At just seven episodes, The Keepers can’t afford to focus on just Sister Cathy, because too many other damning details need unpacking.
Many true crime projects involving murders will take a whodunnit angle on the suspects, they’ll focus specifically on the deviousness or depravity of the murder(s), or in the case of the aforementioned Murderer, Jinx and Serial, it’s about figuring out whether a suspected and/or convicted person is indeed guilty of said crimes.
The relatively light marketing campaign behind The Keepers has tethered everything to the disappearance-turned-murder of 26-year-old nun and high school teacher Cathy Cesnik, which is possibly best, since her tragic death is the easier-to-market entry point to a much deeper, much darker and much more collaterally damaging series of crimes that (allegedly) happened between and around the walls of what was then Baltimore’s Archbishop Keough High School.