A year after Arch Bishop Oscar Romero was murdered in El Salvador by the US trained atcatly battalion for practicing Liberation Theology, US citizen Jean Donovan, along with two Maryknoll nunsâMaura Clarke and Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel an Ursuline sister, were abducted, raped and shot to death by National Guardsmen in El Salvador. They too had committed the sin of practicing Liberation theology and helping the poor of El Salvador. The next day peasants discovered their bodies alongside an isolated road buried in a shallow grave.