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What Kind of Person Murders a Nun in Her Convent?

By Joy Montefusco

The first sign that something was amiss on the Navajo Indian reservation, located along the Arizona-New Mexico border, was when Sister Marguerite Bartz, 64, failed to show up for Mass on Sunday, November 1, 2009.  Sister Marguerite?s body was discovered lying in a pool of blood when one of her colleagues went to her room to check on her.  The New Mexico State Police and the FBI traveled to Navajo, New Mexico to investigate this bizarre case.Investigators initially said that Sister Marguerite had been killed sometime between Saturday night, which had been Halloween, and Sunday morning.  FBI Special Agent Darrin Jones, however, said that he could not reveal any details about how the nun had been killed.  Authorities, including officials with the Diocese of Gallup, which runs the parish church in Navajo, did say that they were unsure whether Sister Marguerite or the Church itself was the intended target, or whether the nun's killing was a random act of violence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).