“48 HOURS’” SATURDAY DOUBLE FEATURE INVESTIGATES THE MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN AND HIGHLIGHTS THE REMARKABLE JOURNEY OF A FORMER BASKETBALL STAR CAUGHT IN A TERRORIST ATTACK
“Sins of the Father” – 9:00 PM
“Live to Tell: The Long Road Home” – 10:00 PM
(L-R) Irene Garza and John Feit; Sebastian Bellin in Brussels and on the basketball court
48 HOURS investigates the murder of a young woman nearly 60 years ago and spotlights a former basketball star’s remarkable story of survival after being caught up in a terrorist attack in a Saturday night double feature to be broadcast Saturday, Sept. 1 on the CBS Television Network.
At 9:00 PM, Richard Schlesinger and 48 HOURS investigate the disappearance and murder of Irene Garza nearly 60 years ago and the murder case against John Feit, the former priest accused of murdering her in an encore of “Sins of The Father.” It’s a case of betrayal, a murder and an alleged cover-up that the 48 HOURS team has been investigating for more than five years.
In 1960, Garza, 25, told her family she was going to church for confession. She never returned. Five days later, her body was found dumped in a canal. Police say she was beaten, sexually assaulted and suffocated. Investigators questioned hundreds of people, but they kept turning to one person: Feit, then 27, who admitted hearing Garza’s last confession. Investigators grew suspicious when they learned that three weeks before Garza’s murder, another woman, Maria America Guerra, had been attacked in a nearby church. Guerra identified Feit as her attacker.
Feit eventually pleaded no contest to aggravated assault in the Guerra case and was fined $500, but the investigation in the Irene Garza murder eventually stopped and the case went cold. For decades, rumors swirled that there had been a conspiracy between the authorities and the church to cover up the crime. The case was reopened in 2002 when the McAllen Police Department asked the Texas Rangers’ cold case unit to re-examine the murder. The investigation took a turn when a former monk, Dale Tacheny, told police that back in 1963, when he was counseling novice monks at a monastery, Feit had admitted to killing a young woman on Easter weekend. Another priest also came forward saying Feit had made a similar admission to him as well. Yet the former district attorney at the time, Rene Guerra, didn’t find the new witnesses credible, and the case went nowhere. Garza’s family felt they had been denied justice again. In 2014, when confronted by 48 HOURS about the allegations, Feit told Schlesinger he didn’t kill Garza and does not know who did.
Shortly after 48 HOURS’ first broadcast on the case, “The Last Confession,” was presented in 2014, a new DA who promised to look into the case was elected. On Feb. 9, 2016, Feit was arrested in Scottsdale, Ariz., and charged with murder.
At 10:00 PM, 48 HOURS takes viewers inside international basketball star turned tech entrepreneur Sebastien Bellin’s remarkable eight-month journey of recovery after being nearly killed in the terrorist attacks in Brussels, in an encore of “Live to Tell: The Long Road Home.”
Bellin was in the Brussels airport in March 2016 when terrorists set off bombs there and at a nearby train station. Those two attacks killed 32. Bellin, who lives in Michigan, was almost one of them. The bomb shattered some of his bones and tore his muscles. By the time he got to the hospital two hours later, he had lost 50 percent of his blood.
“The violence of an explosion just rocks you,” Bellin says. He saw the pools of blood forming around his legs. His thoughts turned to his family back in Battle Creek, Mich.; his wife, Sara; and his daughters, Cecilia and Vanessa.
“I didn’t really care whether I had legs or not, I just was going to be alive. I was going to be able to see Sara, Cecilia and Vanessa again,” Bellin says. “And so that became my motivation, really, throughout the – it was my two girls.”
Reported by Vladimir Duthiers, “Live to Tell: The Long Road Home” is an unprecedented look at what it takes to survive an attack and put a life back together – including the setbacks and incredible highs. The broadcast features Bellin’s moving first-person account of the attack, his refusal to let the terrorists win, and how his 15 years as a basketball player in Europe prepared him for the moment. “Live to Tell: The Long Road Home” follows Bellin from a hospital in Brussels, in his quest to get back home, through hours of physical therapy, and to an inspirational return to the basketball court.
48 HOURS: “Sins of the Father” is produced by Lourdes Aguiar, Ruth Chenetz and Josh Gaynor. Alicia Tejada is the field producer. Michael McHugh is the producer editor. Atticus Brady and Gary Winter are editors. Linda Martin is the update producer. Judy Tygard is the senior producer. Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer.
48 HOURS: “Live to Tell: The Long Road Home” is produced by Chris Young Ritzen, Ruth Chenetz and Michelle Fanucci. Gary Winter and Michael McHugh are the producer-editors. Jud Johnston is the editor. Richard Fetzer is the associate producer. Linda Martin is the update producer. Judy Tygard is the series creator and senior producer. Nancy Kramer is executive story editor. Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer.
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