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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Catholic Priest Who Murdered A Beauty Queen After Hearing Her Confession Has Been Arrested

A former Catholic priest who is now an 83-year-old married grandfather has been charged with murdering a 25-year-old beauty queen in 1960 after hearing her confession.






Irene Garza, a second grade teacher once crowned Miss South Texas, was last seen alive heading to the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas, to see John Feit, then 27, the day before Easter, almost 56 years ago.



Five days later her lifeless body was found wrapped in burlap, face down in a nearby canal. An autopsy later found she had been raped while unconscious and suffocated.
Feit was considered the prime suspect for more than half a century, but was finally arrested on Tuesday in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is now fighting extradition back to Texas.



The ex-clergyman was ordered held in lieu of $750,000 cash bond. Feit said the murder charge didn't make sense and that he's puzzled because the killing occurred in 1960.

Garza's family said the church and police orchestrated a 'cover-up' as he was a member of the clergy, and had him moved to a monastery just after the slaying.
Since the 1970s he has enjoyed family life. He's married, has children and grandchildren and is a regular volunteer at his church.
But he is now facing spending the rest of his life in jail if he is convicted. 
He said the last time he saw Garza was in the church's rectory after he heard her confession, but all the evidence pointed to him.

District Attorney Ricardo Rodriguez told The Monitor he had presented his case to a grand jury last Thursday, and they voted to indict him.
'We had kept it quiet as much as we could we sealed the indictment,' he said.
He would not say what new, if any, new evidence he had.  It comes 12 years after the case was reopened, but a grand jury failed to indict in 2004


Just 24 days before the 1960 slaying, Feit had been arrested for attacking Maria America Guerra at a church in a town about 10 miles from McAllen.
Feit pleaded no contest to misdemeanor aggravated assault. A judge found him guilty and fined him $500 with no prison time.

He was interviewed by police after Garza's disappearance, but told them he didn't do it. However he is believed to have failed a series of lie detector tests.
At the time it was unthinkable for a priest to commit such a horrible act.
Garza's cousin Lynda De La Vina, who was nine years old at the time, told CNN: 'We were accusing a priest that - in those days priests were infallible.'
Noemi Sigler, was only 10, added: 'It was impossible for a priest to do such a deed. I mean, if you thought of it, that would be sacrilegious.'
She also believed that authorities and the church were protecting Feit. 
'I don't know whether it was out of respect for the church or anger or fear, I have no idea.
'Shortly after the killing, the church transferred Feit far away to a monastery. He would be moved to other locations over time, and about three years after the killing, the church transferred Feit to Our Lady of Assumption monastery in Ava, Missouri.'
She even recorded a conversation with a former priest at Sacred Heart, Joseph O'Brien, who claimed Feit confessed to him and was sent away from the area because he was 'dangerous'.
Dale Tacheny, a Missouri monk at the monastery Feit attended, also came forward after 40 years because the burden of guilt had become too much, according to CNN. 

Garza's cousins supported him as he ran for the DA's office in 2014. They asked him to re-examine the case to see if it could be taken to grand jury.
His bid to look back into the case was said to be one of the primary reasons he beat long-time incumbent Rene Guerra. 



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52 comments:

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    1. Hmmmmmm

      You can't ever run away from your past...

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  2. See is worwor face. I wonder why they will tell them not to marry, when the thing go dey scratch them to do.

    anyway no pity to him. stupid old man. I dont trust all these fathers oooo. CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND NUNS MAKE UNA MARRY. THAT WILL NOT STOP YOU GUYS FROM GOING TO HEAVEN

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    1. Your husband wey you de with, like married life has kept him from roaming around other women. Taaa mechie gi onu there.

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    2. Shut up,and stop talking about things greater than you..

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    3. Jesus said some are celibate from their mother's womb, others God called them to be celibate and others called themselves to be celibate.
      Simple thing that God explained BUT men pervert things.
      *How CatholicPriest & pastors no understand whc one him be? All bcos of Title, Money etc.

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    4. Don't mind them.... Fooling themselves and claiming holy..... No where in the bible did God say you will not make heaven if you marry....u will be amazed the dirt and rubbish that exist in the Catholic Church

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  3. After how many years? Oyibo na wa

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  4. God have mercy... See why I will never confess to any man xept God himself

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    1. The bible says confess your sins to one another. It did not say to yourself or a priest.

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    2. They wasn't killed because of what she confessed rather from the greedy desire of the suppose priest...out lust and am sure it was sedative gone wrong.... Now in Nigeria does anybody care to find out the cause of any dead body they see lying wasted on the road or wherever .

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    1. You made me remember Wide eye(d) not sure if there a 'd'.

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  6. Jeeeeeez
    Confession?

    A formal preist!!

    May God save us.

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  7. This story was aired on IDx (Beauty Queen Murders) recently. Great justice!

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  8. What's the point?
    The man's almost dead. Spent his whole life in bliss without paying for his crime.
    There's no justice in the world.

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  9. Psycho alert. Serial killer tendencies...

    This will make a good movie.
    Be grateful,you went on to have a family...at least you can serve your time knowing you achieved some dreams while the lady you allegedly murdered has turned to dust.

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  10. The evil that men do lives with them.

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  11. I hope that the Statute of Limitation, doesn't cover this crime,or stop the case from being refiled, especially if he's found guilty.

    He must have been a sick individual.

    #WhiteDiamondOut

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    1. There is no limitation for murder or manslaughter, some offences are not barred by statutes

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    2. Thanks for the information, anon.

      :D

      #WhiteDiamondOut

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  12. Y do priests keep molesting women and boys??

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  13. Evil cant be hidden for ever

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  14. Me I'm not even seeing any strong evidence that suggests the priest killed her from what I read up there.

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    1. Eka joy no wonder you are daft... Did u not read where he had an earlier assault case?

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  15. Like seriously....na wa o...

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  16. He should rest in pieces in prison, that's all i can say to him

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  17. Wow!!! finally, I watched the episode of her murder on IDX, it was heartbreaking that even when all evidence pointed to him and when a monk confessed that he confessed to him, he wasn't still charged.. Hé went on to have a full life, left the church, got married etc but cut a young woman's life short, depriving her of all this, finally his sins has caught up with him. Smh

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    1. Wow,I will watch out for it on one of these crime TVs,hopefully they will show it.

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  18. He should face his jail term if convicted.

    De imperfect perfectionist.....

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  19. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    Thats one hell of a long time though....
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  20. After many years? Oyinbo I hale ooo!

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  21. I watched dis case on investigation discovery xtra. So painful

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  22. IDX on Dstv featured this particular case in one of their programs 'Murder of a Beauty Queen', remember I said he certainly won't go free.

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  23. I watched this on Discovery...can't believe he's been nabbed 56 years later! That Ghanaian proverb is so true-"wo dwane Nyame a, wohy3 n'ase" (meaning even if you try to run away from God, you are still under him). Kai, Starjoy, so true! I hail Oyinbo man. If it were Nigeria or Ghana, he would've escaped scot free.

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  24. All I see is his perfect eye brows...
    Baba former priest enjoy jail..

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  25. I remember watching this on one of the crime channels on DSTV about 2 weeks ago. Glad to know that God has finally avenged her death. It doesn't matter how long, as long as you don't repent, judgment will come.

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