Witness saw paedophile priest covered in blood near cold case murder victim Maria James’ house

– Witness saw paedophile priest covered in blood near cold case murder victim Maria James’ house:

A priest who sexually abused the son of cold case murder victim Maria James was seen covered in blood on the day of her murder, metres from the crime scene.

The priest — identified as Father Anthony Bongiorno — had blood on his face and arm as he ran into St Mary’s Parish Thornbury, roughly 50 metres from the Melbourne bookshop and home where Maria was stabbed 68 times in 1980.

The ABC’s Trace podcast, which has been reinvestigating the case for the past year, tracked down an electrician who was conducting maintenance work in the grounds of St Mary’s Parish on June 17, 1980 — the day of Maria’s murder.

H/t reader kevin a. 

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