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Saturday, February 26, 2005

Nun death probe data to be released

Toledo, Ohio -

Documents supporting two police searches of the Toledo Catholic Diocese in the murder investigation of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl most likely will be released Monday.

The Lucas County Prosecutor's Office yesterday decided not to fight a decision by Common Pleas Judge Thomas Osowik Thursday to release the records, said Dean Mandross, a senior assistant prosecutor.

That means search warrant affidavits, possibly outlining why police felt they needed a court order to search the downtown church office on Sept. 15 and 17, may be released at 9 a.m. Monday.

Prosecutors were looking for any church records about the Rev. Gerald Robinson, who was charged in the slaying of the nun in the Mercy Hospital chapel 24 years ago.

Detectives reopened the murder case in 2003 after they learned a 41-year-old woman, in unrelated allegations, claimed she had been sexually aswsaulted by several priests.

As part of her complaint, she accused Father Robinson of assaulting her once. Cold-case detectives - recognizing Father Robinson's name as a suspect from the 1980 homicide - decided to reopen the old murder case.

Read the article at toledoblade.com dated February 26, 2005
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