irene also made an impression in the local beauty pageants, eventually being 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 school teachers 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, and she d say, oh, i just love him! and she d say, he has these little cheeks, and i just go over there and do this to him. he says, 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 do their hair, whatever they wanted, so they would look nice when their families would come to see them on sunday.
progress, two new witnesses had come forward with striking details about the murder of iene garza. investigators thought they could at last close the case. we thought at that point in time that we had reached that threshold of probable cause. i had 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 hidalgo county, 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