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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