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Church officials shielded priest suspected of murder for decades

Updated: February 26, 2018 at 8:36 am EST  See Comments

A “48 Hours” investigation has uncovered new details in a former priest’s 57-year journey from murder to justice. Father John Feit was shielded by church officials from prosecution in the 1960 murder of a former Texas beauty queen, and allowed to rise to a position of authority overseeing troubled priests, according to dozens of interviews and hundreds of pages of public records and documents obtained by “48 Hours.”

By “48 Hours” producer Josh Gaynor, with additional reporting by producer Lourdes Aguiar and field producer Alicia Tejada

On a late Thursday afternoon on Feb. 9, 2016, 83-year-old former Catholic priest John Bernard Feit was escorted into a holding room at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Phoenix.

Joining him were two out-of-state investigators, Rolando Villarreal with the Texas Rangers and Frank Trevino with the McAllen, Texas, Police Department.

After reading Feit his Miranda rights, Investigator Trevino presented him with an arrest warrant for a murder in Hidalgo County, Texas.

“I’ve been questioned extensively about this dating back to 1960,” Feit said, according to a transcript of the interview read in court. “So I’m disappointed but not surprised.”

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Red eagle
Red eagle
6 years ago

The Catholic church is not a Christian church it is a pagan church. She is “Mystery Babylon the Mother of Harlots” Before Protestantism there was only one church allowed to exist under the penalty of torture and death, the Catholic church. Not until Martin Luther started the Protest movement did we see the creation of the daughters of Catholicism, the Protestant churches who by the way continue to promote Her false doctrines. The Catholic church has broken every one of the 10 Commandments and the Jesuits have penetrated all Protestant denominations making the Protestant churches, along with the introduction of the 501C3, impotent as we see today.

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