>> father john bernard feit. >> father john feit. back then, a catholic priest. >> no evidence in this case right now points us in any other direction. >> so why is he still a free man? by all accounts, irene garza was a remarkable young woman. >> she kind of broke the mold. >> irene's younger cousin, noemi sigler. >> at that time, hispanics stayed on one side of town, anglos lived on another side, and she kind of transcended that. >> she was gentle and sweet and beautiful. >> lynda de la vina 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 just a very sweet and simple person to us as children. >> 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. >> irene garza lived in this house in what was a very nice neighborhood near downtown mcallen and remains so today. she lived here with

it turned out it belonged to father john feit the priest who heard irene's last confession. >> that'sis hands and later failed a lie detector test. feit was not arrested and irene says as a young girl she came upon a scene with her father and later explains why. >> i saw him sitting in a chair with a white hankerdkerchief and he was crying. >> what was he crying out? >> later i found out my daddy was asked to turn in his records of the investigation of the case. >> many in irene's case suspected that some kind of agreement had been made between the church and the authorities but there's no hard evidence of that. nevertheless father feit disappeared until this man came forward. >> i covered up the evidence. i'm sorry that i did. >> dale tacheny once was a monk at a monastery. he said in 1963 john feit arrived and he talked all about killing a young woman on easter weekend in a rectory. >> he assaulted her, bound her and gagged her. as he left he could hear her saying i kgt breathe, i can't breathe. >> despite tacheny's account, john feit is a free man. he left priesthood long ago and w