UPDATE:: Ex-priest with NM ties gets life for murdering Texas beauty queenAn 84-year-old former Catholic priest goes on trial this week for the slaying of a South Texas teacher and ex-beauty queen 57 years ago.
A jury on Friday sentenced an ex-priest — who once headed the Servants of the Paraclete retreat house in Jemez Springs — to life in prison for murdering a 25-year-old Texas schoolteacher and beauty queen.
Prosecutors asked for 57 years, reflecting how long John Bernard Feit, 85, has walked free since he killed the young woman who went to him for confession at a Texas church in 1960.
The Edinburg, Texas jury found him guilty Thursday in the killing of schoolteacher Irene Garza in McAllen, Texas.
Jury selection is set to begin Monday in Hidalgo County in the case of John Feit, who's accused of the April 1960 beating and suffocation of 25-year-old Irene Garza. She was found dead in a canal five days after going to a McAllen church for confession.
The Monitor of McAllen reports Feit, who was 27 at the time, worked as a visiting priest in the Rio Grande Valley during the early 1960s.
Trial Starting for Ex-Priest, 84, for Woman's 1960 Killing | Texas News | US News
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