CHICAGO (IL)
WLS
By Chuck Goudie
CHICAGO (WLS) — An ex-Chicagoan and former Roman Catholic priest is now charged with killing a beauty queen in 1960, right after he heard her confession.
John Feit is a native South Sider who still speaks with an Irish-tinged accent. He became a Catholic priest and in 1960 was visiting a parish in McAllen, Texas, where he helping out on a busy Easter weekend when Irene Garza, 25, came in for confession. That was the last time she was seen alive.
Fifty-six years later, the former priest is charged with her murder. Feit appeared in court Wednesday in Phoenix, where he had been living and was arrested.
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