her. on that april day in 1960, irene met with father john fyte. a 27-year-old visiting priest. he came to the church from a nearby town to help out on the busy easter weekend. kind of a nice guy but a rigged fellow. dale, a former munk, says he spent six months with father fyte at this monsterry in missouri after irene s murder. he was fyte s spiritual counselor and in bits and pieces he told him about a young woman he saw for confession just before easter. he offered to take her about sexual assaulting her. after fondling her breasts, 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 life
believed 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 responsible of probable cause that john fyte was the person involved in this particular homicide. but with so much heat, why did the case go cold? early on, why do you think he wasn t prosecuted? a coverup. who were they trying to protect? john b. fyte. yeah. try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i m feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. enjoy the relief! [ male announcer ] this summer, savor every second of vacation.
just screams. there was a suspect. who do you believe killed irene garza. father john fyte. back then, a catholic priest. no evidence in this case right now points us in any other direction. so why is he still a freem ? free man? by all accounts, i rein garza was a remarkable woman. she kind of broke the mold. her younger cousin niome sigler. hispanics one side of town, anglos on another side and she kind of chance ended that. she was gentle and sweet and beautiful. linda is another cousin. she was really a role model and to see how she had gone
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 believe that then. i had no doubt about it because he said he did. so you have no doubt at all john fyte killed irene garza? correct. but dale did not come forward with any of it until four decades later when he said the guilt became too much to keep quiet. john fyte left the priesthood. he has lived a full live. mr. fyte i m garpry tuck man with cnn. i want to talk to you with 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
less body at the canal. on the way over there, father fyte said he patted her on the breast. she was in the backseat and was saying to her, irene, everything will be okay, everything will be okay, irene. even though john fyte knew she was dead? yeah, yeah. while it was not unusual at the time for the church to deal with criminal priests internally, he asked fyte about the secular authorities. why was he sent to the monostarry in your opinion, not to the police? i asked why are you here and not in prison? and he said simply, the church protected me. the autopsy states that irene showed evidence of recent trama, sexual intercourse, and trama to