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"Killer Priest" makes GQ magazine

Yes, Father Robinson is in the November 06 issue of GQ, the men's fashion magazine, but not , I assure you, for his sartorial splendor.
Freelance writer Sean Flynn writes a fairly lengthy and graphic account of the cold-case investigation, cover-up, and trial, titled "The Case of the Killer Priest." The full-page color photo of Robinson is harrowing, with an incredibly evil look in his eyes, his mouth slightly open with a sinister smirk. His eyes are looking to the side, seemingly at the opposite page with the familiar B&W photo of a smiling Sister Margaret Ann Pahl.
The article gives the Robinson case some more national attention, for which I am glad. Flynn, by the way, must get around: he also wrote the cover story for last Sunday's "Parade" magazine.
I got a call yesterday from a woman who read my book and said she is a cousin of Father Robinson. She said she took exception to something in the book: that his mother "bragged" about her son being a priest. Mary Sieja Robinson was very proud and grateful but was not a braggart, the priest's cousin said. I told her I didn't mean it in a negative way, and that her argument was more a matter of semantics. She then added that she "always thought he was weird" and that she also suspected him to be a "womanizer." He used to say things that made her uncomfortable, she said, and that even when he was an adult his mother used to slap his hand when he said things that were inappropriate.

One of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl's distant relatives came to a book signing and then emailed me a note and asked if I thought it was peculiar that Robinson filed his notice of appeal on June 6, 2006 .... a date that can also be written as 6/6/06.
Now isn't that interesting!
Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 31, 2006

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