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Ex-priest Arrested in Phoenix for 1960 Murder Lived in Dubuque

KWQC
February 15, 2016

http://kwqc.com/2016/02/15/priest-arrested-in-phoenix-for-1960-murder-lived-in-dubuque/

This undated photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office shows John Feit. The Associated Press

An ex-priest who was arrested last week and charged with raping and murdering a beauty queen in Texas over 55 years ago also spent time in Dubuque. David Clohessy, Director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) says the group fears he may have hurt a woman in Iowa too.

Last week, John Feit was arrested in Phoenix for killing a 25-year-old parishioner in McAllen, Texas in 1960. Two years later, he pleaded “no contest” to assaulting another young woman.

After Irene Garza’s murder, SNAP says Catholic officials quietly moved Feit several places including “a monastery in Dubuque, Iowa,” according to a 7,100 word investigative report on the case in Texas Monthly.



SNAP argues that even though Feit’s time in Iowa was allegedly “brief,” it takes just seconds to assault a vulnerable person. They say even if he did not hurt a single Iowa woman, “the prudent, caring move now would be for Iowa Catholic bishops to use parish bulletins, church websites and pulpit announcements to urge anyone with information or suspicions about Feit to call secular authorities.”

Feit also spent time in Missouri, San Antonio and later New Mexico.

More information can be found at SNAPnetwork.org.

 

 

 

 

 




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