The FBI will exhume the body of a 1969 murder victim featured in the Netflix docuseries 'The Keepers'

• The FBI will exhume the body of a cold-case murder victim, according to The Baltimore Sun.
• Joyce Malecki, 20, went missing in 1969 and her body was found on the banks of a river.

The FBI is exhuming the body of a 20-year-old Maryland woman who was choked and stabbed in the throat over 50 years ago, and whose murder was featured in the popular Netflix docuseries "The Keepers," according to The Baltimore Sun.

The FBI confirmed the news to the victim's brother, and to a nonprofit who has taken on the Malecki family as clients, the newspaper reported. The FBI did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Joyce Malecki, 20, vanished in November of 1969, and her body was found two days later on the banks of the Little Patuxent River, with her hands bound behind her back. An autopsy revealed that Malecki had died by either choking or drowning, and had sustained a number of scratches and bruises on her body that "indicated a struggle ensued."

Malecki's death mysteriously occurred just days after the vanishing of a 26-year-old nun named Sister Catherine Cesnik — the subject of Netflix's "The Keepers" in 2017. The documentary series explored the theory that both women were victims of the same killer.

The two women's disappearances had several similarities, including that both went missing after going on shopping trips, both omen's bodies were found in wooded areas, and both had known a Baltimore priest named A. Joseph Maskell, who had been accused of sexual abuse, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Cesnik taught at Archbishop Keough High School, where multiple former students came forward to allege that Maskell abused them. Some of the students alleged that Cesnik had known about the abuse and sought to help them — one even alleged that Maskell had taken her to see Cesnik's body shortly before it was discovered.

Cesnik's body was found in 1970 near a landfill, and an autopsy determined she died from a blow to her head that caused a skull fracture, the newspaper reported.

Though Maskell died in 2001, Baltimore authorities exhumed his body in 2017 and conducted DNA testing. The testing revealed no evidence linking him to Cesnik's death, according to The Baltimore Sun.