ARIZONA/TEXAS
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PHOENIX (AP) – The Latest on the arrest in Arizona of a former priest in the 1960 killing of a Texas schoolteacher (all times local):
4:10 p.m.
A man who told authorities that a former priest confessed to killing a Texas schoolteacher in 1960 says he’s relieved that the man has been charged in the case.
Former priest John Bernard Feit (fyt) was arrested Tuesday in Arizona after being indicted by a grand jury in Texas in the death of Irene Garza.
Dale Tacheny says he also is a former priest and was working at a Missouri monastery where Feit applied to live in 1963. Tacheny says Feit told him he’d killed a young woman as the two men talked during an evaluation process to determine whether Feit would be accepted to stay at the monastery.
Tacheny says he told a superior about the conversation, but the only result was that Fiet wasn’t invited to live at the monastery.
Tacheny says he continued thinking about the conversation over the years, but he didn’t learn until years later that the woman was Garza. Tacheny went to law enforcement in 2002.
Tacheny called Feit’s indictment “the right thing.”
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