EDINBURG (TX)
CBS/AP
November 30, 2017
EDINBURG, Texas — 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. 48 Hours investigated the case in the 2014 episode, “The Last Confession.”
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. Garza’s body was found in an irrigation canal in McAllen, Texas. The last time anybody saw the beauty queen, she was going to confession at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Feit, 27 at the time, heard that confession. He was a visiting priest.
The Monitor of McAllen reports prosecutor Michael Garza told jurors that Feit committed the murder “with malice and forethought.” According to Reuters, prosecutors argued that after hearing Garza’s confession, Feit lured her into the rectory, where he killed her.
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