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The case was reopened in 2010 by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. In 2012, the FBI excavated the basement of the alleged crime scene near the Patz residence but discovered no new evidence. Pedro Hernandez—a suspect who confessed—was charged and indicted later that year on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping.
Paul Richard Shanley (January 25, 1931 [1] – October 28, 2020) was an American Roman Catholic priest who became the center of a massive sexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts. Beginning in 1967, the archdiocese covered up numerous allegations of child sexual assault against Shanley and facilitated his transfers to ...
Wolfgang Capito – German Protestant reformer during the Protestant Reformation and former Benedictine priest until leaving the Catholic Church in 1524; James Carroll – American author, historian, journalist, and Roman Catholic reformer; left the priesthood in 1974 to pursue writing
Richard Roger Lavigne (February 18, 1941 – May 21, 2021) [1] [2] was a laicized priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts and convicted sex offender. Lavigne was at the center of the priest abuse scandal in the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts with about 40 claims of sexual abuse of minors placed against him.
A year and a half later, on July 20, 1984, Father John Kerrigan, a diocesan priest in the Diocese of Helena and assigned to the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ronan, Montana, disappeared after leaving a bakery. Several days later, bloodied articles of clothing were found along Montana Highway 35, as well as a blood-stained coat hanger.
In the United States on May 11, 2006, retired Roman Catholic priest Gerald Robinson (14 April 1938 – 4 July 2014) was convicted of the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl (1908–1980), a Sister of Mercy, a Catholic religious order of women [1] on Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980. Robinson repeatedly appealed, but without success.
The Rev. Alfred Joseph Kunz (April 15, 1930 – March 4, 1998) was a Catholic priest who was found with his throat slit in his Roman Catholic church in Dane, Wisconsin. [1] By 2009, 11 years later, Kunz's unsolved murder was likely the most expensive and time-consuming homicide investigation in Dane County's history.
Bishop Pavol Hnilica rehabilitated multiple-convicted Austrian priest Joseph Seidnitzer in 1991.. Joseph Seidnitzer (Stainz, 1920 – Innsbruck, 1993), was an Austrian priest, missionary, and the founder and director of Priesterwerk, who was convicted multiple times for sexual abuse of boys aged 18 and over (at the time, people younger than 21 years were considered underage). [9]