EDINBURG (TX)
KRGV-TV, Channel 5
December 8, 2017
[Video]
A former priest convicted in a 1960 murder will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The decision, the harshest sentence the jury could give 84-year-old John Feit, was unanimous just after four hours of deliberation.
On Friday, 21,055 days after Irene Garza was last seen alive, the Hidalgo County 92nd District Court was packed.
A jury was about to send a former priest to prison for life.
It took authorities 56 years to arrest Feit and another year to bring him to trial.
The night before the rare burst of snow fell on Deep South Texas, it had taken a jury, in a predominately Catholic region, just six hours to convict the former priest of murder.
It would take another four hours for the few family members Garza has left to hear a foreperson from the jury say, “For a term of life.”
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