Forgive Me, Father: A True Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Brutal Murder

Father Gerald Robinson was a pillar of his Toledo Ohio church-going community. A popular priest he was especially admired in the citys Polish neighborhoods for delivering powerful sermons in Polish. In later years Father Robinson ministered to the sick and eventually ended up serving as chaplain at Mercy Hospitalwhere met Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Sister Margaret age 72 was well-loved at Mercy. When in the hospitals sacristy she was found dead with numerous stab wounds to her neck chest and headin the pattern of a crossno one could believe it: Who at Mercy could have committed such evil? For years there was no answereven though questions about the chaplains dark past continued to arise. Finally in 2004 cold-case detectives announced that Father Gerald Robinson who presided at Sister Margarets own funeral was convicted with her murder.