

The January 2003 conversation was recorded by Jaramillo:ĭale Tacheny: I've been, oh, for about 40 years now, covering up and holding within me something that I've known about and could never talk about. Both men had left the priesthood decades earlier and hadn't spoken since 1963. When Rudy Jaramillo heard Tacheny's story, he hoped that Feit was also ready to talk. "Yeah and the pain that they went through for over 40 years. "It's hard for me to talk about that part of it," Tacheny replied, overcome with emotion. "It's emotional for you," Schlesinger noted. But how about the parents now? Brothers, sisters?" he said choking up. "Well the problem for me was not so much that this happened.

"You say goodbye to him," Schlesinger noted. Tacheny counseled Feit for several months until it became clear that Feit wouldn't make a good monk and couldn't stay at Assumption Abbey.


because the scandal that it would be to the church if it was revealed that a priest had in fact committed murder." "He said that individuals in the church protected him. "I asked Father Feit that, yes," Tachney replied. "Did you ask or did you wonder why he ended up in.the monastery and not in the penitentiary?" Schlesinger asked Tacheny. And then with the body he dumped the body along the road by a canal."ĭespite hearing all this, Tacheny says he didn't call police because as a monk he was told (felt) his only job was to counsel the priest. "When he came back, he opened the bathroom door and she was dead. But when he was leaving he heard her say I can't breathe, I can't breathe and with that he shut the door and left," Tacheny replied. "Some type of a plastic bag?" Schlesinger asked. Tacheny says in 1963, his superior - who has since died - told him about a young priest named John Feit who had just arrived at the monastery. Today, Tacheny counsels clients with tax problems in Oklahoma City, but back in the early '60s, he counseled Trappist monks at the Assumption Abbey in Ava, Missouri. The new witness - the former monk - was Dale Tacheny. But - it just seemed like we - I was getting help." "I almost thought Irene was sending him in my direction, you know?" he replied with a smile. What did you make of that?" Schlesinger asked Jaramillo. They compared notes and concluded that even though the former monk didn't know the victim's name, said the murder took place in the wrong city and wasn't sure of the year - all the other details he provided made them certain they had been working the same case. Saidler and Jaramillo had never met even, even though it turned out they lived in the same small town of Lavernia, Texas.
