The two women religious were found stabbed to death August 25 in their Durant, Mississippi, home, police said.
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Authorities have not said if there was a motive for the slaying, and did not say if their religious work was related. Both women were nurse practitioners and lived together.
Their bodies were found in a home they shared in Durant, on Castalian Springs Road.
Police Chief John Haynes said officers were canvassing the area and trying to look at video from surveillance cameras in town to see if they spot anything unusual. Friends of the victims say their auto was no where to be found either.
People in the MS community where two nuns were killed say they are having a hard time finding forgiveness, even though that’s what the sisters would have wanted. The other is part of the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee.
After Hurricane Katrina left much of the town without power for weeks in 2005, the sisters allowed people to come to their house to cook because they had a gas stove, neighbor Patricia Wyatt-Weatherly said. And they didn’t bother anybody. “As a mater fact, Paula know that I love to do flowers so she was going to plant me a flower so she was great”, said Patricia Wyatt Weatherly, who lived next door the the victims.
Mike Cassin says, “That’s bad why would anybody murder some kindly nuns”. They helped their patients pay for their medication and other medical supplies, she said.
MS investigators were searching for clues Friday that might unlock the mystery behind the cold-blooded murder of two beloved nuns.
“We do more social work than medicine sometimes”, Merrill said in the post.
“These two sisters wouldn’t hurt a flea”. Police found two bodies in the home of Sister Paula Merrill, SCN, and Sister Margaret Held, OSF, in Durant, Miss. this morning.
The two women were nurse practitioners at Lexington Medical Clinic, and Durant police found the two women dead after another employee at the clinic reported that they did not show up for work, according to Assistant Police Chief James Lee in the Globe report.
The Sisters spent their life helping Mississippi’s poorest residents.
Mimi Willis says, “If you’ve got something they want or something they could use to get drugs or whatever they’re going to take you out”. She had been a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for 49 years. “It’s so senseless”, Father Greg Plata, OFM, told a reporter on the scene.
A $2,500 reward has increased to $22,500 for information leading to the arrest of the nuns’ killer or killers. “Please pray for all those that have been affected by this horrific crime”. SCN President Susan Gatz asks that all, “pray in gratitude for the precious lives of Sisters Paula and Margaret … they served the poor so well”. Unbridled love and care for mankind has been met with unparalleled savagery.
Abboud said the clinic provided about 25 percent of all the medical care in the county, which has a population of about 18,000, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates for July 2015.
“We hope justice will be swiftly served”.
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