Ex-priest on trial in slaying of South Texas beauty queen who vanished after confessing her sins to him

TEXAS
Dallas News

December 2, 2017

By Marc Ramirez

Details shared with a South Texas jury Friday portrayed a former priest who was anything but priest-like in the ongoing trial of John Feit, accused of murdering a 25-year-old beauty queen over a half-century ago.

Irene Garza had been raped and bludgeoned to death when she was found in a McAllen canal in 1960, five days after she vanished from church on Easter weekend. A portable photographic slide viewer belonging to Feit was found near the body.

On Friday, as the San Antonio Express-News reported, jurors were told of Feit’s questionable behavior involving other women.

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