Body may be abducted Irish nun

Police in the US believed tonight they had found the dismembered body of an Irish nun who had been abducted by a 25-year-old man shortly after he had murdered his father.

Sister Philomena Fogerty was one of two nuns abducted by Adrian O’Neill Robinson in Georgia on Sunday night. They were taken for their car.

The other nun, Sister Lucie Kristofik, 72, was left at a motel in Norfolk, Virginia, on Tuesday and was shaken but uninjured, authorities said.

She told police that when her abductor left, taking Sister Philomena with him, she was able to free herself and go to the front desk for help, said police spokesman Chris Amos.

Tonight, in a marshy area near Norfolk, police found human remains in the nuns’ car and were awaiting a medical examiner’s report on a dismembered body found earlier in nearby Virginia Beach.

“There are indications that the car that was found with the human remains is going to be connected with the body found in Virginia Beach,” Amos said.

Sheriff Mike Jolley, of Harris County, Georgia, where the women live, said the body was believed to be that of the missing nun.

Dan Colberg, police chief in Hamilton, Georgia, said the head, hands and feet had been cut off.

Police had been looking for their abductor since Sunday, when he shot his father, Henry Robinson, 56, at the home they shared in Hamilton, and then abducted the nuns, apparently for their car.

Family members told authorities that Robinson accused his father of sexually assaulting him before shooting him 16 times.

Sister Lucie Kristofik told investigators that the two women came home Sunday to find the man inside their mobile home, Amos said. He took £500 in cash, bound and gagged them, put them in their car and drove to Norfolk, Amos said.

Police said Robinson paid a man on the street £30 to check him into the Norfolk motel after telling the man he had no credit card.

Robinson is wanted in Norfolk on a 1998 forgery charge and the FBI wants him on a federal charge of fleeing to avoid prosecution.

Father Ronnie Madden said the nuns lived alone in a mobile home near Christ the King Catholic Church.

Kristofik was a missionary in Pakistan and has lived in Hamilton for about 12 years, Madden said.

Fogarty, who is in her mid-60s, is from Ireland and was a missionary in Japan. She has lived in Hamilton for about 16 years and is well-known in the community, Madden said.

“Sister Philomena was a saint,” Father Madden said. ”She is probably one of the greatest women I have ever met in my life.”