Prosecutor: Late former priest killed altar boy in 1972. May 23, 2021, 11:12 PM | Updated: May 24, 2021, 10:57 ... but he died Friday at the age of 80 before he could be arrested.

A defrocked Roman Catholic priest implicated himself in the 1972 slaying of a Massachusetts altar boy before dying at a hospital last week — saying he gave the boy a “good shove” before he ...

Authorities in Massachusetts say a defrocked priest was responsible for the death of a child in a cold case from 1972 — but the suspect died last week before he could be arrested.

A former altar boy sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Thursday, alleging that he was sexually abused by a priest in 1987 shortly before the priest fled to his native Mexico to ...

For Catholic boys, it was an ego boost to have a priest give them attention and responsibilities. As one of Schaefer’s altar boys, the boy got out of homeroom for special Masses, weddings, funerals.

Monsignor Jose A. Leon Guerrero sexually abused the Asan altar boy in 1972, starting when he told on another boy's marijuana use, the lawsuit says.

After a decades-long investigation, a Roman Catholic priest wound up as the suspect in a 1972 cold case killing of a young altar boy in Massachusetts, but he died hours before investigators ...

Another former altar boy says he was sexually abused in the 1970s by the same Catholic priest who acknowledged fondling former Republican Congressman Mark Foley when Foley was a teenager, the man ...

BOSTON — Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly ...