Source: http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060415/NEWS/204150322/-1/State
TOLEDO, OHIO - A day before Easter in 1980, Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was found strangled and stabbed in a hospital chapel, the wounds on the nun’s chest and neck forming what investigators say resembled a cross. An altar cloth covered part of her body.
The trail soon went cold and stayed that way for more than 20 years – until investigators circled back to the priest who presided at her funeral Mass.
On Monday, the Rev. Gerald Robinson, 68, goes on trial on murder charges in a case swirling with allegations of an official cover-up, rumors of sexual abuse rites among priests and suspicions that the killing was some kind of ritual slaying. Robinson could get life in prison if convicted.