# 1980s Franciscan priest murders

Unsolved · 1982

The 1980s Franciscan priest murders refers to the mysterious disappearances and murders of two Catholic priests, one of whom was a Franciscan, in the western United States between 1982 and 1984. On August 5, 1982, Father Reynaldo Rivera, a priest at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was murdered in an unknown location and his body found three days later.

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=61233177
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/1980s-franciscan-priest-murders-w61233177

## On the record (quotes checked against the source text)

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## Open questions

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## Unverified findings

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## Sources

1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=61233177


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