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Will Irene Garza ever get justice?

<<<McAllen, Texas (CNN) -- All evidence pointed police to one conclusion: A priest had killed a beautiful 25-year-old schoolteacher. Searchers had found the lifeless body of former Miss South Texas, Irene Garza, face down in a canal in her hometown of McAllen. She'd disappeared on the day before Easter after going to Sacred Heart Catholic Church for confession.

 

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Questioned by police, Feit [the priest to whom Ms. Garza went for confession] failed lie detector tests. What was also suspicious was that just 24 days before the killing, Feit had been arrested for attacking another young woman at a church in a town about 10 miles from McAllen. Feit pleaded no contest to misdemeanor aggravated assault. A judge found him guilty and fined him $500 with no prison time.>>>


Irene Garza was murdered in 1960.


Read the rest here:http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/31/...s-priest-murder-case


The current district attorney, after refusing to act for a long time, finally presented the case to a grand jury.  His presentation was shabby and incomplete, apparently by design.  The grand jury did not indict Feit.  A new district attorney might well be in office after the next election.  The case is still open and the family of Ms. Garza hopes a new DA will steadfastly pursue an indictment.


Feit still lives, in his 80s, having left the priesthood long ago.  He was hustled off to a monastery shortly after Ms. Garza was killed.  A monk at the monastery has stated publicly that he was told by church officials that Feit had killed a young woman.  Asked why he (the monk) did not report it at that time, he responded by saying that "We did as we were told" [by the church].

I yam what I yam and that's all I yam--but it is enough!

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