CRIME HUNTER: Did priest strangle beauty queen in 1960?

TEXAS
Toronto Sun

December 2, 2017

By Brad Hunter

In the dusty, southern tip of Texas that sits on the Mexican border death came calling for a dedicated teacher and one-time beauty queen.

Irene Garza was 25 years old that warm April day in 1960.

She attended confession at a Catholic church in McAllen in the late afternoon.

And then she vanished.

Five days later her lifeless body was found in a lonely canal. She’d been sexually assaulted and strangled.

People in the tiny Texas town have been haunted for decades by the gruesome killing.

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