GUILTY TX - Irene Garza, 25, found murdered, McAllen, 16 April 1960

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Erik De La Garza Retweeted
Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
6h6 hours ago
.@Whataburger strikes again in the trial — Feit says went there after meeting w/ #IreneGarza’s family to discuss missing daughter


Erik De La Garza Retweeted
Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
6h6 hours ago
Rudy Jaramillo, Texas Ranger who worked on #IreneGarza cold case in early 2000s, spotted outside courtroom. He’s on the witness list.


Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza
5h5 hours ago
Within months of Irene Garza’s murder, Police Chief Rodriguez says John Feit wrote a letter to the then-police chief expressing sadness that the case’s lead investigator died. Chief Rodriguez says he finds it “quite disturbing.” #FeitTrial


Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza
5h5 hours ago
Rodriguez admits under defense questioning that no physical evidence had been located at McAllen’s Sacred Heart Church during 1960 investigation of Irene Garza being bound, tied up or in any way restrained. #FeitTrial


Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza
2h2 hours ago
After lunch break, a TX Ranger led jurors through a virtual tour of Sacred Heart Church and its next door rectory. Retired SA police detective on the stand now. Dale Tacheny expected to testify next. #FeitTrial


Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza
2h2 hours ago
Judge Singleterry’s courtroom filling up as testimony of Dale Tacheny expected shortly. #FeitTrial


Erik De La Garza Retweeted
Chris Ardis‏ @CHRISTINEARDIS
1h1 hour ago
Now up--considered a #starwitness #DaleTacheny #IreneGarzamurdercase #formerCatholicpriest


Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
1h1 hour ago
“They’re not Dominicans from the island?” prosecutor asks Tacheny when clarifying what order of the Catholic Church he was part of


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Priscilla Estrada‏ @PriscillaKGBT
1h1 hour ago
Replying to @PriscillaKGBT
Tacheny currently describing what life was like at the monastery. He says they couldn’t speak to each other and prayed a lot.

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Molly Smith Retweeted
Priscilla Estrada‏ @PriscillaKGBT
56m56 minutes ago
Replying to @PriscillaKGBT
Tacheny says, “ I asked Father Feit why are you here and not in prison” and he said three things 1. The church helped him 2. Law enforcement helped him 3. The seal of confession helped him


Molly Smith Retweeted
Lorenzo Zazueta‏ @lorenzozazueta
31m31 minutes ago
Tacheny testifies about meeting with detective Saidler #IreneGarza #rgv
http://www.themonitor.com/news/link_a79ebc10-d5bc-11e5-bb8b-c38057a43734.html …

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Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
26m26 minutes ago
Tacheny gets emotional when talking about why he was so adamant to identify woman Feit confessed to killing - says “she had parents”


Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
25m25 minutes ago
Replying to @smithmollyk
Prosecutor asks him if he felt guilty for not coming forward sooner, and Tacheny tears up, asking, “can we go on to something else?”


Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
16m16 minutes ago
Most of state’s witnesses who don’t live in #RGV reside in other parts of Texas. Tacheny is 2nd out of state witness — he lives in Oklahoma.


Molly Smith Retweeted
Lorenzo Zazueta‏ @lorenzozazueta
17m17 minutes ago
Tacheny not denying some details he gave to authorities were things he assumed. #rgv
The defense is attempting to discredit Tacheny's testimony. The idea is Tacheny was told some details by Feit but some other details were assumed and conveyed to authorities #IreneGarza


Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
4m4 minutes ago

Tacheny says has visited #IreneGarza’s family in #RGV at least once in person, says possibly more but can’t remember
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Feit’s conflicting 1960 statements reviewed during murder trial

"...McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez read Feit’s 1960 statements to investigators while on the stand Monday in Feit’s trial.
Feit was a 27-year-old priest on April 16, 1960, preparing to offer the sacrament of confession when Garza, a 25-year-old second-grade teacher and beauty queen knocked on the door.

Yet Feit, now 85, told investigators at the time conflicting versions of what transpired.

“I had never made the acquaintance of this person before,” Feit told investigators at the time, “and to the best of my knowledge I’d never seen her before.”

In that original statement to authorities, Feit said that he did not take her confession, and that another priest had been present in the rectory when Garza arrived. But on June 14, 1960, the young priest contradicted his earlier statement, claiming he was alone and that he had indeed taken her confession.

The last Feit saw of Garza she was standing on the sidewalk in front of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, he told investigators. Her body was found in an irrigation canal five days later. She had been beaten, raped while unconscious and then asphyxiated.

“It makes his first statement an obvious lie,” Rodriguez said. “I believe it was deceitful.”.."

http://www.expressnews.com/news/loc...licting-1960-statements-reviewed-12404560.php

(Defense attorney O. Rene Flores (right) talks with McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez during a break in testimony Monday in John Feit’s trial for the 1960 murder of Irene Garza in the 92nd state District Court at the Hidalgo County Courthouse in Edinburg)
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Hey!

Niner- where are you?

:doh: I apoligize - I totally forgot.... got my $$ and had to do some grocery shopping!

:tyou: for posting the tweets!!! I was going to go hunt them down from yesterday - so you saved me some time! :happydance:

I'll "hopefully" be here today - but going into Old Town, and the way my bro daudoles around, who knows "what" time we'll be back.... :crossfingers:

Wow - a lot more tweets than any other day!

Thanks again YESorNO! You're the best!!

 

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Photo Gallery: Day 3 of John Feit trial

http://valleycentral.com/news/local/photo-gallery-day-3-of-john-feit-trial


Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza 2h2 hours ago




Explosive testimony by Dale Tacheny caps Day 3 of John Feit's murder trial. He claims that Feit confessed to the killing of Irene Garza while the two were at a Trappist monastery in 1963. #FeitTrial

 

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I'll be leaving in about hour & a half, as I promised to take bro to dinner....

So maybe if YESorNO - you are around you can take over?? I'll post when I leave!

nline: I'm ready for now....

 

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Oops - I'm early - wrong time zone.... :gaah:

So in about 40 minutes from now.... :waiting:

No wonder no one was tweeting!!

 

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Photo Gallery: Day 3 of John Feit trial

http://valleycentral.com/news/local/photo-gallery-day-3-of-john-feit-trial


Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza 2h2 hours ago




Explosive testimony by Dale Tacheny caps Day 3 of John Feit's murder trial. He claims that Feit confessed to the killing of Irene Garza while the two were at a Trappist monastery in 1963. #FeitTrial

John Feit Confessed to Murder, Former Priest Says

"EDINBURG, Texas (CN) — Three years after he killed her, John Feit admitted that he’d used a cellophane bag to murder a South Texas beauty queen in a bathtub, a former Catholic priest testified Monday on the third day of Feit’s murder trial.

Prosecutors say Feit had a penchant for attacking young women in high heels from behind while they prayed in church.

“I get anxious when I hear, ‘click, click, click, click,’ when I hear the heels on a hard concrete floor,” former Trappist monk Dale Tacheny testified that Feit told him in 1963..."

https://www.courthousenews.com/john-feit-confessed-to-murder-former-priest-says/

 

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Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk

10h10 hours ago
Here's my recap of day 3 — Ex-monk testifies that Feit confessed to killing a woman in South Texas in the early 1960s and police chief offers new insight into alleged cover-up by Catholic Church

Police chief, former monk testify about concealing evidence, confession

"EDINBURG — The Catholic Church actively worked to conceal evidence incriminating a former priest for the 1960 murder of a McAllen schoolteacher, witness testimony alleged on the third day of the John Feit murder trial...

An autopsy report found that the 25-year-old teacher had been beaten, raped while unconscious and asphyxiated. Investigators believe these events likely transpired in the church’s rectory.

McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez testified Monday that while investigators never recovered any physical evidence from the rectory, the police file on the decades-long cold case indicates that investigators had “testimonial evidence that property of hers … was found in the church and subsequently disposed of by members of the church.”

He did not specify what this property entailed, but noted that it was “articles of clothing.”..."

http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_3ff48964-d970-11e7-a47c-93206aa1c41a.html
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Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
7m7 minutes ago

.@dallasnews attorneys did not appear in @HidalgoCounty court this morning so judge overruled their objection to testimony of @brooksegerton

5m5 minutes ago

Judge overrules defense’s objection to hearsay — rules that Egerton will he compelled to testify

2m2 minutes ago

This is the article Egerton will be asked about, in which he interviewed Father Joseph O’Brien in 2004: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2004_11_21_Egerton_StexasDA_John_Feit_8.htm

 

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Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza
2m2 minutes ago

Testimony in John Feit’s murder trial resumes with former @dallasnews reporter allowed to testify about an article he wrote in the early 2000s. #FeitTrial http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2004_12_06_Egerton_FugitiveIs_Basil_Onyia_13.htm …


Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
4m4 minutes ago
Replying to @smithmollyk @dallasnews and

During the interview, O’Brien (who died in 2005) said Feit admitted to killing #IreneGarza after being repeatedly pressed about it


Egerton is the third out of state witness called to testify in the John Feit murder trial — he lives in Tennessee


Okay - going to dinner!! If you are still around YESorNO???

 

[Niner]

If YESorNO doesn't show up - I'll pick up the tweets where I left off! Gotta eat!

 

[Niner]

Back!

Molly Smith‏ @smithmollyk
1h1 hour ago

Egerton says O’Brien said he was surprised former @HidalgoCounty DA Rene Guerra never interviewed him about the case

Guerra, who is not on the current witness list, has loomed large over this case

Thomas Doyle is an expert on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church — is also the 4th of out state witness. Lives in Virginia.

Doyle: If people knew priests were “running around committing crimes” the institution of the church (church officials) would lose authority


Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza
1h1 hour ago

Former @dallasnews reporter Brooks Egerton told jurors of his 2004 story where Sacred Heart’s fmr priest Joseph O’Brian was interviewed and said John Feit confessed to the killing. “John, how can I help you if I don’t know the truth?"

Egerton said the line of questioning “almost provoked a fist fight” between O’Brien and Feit in the 1960s. #FeitTrial

Thomas Patrick Doyle, an inactive priest who worked with sexual abuse victims in the Catholic Church, is next up on the stand. He has just been qualified as an expert witness permitted to testify. The jury is about to walk back into court. #FeitTrial

“This is a 57-year-old case. I think the one question that’s on everybody’s mind is ‘What took so long.’” Prosecutor Garza says Doyle will shed light on why the case has never been prosecuted until now. #FeitTrial

Doyle says it was common for prosecutors to make agreements with the Catholic Church in criminal cases. “The Church would take care of it and priests were not prosecuted,” according to Doyle. #FeitTrial

Doyle says worshippers are “more vulnerable” during confession. Prosecutors have said that John Feit attacked Irene Garza while she was giving confession on Holy Saturday 1960. #FeitTrial

“I’d consider it a punishment,” Doyle says of the Trappist monastery John Feit was sent to after Irene Garza’s murder. You pray, sleep and do manual labor, he said. #FeitTrial

Doyle talking about New Mexico’s Servants of the Paraclete, a religious order that house troubled priests. Feit was sent there but eventually became a superior in charge of making decisions on when troubles priests would be returned to duty. #FeitTrial


Chris Ardis‏ @CHRISTINEARDIS
49m49 minutes ago

"It is a complete betrayal of trust. It's called sacrilege" Doyle tells the jury, speaking on #priests asking for "sexual favors." #IreneGarzamurdercase #formerCatholicpriest

 

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Alone am I.....

 

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Molly Smith Retweeted
20m20 minutes ago

STATE: Why is it these people are protected like this?
Doyle: Priests are considered "privileged" Church opposes any prosecution of priests - they would rather handle "in-house."


Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza
28m28 minutes ago

Doyle talking about New Mexico’s Servants of the Paraclete, a religious order that house troubled priests. Feit was sent there but eventually became a superior in charge of making decisions on when troubles priests would be returned to duty. #FeitTrial


These same 20 & 28 minutes ago, but they just popped up now.... :dunno:

 

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Haven't had a tweet in an hour - must have gone to lunch....

 

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Must have been a two hour lunch or something - finally a tweet!

Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza 51s51 seconds ago




John Feit walking into court next to his attorney moments ago. We’re about to start the afternoon session. Outside presence of jury now. #FeitTrial

 

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Erik De La Garza Retweeted
Courthouse News‏ @CourthouseNews
10m10 minutes ago

Courthouse News Retweeted Erik De La Garza

.@eidelagarza is providing live coverage of the fourth day of the John #FeitTrial.

Feit, a former Catholic priest, is charged with the 1960 murder of Irene Garza, his former parishioner.

Background: http://bit.ly/2iTEHUk


Erik De La Garza Retweeted
Chris Ardis‏ @CHRISTINEARDIS
4m4 minutes ago

Back from lunch. Now on the stand, Richard Sipe--former monk trained in psychiatric problems with priests. Started training about sexuality of #RomanCatholic priests in 1960. #IreneGarzamurdercase #formerCatholicpriest

 

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Erik De La Garza‏ @eidelagarza
3m3 minutes ago

Prosecutor Garza claiming, for the first time, that John Feit pulled another young lady from a confessional in Falfurrias, Texas, “establishing a pattern of behavior.” Garza wants Sipe to discuss that account as an expert witness. Still outside presence of jury. #FeitTrial

Sipe not allowed to testify about alleged attack in Falfurrias. #FeitTrial