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Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

S1 Ep16: Irene Garza and Margaret Ann Pahl

Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4685 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Besides being cold for decades, these two cases have many very eerie similarities.

Producer and Sound Designer - Danelle Cloutier https://www.instagram.com/danellecloutier
Check out us out on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/criminallylisted
Intro and Outro Music: Scary Theme by Eitan Epstein Music
Main Song: Abandoned Hospital SPMusicGroup
Sources: https://pastebin.com/CBCLft3c
 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, thank you for joining us for another episode of Into the Killing.

0:05.0

In this episode, we're going to take a look at two brutal murders that were unsolved for decades.

0:11.0

These two cases have some eerie similarities.

0:14.0

The first case we'll look at happen on Easter weekend, 1960 in McAllen, Texas.

0:35.6

McAllen is a city in the Rio Grande Valley, not far from the border of Mexico.

0:41.3

It was home to about 32,000 people in 1960. A resident of the city was 25-year-old Irene Garza.

0:46.3

Garza was born on November 15, 1934 in McAllen.

0:52.3

Her family owned and operated a dry cleaning business. Garza was a beautiful

1:00.0

and popular young woman. She was a twirler, head drummajorette, and homecoming queen.

1:07.0

In 1958, she was named Miss South Texas.

1:11.6

In 1960, 25-year-old Garza was teaching second grade.

1:17.6

Garza was a devout Catholic.

1:21.6

She went to church every Sunday, and every Saturday she went to confession.

1:28.3

On the evening of Saturday, April 16th, Garza went to Sacred Heart Catholic Church and McAllen.

1:35.3

It was Holy Saturday, which is the day before Easter, and she was dressed in a white veil.

1:42.3

Irene made the sign of the cross as she entered the sanctuary.

1:47.0

She knelt in a pew to pray.

1:50.0

Then she went to wait in line for confession.

1:54.0

People remember seeing her in the church, but no one remembered her leaving.

2:00.0

Garza lived with her parents, and they became more than seeing her in the church, but no one remembered her leaving.

2:07.1

Garza lived with her parents, and they became worried when she didn't return home that night.

2:10.5

So, she was reported missing.

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