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Detectives hope trail won’t go cold in priest’s murder probe

August 22, 2018 Joseph M. Hanneman 10

As it enters its third decade, the investigation into the murder of Fr. Alfred Kunz is taking on a new urgency, police say. […]

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“I don’t know if they will ever reveal why he was murdered”

August 15, 2018 Joseph M. Hanneman 18

Some friends believed Fr. Kunz’s work as an exorcist or his investigations of sexual corruption in the priesthood must have been factors in his 1998 […]

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The unsolved murder of Fr. Alfred Kunz

August 8, 2018 Joseph M. Hanneman 16

Twenty years ago, a priest was found with his throat slit at a parish school in rural Wisconsin. Today, investigators are urging the public to […]

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Fiction and murder most foul: A morbid topic for Catholics?

June 16, 2017 John Herreid 6

Detective fiction and mystery novels have a long pedigree in the Catholic world. This may seem strange: Catholic and Christian authors writing about murder and crime? What’s up with that? Yet when you look at […]

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