#Adolfo Constanzo

[letsgethaunted]

The song "Sacrificial Shack" by the band Pain Teens is sung from the point of view of a cult member who confesses his crimes to the police after he is captured, taking the police to the Constanzo's ranch for an explanatory tour.

#The Ritual Sacrifice of Mark Kilroy #Adolfo Constanzo #Ranch #Satanic Cult #Satanic Ritual Sacrifice #Youtube

[morbidology]

When considering human sacrifices, the concept often seems more suited for a movie plot than a grim reality. Unfortunately, in 1989, Mark Kilroy, a 21-year-old student from the University of Texas, learned firsthand how tragically real such practices could be. Kilroy was on spring break with university friends in Matamoros, Mexico, when he mysteriously vanished during an outing to local bars.

Cross-border authorities initiated an extensive search for Kilroy, but their efforts yielded no results, causing the case to go cold. It was only reopened when Serafin Hernandez, a Mexican national, evaded a police checkpoint, prompting a pursuit that led to a remote ranch named Rancho Santa Elena. Investigation revealed that this ranch served as the headquarters for a drug-smuggling cult led by Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo. This cult engaged in bloodthirsty rituals, seeking supernatural protection through the sacrifice of a human victim, whose heart and brain were then cooked and consumed by the members.

An excavation of the ranch on April 11, 1989, brought to light the mutilated body of Mark Kilroy along with 14 other victims. While Constanzo and some cult members managed to escape the ranch, they ultimately took their own lives as authorities closed in on them. The shocking discovery highlighted the gruesome reality of human sacrifices perpetrated by this drug-smuggling cult in Matamoros.

#true crime #cult

[songoftrillium]

Translated from Onyx Path Forums

Seré extremadamente franco cuando diga esto:

Las Guadanas se basan muy claramente en el culto a Adolfo Constanzo, hasta en la incorrecta atribución de sacrificios de sangre/humanos a la Santa Muerte, cuando la religión en cuestión era Palo Mayombe. Son un cártel criminal que rinde culto a La Santa, que es una figura religiosa que ya ha sido mal utilizada numerosas veces por individuos en diversos medios. El hecho de que los autores sepan que la Santa Muerte se remonta a los "cultos aztecas a la muerte" (que es una forma extremadamente... insulsa de decir que la Santa Muerte es una tradición largamente practicada que se ha transmitido de generación en generación) indica que hay capacidad de investigación. En particular, el clavo en el ataúd aquí es que Las Guadanas son un cártel de drogas adorador de la Santa Muerte. No creo que sea necesario explicar cuál es el problema aquí.

Sudamérica se ha utilizado constantemente a lo largo de la historia de CoD/WoD como "misterioso santuario criminal del malvado culto a la muerte", a falta de un término mejor. Ver esto de nuevo, ver una fe semiclandestina tan deliberadamente tergiversada, y ver a la gente tan inmediatamente ansiosa por utilizar este contenido del juego es extremadamente desconcertante. Si quieres tener un pacto basado en la creencia de la Santa Muerte, está bien, pero... como que debería haber sido investigado, y realmente, REALMENTE no debería haber involucrado a los cárteles, especialmente porque esto está MUY claramente basado en un culto REAL de la vida real que ha > causado que la Santa Muerte tenga una mala reputación.

Se vuelve realmente viejo ver, una y otra vez, a México / el Sur Global usado como una zona de "OOOH SPOOKY SCARY OOOH CULTS OOOH BLOOD SACRIFICE". Hay mucho más que eso, y el hecho de que estos conceptos racistas no se comenten y se celebren no me gusta.

Las Guadanas podrían muy fácilmente ser un grupo supremamente interesante, jugando con los aspectos positivos de La Santa, y las visiones positivas de la Muerte en general.

No creo que estaría tan frustrado si fuera por el hecho de que los autores saben que Ella ha sido transmitida de generación en generación por estos "cultos aztecas a la muerte" (como se ha dicho con tanto entusiasmo), lo que significa que alguien buscó en Google La Santa, buscó la fe, miró todo lo demás, y ... decidió ir con el retrato que continúa el uso de la línea México/Sudamérica como zona neurálgica para sacrificios de sangre, criminales y asesinatos.

En fin, espero que Las Guadanas cambie cuando se amplíe. Se hace muy, muy viejo, ver lo mismo de siempre una y otra vez.

EDITO PARA AÑADIR: En realidad también estoy irritado porque SÉ que Onyx Path investiga. Scion trabaja con individuos nativos para retratar respetuosamente las creencias en cuestión y las culturas implicadas. SÉ que OP se esfuerza por no repetir estos viejos estereotipos ofensivos con otras líneas. Entonces, ¿sólo está bien cuando se trata de México? Sé que Hunter y Scion son equipos de escritura diferentes, pero hay algo que me molesta.

También tengo que dejar muy claro que parte de mi problema se debe a la forma en que se ha tratado a Sudamérica en el canon. Aunque hay algunos ejemplos positivos, la MAYORÍA del contenido es... así.

Original post (in English)

#Hunter: the vigil #chronicles of darkness #Racism #Long post #santa muerte #Las Guadanas

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The Satanic Beheading of Mark Kilroy

Heading into March of 1989, Mark Kilroy was a pretty average 21-year old college student at the University of Texas. For Spring Break he and some of his friends decided to make an adventure out of it. This year, they decided to go big, and vacation along the Texas-Mexico border in an area called South Padre Island.

For the first couple of nights, they decided to stick close to the place they were staying, enjoying themselves along the beach and at nearby bars. But that Sunday, they decided to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, and visit some foreign soil for an evening. They had such a good time, in fact, that they decided to do the same thing the following night - March 13th, 1989. Several hours later, as everyone began stumbling back home - intoxicated, no doubt - Mark's friends realized that he wasn't anywhere to be found. In the parade of college students crossing the border, heading back to flophouses and rental homes, he had gotten separated from his friends. The following morning, Mark failed to show up or call any of them, and he was reported missing to local police.

Mark Kilroy seemed to have disappeared straight into thin air. His case struggled to gain any headway but then Mark's case was featured on "America's Most Wanted," where it gained international recognition, but his case would remain rudderless... until the following month.

On April 1st, 1989, south of the Mexican border, a vehicle blew through a routine traffic checkpoint. Police followed the vehicle to its destination: a ranch house out in Santa Elena. Police detained the driver, and conducted a compulsory search of the home. There, they found a large amount of narcotics... as well as items which, they believed, were occult in-nature.

About a week later, police returned to the ranch house, and conducted a more thorough scan. They believed the home might have been used for drug dealing, and arrested everyone that was present: not only the people living on the property, but farm workers as well.

While questioning everyone involved, a farmhand confessed that he had seen the missing college student on the ranch - a young man he later identified as Mark Kilroy. Obviously, this intrigued investigators, who had grown perplexed over the disappearance of the American college student.

Further interrogations yielded even more answers. Albeit, terrifying answers.

One of the other people that law enforcement had detained told investigators that they were part of a drug-dealing cult, which had sacrificed Mark Kilroy during one of their rituals. He was one of their most recent victims, but he most definitely wasn't their first.

The cult, this detainee claimed, was led by a young man named Adolfo Constanzo.

Constanzo was just 26 years old: a charismatic young man that his followers had nicknamed "The Godfather." He had grown up in a mixed religious household, with one parent practicing Catholicism and the other, voodoo. Because of this, he had grown up with a warped sense of religion, which continued to evolve during his adolescence.

When he began dealing drugs, Constanzo began to incorporate his skewed religious beliefs, which derived heavily from Palo Mayombe - a religion that utilizes sacrificial offerings. Constanzo and his followers began making animal sacrifices to increase their luck... but as time went on, and their business dealings got bigger and bigger, they decided that bigger risks were necessary.

About a year before the death of Mark Kilroy, this group had purchased a home out in Santa Elena, and began sacrificing humans. At first, they targeted victims who wouldn't be missed -primarily, the homeless and nameless - but then the decision was made to go after someone with a "good" brain, as some followers would later describe.

An American; in particular, a good-looking, educated American. Mark Kilroy.

Mark had been singled out by Constanzo and his followers as he walked towards the border. They pulled up in a truck and asked him if he wanted a ride home; and when he got close enough, two men jumped out and threw him into the vehicle. Kilroy, because of his size and athleticism, was actually able to break free and escape... but another vehicle was waiting to stop him and complete the kidnapping.

Taking 21-year old Mark Kilroy back to the ranch house, Constanzo and his followers proceeded to torture and dismember the young man for several hours. You can look up the details online, but... to save you the misery, let me just say that it was rough. Approximately twelve hours after being detained, Mark Kilroy was killed by Constanzo via machete; and several of his body parts were then harvested to complete the ritual.

After his death, Mark Kilroy's remains were disposed of, and buried along the fifteen or so other victims that Constanzo and his followers had sacrificed in the preceding months.

Adolfo Constanzo and a handful of his followers managed to elude capture for several weeks, having been betrayed by some of their own following the drug bust at their ranch home. But the next month - May of 1989 - found the rest of the group cornered in a Mexico City apartment. Constanzo prepared to go out shooting, but quickly ran out of ammunition and cowardly asked one of his followers to shoot him. His follower obliged, ending Adolfo Constanzo's life before he could face justice.

The remaining members of Constanzo's group were arrested, charged, and eventually convicted for the murder of Mark Kilroy (among others). Some have since passed away, while others remain behind bars.

The death of Mark Kilroy remains a tragic example of religion-gone-awry: spiritual beliefs distorted by eager psychopaths. And, for many that bought into the Satanic Panic scare of the 1980's, it might have even felt like vindication: proof that their worst fears were becoming a reality.

Despite the family and loved ones of Mark Kilroy receiving answers, they had to learn the horrible truth about Mark's final hours... hours marked by pain and misery. However, at least they were able to give the young man's story some closure, and were able to rest easy knowing that the offenders would not hurt anyone else's son, brother, and friend.

For other victims, those answers - and that closure - simply don't exist.

#San Francisco Satanic Beheading #true crime #killers #crime #murder

[dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd]

The Matamoros Cult Killings

Born in 1962, Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo went from Catholic altar boy to leader of a ritualistic cult by the mid-1980s. Based at a remote ranch in Mexico, Constanzo and his followers performed ritual sacrifices to bring good luck to associates like drug dealers and corrupt public officials.

He and his minions also stole body parts for their ceremonial sacrifices, but soon escalated to killing humans instead. It's believed that between 20 and 100 men and women lost their lives before cult members abducted Mark Kilroy in Matamoros, Mexico (which borders the Rio Grande), in 1989.

Kilroy was an American student whose disappearance and ultimate demise led to Constanzo's downfall. After authorities in the US and Mexico tied Constanzo to the crime, they raided his ranch and discovered the remains of 15 mutilated bodies, one of whom was Kilroy. They also found drugs, what appeared to be a satanic temple, pornography, and a torture chamber.

For his part, Constanzo passed in May 1989. He had one of his followers kill him to avoid having to face the police.

#The Matamoros Cult #true crime #cults #crime #cult

[r1crdo]

Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989)

#adoflo constanzo

[grapsteen]

Adolfo Constanzo And His Bizarre Cult, the Narcosatanists

[oldbronxlady]

The Witch Doctor of Matamoros: Adolfo Constanzo | The Cult Next Door Ep. #4

#youtube

[unatestadellidra]

Guarda "Adolfo De Jesus Constanzo - I Narcosatanici" su YouTube

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Cults: When The Book Is Just As Good As The Podcast

About two months ago, I went to see Where The Crawdads Sing at a Regal movie theater. If you don’t know, Where The Crawdads Sing has been a mega-bestseller and is still on the bestseller list for USA Today and other lists. As we exited the movie and deposited our candy in the proper receptacle (I added that as virtue signaling), the conversation buzz was all:

“Did you think it was as good as the book”

“I thought the movie was better than the book.”

“No, the audiobook was better than the book and the movie.”

Anyway, transferring highly successful content from one medium to another is often fraught with danger. The stakes are high. Expectations are even higher. And disappointment and bitterness are only a slight miscalculation away. Remember The Green Lantern movie or Fantastic Four?

I just finished the book Cults, which is modeled on the successful podcast Cults. I know you are dying to know: Which was better? The podcast? The book? Get ready for a letdown, and it’s acceptable if you attack me (not physically, I have the upper body strength of a newborn).

The book and the podcast complement each other so well that I cannot in good conscience raise a hand in victory for the book or the podcast. The audio on the podcast brings an immersive quality that the book cannot duplicate. The book, however, adds depth, detail, and the narrative resonance that the podcast cannot replicate.

Before I go any further, I highly recommend the book, even if you’ve never listened or even heard of the Cults podcast.

Here is the tagline for the Cults book: “Cults is an unflinching exploration into what happens when the most vulnerable recesses of the mind are twisted into the lowest forms of malevolence — revealing eye-opening details which will surprise even the most devoted true-crime fan. If you love the Cults podcast, this is the next-level companion that will take you deeper into the dark side of human nature than ever before. Ten disreputable cult leaders. Ten stories of power, mystery, and destruction.”

That’s not hyperbole typical of a book tagline. Reading about the evil unleashed by these cult leaders is indeed a perilous journey into psychic darkness.

Once I finished the book, recurring themes assert themselves. First, these cult leaders have led miserable lives, especially in childhood. Charles Manson, who had a partying mother who was imprisoned for armed robbery. The boy was then moved around with relatives, none of which were thrilled to have him. When Manson was in first grade, his Uncle Bill forced him to wear a dress to school to toughen him up because Manson had come home the previous day crying about his sadistic teacher’s treatment of him.

Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, who killed at least 16 people in Mexico, often through torture and ritualistic practices, grew up in a home surrounded by animal filth and the rotting remains of animal sacrifices from his family.

David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians, was abandoned by his mother and left with a mentally ill Aunt until his mother returned with an alcoholic husband, who physically abused the boy.

Second, the cult followers are often people with low self-esteem who had been ostracized by society and desperately search for connection and belonging. The cult leader’s outreach to them is their lifeline to imbuing their existence with meaning.

Third, these cult leaders inevitably begin to abuse their own followers as their “God Complex” overtakes them.

The book is not simply a gruesome retelling of the heinous crimes these cults leaders committed or the hypnotic hold they possessed over their followers. It’s a psychological investigation of the many motives behind groups like NXIVM, Heaven’s Gate, the Peoples Temple, and more, taking an expanded look at the people who led and followed the most radical organizations in history. What powers did their leaders possess? How did their followers operate within the world? Why did their beliefs stick, even after they’d grown bizarre?

The book’s authors Max Cutler and Kevin Conley weave ten tales of cult leaders and their followers that do not try to simply explain what happened, but why. The narrative flow here is impressive, with each of the ten stories given its own identity and evil footprint.

The book is clearly a smooth, mutually beneficial collaboration between the two authors, Cutler and Conley.

Max Cutler created and founded Parcast Studios in 2016. Cutler built the nascent podcast network into a successful and growing entity. Spotify then acquired Parcast in 2019, even though Cutler still maintains his role as head of the studio. Cutler and his team have secured exclusive deals with influential voices in podcasting like Brené Brown and Alex Cooper. He currently leads the teams behind Spotify Kids & Family programming, which includes a partnership with family media company Moonbug Entertainment and their new podcast CoComelon Storytime.

Kevin Conley is the author of the national bestseller Stud: Adventures in Breeding and The Full Burn: On the Set, at the Bar, Behind the Wheel, and Over the Edge with Hollywood Stuntmen. A former editor at The New Yorker, he has written for GQ, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times Magazine, among others.

The Cults podcast can be found here and the podcast’s latest target is “The Moonies,” who are devout followers of Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification church.

The Cults book can be found here. As much as I enjoy the podcast, you can read the book and fully enjoy it without having ever listened to the podcast. What I suspect will happen, however, is that finishing the book will spur many people to investigate the podcast.

(Note: Special thanks to Samantha Shier)

#podcast #books #reading

[crimesnewroman]

Cult Profile: Adolfo Constanzo

1980s America was rife with fears of secret Satanic societies, but much of those fears were unfounded. There were no encoded messages in heavy metal music, there were no ritual sacrifices happening at preschools. But that doesn't mean that there have never been cults that practice human sacrifice. One of the most infamous is that of Adolfo Constanzo. 

Born in Miami to a Cuban woman, Adolfo Constanzo was feared even in his early life. Though the boy served as an altar boy in a Catholic church, his mother practiced Santeria and took her son on trips to Haiti to learn about Vodou. Neighbors shunned them, especially when they found their beloved pets mutilated at their doorsteps after offending the family. As a teenager, Constanzo would apprentice under his uncle to learn Palo Mayombe, a religion developed by African slaves in Cuba, which is known to practice animal sacrifice. 

As a young man, Constanzo moved to Mexico, where his good looks helped him land a job as a model. He began reading tarot cards for wealthy and famous citizens, the profits of which soon superseded his job as a model. By the mid-1980s, his practice had grown, now offering animal sacrifices to drug dealers for a hefty price. These rituals, he claimed, would make his clients invisible to the authorities and help them gain wealth and power. 

Charming, handsome, and openly bisexual, Constanzo would begin taking on lovers would doubled as followers. In time, he would become known as "The Godfather of Matamoros," and would be just as feared as any drug lord. Perhaps even more so - when a gang turned down his demand to become their new leader, six of their members disappeared, only for their pieces to later be fished out of a river. 

Eventually, Constanzo's men would deliver to him American college student Mark Kilroy, whom he would sacrificially murder. Kilroy's death is often given credit for Constanzo's downfall, as the white, all-American boy's disappearance would bring not only Mexican, but also American authorities on his tail. However, it was an unrelated drug bust that would lead authorities to his ranch, where they found the remains of 15 men, all killed as part of ritual sacrifice. 

In the end, Constanzo would order one of his followers to shoot him, rather than be arrested. 

Sources: x, x, x, x, x

#cults #cult profile #Adolfo Constanzo #Mark Kilroy #true crime #murder

[letsgethaunted]

Episode Thirty: The Ritual Sacrifice of Mark Kilroy

1. Investigators examine a metal pot containing a stew full of human bones, blood, animal carcasses, coins, sticks, and cult paraphernalia found at Santa Elena ranch outside Matamoros , Mexico.

2. Adolfo Constanzo was the charismatic and well liked leader of a drug smuggling cult which used occult ritual and human sacrifice for protection from the law.

3. Over 16 bodies were found at Santa Elena ranch, the ranch where Adolfo Constanzo’s cult practiced their human sacrifices. The corpses were mutilated and had wires in their spines for easy removal after decay. It was said that the cult members would wear the vertebrae as token necklaces after a ritual.

4. Sara Aldrete was a cheerleader and honor student who lured men into the cult. She presented herself as innocent ; however, she was the head of recruitment into the death cult.

5. Up close of the stew pot found at the Santa Elena ranch. Cult members drank the stew of human remains in order to “gain the power manifested during the ritual.”

6. Investigators examine burned human remains at Santa Elena ranch. It’s estimated that there are multiple bodies which were never recovered from the ranch.

7. Mark Kilroy was an honor student on an athletic scholarship who decided to go Pre-Med at University of Texas. He was kidnapped and murdered as part of an occult sacrifice by Adolfo Constanzo’s cult on a spring break trip, which ultimately led to Adolfo’s demise.

8. Bodies were exhumed from the surrounding area and identified, then given proper burials. Most of the bodies were rival drug lords of Constanzo. Constanzo offered “spiritual protection” to rival drug cartels in exchange for money.

9. “Sacrifice” the book by Mark Kilroy’s father, brings to light the harmful effects of drug trafficking. The Kilroys have dedicated their lives to charities which teach children to “Just Say No” in order to reduce the market for illegal drugs.

10. The shack on Santa Elena ranch where the sacrifices and occult rituals took place, including the torture and murder of Mark Kilroy.

#The Ritual Sacrifice of Mark Kilroy #Let's Get Haunted #Adolfo Constanzo #Ritual Sacrifice #Instagram

[reignmaker1911]

10 Horror Movies and The Depraved Acts That Inspired Them

10 Horror Movies and The Depraved Acts That Inspired Them

Based on a True Story,’ or “Inspired by Actual Events”; are just two phrases that, when added to a cinematic production are guaranteed to raise eyebrows as well as ticket sales. Why; well it seems that when we see phrases such as these, our proverbial antennas rise and immediately we won’t know about the horrible tale that happened…

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#Academy Award #Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo #Based on a true story #BORDERLAND #Brad Douriff #CHILD’S PLAY #Doris Bither #Ed and Lorraine Warren #El Padrino de Matamoros #Gertrude Baniszewski #H.H. Holmes #Henry Lee Lucas #HENRY; PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER #Inspired by Actual Events #JACK KETCHUM&039;S #Keddie Cabin Murders #Liv Tyler #Michael Rooker #Ottis Toole #SAW #Scott Speedman #Sylvia Likens #Texarkana Moonlight Murders #THE ENTITY #THE GIRL NEXT DOOR #The Godfather of Matamoros #THE HAUNTING IN CONNETICUT #THE HILLS HAVE EYES #THE STRANGERS #THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN

[doom-over-the-world]

Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989) was a Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer, and cult leader of an infamous gang dubbed by the media as The Narcosatanists (Spanish: "Los Narcosatánicos").[1] His cult members nicknamed him The Godfather ("El Padrino"). He was reportedly responsible for the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989, along with several other cult killings.

#Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo #serialkiller

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

The Matamoros Cult Killings

Born in 1962, Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo went from Catholic altar boy to leader of a ritualistic cult by the mid-1980s. Based at a remote ranch in Mexico, Constanzo and his followers performed ritual sacrifices to bring good luck to associates like drug dealers and corrupt public officials.

He and his minions also stole body parts for their ceremonial sacrifices, but soon escalated to killing humans instead. It's believed that between 20 and 100 men and women lost their lives before cult members abducted Mark Kilroy in Matamoros, Mexico (which borders the Rio Grande), in 1989.

Kilroy was an American student whose disappearance and ultimate demise led to Constanzo's downfall. After authorities in the US and Mexico tied Constanzo to the crime, they raided his ranch and discovered the remains of 15 mutilated bodies, one of whom was Kilroy. They also found drugs, what appeared to be a satanic temple, pornography, and a torture chamber.

For his part, Constanzo passed in May 1989. He had one of his followers kill him to avoid having to face the police.

#The Matamoros Cult #true crime #cults #crime #cult

[dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd]

The Satanic Beheading of Mark Kilroy

Heading into March of 1989, Mark Kilroy was a pretty average 21-year old college student at the University of Texas. For Spring Break he and some of his friends decided to make an adventure out of it. This year, they decided to go big, and vacation along the Texas-Mexico border in an area called South Padre Island.

For the first couple of nights, they decided to stick close to the place they were staying, enjoying themselves along the beach and at nearby bars. But that Sunday, they decided to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, and visit some foreign soil for an evening. They had such a good time, in fact, that they decided to do the same thing the following night - March 13th, 1989. Several hours later, as everyone began stumbling back home - intoxicated, no doubt - Mark’s friends realized that he wasn’t anywhere to be found. In the parade of college students crossing the border, heading back to flophouses and rental homes, he had gotten separated from his friends. The following morning, Mark failed to show up or call any of them, and he was reported missing to local police.

Mark Kilroy seemed to have disappeared straight into thin air. His case struggled to gain any headway but then Mark’s case was featured on “America’s Most Wanted,” where it gained international recognition, but his case would remain rudderless… until the following month.

On April 1st, 1989, south of the Mexican border, a vehicle blew through a routine traffic checkpoint. Police followed the vehicle to its destination: a ranch house out in Santa Elena. Police detained the driver, and conducted a compulsory search of the home. There, they found a large amount of narcotics… as well as items which, they believed, were occult in-nature.

About a week later, police returned to the ranch house, and conducted a more thorough scan. They believed the home might have been used for drug dealing, and arrested everyone that was present: not only the people living on the property, but farm workers as well.

While questioning everyone involved, a farmhand confessed that he had seen the missing college student on the ranch - a young man he later identified as Mark Kilroy. Obviously, this intrigued investigators, who had grown perplexed over the disappearance of the American college student.

Further interrogations yielded even more answers. Albeit, terrifying answers.

One of the other people that law enforcement had detained told investigators that they were part of a drug-dealing cult, which had sacrificed Mark Kilroy during one of their rituals. He was one of their most recent victims, but he most definitely wasn’t their first.

The cult, this detainee claimed, was led by a young man named Adolfo Constanzo.

Constanzo was just 26 years old: a charismatic young man that his followers had nicknamed “The Godfather.” He had grown up in a mixed religious household, with one parent practicing Catholicism and the other, voodoo. Because of this, he had grown up with a warped sense of religion, which continued to evolve during his adolescence.

When he began dealing drugs, Constanzo began to incorporate his skewed religious beliefs, which derived heavily from Palo Mayombe - a religion that utilizes sacrificial offerings. Constanzo and his followers began making animal sacrifices to increase their luck… but as time went on, and their business dealings got bigger and bigger, they decided that bigger risks were necessary.

About a year before the death of Mark Kilroy, this group had purchased a home out in Santa Elena, and began sacrificing humans. At first, they targeted victims who wouldn’t be missed -primarily, the homeless and nameless - but then the decision was made to go after someone with a “good” brain, as some followers would later describe.

An American; in particular, a good-looking, educated American. Mark Kilroy.

Mark had been singled out by Constanzo and his followers as he walked towards the border. They pulled up in a truck and asked him if he wanted a ride home; and when he got close enough, two men jumped out and threw him into the vehicle. Kilroy, because of his size and athleticism, was actually able to break free and escape… but another vehicle was waiting to stop him and complete the kidnapping.

Taking 21-year old Mark Kilroy back to the ranch house, Constanzo and his followers proceeded to torture and dismember the young man for several hours. You can look up the details online, but… to save you the misery, let me just say that it was rough. Approximately twelve hours after being detained, Mark Kilroy was killed by Constanzo via machete; and several of his body parts were then harvested to complete the ritual.

After his death, Mark Kilroy’s remains were disposed of, and buried along the fifteen or so other victims that Constanzo and his followers had sacrificed in the preceding months.

Adolfo Constanzo and a handful of his followers managed to elude capture for several weeks, having been betrayed by some of their own following the drug bust at their ranch home. But the next month - May of 1989 - found the rest of the group cornered in a Mexico City apartment. Constanzo prepared to go out shooting, but quickly ran out of ammunition and cowardly asked one of his followers to shoot him. His follower obliged, ending Adolfo Constanzo’s life before he could face justice.

The remaining members of Constanzo’s group were arrested, charged, and eventually convicted for the murder of Mark Kilroy (among others). Some have since passed away, while others remain behind bars.

The death of Mark Kilroy remains a tragic example of religion-gone-awry: spiritual beliefs distorted by eager psychopaths. And, for many that bought into the Satanic Panic scare of the 1980’s, it might have even felt like vindication: proof that their worst fears were becoming a reality.

Despite the family and loved ones of Mark Kilroy receiving answers, they had to learn the horrible truth about Mark’s final hours… hours marked by pain and misery. However, at least they were able to give the young man’s story some closure, and were able to rest easy knowing that the offenders would not hurt anyone else’s son, brother, and friend.

For other victims, those answers - and that closure - simply don’t exist.

#Mark Kilroy #satanic #murder #crime #horror