A priest-expert on the occult testifies:

A Roman Catholic priest knowledgeable about rituals took the murder trial of the Rev. Gerald Robinson into the realm of the occult today.

In chilling testimony, the Rev. Jeffrey Grob of the Chicago archdiocese said numerous details surrounding the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl on Holy Saturday, 1980, indicate that the killer intended to mock and violate the devout nun who was "wedded to Christ," as well as create an affront to the Roman Catholic Church and God.

He cited details such as the timing of the murder occurring on Holy Saturday, 1980, during the holiest weekend of the church year; that the murder took place in a sacristy where the Holy Eucharist, the very presence of God, is kept between Good Friday and Easter; that an altar cloth was used to cover the nun’s body, thereby transforming her into an "altar of sacrifice," and that stab wounds over her heart were made in the shape of an inverted cross, a symbol of Satanic worship.

Such details individually may not indicate a ritualistic murder, but in sum represent "a reversal of things sacred that aren’t random acts."