EDINBURG — An 83-year-old former priest has pleaded not guilty to murder in the slaying of a South Texas teacher and former beauty queen more than a half-century ago.
John Feit used a walker as he arrived in court Monday in Hidalgo County. He is accused of the April 1960 beating and suffocation of 25-year-old Irene Garza.
State District Judge Luis Singleterry set bail at $1 million.
Feit was returned to Texas last week from Phoenix, where he had been jailed since his arrest last month after prosecutors said they had new evidence against him. The nature of that evidence hasn’t been disclosed. He long had been suspected in her death.
Authorities say Feit, then 27, killed Garza after hearing her confession at a Roman Catholic church in McAllen.
Her body was found days later. An autopsy determined that Garza, who was named Miss All South Texas Sweetheart 1958, had been raped while unconscious and had been beaten and suffocated.
Feit was arrested Feb. 9 in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, where he had lived for years. He had been indicted in Texas.
His arrest followed other investigations over the years, including a grand jury probe in 2004 that concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge him.
So there you go .............. puts an end to it..........
Maybe they should beat the s*** out of him to be on the safe side,,,,, right,, sheet starter conni. ..???
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