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.
john feit left the priesthood. 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.
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 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 don t build it on their own, then so be it, but it just seemed like he was hampering the evidence to be presented because
simply the church protected me. 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. so you have no doubt at all that john feit killed irene garza? correct. but dale tacheny did not come forward with any of this until four decades later when he said the guilt became too much to keep quiet.
silence. i was told a priest was coming to the monastery who had murdered a young woman. and 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? it never entered my mind. how come? we were taught to obey and to do as a superior tells us. tacheny was assigned to be feit s spiritual counselor. but 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