John Feit, a former Catholic priest, has been arrested in a 56-year-old murder case.
Irene Garza was last seen alive the night before Easter 1960 when Feit heard her confession at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas. Five days later, searchers found the lifeless body of the 25-year-old former Miss South Texas face down in a canal.
Feit, 83, has long been the main suspect in the case, but he wasn't arrested until Tuesday in Scottsdale, Arizona.
In a sworn statement to authorities and during an interview with CNN in 2013, Feit denied he killed Garza.
Feit told police Garza left the rectory after he heard her confession and the last time he saw her, she was standing outside the church.
An autopsy determined Garza had been raped while in a coma and then had died from suffocation. Near Garza's body investigators found items that belonged to the church, including a candelabra. Feist awaits extradition from Arizona to Texas.
-CNN
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