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Jun 7, 2017 · On May 19, Netflix released its latest true-crime documentary series, The Keepers, which introduced the world to the potential corruption at the Catholic, all-girls Seton Keough High School in...
- Caitlin Busch
Jun 1, 2017 · There’s a lot to unpack in Netflix’s latest true crime series, “The Keepers,” which investigates the 1969 murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik. But one of the biggest questions that hangs over the...
- A. Joseph Maskell’s DNA
- Potential FBI Cover-Up
- Ireland’s Claims on A. Joseph Maskell
- Gerry Koob’s Relationship to Sister Cathy
- What The Catholic Church Knows, But Won’T Say
- Within The Walls of Keough High School
- Mysterious Suspects
- Internal Records on A. Joseph Maskell
- The Undocumented Survivor Stories
- Unknown Boxes of Evidence
The show is responsible for initiating a deeper look into the case of A. Joseph Maskell and Sister Cathy Cesnik, as Baltimore County Police start investigating again due to a public outcry. In fact, people around the world were so distraught at learning about Sister Cathy’s case that they started flooding the Baltimore County Police with calls. Sti...
One of the most frustrating aspects of being a true crime fan is dealing with endless cover-ups from authorities and government entities, like police and the FBI. On the show, we see how long it’s been taking to get the FBI to honor the requests for documentation under the Freedom of Information Act. What the show doesn’t get into is that the FBI h...
In the show, the audience briefly hears about the fact that Ireland has claims on A. Joseph Maskell, as well, that the Catholic Church continues to cover up. White tells us there is some “dogged reporting” happening right now in Ireland, digging deeper into the time that A. Joseph Maskell spent there, in addition to his time spent in the United Sta...
Anyone who saw The Keepers remembers former priest Gerry Koob and his story about the police bringing in Sister Cathy’s genitals wrapped in newspaper and tossing them on a table in front of Koob. Ryan White sayshe’s “seen a lot of people doubt whether the story is true at all,” and insists that Koob is absolutely certain this happened, while the po...
Exposés on the Catholic Church have been steadily being released, with more and more people coming forward over time, but the Church refuses to make a clear statement in the case of A. Joseph Maskell. Though, of course, they insist they’re doing everything they can to help victims of abuse, on the subject of Maskell, they remain as vague and unhelp...
Fans of The Keepersmay be surprised to hear that Keough High School, where Sister Cathy and A. Joseph Maskell both taught, closed in July of 2017, following confirmation from the Archdiocese of Baltimore that they paid settlements out to students who had been sexually abused by Maskell. Regardless of why the school is closing, the walls will never ...
Though White says he included absolutely all the information he knew in the documentary, he did contradict himself later by saying, “The project was heavily vetted by lawyers — there were times when I believed we knew somebody that was involved in the abuse, but we couldn't include a name for legal reasons.” True crime buffs will know that this oft...
Much like the government, the Catholic Church has their own internal system for keeping track of the people who make up their organization. They have internal records on everyone — including A. Joseph Maskell. However, the Catholic Church is completely unwilling to share these documents, even though White sayshe would “love for them to be transpare...
Not every story that Ryan White heard gets told in The Keepers. Often, survivors would choose to remain anonymous, and the crew of The Keepers respected that choice and removed their stories, names, and/or faces from the series. However, White did still get to talk to them — he even got to talk to the anonymous student he mentions in the series. Ho...
One of the most famous pieces of evidence from the show is the cigarette butt shown in episode six, found near Sister Cathy’s body. This is presumed to be the source of the DNA sample found at the murder scene, but Ryan White knows there’s even more that Baltimore County Police aren’t saying. White is unconvinced that the DNA found at the scene on ...
- Nicole Mello
May 25, 2017 · Netflix’s The Keepers tells a chilling story: The new true crime docuseries posits that the unsolved murder of a Baltimore nun might actually be part of an elaborate a cover-up by the Catholic...
- Alex Abad-Santos
Aug 31, 2017 · There’s a moment in the mesmerizing new Netflix series The Keepers, released earlier this summer, when an attorney from Kentucky describes meeting Catholics for the first time when she was a...
Aug 19, 2024 · Another echoed: "Currently watching The Keepers docu series on Netflix, which is one part incredibly distressing account of two nuns murdered to cover up a horrible predator at a catholic high school— and one part 2 extremely charming grandmas solving a cold case."
Jul 19, 2017 · "The Keepers" is a Netflix documentary series following Father Joseph Maskell and his alleged abuse of teenage girls at a Catholic high school. It explores whether Maskell, who died in 2001, was...
