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  A Timeline of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl's Killing

The Associated Press, carried in The Beacon Journal [Toledo OH]
April 14, 2006

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/14345291.htm

A timeline of events surrounding the killing of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl:

April 5, 1980 - Sister Margaret Ann Pahl's body is found in the chapel at Mercy Hospital. She had been strangled and stabbed in the chest and neck about 30 times.

April 9, 1980 - The Rev. Gerald Robinson celebrates Sister Pahl's funeral Mass.

April 18-19, 1980 - Robinson is questioned by police. He also is given two polygraph tests.

June 11, 2003 - A woman tells the Toledo Catholic Diocese that she suffered years of ritual sex abuse by diocesan and religious-order priests during her childhood. She mentions Robinson's name.

December 2003 - Authorities receive a letter about the woman's allegations and later reopen the investigation into Sister Pahl's death.

April 23, 2004 - Robinson is arrested at his home and charged in the slaying of Sister Pahl.

May 7, 2004 - Robinson pleads not guilty to an aggravated murder charge.

Dec. 31, 2005 - The Lucas County Prosecutor's office reduces the charge against Robinson from aggravated murder to murder, saying the killing was not premeditated.

 
 

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