Feit allegedly confessed to murder in 1963, saying victim told him ‘I cannot breathe’
EDINBURG (TX)
San Antonio Express-News
December 4, 2017
By Aaron Nelsen
[Note: See also http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2004_11_21_Egerton_StexasDA_John_Feit_8.htm]
EDINBURG — John Feit confided that he had gotten away with murder, Dale Tacheny said Monday on the stand in Feit’s murder trial.
Feit showed little remorse, Tacheny testified Monday, yet the troubled priest confessed in 1963 that he was still haunted by the sound of the heels of Irene Garza, a former beauty queen he is accused of killing in 1960. Tacheny was a Trappist monk at Assumption Abbey, a monastery in Ava, Missouri, when Feit was sent there. Tacheny left the monastery in 1967.
“He put the young lady in a bathtub,” the 88-year-old Tacheny testified. “As he was leaving, the young lady said ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ Then he left.”
Feit attacked Garza in the church rectory, fondled her, then stored her in the basement while he went…
