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Corpus Delicti

225: Case Closed: Irene Garza, Part 2

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This is part 2 of Irene Garza's case. When we left off, Father Feit had been sent to a monastery so the church could get him off their hands. But this certainly isn't the end. Years later, two witnesses come forward with stories that match almost identically. With this new information, what will they do with Father Feit?

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Kai Engel
"Daemones"
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Art of Escapism
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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 Monthly
Ex-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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everyone is Jen

0:24.9

And this is Lindsay

0:25.9

And this is Corpus Dilecti, the podcast.

0:29.6

We are now part two

0:30.9

Because oops, we forgot to tell you

0:32.6

There was a part one

0:34.1

Of our closed case episode involving Irene And Father Fight. Yeah, so we are going to do a

0:42.1

super quick recap and then we will pick up where we left off. Irene Garza goes to Mass and

0:49.1

confession the night before Easter in 1960 and she does not come home. Their really only suspect at this point

0:59.1

is Father Fight who did her confessional that night. She was last seen with him about 8 p.m. that night

1:05.6

and she was found in a canal submerged in water and they found a Kodak film viewer in the canal that belonged to Father Fight.

1:17.4

Then they find out about a recent attack of a girl in a church by a priest who fits the same description of Father Fight.

1:30.2

Father Fight goes on trial for that attack.

1:36.3

It's a hung jury. He pays a fine. The church doesn't want the scandal he's bringing. So they ship him off to a monastery. Meanwhile, Irene's case has gone cold. So that's where we're going to pick up.

1:42.7

And Father Fight is not loving monastery life.

1:45.7

So he goes to New Mexico to join the servants of the paraclete in 1966.

1:52.5

This went a lot better and he actually rose through the ranks and became one of the quote higher-ups.

2:00.1

Now this means that he was the supervisor of other problematic priest, specifically, those who are rapist.

2:08.5

So there's a lot of them that they need a higher-up to be in charge of it.

2:12.7

His job was to decide how and when they could resume their normal duties.

2:17.5

You're done.

2:18.7

One strike, you're done.

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