The shocking but true story of the 1980 ritual murder of a Roman Catholic nun that went unsolved for more           than two decades -- until cold-case investigators arrested Father Gerald Robinson, a 66-year-old Roman Catholic priest, at his home next door to the Toledo police station on April 23, 2004.

 

Just over two years later, on May 11, 2006, a jury convicted Father Robinson of murder and the priest was sentenced to life in prison, a term he is now serving at a maximum-security prison in southern Ohio.

 

David Yonke, an award-winning journalist and the religion editor of The Toledo Blade, covered the trial from gavel to gavel. His upcoming book -- already mentioned on CNN, Court TV, MSNBC, NPR, and the BBC -- chronicles the unique and compelling case that involves startling evidence of a satanic murder, an examination of a cover-up by the Toledo Catholic Diocese, and an inside look at how cold-case investigators and the prosecutor's office put together an iron-clad case that resulted in a conviction after just 6 hours of jury deliberations.

 

Yonke's book also includes chapters on other Toledo priests whose offenses were never made public or turned over to law-enforcement authorities until journalists at The Blade brought them to light.