Most Horrendous Beauty Queen Deaths

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Irene Garza from 1934 to 1960
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Irene Garza from 1934 to 1960

Pretty young Irene Garza was voted Miss All South Texas Sweetheart in 1958. Two years later, at age 25, her dead body was found in a canal. A slide viewer belonging to a Catholic priest named John Feit was found near her corpse. Father Feit admitted to hearing Garza’s confession on the night she was killed. He also pled guilty to aggravated assault on another woman that occurred shortly before Garza’s murder. In 2002—forty-two years after Garza’s murder—another Catholic priest informed the detectives that Father Feit had confessed to him that he’d suffocated Garza to death by placing a bag over her head and leaving her to die in a bathtub.

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