investigators have described the killing as "ritualistic."

Sister Pahl's boy was exhumed in April and examined at the Lucas County coroner's office, police Sgt. Steve Forrester said Thursday. Her body was reburied a few days later.

He would not say whether any new evidence had been found.

The body was exhumed because the deputy coroner, who is expected to testify at Robinson's trial, wanted to examine the corpse. The examiner who performed the original autopsy more than 20 years ago has since died.

Sister Pahl's family consented to the exhumation of the body from St. Bernardine cemetery in Fremont, where the nuns of her order are buried, Forrester said.

No trial date has been set for Robinson.

Investigators reopened the murder case in December after the county prosecutor's office received a letter, prosecutors said. They have not said who sent the letter or what it said.

The Roman Catholic bishop of Toledo has placed Robinson on a leave of absence, which excludes him from any public ministry.

If convicted, Robinson could be sentenced to life in prison. The death penalty was not in effect in Ohio at the time of the killing so he cannot get a death sentence.

Here is a keeper,

The body was exhumed because the deputy coroner, who is expected to testify at Robinson's trial, wanted to examine the corpse. The examiner who performed the original autopsy more than 20 years ago has since died.

Dim-witted presstitutes forgot what they reported only a few months ago, namely, that there was nothing "ritualistic" about this 1980 murder. Please, note how the "ritualistic murder" nonsense is back again full throttle. In this brief report below ritualistic appears twice. ;-)

WTVG, OH (ABC local), August 5, 2004,
Robinson Trial Set for February
All evidence but DNA tests in for priest's trial in nun slaying
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest charged with killing a nun during a ritualistic slaying in 1980 is scheduled to go on trial in February.
Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Foley on Thursday set a trial date of Feb. 22 for the Rev. Gerald Robinson. Foley said he expects it to be a firm trial date and doesn't expect any delays.
Robinson, 66, is charged with strangling and stabbing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. He has pleaded innocent to aggravated murder.
Prosecutors told the judge that they have given defense lawyers all of their evidence collected so far. Those items include polygraph tests from 1980, lab reports and autopsy results.
Prosecutors are still waiting on DNA tests and hope to have that information in six weeks, said Gary Cook, an assistant county prosecutor.
Investigators exhumed and examined Sister Pahl's body in April to look for new evidence.
Robinson, long a suspect in the death of Pahl, 71, was arrested April 23. Investigators have described the killing as ritualistic.
Investigators reopened the murder case in December after the county prosecutor's office received a letter, prosecutors said. They have not said who sent the letter or what it said.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Toledo has placed Robinson on a leave of absence, which excludes him from any public ministry.
If convicted, Robinson could be sentenced to life in prison. The death penalty was not in effect in Ohio at the time of the killing so he cannot get a death sentence.

DNA testing is mentioned now in the related news reports for the very first time. It appears that the said "new evidence" in the old case is nothing but a bloody print mark not noticed (or, perhaps nonexistent) in the 1980 investigation. The bloody mark resembles distinct medal on a letter opener knife confiscated as a possible murder weapon from Father Robinson's nearby office in 1980, thus connecting his property with the murder scene.

I have a theory that the letter opener and the bloody sheet stored in a police evidence locker for over 20 years gave an O.J.'s-bloody-glove idea to one of the involved officers. My pick is Mr. Davison of the Toledo PD, of whom I wrote in post #158,

Officer Davison was suspiciously overzealous in this case, he wrote the letters to the Vatican, Unsolved Mysteries and the DoJ, and announced that everybody he talked to had said Fr. Robinson killed Sister Pahl.
Even now it appears that he is the one who gives most of the interviews to the press. His zeal in accusing Fr. Robinson without a cause needs to be checked out - the never seen before bloody stain...

Davison may have crafted the "newly discovered" stain with tomato sauce or animal blood. And, if my theory is true, then the letter opener should also have the "never seen before" bloody residue.

Believing that Fr. Robinson is perfectly innocent; I am glad that the DNA tests are being done.

Pinging you only this time.
I don't want to irritate anyone with a "ping list."

;-)