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Crime History: Man breaks into chapel, fatally beats nuns

By Scott McCabe
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Crime History: Man breaks into chapel, fatally beats nuns

On this day, Jan. 27, in 1996, a mentally ill man broke into a convent in Maine, stabbing and beating four nuns. Three of them died.

Mark Bechard, 37, who dreamed of becoming a Catholic priest, burst through the doors of the chapel of Servants of the Blessed Sacrament and went on a rampage.

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