[5] On November 7, 1969, she left the apartment she shared with Helen Russell Phillips at the Carriage House Apartments, at 131 North Bend Road in Catonsville, en route to the Edmondson Village Shopping Center to purchase a gift for her sister's engagement at Hecht's jewelry store.

On January 3, 1970, her body was found by a hunter and his son in an informal landfill located on the 2100 block of Monumental Road, in a remote area of Lansdowne.

Both women have said that she was the only member of the school's staff who helped them and other girls abused by Maskell and his compatriots, and they believe she was murdered prior to discussing the matter with the archdiocese of Baltimore.

Her account was brought into question by scientific evidence showing that it would have been impossible for maggots to be alive at that time of year.

"[1] Several days later, on November 13, 1969, the body of Joyce Malecki, a 20 year-old woman who looked like Cathy, was discovered by two hunters in the same wooded location where Maskell had driven Wehner.

[12] Cesnik's body was not found until January 3, 1970, and its discovery by two hunters was not in the same area, but on the open hill trash dump of a small business property in Lansdowne.

[13] In 2016, the Baltimore County Police Department (BCoPD) reassigned the case, prompting new interviews and further investigation into the alleged sexual abuse at Keough.

[14] After obtaining permission from the state's attorney's office, the BCoPD exhumed the body of Maskell, who died of a major stroke in 2001, but did not find a DNA match to evidence from the crime scene.

[20] Cesnik's death and the surrounding controversy have been the subject of academic study including the book The Horror of Police.