1980s Franciscan priest murders
- Year
- 1982
- Where
- New Mexico
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
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.
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