TEXAS
The Monitor
Posted: Sunday, February 14, 2016
KRISTIAN HERNANDEZ | STAFF WRITER
The news that former Sacred Heart priest John Feit was arrested last week in connection to the 1960 homicide of Irene Garza did not come as a surprise to Dale Tacheny.
For 52 years, Tacheny has believed Feit, now 83 years old, killed the young Texas beauty queen the night before Easter, because he said he heard about the crime from Feit himself.
Tacheny also believed that the pastor of Sacred Heart at the time worked in concert with McAllen police to cover up Feit’s involvement in the murder that was to become perhaps McAllen’s most notorious unsolved crime ever.
“He mentioned he had heard the (sacrament of) confession of Irene Garza and after hearing her confession he assaulted her, bound her, and gagged her,” Tacheny told The Monitor last week.
“He removed her clothing from the waist up and fondled her.”
Tacheny, now 86 years old, recalled Feit’s words Wednesday afternoon from his office in Oklahoma City, where he works as a tax preparer.
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