Father Ryan Erickson
This case is unusual on many levels. I am sure I could find plenty of criminal cases involving Catholic priests but there are only a few that also involve murder. Today we may see cases that are solved with the perpetrator deceased but let's be fair and note that most of those are coming from forensic genealogy and basing things on DNA. There of course are the cases in which the perpetrator has died and they are highly suspected as being responsible in a case but there are few cases, such as this one, in which there is an actual court proceeding where a judge and/or a jury are asked to make a decision. Some would argue that Ottis Toole was announced to be the murderer of Adam Walsh posthumously. They would be correct in this statement but that was announced by the police department, not a judge or jury. Of course there have been some bodies identified over the last several years that were determined to be victims of John Wayne Gacy, but in most of those cases they already kne...