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Daily Mail (UK)
By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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.
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