Introducing: Season five of ‘Darkness’ | The Murder of Irene Garza

Darkness

The Drag Audio Production House

True Crime

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

On the evening of April 16, 1960, a young woman from McAllen, Texas named Irene Garza went to church for confession. She never returned home. A week later, her body was found floating in a canal. Decades would pass before the priest who murdered Irene was brought to justice in a historic case for the church and the Rio Grande Valley.

In Season five of “Darkness,” host Talisa Treviño details the decades-long fight for justice for Irene. Hear from the investigators who tackled the case and Irene’s loved ones, as well as survivors of abuse in the Catholic church.

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0:00.0	She was a beautiful girl, but you know what?
0:09.0	I think she was more beautiful inside and just the way she was.
0:14.0	Irene Garza was a 25-year-old elementary school teacher in McAllen, Texas, a small town along the Texas-Mexico
0:22.7	border. Everyone seems to have some kind of the connection. My grandma knew her. My aunt knew her.
0:28.5	She was my neighbor, you know. She was known for the kindness she showed her students, her beauty
0:34.7	as a pageant queen, and most of all, her devotion to her Catholic faith.
0:39.6	But generations in McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley came to know her after she disappeared on
0:44.9	Easter weekend in 1960.
0:47.3	I think mainly what a shame for such a beautiful person like that.
0:52.8	A horrible death from some priest of all lives there.
0:58.0	I'm Tallah. I'm Talisa Treyiouinio and I'm the host of Season 5 of Darkness.
1:14.9	I grew up in Macallon, Texas, the same town Irene was from.
1:20.1	Holy Saturday, one of the most attended nights of the year in the Catholic Church, Irene went to Sacred Heart Church in McAllen for confession.
1:28.1	This was a very rural community.
1:29.8	And even though we had, we were predominantly Catholic and had a bunch of churches, we
1:33.6	didn't have a bunch of priests.
1:35.7	Right before Easter weekend, a young priest from San Antonio made his way down to McAllen
1:40.5	to help with holiday services.
1:42.8	It just felt weird.
1:45.0	Like, just this eerie feeling about him.
1:48.0	I think one of Michael's big arguments
1:53.0	or like one of his main thing was that he was a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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