TEXAS/ARIZONA
The Dallas Morning News
Claire Z. Cardona Follow @clairezcardona Email ccardona@dallasnews.com
Published: February 9, 2016
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department arrested former priest John Feit on Tuesday in the 1960 murder of a 25-year-old McAllen schoolteacher, officials said.
Feit, 83, was taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon outside his apartment in Scottsdale, Ariz., KRGV-TV reported.
The sheriff’s department arrested Feit on a murder charge from the Hidalgo County Prosecutor’s Office and the Texas Rangers, said Maricopa sheriff’s Deputy Joaquin Enriquez.
Feit will be charged after his initial appearance in front of a Texas judge. He is being held without bail until he can be extradited to Texas.
“Right now, he’s not going anywhere,” Enriquez said.
Irene Garza’s parents said their daughter planned to go to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen for a confession on April 16, 1960. Her body was found several days later in an irrigation ditch about a mile from the church where Feit was a priest.
An autopsy determined she had been raped and bludgeoned.
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