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Corpus Delicti

224: Case Closed: Irene Garza, Part 1

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We're back! New year, new series! This series involves cases that went cold for a time but heat back up and eventually are solved. Also, this IS a two part episode which we forget to say until about halfway through.

Irene Garza was a beauty queen who taught less fortunate children. The Saturday before Easter in 1960, she goes to mass and confession but never returns home. Five days later her body is found in a canal. The only suspect is a priest. But this wasn't something you really said out loud...

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Kai Engel "Daemones"
Blooper music by: Art of Escapism "Coal Miners"
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Sources:
Break in cold case: Police arrest former beauty queen's priest in her 1960 killing (smh.com.au)
Unholy Act – Texas MonthlyEx-priest coming back to Texas to stand trial in the gruesome death of a Valley beauty queen (mysanantonio.com)
Author Leon J. Podles :: The Murder of Irene Garza Case Study
14 Aug 1960, Page 30 - Waco Tribune-Herald at Newspapers.com
Altar Ego: Former Priest John Feit and Death of Irene Garza | Phoenix New Times
Witnesses Take The Stand in John Feit Trial – Fox News South Texas
Monk Testifies Feit Spoke Of A Woman – Fox News South Texas
Witness Say Feit Told Her “She Was Next” – Fox News South Texas
Inside the Trial of Former Priest Charged with 1960 Murder of Texas Schoolteacher, by Lourdes Aguiar, Josh Gaynor And Ruth Chenetz, 48 Hours - CBS News (January 27, 2018) (bishop-accountability.org)Clergy Letter Regarding Feit Investigation | PDF (scribd.com)
Cold Case Files - Season 2 episode 6 - Devil in Disguise
48 Hours - Sins of the Father






























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0:00.0

Hey, everyone is Jen.

0:25.2

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.6

And welcome back to Corpus Delictite, the podcast.

0:29.8

We are back with another season.

0:32.2

And this time, we are discussing cold cases that heat up at the end.

0:37.1

And it is now officially case clothes.

0:40.5

Yes, so excited to be back.

0:42.6

I know we've been off for a really long time.

0:44.3

So before we dive into this, a few really quick things, if you are a Patreon supporter, you probably already saw this, but if you have not, we're making some

0:55.4

changes to our $10 tier, which is exciting because we're going to be sending out a quarterly

1:00.6

gift. And we're leaving that term loose just because it could change. It could be a mug or a notebook.

1:08.5

Don't know. Couldn't even be something not corpus delicti related.

1:11.7

We don't really know yet.

1:13.3

And just bear with us as we work that out just because we do have some overseas Patreon supporters.

1:18.4

So we want to just kind of feel out, you know, the best way to do that.

1:21.6

The other thing is we had said before we went on break that we were refunding the month of December.

1:28.3

All of that has been processed except for if you are a yearly subscriber.

1:35.3

Reason being, you can't do a partial refund on those.

1:39.6

And if we refund the whole thing, it takes away all of your access.

1:43.4

So we're trying to figure out how to

1:45.2

approach that. It may be that we, you know, send you guys some goodies or maybe, you know, I don't know,

1:50.9

we're still working that out, but just wanted to let you know that we did run into that hurdle,

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