Police hunt nuns' kidnapper
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Adrian O'Neill Robinson is shown in an undated file photo released by the FBI.
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NORFOLK, Virginia (CNN) -- Police chased a man Wednesday suspected in the shooting death of his father and the abduction of two Catholic nuns in Georgia.
Officers found human body parts in his car, and a short time later the decapitated body of one of the nuns was found in nearby Virginia Beach.
The suspect, Adrian O'Neill Robinson, 26, fled on foot after a brief car chase and remained at large, police said.
Police said they found body parts in Robinson's abandoned car. Thirty minutes later, police in nearby Virginia Beach reported finding the body of a mutilated and decapitated woman.
Wednesday afternoon, medical examiners identified the body as that of Sister Philomena Fogerty, one of the two kidnapped nuns.
The other nun, Sister Lucie Kristofik, survived the ordeal. She was found Tuesday morning at a Norfolk hotel after she called police to say she and Sister Philomena had been abducted, gagged and bound. She said the assailant took her companion with him and left her at the hotel.
Sister Philomena Fogarty stands in front of Christ the King Catholic Church north of Hamilton, Georgia, in this September 7, 2001, file photo.
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Police said the nuns were both in their 70s.
The abduction occurred Sunday after Robinson allegedly shot and killed his father, Henry Robinson, with a high-powered rifle in Harris County in western Georgia, on the state's Alabama border.
The nuns were kidnapped later by a man who broke into their home and stole $900, police said. They had just arrived at the house as the burglar was leaving.
Police have conducted a massive search for Robinson in the southeastern corner of Virginia.
CNN's Jennifer Coggiola in Atlanta contributed to this report.
