>> you would have kept going or stopped? >> i would keep going. >> yeah. >> that's matthew perry, guest hosting tomorrow night. and anderson cooper starts right now. good evening. i'm anderson cooper. tonight, a murder that's gone uninvolved for more than half a century. a south texas beauty queen sexually assaulted, killed shortly after going to confession. suspicion turned to the priest but nothing stuck. police, they never gave up. so now, 53 years later, evidence points only to the man who heard irene garza's final suspicion. cnn's gary tuchman has the remarkable story. >> she had beautiful, shiny hair. she had this natural effervescence. she had the most musical-type voice.

she had a way with children, and she smelled like flowers. >> reporter: in 1960, irene garza was raped and murdered in texas. >> the one thing i remember is just screams. >> reporter: there was a suspect. who do you believe killed irene garza? father john feit. back then, a catholic priest. >> no evidence in this case points us in any other direction. >> reporter: so why is he still a free man? by all accounts, irene garza was a remarkable young woman. >> she kind of broke the mold. >> reporter: irene's younger cousin, naomi siegler. >> at that time, hispanics stayed one side of town, anglos

lived on the other side. and she kind of transcended that. >> she was gentle and sweet and beautiful. >> reporter: linda is another cousin. >> she was really a role model, and to see how she had gone through college, was a teacher, was a beauty queen, and yet was, you know, just a very sweet and simple person to us as children. >> reporter: but in 1960, the body of this inspiring woman was found face down in this canal. she was 25. the age for thinking about getting married and raising a family. >> she didn't have a life. irene never had that chance. >> reporter: irene garza lived in this house in what was a nice neighborhood. she lived here with her sister and parents. and the saturday before easter,

she hopped in her car, a short five-minute ride to her church. irene went to confession every saturday. >> she was highly religious. it was very, very important to her. >> reporter: 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 a busy easter weekend. >> kind of a nice guy, but he was a rigid fellow. >> reporter: dale, a former monk, spent six months with the father at this monastery in missouri, after irene's murder. he was fite's spiritual counselor. and he told him about a young woman he saw before easter. >> he offered to take her to the rectory. >> reporter: about sexually assaulting her.

>> after fondling her breast, he took her to the basement. >> reporter: about keeping her bound and gagged. >> he put something over her head. >> reporter: about her struggle to live. >> she was saying, i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> reporter: and about dumping her lifeless body at the canal. >> on the way over there, he said that he patted her on her breasts, she was in the back seat, and was saying to her, irene, everything will be okay, everything will be okay, irene. >> reporter: even though he knew she was dead? >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: while it was not unusual at the time to deal with criminal priests internally, he says he asked feit about the secular authorities? why was he sent to the monastery in your opinion, not to the police? >> i asked why are you here and not in prison?

and he said simply, the church protected me. >> reporter: the autopsy states that irene showed evidence of recent trauma, sexual intercourse, and trauma to the head. evidence of strangulation could not be found, but suffocation could have been carried out by placing a cloth over the mouth and nose, especially if irene was unconscious. the subject was dead when placed into the canal. >> i believe he killed her and i believed that then, i had no doubt about it because he said he did. >> reporter: you have no doubt that he killed irene garza? >> correct. >> reporter: but dale did not come forward with any of this until four decades later, when he said the guilt became too much to keep quiet.

john feit left the priesthood. he has lived a full life. i'm gary tuchman with cnn. i want to talk to you about irene garza. >> good for you. >> reporter: it's not surprising he doesn't want to talk about irene, because not only do her relatives and dale believe he killed her, so does every police officer and law enforcement agency that's dealt with this case. do you believe you know who the murderer is? >> we have developed evidence sufficient to probable cause that he was involved in this particular homicide. >> reporter: but with so much heat, why did the case go cold? early on, why do you think he wasn't prosecuted? >> a cover-up. >> reporter: who were they trying to protect? >> john b. feit.

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mcallen, texas, in the 1930s was segregated. the neighborhoods, the schools. even in the hospital mexican americans and anglos were treated in separate wards. but when irene garza was born in 1934, her parents were determined that she and her sister josephine would transcend the discrimination together. >> we were very tight.

we were very close because it was like us against all of those that were prejudice against us. >> prejudice against hispanics? >> hispanics, yes. and my dad fostered that because we're in it together. >> in their parents' day public schools for mcallen's hispanic children only went to fifth grade. but the garzas had bigger dreams for their daughters. >> from the beginning we were told, when you go to college, when you go to college, it was something that was just a thing that was going to happen. >> if education was to be the way out, religion would show them the way up. parochial school for the elementary grades offered both. >> we were told, don't get mad, pray, the catholic school, don't get mad, pray. we say we have to pray for so-and-so, we start praying. >> later at the public high school, where girls often aspired to be baton twirlers with the marching band, irene

and josie were reluctant. it was the late 1940s. was it unusual for mexican american teenagers to do twirling? >> it was. mom said try out, they have a new music director, we'll see if he can get you in. he was impressed with the two of us and he let us in. >> irene went on to become mcallen high's first mexican american drum majorette, an inspiration to her younger cousins. >> in essence, it really did not matter what race she was. she was just irene. >> irene also made an impression in the local beauty pageants. eventually crowned miss south texas in 1958. >> she was everything i think that all little girls, especially the young cousins, wanted to grow up to be because she was so poised. i don't know if it's just the right word. elegant.

>> after graduating from college, both irene and her sister became elementary schoolteachers in mcallen. it was both a mission and a joy to be with the children. >> she taught second grade. we had hilarious stories to tell each other. she'd say i love him. he has these little cheeks and i go over there and do this. he said, stop it miss garza. >> friends and relatives say irene's good looks never went to her head because her heart was so big. >> she would go every saturday to the convalescent homes and do their nails or their hair, whatever they wanted so they would look nice when their families would come to see them on sunday. >> irene's good deeds grew out of her deep faith. sacred heart church in mcallen felt like an extension of home. >> i would say the feeling would

be love, a gentle quietness. that's where we felt safe. >> did you and your sister regard the priests as godly men, close to god? >> we thought they were, yes. we believed they were. and respected that. respected their calling. >> one of those priests was john feit. living and studying in the south texas pastoral house, members of his order take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. but at a church in nearby edinburgh, father feit would be accused of sexually assaulting this young woman, maria america guerra. the 20-year-old woman told police she came into the church, which was empty at the time to pray. the communion rail used to be up here near the chairs. she knelt down and then she was

attacked by a man. she told police he had dark hair and horned rim glasses. she bit him in the finger and drew blood, and then she ran away. father feit matched maria america guerra's description of a suspect. she identified him to police. and he had what appeared to be a serious bite mark on one of his fingers. in this sworn statement feit said the injured finger was from a mimeograph printing machine, an accident. after a jury deadlocked on felony charge with assault with attempt to commit rape, feit would plead no contest to misdemeanor aggravated assault. the judge found him guilty and fined him $500, no prison time. just 24 days after maria america guerra was attacked, father feit was working at irene garza's church. on the saturday before easter, irene went to confession. she had been doing this routinely for years.

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how old were you when irene died? >> 9. >> lynda de la vina vividly remembers the day her cousin, e

irene garza disappeared. >> irene had actually called us on saturday before easter, we're going to have the typical easter egg hunt. she had gotten us baskets. late that evening my parents got a phone call that said that irene had gone to church and she hadn't come back and she was missing. >> another cousin, noemi sigler, was at irene's house that day waiting for the easter egg hunt. >> what i remember is the grown-ups talking, whispering, crying. we were wondering what in the world was happening. but we knew something really bad had happened. >> irene was missing. but her car was still parked outside the church. family, friends and neighbors formed search parties and looked frantically. >> everybody was hoping that there was just, you know, some misunderstanding or she had maybe gone with friends or something and everybody was

very, very worried. >> two days later, people began to find her belongings. >> i remember when they found her shoe that was thrown in a field and they found her purse, something was definitely wrong. >> and then on day five the 25-year-old beauty queen and teacher was found floating face-down in this canal. about three miles from her church. when you found out, what went through your mind? >> the one thing i remember is just screams. screams from my aunt, screams from my mother, everybody screaming. i just remember the screams. >> the death certificate states the cause of death was trauma to the right side of her head, causing hemorrhage of the brain and suffocation. it also states irene's body for

evidence of having been raped while in a coma. noemi when you stand here at this site, tell me what goes through your mind? >> a great sadness. it just breaks my heart. >> all of mcallen was shaken. nothing like this had ever happened here. >> it was just so horrible to know that this beautiful, beautiful, nice person was found dead, murdered. >> since irene's car was still at the church, that's where investigators focused. and on the last man believed to see her alive, father john feit, the visiting priest. in a sworn statement, feit said he had taken a phone call from irene, wanting to speak to one of the priests about an important matter. but instead of taking irene's

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, irene's 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, cousin noemi wanted us see the family home today, to understand what happened that horrible time 50 years ago. we knocked, and a young woman named sarah came to the door. we're doing a story about who lived in the house in 1960. >> oh, yes. >> do you know about this? >> irene -- >> irene garza. you knew that? >> yeah. >> this is irene garza's cousin.

sarah had learned about irene's murder when she was in high school. how old are you now? >> i'm 25. >> 25 years old, the same age as irene when she died. and like irene, sarah lives with her parents. in fact, irene's old bedroom is now sarah's bedroom. sarah even bears an eerie resemblance to irene. >> you almost have the same hair, i must say, long, dark hair. >> noemi asked if she can go in the house. >> see what triggers back because i was here as a child the day that she was missing out, i was here. >> wow. >> sarah welcomed her inside. where the past came back in a way noemi never imagined. inside, sarah gave something to noemi. after all these years, a high school yearbook from 1949 had remained in the house through

three different owners, waiting for the family that would cherish it. >> buh-bye. thanks. >> thank you. >> god bless you. >> what is that? >> they found it in there. >> this is irene sister's yearbook? >> uh-huh. irene might even be in here. >> here she is. here's irene garza. >> thank you. you have no idea what you did. thank you. >> you're welcome. i'm sorry for your family's loss. >> wow. >> you're a remarkable family to save this. i think it's going to be a lot of joy to this family. >> i never would have expected this.

>> to noemi the unexpected gift was a sign from irene, a pointed reminder that the murder case is still open and that irene's cousins still have work to do. >> i want to give her a voice from the grave. she is here. she is here. and she wants justice. announcer: sunday's your last chance

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i mean, it's hard for me to sleep. it's hard for me to eat. because i feel that i was forcefully included in trayvon martin's death. and i carry him on my back. i'm hurting as much as trayvon martin's mommy, because there's no way that any mother should feel that pain. >> 18 people are dead and dozens injured in that spanish train wreck. officials say the train may have been going too fast, forcing it to derail and catch on fire. one u.s. citizen is among the dead. five other americans were injured. u.s. federal investigators say the southwest jet that crash landed at laguardia on monday met the runway with its nose gear first. the boeing 737 skidded more than

2,000 feet before coming to a stop. several people were hurt. those are the headlines this hour. now back to "beauty and the priest." who do you believe killed irene garza? >> john feit. >> who do you believe killed irene garza? >> 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 irene's body was pulled from the canal. in the water, police recovered two candelabra from irene's church and the slide viewer. >> that slide viewer was found next to her body. >> sonny miller is the former

supervisor of mcallen's crime scene investigation. the slide viewer that was found, whose slide viewer was that? >> investigators found it belonged to father feit. >> father feit denied to police he killed irene garza. he acknowledged taking irene's confession at rectory and told investigators she left. but family members suspected him immediately. >> certainly that was in everyone's mind since her car was still at the church, she had gone to confession. >> later 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 test they concluded feit was concealing facts and showing guilt. they thought definitely he was guilty of the murder.

but there were no eyewitnesses. and soon after the murder the church moved feit far away to a series of monasteries. he was never charged, and the murder of irene garza went cold for decades. early on why do you think he wasn't prosecuted? >> a coverup. in those days it was impossible for a priest to do such a deed. if you thought of it, that would be sacrilegious. and i don't know if it was out of respect for the church or anger or fear. i have no idea. but protect him, they did. >> in 2002, 42 years after the murder of irene garza, the cold case heated up. two witnesses came forward, independently, both men of the church. saying they knew, without a doubt, that father john feit

murdered irene garza. for the police, it was a bombshell. rudy jaramillo was a lieutenant with the texas rangers. before retiring in 2012, he worked cold cases. >> it was just incredible. i just couldn't believe that we had been looking for something that could help us in this case and all of a sudden here it is. >> one of the new witnesses, father joseph o'brien, the lead priest from irene's church, admitted being part of a coverup. >> he said he was following direction. >> victor rodriguez is the mcallen police chief. >> he knew the complicity of john feit in this particular case, and his own complicity in this case. >> was he emotional when he talked to you? >> yes. it was obvious that he was parting ways with a heavy burden that he carried for a long time. >> father o'brien died in 2005, but before his death -- >> i'll call you later.

>> he spoke with irene's cousin about what he knew and she recorded the conversation. >> so he told you also, sir, that he had killed her? >> yes. >> oh my god. >> i suspected from the very beginning. we searched the attic and searched the basement looking for her. that's how suspicious we were. >> father o'brien told noemi that the church sent feit away for a reason. >> we knew he was dangerous. >> yeah. >> so they shipped him off to a trappist monastery. >> the second witness, dale tacheny, the former monk at our lady of assumption monastery in missouri who finally decided to end his silence. >> i was told a priest was coming to the monastery who had murdered a young woman. >> what was that priest's name? >> father john feit.

>> at that time in 1963, you're not thinking, why don't you call the cops? >> never entered my mind. >> how come? >> we were taught to obey and do as a superior tells us. >> tacheny was assigned to be feit's spiritual counselor. >> i remember in telling, it was very close to easter and a young woman came to him to confession. >> tacheny told police that feit gave up more details over time, about sexually assaulting irene and holding her bound and gagged. >> he put something over her head and put her in the bathtub. >> this is what he told you? >> yes. and as he was leaving she was saying, i can't breathe, i can't breathe. later on that day, he came back and she was dead in the bathtub.

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after decades with no progress, two new witnesses had come forward with striking details about the murder of irene garza. investigators thought they could at last close the case. >> we thought at that point in time we had reached the threshold of probable cause. >> i prepared an affidavit for an arrest warrant. >> so you were ready to arrest john feit for the murder of irene garza? >> yes, sir. >> but one man was not convinced and never has been. >> you have no credible person back in '04 and even before that

you could put on the stand that would convict feit. >> rene guerra is the district attorney for texas. he says he's not protecting the church. he just doesn't believe the two witnesses, father o'brien and dale tacheny. partially because they both changed their stories after years of silence. and he questions father o'brien's age and state of mind. father o'brien was 77 when he came forward. he has since died. >> o'brien might have been credible in some aspects of the case but because of his senility and advanced age, the question here is whether he could be reliable. >> i felt that he was credible. i think he had a remarkable memory. >> rudy jaramillo, retired lieutenant from the texas rangers, met with father o'brien when he was investigating the murder.

so you judged father o'brien to be credible? >> yes, sir. >> did you think he was possibly senile? >> no. >> mcallen chief of police victor rodriguez agrees. do you believe father o'brien was a good, credible witness? >> absolutely. >> the d.a. also said he did not believe the former monk. dale tacheny. >> tacheny was not a witness that i could rely on. i believe that tacheny received all of the information that he wanted to say from rudy jaramillo of the texas rangers. >> the d.a. says the texas ranger rudy jaramillo fed the former monk information which he didn't have himself. the lieutenant says that never happened and that the d.a.'s claim is a great insult to his integrity. what's more, the d.a.'s concern about tacheny seems to ignore this man. >> back in 2002, i was a detective with the san antonio police homicide unit and i was

assigned to the cold case unit and i had received a phone call. >> george saidler is deputy chief of criminal investigations for the bare county texas sheriff's office. in april 2002, months before the lieutenant ever heard of dale tacheny, the former monk called detective saidler. he gave him details about how father feit admitted murdering a 25-year-old woman. >> i remember mr. tacheny tell me that the girl had been placed in a bathtub, wrapped in saran wrap or cellophane, that she was naked from the waist up, that he had fondled her breasts. >> tacheny gave detective saidler numerous details about the murder that had never been made public and even put them in writing. >> i was convinced that mr. tacheny knew about the murder and this person told him about it.

>> rudy jaramillo could not have possibly fed information about the murder to the former monk, says the chief. >> i knew dale tacheny months before the ranger ever knew about dale tacheny and the details of the case. i certainly found him credible enough that i was convinced that he knew about a murder. >> but guerra says his doesn't believe saidler either and despite the new witnesses, the d.a. told the family and law enforcement that he would not take the case forward. >> so guerra fought your request to bring the case before a grand jury? >> yes. >> what did he say to you? >> when pigs fly. it can't be prosecuted. it can't be prosecuted. old case, old people. and he basically told me to my face with finger in my face saying he will never be indicted.

>> you know, it's an unfortunate statement that i made. >> about the pigs flying. >> yes, because it comes across that i'm insensitive and callous which is not true. >> it was not until irene's family organized vigils and demonstrations outside the courthouse that the district attorney in 2004 finally agreed to bring the case before a grand jury. >> when the grand jury was convened, father o'brien and the monk dale tacheny were prepared to testify, to reveal what they say john feit told them about the murder. they certainly would have been the star witnesses. but the district attorney never called for them. instead, the grand jury only had a transcript of what tacheny and o'brien told police. and the main suspect, john feit, he was never subpoenaed to testify. eventually the grand jury voted not to indict john feit.

irene's family was crushed. >> they're supposed to be representing the people of the state of texas. they're supposed to be representing the victims. >> all we wanted was a grand jury to hear the facts. if they build it on their own, so be it. but it just seemed like he was hampering the evidence to be presented because the texas rangers were there. the mcallen p.d., police chief and the investigators were there waiting outside to go in, and they were never called. week after week after week after week. >> the district attorney stands behind his decision not ask dale tacheny and father o'brien to testify in person. and now, father o'brien is dead. if you could do it over again, could it have made a difference if you allowed o'brien to personally take the stand and let the grand jurors see his

eyes? could that have made a difference? >> i don't believe so. ihonestly don't believe so. again, it's not the indictment that i need. i need a conviction because i don't want to try just anybody just for the sake of it, for the glory, because if i start going for the glory and indictments of very sensational cases, i'm going to compromise my integrity and the oath that i took. some people want to glorify themselves through solving cold cases. >> but i think some people want to bring a murderer to justice. >> sure. but isn't there some glory and fame behind it? i'm not against glory and i'm not against fame, but the thing here is i'm not going to allow you to use me as a stepping stone. >> coming up -- >> mr. feit, i'm gary tuchman with cnn and i want to talk to you about irene garza. >> good for you.

today irene's family lives in limbo. certain that john feit killed irene. powerless to bring him to trial. >> what would you say to john feit if you could talk to him? >> i wouldn't talk to him. i won't say what i would do. >> because? >> i believe he's a very evil man. >> i really would like to talk to him face to face. no tapes, no cameras, no nothing. i would like to sit down and speak to him because i'm going to tell him, you killed her body

but you did not kill her soul. >> today john feit lives here in a pleasant neighborhood in phoenix, arizona. he left the priesthood in the late 1960s. he is married. has children and grandchildren. mr. feit, i'm gary tuchman with cnn. i want to talk to you about irene garza. >> good for you. >> we wanted to hear john feit's version of what happened. we wanted his response to those that say he's guilty of rape and murder. back in 1960, this texas ranger memorandum says you expressed guilt to the texas rangers about killing irene garza, is this true? do you ever have trouble sleeping at night? can you just answer that question? the mcallen police and texas rangers believe you killed irene garza. are you worried about that sir? are you concerned?

>> feit would not answer our questions, but when we interviewed him five years ago feit had more to say. did you commit the murder of irene garza. >> interesting question. the answer is no. >> he also told us what he thought 0 dale tacheny, the former monk who says feit admitted murdering irene. he says you told him you committed the murder. >> i think he's demented. >> what about the priest, father o'brien. he says you committed the murder too and knew you well. [ speaking latin ] >> what does that mean, sir? >> look it up. >> he was speaking latin. with a reference to the late father o'brien. it means do not speak ill of the dead. now 80 years old, feit has done volunteer work at this local catholic food bank. >> i don't care what type of person he has become nowadays. he's helping the poor, he's doing this. but deep down inside, there's john b. feit there.

and he cannot deny that. he knows it and i know it. >> and i don't care how old he is. my view is he should spend his last years where he should have been all this time, in jail. >> during our recent interview attempt, john feit did have one message for irene's family. we caught up with him just a few days before the anniversary of irene's murder. she was killed on easter sunday. i'm going to ask one more question. it's obvious that you don't want to talk but i want to know if you feel bad for this family that suffered for 53 years. their daughter was found dead. she was last seen with you. your slide viewer was found by her body. you never apologized or said a word of support to this family. what would you like to say about that, sir? >> have a happy and blessed easter. >> had irene lived, she would have been 78 years old.

her short, inspiring life and brutal death forever left a mark on this south texas town. >> i'm hopeful that one day we will successfully bring this case to a close. >> a community can't compare to the family. the impact to them is direct, it's familial and blood. all those kind of things. but this is also a case that impacted our community. we have come to be defined some what by that case that has kind of been like an open wound for this community. >> i made it my goal to try to solve this case. so it's kind of been with me, you know, all of this time, you know? i wanted justice for her. >> former texas ranger rudy jaramillo never knew irene in life but he spent years investigating her death. now, she is never far from him. how long will you keep that picture behind your desk? >> until i'm not here on this earth anymore.

i don't see a reason why i should take it down. >> do you think irene is watching over you and grateful that you're doing this for her? >> i think she watches over all the family. >> family members admit there were times when they considered giving up. >> i went to her grave to tell her i've done all i could. i've given it my all. because i want closure on this. i'm tired. 17, 18 years of doing research on the case. i went to her grave, sat there on this nice, beautiful sunny day and i was literally telling her good-bye, irene. and that hurts because i promised her i would never leave her. i would never leave her behind. and i heard this little like flapping and it was the most beautifulest white dove and it

just flew over, landed, turned around and just sat there and looked at me, and i looked at it and it was so beautiful. so i told irene, i got the message, i'll keep on. >> even after 53 years, feit could still be charged. there's an election for district attorney next year. and a new d.a. could push the case forward. and there's no statute of limitations on murder. >> what i want to see happen is justice for irene. i would like a new d.a. to bring this to the grand jury to get it indicted. and for law enforcement to do what they have wanted to do since 2003, is to go and arrest him and bring him back to

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