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A 27-year-old visiting priest. he had come to the sacred heart church from a nearby town to help out on the busy easter weekend. >> kind of a nice guy, but he was a rigid fellow. >> dale tacheny, a former monk, says he spent six months with father feit at this monastery in missouri after irenes murder. tacheny was feits spiritual counselor and says that in bits and pieces, he told him about a young woman he saw for confession just before easter. >> he offered to take her to the rectory. >> about...

Irenes body was pulled from the canal. in the water, police recovered two candelabra. they were from irenes church and the slide viewer. >> that slide viewer was found next to her body. >> sonny miller is the former supervisor of mcallens crime scene investigations. the slide viewer that was found, whose slide viewer was that? >> investigators found out that it had belonged to father feit. >> father feit has always denied to police that he killed irene garza. he acknowledged taking irenes confes...

Church. irene went to confession every saturday. >> she was highly religious. it was very, very important to her. >> on that april day in 1960, irene met with father john feit, a 27-year-old visiting priest. he had come to the sacred heart church from a nearby town to help out on the busy easter weekend. >> kind of a nice guy, but he was a rigid fellow. >> dale tacheny, a former monk, says he spent six months with father feit at this monastery in missouri after irenes murder. tacheny was feits s...

Father joseph terra. according to phoenix police about 9:00 last night they got a 911 call from the rectory. let me show you the rectory. right next to mother of mercy mission here in downtown phoenix. that call went in to 8911 saying there was a robbery. that was the 56-year-old father terra making that call. saying he was badly beaten. once police got here, they found father kenneth walker who had been shot and also father terra who had been badly beaten. both were rushed to the hospital. unfo...

>> father john bernard feit. >> nothing in this case has ever pointed differently. >> these three lawmen who have led this investigation say the evidence takes them straight to john feit, starting the day irenes body was pulled from the canal. in the water, police recovered two candelabra. they were from irenes church and the slide viewer. >> that slide viewer was found next to her body. >> sonny miller is the former supervisor of mcallens crime scene investigations. the slide viewer that was fo...

Important matter. but instead of taking irenes confession in the church, father feit had her go next door to the rectory. and after the visit, irene went missing. >> so, immediately my dad and others were wondering, you know, what had happened, and what did this guy know. >> traumatized, irenes family retreated into their home, surrounded by their closest relatives. >> i remember being in the house and the lady sitting on the bed just crying her heart out. >> as painful as the memories are, cous...

>> he offered to take her to the rectory. >> about sexually assaulting her. >> after fondling her breasts, he took her to the basement. >> about keeping her bound and gagged. >> he put something over her head. >> about her struggle to live. >> she was saying, "i cant breathe, i cant breathe." >> and about dumping her lifeless body at the canal. >> on the way over there, father feit said that he patted her on her breasts, she was in the back seat, and was saying to her, "irene, everything will be...

>> he offered to take her to the rectory. >> about sexually assaulting her. >> after fondling her breasts, he took her to the basement. >> about keeping her bound and gagged. >> he put something over her head. >> about her struggle to live. >> she was saying, "i cant breathe, i cant breathe." >> and about dumping her lifeless body at the canal. >> on the way over there, father feit said that he patted her on her breasts, she was in the back seat, and was saying to her, "irene, everything will be...

Next to her body. >> sonny miller is the former supervisor of mcallens crime scene investigations. the slide viewer that was found, whose slide viewer was that? >> investigators found out that it had belonged to father feit. >> father feit has always denied to police that he killed irene garza. he acknowledged taking irenes confession at the rectory and told investigators she left, but family members suspected him immediately. >> certainly that was in everyones mind since her car was still at th...

Garza. he acknowledged taking irenes confession at the rectory and told investigators she left, but family members suspected him immediately. >> certainly that was in everyones mind since her car was still at the church, she had gone to confession. >> late that night, father feit had cuts and injuries on his hands. he told fellow priests and investigators he got them when he was locked out of his home and climbed to a second floor balcony to get in. but when experts administered a lie detector t...