he has lived a full life. mr. feit, i m gary tuchman with cnn. i want to talk to you about irene garza. good for you. it s not surprising he doesn t want to talk about irene, because not only do irene s relatives and dale tacheny 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 the threshold responsibility of probable cause that john feit was a person involved in the particular homicide. but with so much heat, why did the case go cold? early on, why do you think he wasn t prosecuted? a cover-up. who are they trying to protect? john b. feit.
he took her to the basement. about keeping her bound and gagged. he put something over her head. about her struggle to live. she was saying, i can t breathe, i can t breathe. and about dumping her lifeless body at the canal. on the way over there, father feit 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. even though john feit knew she was dead? yeah, yeah. while it was not unusual at the time for the church to deal with criminal priests internally, tacheny says he asked feit about the secular authorities. but why was he sent to the monastery, in your opinion, and not to the police? i asked, why are you here and not in prison, and he said, simply the church protected me.
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 who 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 of dale tacheny, the former monk who says feit admitted murdering irene.
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. lieutenant jaramillo 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 bexar county, texas, sheriff s office. in april 2002, months before lieutenant jaramillo ever heard of dale tacheny, the former monk called detective saidler. tacheny gave him details about how father feit admitted murdering a 25-year-old woman. i remember mr. tacheny telling me that the girl had been placed in a bathroom, wrapped in what i call a saran wrap or cellophane, that she was