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.