EDINBURG (TX)
The Associated Press

November 30, 2017

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A prosecutor tells jurors evidence will show an 85-year-old former Catholic priest was responsible for the slaying of a South Texas teacher and ex-beauty queen 57 years ago.

Opening statements and testimony began Thursday in the trial of John Feit in Edinburg, Texas.

He’s accused of the April 1960 beating and suffocation of 25-year-old Irene Garza. She was found dead five days after going to a McAllen church for confession.

The Monitor of McAllen reports prosecutor Michael Garza told jurors that Feit committed the murder “with malice and forethought.”