Catherine Cesnik, a dedicated teacher at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland, disappears on November 7, 1969. Her car is found muddy and abandoned, heightening the mystery. Two months later, her body is discovered near a garbage dump, the victim of blunt force trauma.
As investigators delve deeper, chilling allegations surface. Former students reveal they were abused by the school’s chaplain, Joseph Maskell. They suspect Cesnik’s knowledge of this abuse might have led to her murder. Despite exhuming Maskell’s body in 2016, no DNA match is found, leaving questions unanswered.
The case remains unsolved, yet it sparks a larger investigation into abuse within the Baltimore Archdiocese, leading to its bankruptcy in 2023. The tragic story of Catherine Cesnik and her students becomes the focal point of the Netflix documentary series, “The Keepers,” shedding light on a dark chapter in Baltimore’s history.
Story Source: Netflix documentary series titled “The Keepers” (Netflix).
