TEXAS
Daily Mail

December 2, 2017

By Matthew Wright

Former priest, 85, ‘who beat, raped and strangled a Texas beauty queen to death in 1960’ appears in court with a walker as jury is shown her tattered outfit, shoe and purse that were found in a ditch

The petticoat, blouse, shoe, belt and purse belonging to Irene Garza were shown in an Edinburgh, Texas court for the case of 85-year-old John Feit

Feit is accused of beating and strangling the 25-year-old teacher and former beauty queen in 1960

Juan Gonzales and Alfredo Barrera testified on Thursday that they had both come across the purse after Garza had been killed

Authorities questioned the then-27-year-old priest who had scratches on his hand and failed a lie detector test but he was later listed as not being a suspect

The case went cold twice before a new jury indicted Feit in…