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Cold Case Files

The Deadly Confession

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

23-year-old former beauty queen and devout Catholic Irene Garza, vanishes in April 1960 after giving confession in her town of McAllen, Texas. Her body is eventually found floating in a drainage canal. Rumors run rampant that a member of the Catholic clergy is involved, but gradually the case goes cold, before a break in the case reignites the case 42 years later. Check out our great sponsors! 1-800-Contacts: Order online at 1800contacts.com - download their free app - or call 1-800-266-8228 SimpliSafe: Save 20% on your security system when you sign up for an Interactive Monitoring plan and get your first month FREE at SimpliSafe.com/coldcase Progressive: Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 27 million drivers who trust Progressive!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every Thursday night, the groundbreaking experiment 60 days in continues.

0:04.3

For the first time ever, all seven participants entering the jail are former inmates.

0:08.9

These seven ex-convicts are on a mission to get to the bottom of what's happening in this jail and bring it to light.

0:14.4

With their background and years of experience, if they can't do this, no one can.

0:18.8

Can they expose the truth without exposing their cover?

0:21.7

And how many of them will tap out before the program ends?

0:24.8

There's a new episode of 60 days in every Thursday, only on A&E.

0:29.2

Watch live, stream on the A&E app, or on demand.

0:33.0

An A&E original podcast.

0:35.9

This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

0:39.8

Listener discretion is advised.

0:48.4

There was a time when the Rio Grande Valley was called the Magic Valley.

0:52.7

We feel like Irene was the magic in the valley.

0:56.2

And unfortunately, she became the tragic in the valley.

1:02.3

There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America.

1:06.1

Each one is a cold case.

1:08.1

Only 1% are ever solved.

1:10.7

This is one of those rare stories.

1:17.6

It's the evening of Saturday, April 16, 1960 in Macalon, Texas,

1:22.4

a city on the southern Texas border that sits in the lower Rio Grande Valley,

1:27.2

just 7 miles from the international bridge that joins Ithalgo to Reynosa, Mexico.

1:32.8

Macalon has always had a large Mexican-American population,

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