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Episode 788: The Matamoros Devil Murders (Part 2)

May 25, 2026 / 54:26

This episode covers the gruesome case of Mark Kilroy, the drug smuggling operation at the Hernandez ranch, and the cult led by Adolfo Constanzo. Elena and Ash discuss the details of the investigation, the horrific rituals performed, and the eventual capture of those responsible for the murders.

The episode begins with a lighthearted conversation between hosts Elena and Ash about their lunches, transitioning into the serious topic of Mark Kilroy's disappearance. They detail how Mexican authorities raided the Hernandez ranch, leading to the discovery of multiple bodies.

Elena and Ash recount the chilling confessions made by Domingo Bamante and little Saraphene, revealing the cult's belief in voodoo and the horrific fate that befell Mark Kilroy. They discuss the interrogation tactics used by Commander Bonitez and the shocking details of the murders.

The hosts also highlight the background of Adolfo Constanzo, his rise to power, and the influence he had over his followers. They touch on the psychological aspects of the cult and how the members became desensitized to violence.

As the episode concludes, they reflect on the impact of the case on the Kilroy family and the establishment of the Mark Kilroy Foundation, which aims to prevent substance abuse among young people.

TL;DR

Mark Kilroy's tragic murder by a drug cult reveals chilling details of their rituals and the investigation that followed.

Episode

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Hey weirdos. I'm Elena.
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>> I'm Ash.
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>> And this is Morbid.
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Did you just hear my stomach grumble?
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Grumble. Lumble.
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>> It said.
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>> It's usually my stomach that's
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grumbling.
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>> I know. I don't know what's going on.
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>> Mine's loud. I just had a tuna sub.
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>> You did? So, I'm not just
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>> It looked wild, but I
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>> It wasn't good.
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>> Wasn't good.
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>> No. So, we'll see how that pans.
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>> [ __ ] I know. It wasn't bad. It was just
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like It just didn't hit like you wanted
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it to.
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>> No.
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>> That's the worst.
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>> Yeah. I know.
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>> I hate that.
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>> Hopefully, I don't have to run out of
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here in the middle of this.
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>> Hopefully. Imagine. You won't know.
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Listener.
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>> Yeah. So, that's my lunch.
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>> That's That's my lunch. This [ __ ] over
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here shoveled some cheese fries in. She
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said, "Whatever. I'm having cheese
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fries." I did
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>> said I won't be joining you.
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>> I really wanted some. I was craving some
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since I've been sick and then I was
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like, "Give me it."
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>> She wasn't sure how soon she could have
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cheese fries post Naro.
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>> Yeah. So, I just I went for it.
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>> I feel good about it, you know.
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>> Not only that, can I just call you out
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full blast? Spicy chicken nuggets.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Who is she? How do you live this life?
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>> Who lives this way?
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>> I would if I could, but I cannot. I got
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a 6-in tuna salad. I'm like, hopefully
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that's chill. Hopefully that's all
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right.
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>> Hopefully that stays there. Uh yeah, I
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don't know. I I'm like my dad.
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>> I know that [ __ ] can eat
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anything.
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>> I'm just my dad. I can just eat things
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at all hours of night.
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>> I know you're crazy girl.
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>> Spicy doesn't really bother me too much.
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>> I love spicy, but spicy does not love
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me.
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>> And that's the saddest thing I've ever
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heard because
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>> I did I do go spicy sometimes. Like last
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night,
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>> you pay for it. I got these little like
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um like tater tot mac and cheese things
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that had buffalo sauce on them. They
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were good.
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>> That sounds good.
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>> You know what though? I paid for them.
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>> Yeah, you pay.
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>> I had to order Tums at 11:00 p.m.
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>> Damn.
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>> But they make chewable Tums,
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>> which Hey,
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>> and let me tell you, when I got those,
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Drew said, "Aren't they all chewable?"
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>> And I said, I meant chewy like chewy
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like like gummy.
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>> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. They're so good. I had to stop
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myself from eating the whole thing.
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>> Yeah. You can't just eat Tums just as a
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snack.
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>> No, there's a whole warning label on the
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back.
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>> There's a whole warning that you can't
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use.
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>> You're not supposed to have more than
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six in like a 24-hour period.
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>> I had three.
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>> In case you were wondering,
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>> it's like that um Melissa McCarthy and
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and Bridesmaids. I took nine.
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>> I took nine. I think I've overcommitted.
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>> Me with Chewy.
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>> I took nine.
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Oh, so I mean in business, uh, buy the
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Butcher Legacy. You can pre-order it
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anywhere you want to pre-order it.
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>> I'm going to finish it this weekend.
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>> Yeah, there's a lot of there's some
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there's some little announcements and
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little fun things that might be
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happening in the pre-order space. So,
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keep an eye on my socials next week.
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>> Yeah,
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>> because there's some cool stuff I get to
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tell you.
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>> Perhaps a new series started.
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>> Perhaps a new series that I'm going to
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do on socials. I don't know. Maybe.
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>> Could be. Who could be sure?
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>> We're really good at um Easter eggs.
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>> Oh, yeah. So, just, you know, keep an
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eye,
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>> keep an eye, you know,
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>> keep two and maybe it'll make you want
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to pre-order because some incentives
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might be coming your way to pre-order.
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So, period.
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>> Give it a try. Give it a try. Hold on to
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that receipt. Maybe. I don't know. Uh,
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but yeah, just go pre-order it wherever
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you want. Butlelegacy.com.
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>> Yeah, it's really, really [ __ ] good.
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Like, and I know I'm biased, but like
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I'm not even being biased right now. I
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like this one. I love the first two. I
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like this one a million times more.
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>> That honestly I love hearing that.
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>> I like it's the vibe is perfect.
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>> And we're back in New Orleans. I think
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that's important.
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>> We are back in New Orleans.
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>> We're back in New Orleans. Like it's the
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vibe and it's like having time.
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>> I'm excited about that.
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>> It's the fall time. Like these are the
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things you got to tell people.
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>> It's true. I know. I'm not good at
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selling my own book.
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>> I I'll help you.
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>> I appreciate it. That's why I need you.
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And cuz
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>> we're in the morg a lot in this one.
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There's a lot of Morgan in this one.
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There's a This one was the one I had a
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lot of fun writing this one.
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>> You can tell it it comes through.
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>> And this one and that's I love hearing
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that.
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>> It does.
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>> And yeah, this one was really fun. This
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one was like uh a long time coming. A
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lot of weird research for this one.
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>> I'm sure.
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>> Yeah.
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>> I have to admit something.
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>> I love Jeremy.
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Honestly, that's okay. I feel so wrong.
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>> I kind of wanted that. I wanted people
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to love him, but like
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>> I want to punch him. Like I wanted
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people to not want him to go away, but
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like
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>> hate him.
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>> I'm like a little upset that he's behind
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bars.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Like just let him live.
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>> Just let him live, you know?
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>> Don't obviously
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>> don't. But you know, but he's fake. So
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just like don't get mad at me for saying
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that.
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>> Yeah. He's not real.
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>> And I'm rooting for Ren at the same
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time. Of course you
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>> like I want her to kick him in the
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kneecaps.
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>> Why wouldn't it? We love Ren.
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>> I love her so much.
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>> My girl right now.
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>> She's such a baddie.
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>> And she's friends with K Scarbetta. So,
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did guys, did you hear that?
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>> I know.
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>> Did you hear that? Like, I'll never get
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over that. That Patricia Cornwell is
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like, I think Kay and Ren are are really
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good buds.
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>> I think they are, too.
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>> And honestly, like
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May maybe that's true.
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>> Maybe.
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>> And maybe if you pre-order the book,
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>> you can find out more about that.
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>> Maybe you can find out more about that.
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>> All right. I think we plugged the ship.
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That was that was the best plug yet.
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>> I think we did good, guys.
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>> I think we need to plug a little more
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like that cuz a lot of times we're just
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like, order it.
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>> I don't know. But we we don't give any
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detail. realize that's not good enough
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of an incentive to do anything is to
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just be like, "Pre-order this." You're
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probably like, "Shut the [ __ ] up. What
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do you mean?" Like,
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>> I get it. So, hopefully that tickled
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your pickle a little bit.
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>> I hope so.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Mikey said it didn't tickle his pickle.
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Mikey doesn't like
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>> He gave us a thumbs up.
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>> I think that phrase is so funny.
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>> I do too.
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>> What do you like? Tickle your fancy.
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>> Oh, he big eyes. No, he said yes.
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>> Or like blow your skirt up. Does that
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blow your skirt up? who loves to say
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that you all. That didn't really blow my
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skirt up. I love that a lot. What are
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you going to say?
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>> Tickle your pickle sounds really kind of
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perverse to me. It makes me
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uncomfortable when you say it out of
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your mouth.
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>> I'm going to keep doing it then.
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>> I love that a lot. It does sound weird.
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>> It does. Um, another thing that we
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should probably plug, don't stop your
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timer just yet, Carl, cuz we're still
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going.
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>> So,
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>> not yet, Jason.
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>> Yeah, Jason.
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>> Is it actually Jason?
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>> I don't know. man. Uh, we are doing a
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[ __ ] Radio City show.
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>> Yes. In case you didn't know,
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>> in June, June 27th.
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>> June 27th, I should say that
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confidently. That's the date of my show.
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And yours?
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>> It's going to be awesome.
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>> We just booked a special guest and I
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fear you're going to [ __ ] your dicks.
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>> Yeah. So, you got to get excited.
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>> You got to book your tickets. We just
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booked um Can I just say something?
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We're having dresses made in Romania.
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>> Yeah. And we've never done anything like
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that.
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>> We're getting Romanian dresses up in
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this [ __ ] And we're going to shout out
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the maker once everything is like
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settled.
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>> Coolest people. Coolest people. I can't
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wait to like sing their praises.
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>> Yeah. Honestly, because let me tell you,
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>> book talk girlies and and friends,
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you'll love this girl. You'll love her.
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>> Oh yeah. So
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>> Oh, yeah. Just put it out there. I don't
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want to say too much, but you So you
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need to get your ticket. Y
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>> book your hotel. There's not too many
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tickets left, so go get them.
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>> Yeah. And you know what? You don't even
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have to stay in New York for the night.
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You could take a train. Yeah, you can
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back.
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>> The train is nice.
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>> I don't know how late it runs, but Yeah,
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it's okay.
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>> Yeah, whatever. You know, wander the
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streets a little bit.
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>> I wouldn't go that far. That's insane.
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>> Wander the streets until dawn and then
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leave. [ __ ]
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>> What the [ __ ] It's actually everything
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we tell people not to do, man.
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>> I'm just kidding. All right, Carl.
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Jason, hit them.
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>> All right, tell them the number.
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>> Yeah, let's go. So, we finished part one
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and the Mexican authorities had raided
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the Hernandez ranch and took multiple
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people into custody. Everybody was being
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very cocky. Seemed to kind of think they
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were untouchable. What like weren't
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really saying anything aside from the
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caretaker, Domingo Bamante.
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>> Uh he pretty quickly folded and told
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investigators everything he knew,
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including the fact that a young American
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man had been held at the ranch. And when
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he was shown a photo of Mark Kilroy, he
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confirmed, "Yes, that was the man he was
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talking about."
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>> I fear this is going to get really bad.
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I would like to warn you at the top,
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this is a very, and I will I'll give you
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another little warning right when we're
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about to get into it. This is a very
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gruesome case. And
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>> from what I remember, Yes.
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>> What happened to Mark Kilroy is
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unimaginable.
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>> It's heartbreaking. And I hate that his
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family has to know that.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Like, it's awful. But I do think, like
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we were saying in part one, it's such an
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important story to tell because these
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cases do become cautionary tales and if
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it helps one person be a little more
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>> Yeah.
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>> you know, vigilant while they're
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traveling,
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>> they just have more knowledge going in.
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>> Yeah. So, Domingo Bamonte's statement
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broke the case wide open. Less than an
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hour later, little Saraphene was dragged
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from his cell and he was brought into
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one of the interrogation rooms. If you
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remember, he was the one who blew
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through the checkpoint.
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>> Yep. This time, Commander Bonitez was in
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no mood for the 20-year-old's cocky
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attitude and self-certainty. He had had
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enough.
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>> Yeah, I can't say blame them.
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>> So, after slamming the soda water and
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hot sauce concoction down on the table,
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he started rattling off every single
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detail they had learned about the
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operation at the ranch. From the moment
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that little Saraphene had blown through
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that checkpoint all the way up to what
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had just happened in Domingo Bamante's
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interrogation, he was like, "We know
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everything, so you might as well talk."
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>> Yeah. Like you're not having divine
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protection. No.
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>> It might have been the bottle of soda
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water and the hot sauce on the table. Or
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it might have just been Bonitez's
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unwillingness to tolerate any more lies.
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Whatever it was, mystical protection or
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not, little Saraphene started talking.
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>> I feel like it was a good mix of all of
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it. But I really think that soda bottle
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>> Yeah.
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>> maybe pushed it over the edge.
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>> For me, it would for sure be the hot
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sauce. That would be it.
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>> The concoction of it all. So he started
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talking. He confirmed what the agents
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already knew, that they were running the
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drug smuggling uh ring out of the ranch,
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moving drugs back and forth between
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Madamoros and Texas. And then he
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confirmed what they already suspected.
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They had murdered Mark Kilroy at the
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ranch. He told the commander, "It was
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our religion, our voodoo. We did it for
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success. We did it for protection. He
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told us killing would bring us power. He
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told us our souls were dead. When that
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happens, you can do anything to anyone."
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But you shouldn't want to.
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>> No. And I want to point out, I know that
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what we're talking about here is not
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voodoo. I'm not super educated
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>> in voodoo at all, but that's a quote.
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And I know that I'm sure this is vastly
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different what we're talking about today
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than actual voodoo.
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>> Yeah. Like that this is this was a quote
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from this person.
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>> Exactly. So the interrogation took a
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little over 5 hours. And in that time,
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Bonitez and the other agents in the
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room, they learned everything that they
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wanted to know about the smuggling
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operation, but also a lot of stuff that
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they were not prepared to hear. So the
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interrogation took a little over 5
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hours. And in that time, Bonitez and the
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other agents, they learned things that
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they needed to know like about the
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smuggling operation and everything going
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on in that department. But they also
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learned a lot of things that they were
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not prepared for.
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>> Yes. Which I'm sure we are also not
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going to be prepared for.
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>> I'm going to do my best to prepare you,
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but even that will not be enough.
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>> Yeah. So after the death of his uncle
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Saul and his father, Saraphene, little
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Saraphene, and the remaining members of
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his family's organization, they ended up
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joining forces with another gang led by
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El Padrino. That might sound familiar.
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>> Yes.
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>> El Padrino was referenced in that wire
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tap call. Yep. So El Padrino happened to
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be Adalfo Constanzo, who we kind of
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touched on briefly in part one, but
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we'll get more into who he is in this
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part.
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>> Okay.
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>> And this is the final part, just so you
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guys know. So it was Constanzo who
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forced them to adopt his religious
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practices which were it was like a
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bizarre perversion of Paulo Mayomebe
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which was an Afro Cuban religion. It
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honors the dead and engages in rituals
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that involve human bones and some other
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things.
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>> Okay. Now Saraphene told the agents,
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"Adulo is very powerful, very smart. He
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runs our business in Madam Moros. He has
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connections all over Mexico. Movie stars
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go to him. Congressmen."
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So, this is like a well-connected guy. I
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don't know if Congressman actually went
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to him. That was alleged by not mean.
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And when you hear that, you're like,
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"Oh,
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okay. Period.
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>> Got it."
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>> And just to be clear again, like I'm
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describ I'm like naming specific
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religions. The this what we're talking
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about today, it's not these religions. I
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don't know a lot about these religions.
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>> These are religions that they
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referenced, not us.
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>> Exactly. But and like this is what
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they're saying it is. I'm sure it's not
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that at all.
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I don't want anybody to think that I
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think that's what it is or you
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>> Saraphene had a lot of respect for
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Constanzo, but there was also a lot more
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to it. It seemed like he almost woripped
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him and also was terrified of him all at
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the same time.
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>> Yeah, does seem like that.
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>> Yeah, he kept on telling investigators,
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"We did whatever he asked. It's our
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religion and if we didn't do as he said,
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he would kill us or worse." That's so
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scary to hear like it's our religion so
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we did it without being without
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question. It's like that's not what
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religion is not at all.
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>> It's not what it's supposed to be.
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>> And I for me the scariest part of that
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is he would kill us or worse.
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>> Yeah. It's like what the [ __ ] does that
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mean?
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>> What's worse? Now among the things
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Constanzo asked of his men was to
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procure sacrifices for uh Allegua, which
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is that trickster god that we referenced
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in part one. that God would give powers
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and protections for in exchange for
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offerings, which I wonder, and again, I
00:14:02
don't know anything about this, so this
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is me just wondering out loud. A
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trickster god to me seems like you can't
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trust that,
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>> I would think,
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>> cuz a trickster god is usually like
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>> tricky.
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>> Yeah. Like they're tricky. Like they're
00:14:15
you don't know if they're being for real
00:14:17
or not. So, it's just it's an
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interesting thing here
00:14:21
>> that they're relying so heavily on it.
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>> I know it. Well, and that's the thing
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like Dulo Constanzo, he he modeled his
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whole life over what he thought was
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>> appeasing this god.
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>> Yeah. It's just interesting.
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>> Now, one of those quote unquote
00:14:35
offerings ended up being Mark Kilroy.
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>> Oh, that's awful. According to
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Saraphene, Constanzo had instructed him
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to go into Madamoros the night that Mark
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went missing and he was to find somebody
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to sacrifice to the gods. This was not
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the first time they had done this.
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He said, "Adulo told us told us we had
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to go get a white male, a young white
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male, like a spring breaker."
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>> Oh, wow.
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>> So, they were like legitimately on the
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hunt for
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>> Mark Kilroy. It was getting late and
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Hernandez and another gang member, Malo
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Torres, still hadn't found anybody. And
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then the bars let out like I talked
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about and the streets were flooded with
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people. Saraphene was standing on the
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street and he actually saw Mark get
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separated from his friends
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>> cuz when he had to like relieve himself.
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>> Yep. And they pounced on that. They
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pretended to sympathize with him. They
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offered, "Oh, we'll drive you back
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across the border. What? We'll get you
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back to your friends. No problem."
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>> Sad.
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>> And this is where things start to get
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really rough. But there's another part
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where they do, too. So, I'm going to
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warn you for both.
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>> So, this is when they kidnapped Mark.
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They jumped him. They tied a blindfold
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around his eyes. They duct tape his
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mouth shut and just wrestled him into
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the Chevy Suburban. And as they stood
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there catching their breath, he actually
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managed to get out of the car and make a
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run for it.
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>> Oh my god.
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>> Which I think is one of the worst parts
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of this story,
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>> but they chased him down and dragged him
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back to the truck. So they brought Mark
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back to the ranch and as Booe, the
00:16:00
caretaker, had indicated, they left him
00:16:02
in the truck overnight and they promised
00:16:04
him that as long as he complied with
00:16:05
their demands, he was not going to be
00:16:07
hurt, which was never the truth.
00:16:08
>> No,
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>> he was kidnapped to be a sacrifice. This
00:16:13
is where it's going to get really bad,
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just so everybody knows, like trigger
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warning.
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>> The next day, Adalf Constanzo arrived at
00:16:20
the ranch with about 12 of his
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followers, and they assembled inside the
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shack that they used as kind of like a
00:16:26
makeshift temple. Like, according to
00:16:28
them, the outbuilding was actually so
00:16:30
innocuous that agents who were involved
00:16:32
in the raid and who had been to the
00:16:34
property passed by it countless times
00:16:36
when they'd gone to the ranch, and they
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had no idea what had taken place inside.
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And if they had only gone in there, they
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would have seen
00:16:43
>> he sure
00:16:45
>> they may have they would have found
00:16:46
evidence of what had occurred.
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>> That's what I mean. Like they would have
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seen that something happened in there.
00:16:50
>> Yeah.
00:16:50
>> So once everybody was gathered in the
00:16:52
shack, somebody brought Mark from the
00:16:54
car. They threw him down onto a tarp
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that had been laid out in the out on the
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inside. He stayed blindfolded with his
00:17:01
mouth taped shut, but they stripped him
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nude. And then Constanzo beat, raped,
00:17:06
and tortured him before finally killing
00:17:08
him with a brutal blow to the head using
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a machete.
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>> Oh my god.
00:17:13
>> This is It's We're still not past the
00:17:16
worst of it.
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>> [ __ ]
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>> When Mark was dead, Constanzo reached
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into the wound that the machete had made
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in his skull and pulled out pieces of
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his brain.
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>> Oh my. This is what they mean when they
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say killed or worse.
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>> Yes. So, the pieces of his brain were
00:17:31
then placed into a metal cauldron-like
00:17:34
receptacle that Constanzo referred to as
00:17:36
the niganga. Um, according to Saraphene,
00:17:39
this was where the gods received their
00:17:41
offerings. He told investigators he
00:17:43
wanted to put his brains in because he
00:17:45
was going to give the spirits more
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power.
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>> Holy [ __ ]
00:17:50
>> I'm sure that this religion is not this.
00:17:52
>> I I don't know anything about it, but
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holy [ __ ] Now, when they had finished
00:17:57
the quote unquote ritual, Constanzo
00:17:59
instructed the men to remove uh Mark's
00:18:01
body and bury him on the property. They
00:18:04
dismembered the body before the burial.
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And when Saraphene was asked if that was
00:18:08
part of the ritual, he was very blunt
00:18:11
and told them, "No, it just made his
00:18:12
body easier to bury."
00:18:14
>> Oh, yeah.
00:18:15
>> Jesus. Uh Mark's grave was marked by a
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wire sticking out of the ground and the
00:18:19
other end of that wire was tied to his
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spinal column so that when his body had
00:18:24
completely decomposed, quote, the cult
00:18:27
could pull out the vertebrae to make a
00:18:29
necklace.
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Holy [ __ ] This is a human being. How
00:18:36
are you this devoid of humanity? This is
00:18:41
a human being who was going out for
00:18:43
probably his last spring break with his
00:18:45
best friends from high school who got
00:18:48
snatched off the streets and this is
00:18:50
what happened. I just don't get how you
00:18:52
get here. Like I don't get how you get
00:18:54
so devoid of anything that makes a human
00:18:57
being a human being. I don't understand
00:18:59
how that just seeps out of you or was
00:19:01
never there to begin with.
00:19:02
>> It's so scary to me. Like there's one
00:19:04
person involved in this who will talk a
00:19:06
little bit about who she was before she
00:19:08
got involved in this and she was just
00:19:10
normal. Like she was somebody that you
00:19:13
might have hung out with after class or
00:19:15
>> wow
00:19:15
>> known or like a friend of a friend.
00:19:18
>> Holy [ __ ]
00:19:19
>> And it's that's the thing. It's like how
00:19:20
do people become this deranged within
00:19:23
the time frame that seems like
00:19:25
overnight?
00:19:26
>> Yeah. It's so incredible. Like how do
00:19:28
you just start seeing your fellow human
00:19:30
being as a a sacrifice
00:19:33
>> as nothing as something that's not you?
00:19:37
Like I don't I don't understand that.
00:19:38
I'll never understand that with
00:19:40
>> I think it's power and I think in this
00:19:42
case drugs.
00:19:44
>> Holy [ __ ]
00:19:45
>> So the next day, Bonita sat down with
00:19:47
Saraphene again and this time he
00:19:48
recounted the details with um the
00:19:51
details of his confession for a video
00:19:52
camera. When the interview came to an
00:19:54
end, he told the investigators, "You
00:19:57
won't be able to keep us here. You'll
00:19:58
see."
00:20:01
>> Okay.
00:20:01
>> Really?
00:20:02
>> I don't know about that.
00:20:03
>> You really think that your god's just
00:20:04
going to get you out of here for ripping
00:20:07
somebody's brain matter out?
00:20:09
>> So chilling, though, how confident they
00:20:12
are
00:20:12
>> that this is real. Yep.
00:20:14
>> And that they will not be punished for
00:20:16
this.
00:20:17
>> Yep. So later that afternoon, the feds
00:20:19
swarmed the ranch for a second time,
00:20:21
arresting anybody who was found on the
00:20:23
property, and they set up a perimeter to
00:20:25
search for more bodies. Because it
00:20:27
turned out that while Mark was
00:20:29
definitely the most high-profile victim
00:20:30
of the cult, he was not the only person
00:20:33
who had been killed by these deranged
00:20:36
animals. By the time they finished
00:20:38
search finished searching the property,
00:20:40
investigators would exume 14 bodies.
00:20:43
Holy [ __ ] 14 bodies of other men, all
00:20:46
of various ages. So they stood back
00:20:49
while Saraphene worked at gunpoint,
00:20:50
digging up one body after another from
00:20:53
shallow graves. Like Mark Kilroy, a lot
00:20:56
of the other men had been chosen mostly
00:20:58
for their physical traits or
00:21:01
characteristics that Constanzo believed
00:21:02
would please the spirits. Uh including
00:21:05
one boy who was a member of the
00:21:06
Hernandez family who had been sacrificed
00:21:09
when he was mistaken for somebody else.
00:21:12
Wow. one of their very own family
00:21:14
members. And we'll get into that a
00:21:16
little bit. Wow. According to the
00:21:18
medical examiner, all of these 14 boys
00:21:20
and men had been killed within the last
00:21:22
9 months. And in each case, the cause of
00:21:25
death had been a blow from a a sharp
00:21:27
object, which was presumably that
00:21:29
machete.
00:21:30
>> Holy [ __ ]
00:21:31
>> Everybody showed signs of having been
00:21:33
tortured and sexually assaulted, and all
00:21:36
had similar wounds to the ones that Mark
00:21:38
Kilroy had.
00:21:40
>> Jesus. Now, while several agents guarded
00:21:42
Saraphene and Martinez as they worked to
00:21:44
unearth the bodies, countless others
00:21:47
combed over the property, just
00:21:48
collecting any evidence they could, when
00:21:50
they came to the shed, apparently even
00:21:52
the most hardened detectives who had
00:21:54
spent years hunting down Mexico's most
00:21:56
dangerous criminals, they were all
00:21:59
shocked by what they described
00:22:01
unanimously as a human slaughterhouse.
00:22:04
That is the scariest thing I've ever
00:22:06
heard. Yeah. Now, Bonitez, I think I
00:22:08
mentioned it in part one briefly, he had
00:22:10
grown up in a traditional indigenous
00:22:12
community, so he was aware of some of
00:22:14
the characteristics of these different
00:22:16
religions and
00:22:17
>> folklore and stuff.
00:22:18
>> And folklore. Yeah.
00:22:19
>> So, he had he grew up hearing about all
00:22:23
this and that included all manner of
00:22:25
spirits, magic, you name it.
00:22:26
>> Yeah. A lot of times he was teased at
00:22:28
the precinct for having such a strong
00:22:30
belief in the supernatural, but this was
00:22:32
the one time that most of the men who
00:22:34
were working under him were incredibly
00:22:36
grateful for his superstitious
00:22:38
upbringing.
00:22:39
>> When he learned of the potential cult
00:22:41
related activity in the murders, he
00:22:43
actually called on a doctor, um, a
00:22:44
professor of anthropology, Dr. Anthony
00:22:47
Zavaleta, and he was an expert in
00:22:50
AfroCaribbean religions. So if anybody
00:22:53
was going to help them navigate this
00:22:54
whole unfamiliar world, it was going to
00:22:56
be him.
00:22:57
>> Yeah.
00:22:57
>> Now, even with all of his experience,
00:23:00
Zavaleta was horrified by what he saw on
00:23:03
the ranch that day.
00:23:03
>> Oh, I can imagine.
00:23:04
>> He told a reporter, "I've I have 40
00:23:07
years studying Bharia or witchcraft. And
00:23:09
I've been to places and seen things that
00:23:11
ordinarily would make your hair stand on
00:23:13
end, but I was not ready for what I
00:23:15
encountered that day."
00:23:16
>> I don't think anybody could be.
00:23:17
>> How I That's how you ever prepare
00:23:19
yourself for This sounds completely out
00:23:21
of the realm of anything you could
00:23:23
conjure.
00:23:24
>> It really does. So, like the agents on
00:23:26
scene, Zavaleta was most disturbed by
00:23:29
the shack where Constanzo and his cult
00:23:31
members performed their I hate to even
00:23:33
call them rituals because quote unquote
00:23:35
where they murdered people is what we
00:23:36
should say.
00:23:36
>> They're murderers. Yeah. In the cauldron
00:23:39
situated in the center of the shack,
00:23:40
there was what still appeared to be
00:23:42
brain matter along with quote other
00:23:44
organs and a mixture of slop and blood
00:23:47
just still sitting there. This is like
00:23:49
[ __ ] you would hear about in a horror
00:23:51
movie that you're like, "That's too
00:23:52
far." Yep.
00:23:54
>> But this is real. Like this really
00:23:56
happened. This is real. Now later when
00:23:58
the contents were analyzed, they would
00:24:00
be identified as a combination of human
00:24:03
brains, animal parts, chicken bones, and
00:24:05
other natural debris.
00:24:07
>> Wow.
00:24:07
>> Upon leaving the shack, Zavaleta
00:24:09
approached Bonitez and told him, "This
00:24:11
is Palo Mayomebe. You need to look for a
00:24:13
Cubano. This is a Cuban doing this. It's
00:24:16
not a Mexican."
00:24:17
>> Oh. And that was actually valuable
00:24:18
information.
00:24:19
>> Okay.
00:24:20
>> Now, like we know from part one, the
00:24:22
local authorities in Madamoros, they
00:24:24
were familiar with the Hernandez family
00:24:25
and we went over that. So, when they
00:24:27
learned of the activity at the ranch
00:24:28
that involved Saraphene and the other
00:24:30
members of the gang, most if not all of
00:24:32
the names were known to them.
00:24:33
>> Yeah.
00:24:34
>> All except one that kept coming up over
00:24:36
and over again, especially after
00:24:38
Saraphene gave his confession. Adulo
00:24:40
Constanzo.
00:24:41
>> El Padrino.
00:24:42
>> El Padrino. Exactly. So, Adulo De Jesus
00:24:45
Constanzo. He was born November 1st,
00:24:48
1962 in Miami, Florida to a 15-year-old
00:24:52
single mother.
00:24:53
>> 15.
00:24:54
>> 15year-old. Her name was Dileia
00:24:55
Gonzalez, and she was a Cuban immigrant.
00:24:58
So, obviously, he too was Cuban.
00:25:00
>> Yeah.
00:25:01
>> So, so
00:25:01
>> it's exactly what the the doctor said.
00:25:04
>> Sorry, there might be a plane landing on
00:25:05
my house. I know.
00:25:06
>> Dang,
00:25:07
>> that was low.
00:25:08
>> So, like many single parents, Dillia
00:25:10
spent a lot of her life just struggling
00:25:12
to support her family, of course,
00:25:13
>> because she didn't just have uh Adulo as
00:25:16
a son. She had two other children too.
00:25:18
She baptized and raised her kids as
00:25:20
Catholics, but she also exposed them to
00:25:22
voodoo and other AfroCaribbean langu
00:25:25
religions that would eventually have as
00:25:27
we know a very profound effect on Adulo
00:25:30
specifically. As a child, he was
00:25:32
remembered as a very serious boy. People
00:25:35
said he never laughed and that he was
00:25:37
obsessively neat.
00:25:38
>> Like kind of like OCD it seemed like he
00:25:41
had. Author Jim Shutzer wrote, "Even as
00:25:44
a very little boy, he was meticulous in
00:25:46
ways that seem strange to the adults
00:25:47
around him."
00:25:48
>> So, I'm sure he was not getting a lot of
00:25:51
support for that.
00:25:52
>> No, I don't think so.
00:25:53
>> At an early age, he had a preoccupation
00:25:55
with his clothing and his appearance
00:25:57
specifically. And everybody from
00:25:59
neighbors to strangers though, they were
00:26:01
constantly commenting on his looks. They
00:26:03
thought he was beautiful.
00:26:04
>> Oh, wow.
00:26:05
>> Obviously, he was not. As he grew older,
00:26:07
the obsessive behaviors and his fixation
00:26:09
on his appearance kind of became one of
00:26:11
the things that he got teased for the
00:26:12
older he got, which inevitably brought
00:26:15
on the more spiteful and aggressive side
00:26:16
of his personality. That's when it
00:26:18
really started to come out. Uh Jim
00:26:20
Shoots wrote, "On a few occasions when
00:26:22
fellow students made the mistake of
00:26:24
teasing Adelfo about his weird habits,
00:26:26
the response was swift and unnerving. No
00:26:28
one in Cuban, Miami needed more than a
00:26:30
few seconds to figure out the meaning of
00:26:32
bloody animal heads and other signs that
00:26:35
appeared the next day at the front door
00:26:36
of the offending schoolmates's home.
00:26:38
>> Holy [ __ ]
00:26:40
>> So, if you were I know I'm saying that a
00:26:42
lot, but that's really like I'm just
00:26:43
incredulous.
00:26:44
>> If you teased him, he left a bloody
00:26:47
animal head staked outside your door.
00:26:51
>> And was anybody thinking that like, hey,
00:26:54
these are red flags?
00:26:57
I guess it was the 60s.
00:26:59
Whoa. I don't know. I don't know what
00:27:01
the excuse is here for that.
00:27:03
>> I don't I don't know what decade that
00:27:04
would not be a red flag to me.
00:27:06
>> I don't know. Holy [ __ ] I I'm sure it
00:27:08
was a red flag to Middle Earth.
00:27:10
>> Like that's the Game of Thrones is
00:27:13
really only where that would be
00:27:14
acceptable, I think.
00:27:15
>> And even then, it was kind of red flag.
00:27:16
>> Even then, you're like, "Oh, something's
00:27:17
wrong here."
00:27:18
>> Yeah. I feel like this is going to go
00:27:19
ary. And it sure does.
00:27:20
>> Holy [ __ ] Now, under normal
00:27:22
circumstances, his strange behaviors,
00:27:24
aside from his retaliation, just like
00:27:26
the fact that he was very meticulous and
00:27:28
that kind of thing, yeah, may have just
00:27:30
been written off as like a phase that
00:27:31
kids go through. But to his devoutly
00:27:34
religious mother and the superstitious
00:27:36
community that she was kind of
00:27:37
specifically steeped in, it was
00:27:39
something else. They saw his uncommon
00:27:42
beauty and his ability to catch the
00:27:44
attention of strangers and his
00:27:45
organization and all of it as some kind
00:27:48
of divine gift. That's what they always
00:27:50
said. He had a divine gift.
00:27:52
>> Okay.
00:27:52
>> But at the same time, shoots noted most
00:27:54
of the people in Cuban Miami who were
00:27:56
around Adulo and his mother for any
00:27:58
length of time knew exactly what this
00:28:00
little boy's demeanor meant and it
00:28:02
frightened them.
00:28:03
>> So there weren't there were people who
00:28:06
saw these red flags. Like
00:28:07
>> yeah, there were people who were like,
00:28:08
"This is not right.
00:28:09
>> It wasn't going unnoticed, but
00:28:10
apparently they had a strong community
00:28:12
around them that was willing to protect
00:28:13
him and maybe was unwilling to believe
00:28:16
that he was responsible for these kinds
00:28:17
of things." Yeah. Also, neighbors had
00:28:20
always thought that it was a little
00:28:21
suspicious how Adulo's father just
00:28:23
disappeared one day about a year after
00:28:26
they arrived in Miami. Huh. Yeah. His
00:28:29
mother and his grandmother said that the
00:28:31
father had just run away. But there were
00:28:33
always whispers of Dillia's practices of
00:28:35
black magic. Like how her new husband's
00:28:37
business had gone from failing to
00:28:39
prosperous seemingly overnight. And how
00:28:42
that same husband seemed to be afraid of
00:28:44
his eldest stepson, Adalfo.
00:28:46
>> Mhm. and the spiritual role that his mom
00:28:49
almost seemed to be grooming him for.
00:28:51
This was all talk in the town.
00:28:53
>> Yeah. So, when Dia's successful husband
00:28:55
died from a sudden mysterious illness in
00:28:58
1960 uh 1973,
00:29:01
>> he left her and the children with a
00:29:02
pretty decent inheritance that meant
00:29:04
that they didn't really have to work
00:29:05
anymore to support themselves. Now, that
00:29:08
didn't mean that Adula was now free to
00:29:10
just like focus on regular things like
00:29:12
school work or spending time with
00:29:13
friends. His mother assured him that he
00:29:15
was much too special to worry about
00:29:17
those mundane things.
00:29:19
>> Yeah. We don't we don't need to bother
00:29:20
ourselves with things like friends.
00:29:22
>> Yeah. No, other human things, you know.
00:29:26
No.
00:29:26
>> Now, here's the more thing. Speaking
00:29:28
like
00:29:28
>> it. I want I want to know what she
00:29:30
considered mundane and like not mundane
00:29:32
because she always loved movies,
00:29:33
especially since she was like a kid in
00:29:35
Cuba. She was very obsessed with like
00:29:36
movie stars and going to the movies,
00:29:38
that kind of thing. Yeah.
00:29:39
>> And she loved how American movie stars
00:29:41
in particular like commanded attention
00:29:44
and wielded power with the public. She
00:29:45
found that fascinating.
00:29:47
>> And like movies aren't mundane to you,
00:29:48
but friends are. Like what?
00:29:49
>> I know that doesn't make sense. You know
00:29:51
what? There was this era though that I
00:29:53
feel like movie stars were otherworldly.
00:29:56
>> Yes.
00:29:56
>> You know what I mean? Like it was a
00:29:57
totally different kind of
00:29:59
>> era
00:29:59
>> thing. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:01
>> Well, she was confident though that her
00:30:02
son Adulo could command that same power.
00:30:05
She said, "Movie star vibes. Just stop
00:30:07
putting bloody animals on.
00:30:09
>> I was going to say there there is that
00:30:10
one little thing though as he does.
00:30:12
>> She wasn't worried that it was like
00:30:13
going to be a hindrance though.
00:30:15
>> Yeah, she's not worried about that.
00:30:16
>> No, don't worry about that.
00:30:17
>> Don't worry about the mundane things,
00:30:18
>> you know.
00:30:18
>> Now, by the time he was in his mid-
00:30:20
teens, uh Adula was providing spiritual
00:30:22
services to the more superstitious
00:30:24
believers in the Miami Cuban community,
00:30:27
which if he wasn't who he was, would be
00:30:30
quite fascinating.
00:30:31
>> Yeah, for sure.
00:30:31
>> Like I'm into spiritual services,
00:30:34
>> not these kind for sure.
00:30:35
>> No. Uh, Dileia assured everybody that
00:30:37
her son had great powers and he could
00:30:39
see things others couldn't. He could
00:30:41
communicate with the spirit world. At
00:30:43
first, it was just like the occasional
00:30:45
housewife who went by Dileas to sit with
00:30:47
Adulo and have her fortune told, which
00:30:49
like, cool. But as months passed and
00:30:51
word got out, the visitors became more
00:30:53
frequent and they brought money.
00:30:55
>> So, he was really making money at doing
00:30:57
this. Now, when he graduated high school
00:30:59
in 1980 with all his supposed gifts, he
00:31:01
saw no reason to go to college. He's
00:31:03
gifted.
00:31:04
>> No, that's mundane. Yeah, college. But
00:31:07
>> instead, he worked occasional odd jobs
00:31:09
to make a little extra money beyond what
00:31:11
he got from the fortuneelling, but he
00:31:13
mostly spent his time hanging out with
00:31:14
his growing group of followers and
00:31:16
exploring his sexuality with men and
00:31:18
women. Now, on a trip to Mexico City in
00:31:21
1981, he was actually arrested for
00:31:23
shoplifting, which is wild because he
00:31:25
had money.
00:31:26
>> You're making money.
00:31:26
>> Not only is he making money, he was left
00:31:28
an inheritance where he really didn't
00:31:29
have to work anymore.
00:31:30
>> Oh, yeah. That's that's like thrill. He
00:31:32
just liked money thrill
00:31:34
>> and it also it is the thrill of it
00:31:36
because it became a regular habit
00:31:38
throughout the 80s
00:31:39
>> because remember he doesn't like m
00:31:40
mundane [ __ ] and he's been told all his
00:31:42
life you are not on this earth for
00:31:45
mundane [ __ ] so he's looking for that
00:31:46
extra thing
00:31:47
>> well and you're gifted you're talented
00:31:49
like you're not you're you're protected
00:31:51
I'm sure he thought by these these gods
00:31:52
that you're speaking to. So even though
00:31:55
he had this like shoplifting stint and
00:31:57
that he was actually arrested for, he
00:31:59
still managed to find success in Mexico,
00:32:02
especially when he was offered a
00:32:03
modeling job
00:32:04
>> to Dileia. The job was further
00:32:06
confirmation that he had the power and
00:32:08
influence she always thought. So she
00:32:10
moved with him to Mexico City to in
00:32:12
hopes that he would fulfill his destiny
00:32:13
and she could be there to watch.
00:32:14
>> Yeah, of course. Now, he actually did
00:32:16
find a lot of success as a model, but it
00:32:19
was his supposed supernatural abilities
00:32:21
that he really became known for in
00:32:23
Mexico City first before he became known
00:32:25
for what he's known for now.
00:32:27
>> Eventually, he started to offer his
00:32:28
fortuneelling services to the wealthy
00:32:30
and elite of Mexico City. So, when
00:32:33
little Saraphene earlier was saying like
00:32:35
movie stars and congressmen,
00:32:36
>> Yeah.
00:32:37
>> it could have been right here.
00:32:38
>> Yeah, there you go. Now, his most
00:32:40
popular services actually weren't his
00:32:42
fortunes, but instead became his curses.
00:32:46
Oh,
00:32:47
>> he offered to put curses on people's
00:32:49
enemies for a price.
00:32:50
>> That's such bad vibes.
00:32:52
>> It is.
00:32:53
>> That's bad vibes.
00:32:54
>> But this this service became
00:32:56
particularly popular, and it makes sense
00:32:58
among the local drug dealers and the
00:33:00
cartels.
00:33:01
>> Yeah. I mean, that makes sense.
00:33:02
>> It makes perfect sense. Now, it's
00:33:04
unclear how he really eventually
00:33:05
connected with these criminal gangs
00:33:07
along the border, but it was probably
00:33:09
the the services that he was offering
00:33:11
and his supposed gifts that drew
00:33:13
everybody to him
00:33:14
>> and he found them to be easily
00:33:16
manipulated through superstition.
00:33:17
>> So, he saw his niche.
00:33:19
>> Yeah, of course.
00:33:20
>> It's a horrible niche, but he identified
00:33:22
it.
00:33:22
>> He's jumping into it. Now, in 1988,
00:33:24
after Saul Hernandez and Saraphene
00:33:26
Senior were killed and the Hernandez
00:33:28
operation was in danger of falling
00:33:30
apart, Elio Hernandez became the new
00:33:32
deacto leader. He was pretty much as
00:33:35
ruthless as his brother had been, his
00:33:36
brother Saul. Uh, but he was still
00:33:39
taking over an organization that was on
00:33:41
the brink of collapse. So, he needed
00:33:42
help.
00:33:43
>> And he figured what they really
00:33:44
specifically needed was good protection.
00:33:47
And there was no better protection than
00:33:49
magic. So, Ilio set out to find the one
00:33:52
that could guarantee their safety. And
00:33:54
it seems that he likely met Adulo
00:33:57
Constanzo through Sarah Maria Adrete,
00:34:00
who I mentioned was um Adulo's high
00:34:02
priestess.
00:34:03
>> Oh, yes.
00:34:03
>> In part one. She was a friend of Ilios,
00:34:06
who dabbled in black magic. And of
00:34:08
course, as we know, she knew Adalfo.
00:34:10
Now, at 22 years old, she was a college
00:34:12
student just living in Brownsville,
00:34:14
Texas when an unexpected divorce had her
00:34:17
move back to Madam Moros to live with
00:34:18
her parents. She always talked about
00:34:20
wanting to become a teacher.
00:34:23
>> Oh, so like I said, she was just a
00:34:25
regular girly going to college wanting
00:34:28
to be a teacher and then she met Adalfo
00:34:31
Constanzo.
00:34:32
>> She's just going to mold young minds.
00:34:34
She was going to mold young minds.
00:34:36
>> Whoa. Adulo and Sarah met one afternoon
00:34:38
in the summer of 87 when he stopped his
00:34:41
car in the middle of a crowded street
00:34:42
causing a traffic jam just to meet her.
00:34:45
>> Whoa. Apparently, this was like a thing
00:34:46
in Madamoros, like men would put these
00:34:48
big displays of affection on for women
00:34:50
that they wanted to end up being with.
00:34:52
>> Okay. It's like a peacock situation.
00:34:53
>> Yeah, very much so. Exactly. So, she was
00:34:56
familiar with this and she always found
00:34:57
it kind of like repulsive.
00:34:58
>> Yeah. She's like, "No thanks."
00:34:59
>> But for some reason, there was something
00:35:01
about Adulo that she liked. She saw that
00:35:03
he was gifted and talented.
00:35:06
Now, she didn't find him brash or
00:35:08
overconfident. She said he was or she
00:35:10
felt like he was just magnetic. And it
00:35:12
didn't take long before she was brought
00:35:13
into the fold and familiarized with the
00:35:15
ways of his religion, his quote unquote
00:35:18
religion. But she probably didn't know
00:35:20
that she wasn't the first woman to join
00:35:22
his group. There had been actually two
00:35:24
before her that served as high
00:35:26
priestess.
00:35:27
>> Oh, yeah. Where'd they go?
00:35:29
>> Uh, they mysteriously vanished within a
00:35:31
year of meeting Adulo Constanzo. You
00:35:34
know what? It's not my business.
00:35:36
>> Isn't it weird how people just
00:35:38
mysteriously vanish when they know him
00:35:40
or his family?
00:35:40
>> Yeah, it's very There's a lot of
00:35:42
mysterious vanishing happening here and
00:35:44
it's making me very uncomfortable.
00:35:46
>> Elena, it's just magic.
00:35:47
>> I have anxiety listening to this.
00:35:49
>> It's a lot just cuz this world is like
00:35:52
everything about all of this.
00:35:53
>> It's so dark. Feels so scary to me. Like
00:35:55
I'm so anxious just thinking about it.
00:35:58
>> Yeah. Now, at first, what brought the
00:36:00
Hernandezes and the Constano and
00:36:01
Constanzo's followers together were the
00:36:04
drugs and the money, not the religion.
00:36:06
But in time, that changed because the
00:36:07
deeper that they all got into Pa May,
00:36:10
the more the spiritual practices and
00:36:12
beliefs took over their lives. Now, to
00:36:14
Tony Zavaleta, the doctor who actually
00:36:17
knew Sarah well.
00:36:18
>> Wow. Her rapid transformation from a
00:36:21
straight A student in his class. So,
00:36:24
literally the the doctor that was
00:36:26
brought in as an expert on this religion
00:36:28
ended up knowing one of these followers
00:36:30
because she was in his class that he
00:36:32
taught. That's incredible in the worst
00:36:35
way. It really is. He found her
00:36:37
transformation to be almost
00:36:39
unbelievable.
00:36:40
>> Yeah.
00:36:40
>> He said, "She sat in my anthropology
00:36:42
class all semester, an A student, always
00:36:45
present, always friendly. I never saw
00:36:47
her wear an emblem, an amulet, a
00:36:49
talisman, any sign of black magic. and I
00:36:52
am trained to watch out for such things.
00:36:54
I never heard her ask a weird question
00:36:56
even when we talked about weird
00:36:57
religions. So, it really was like
00:37:01
switch. Yeah, light switch.
00:37:03
>> Now, there's no way of knowing exactly
00:37:04
how many people unfortunately were
00:37:06
murdered by the cult between 88 and '
00:37:08
89. But according to Gary Cartrite, the
00:37:11
earliest victims were quote selected
00:37:13
from the ranks of enemies, rival drug
00:37:15
dealers or dirty cops who had gone back
00:37:17
on an agreement.
00:37:18
>> Yeah. Now to Ilio Hernandez, this made
00:37:21
sense. He could appease Constanzo and
00:37:23
also get rid of his enemies and rivals
00:37:25
at the same time. Yeah,
00:37:27
>> it was perfect for him.
00:37:28
>> It makes sense in that way,
00:37:29
>> right? But soon the murders became much
00:37:32
more cruel, much more sadistic, and very
00:37:34
reckless.
00:37:36
>> This is horrific. And uh we lightly
00:37:40
touched on this earlier.
00:37:41
>> Oh boy. In one instance, when Ioia was
00:37:43
forced to shoot the man they planned to
00:37:45
sacrifice before the ceremony began, so
00:37:47
things went wrong, he sent out three of
00:37:49
his henchmen to find a replacement. And
00:37:51
any replacement would do. They said they
00:37:53
just needed somebody stat.
00:37:55
>> [ __ ]
00:37:56
>> So the followers did as they were told,
00:37:58
and they grabbed a 14-year-old boy.
00:38:00
>> Oh my god.
00:38:01
>> He had gone out in the night to look for
00:38:03
a lost goat.
00:38:04
>> Oh. It was only later when the
00:38:07
sacrifice, aka the murder, was finished
00:38:11
that Elio realized he had murdered his
00:38:13
own nephew.
00:38:16
Oh my god. Because before that, they had
00:38:18
a hood over his head. But once they
00:38:20
lifted the hood, he realized they had
00:38:22
sacrificed quote unquote his own nephew.
00:38:26
>> What are the [ __ ] odds of that? And
00:38:29
also, how do you put your head on the
00:38:32
pillow at night doing what you do
00:38:34
anyway? But it's so reckless now that
00:38:36
you've [ __ ] accidentally murdered
00:38:39
your own family off the street.
00:38:41
>> You have to be so detached from
00:38:45
>> because
00:38:45
>> anything even slightly resembling
00:38:48
humanity.
00:38:48
>> They also just continued on doing the
00:38:50
same thing that didn't that wasn't like
00:38:52
a wakeup call like shit's getting way
00:38:56
too chaotic. Like we need to take a step
00:38:59
here.
00:38:59
>> It's insane. But now by the time they
00:39:02
killed Mark Kilroy, all of Adalfo
00:39:04
Constanzo's followers had come to see
00:39:06
him himself as some kind of god, like
00:39:08
some kind of divine being.
00:39:09
>> He commanded their respect. They were
00:39:11
afraid of him. And as a result, they
00:39:13
would do whatever he wanted, no matter
00:39:15
how heinous. And especially if there was
00:39:18
something they thought was to be gained
00:39:19
from the brutality and the cruelty.
00:39:21
Because that's the thing, the more
00:39:23
cruel, the more brutal, the more
00:39:26
horrific these things, these these
00:39:28
murders were, they thought they were
00:39:30
getting more benefit from that, more
00:39:32
protection.
00:39:33
>> I don't know how you rationalize that
00:39:37
>> in your brain.
00:39:37
>> That's what they I keep going back to
00:39:40
it. I'm like, how does this [ __ ]
00:39:42
happen?
00:39:43
>> You just have to you have to lose total
00:39:46
grip on reality. Like, you don't have
00:39:48
any empathy for another human being.
00:39:50
Like I just like I can't wrap my brain
00:39:53
around that
00:39:53
>> and just like to be that untethered. I
00:39:56
think like that's the word untethered to
00:39:57
reality.
00:39:58
>> Untethered from humanity in reality cuz
00:40:00
like there are people I can't [ __ ]
00:40:02
stand.
00:40:03
>> Of course. Absolutely.
00:40:04
>> But if I saw something horrible
00:40:06
happening to them and they like cried or
00:40:08
were upset, something in me would feel
00:40:11
empathy
00:40:12
>> and intervene
00:40:13
>> and have to like not be a part of that
00:40:15
and like not let that happen. It's like
00:40:18
people I hate like you know what I mean?
00:40:20
Like it's I can't
00:40:21
>> because that's humanity.
00:40:22
>> Imagine like that's empathy. That's
00:40:25
sympathy. But some people just aren't
00:40:27
equipped with those emotions
00:40:29
>> and a stranger.
00:40:30
>> Yeah.
00:40:30
>> Too. That's the other thing. It's like
00:40:32
you know nothing about this person's
00:40:33
life or who loves them or who they love
00:40:36
or what they're going through or what
00:40:38
they had planned and you just
00:40:39
>> and you just don't care.
00:40:40
>> Intervening and and removing it
00:40:44
>> and you and you feel entitled to do so.
00:40:46
>> Yeah. You feel entitled and you feel
00:40:47
like you get something out of that. It's
00:40:49
like that's so gross.
00:40:50
>> I can't make sense of that.
00:40:51
>> Yeah. Now, as soon as uh Commander
00:40:54
Bonitez saw the signs of witchcraft at
00:40:56
the ranch and his suspicions were then
00:40:57
confirmed by Dr. Zavaleta, he called the
00:41:00
investigation actually to an immediate
00:41:01
halt. The search would not continue, he
00:41:04
said, until the black magic on the
00:41:06
property had been neutralized
00:41:07
>> because he knows about this [ __ ]
00:41:08
>> He knows about this [ __ ] and it's it is
00:41:10
taken very seriously in the in these
00:41:12
particular cultures.
00:41:13
>> And you don't want to [ __ ] around with
00:41:14
that,
00:41:14
>> honestly. I know it sounds a little out
00:41:17
there, like what are you talking about?
00:41:19
You have to neutralize the scene before
00:41:20
you investigate. And I do think there
00:41:22
were some things that were done that
00:41:24
probably weren't great as far as
00:41:25
investigation goes, but it works out.
00:41:27
>> But like this is a this is a deeply
00:41:31
uh ingrained thing in these cultures.
00:41:33
>> Well, you have to that's the thing. And
00:41:34
when a culture believes something to
00:41:36
that extent and like the energy is put
00:41:39
into it like that,
00:41:40
>> you have to take it seriously and you
00:41:42
have to do the correct steps to make
00:41:44
sure you're doing everything right.
00:41:46
Right. Like you have to allow them to do
00:41:48
what they need to do at the end of the
00:41:50
day.
00:41:50
>> Yeah.
00:41:51
>> So Bonitez contacted and again I hope I
00:41:53
say this right. I know I'm just a little
00:41:54
white girl. A Kirando which is a white
00:41:57
witch to come to the property and
00:41:59
cleanse the area. But they wanted to
00:42:01
wait until Sunday, which is the Lord's
00:42:03
Day, when the cleansing magic would be
00:42:05
the most powerful.
00:42:06
>> Okay.
00:42:06
>> So, in the meantime, Bonitez and the
00:42:08
American authorities poured over
00:42:09
Constanzo's journals and other evidence
00:42:11
that they were able to get from the
00:42:13
scene.
00:42:13
>> They managed to round up several members
00:42:15
of his gang, but he himself, El Padrino,
00:42:18
and his high priestess Sarah were still
00:42:20
unaccounted for and presumably at this
00:42:23
point on the run.
00:42:24
>> What the [ __ ] The journals indicated
00:42:26
that his activity was obviously not
00:42:28
confined to the ranch. There were other
00:42:30
altars, quote unquote, around Mexico
00:42:32
where sacrifices had been performed. Uh,
00:42:34
Agent Raphael Martinez said, "Another
00:42:37
murder to appease the spirits and keep
00:42:39
the fugitive free is not only a
00:42:40
possibility, it's a probability." Damn.
00:42:43
Now, when Sunday finally arrived, the
00:42:45
agents all gathered back at the ranch
00:42:47
with several of their uh irritable
00:42:49
American counterparts, and they watched
00:42:52
as the White Witch set about cleansing
00:42:54
the property. The first step was to
00:42:56
destroy the shack where the rituals had
00:42:58
occurred. M
00:42:58
>> I could understand if you weren't
00:43:00
familiar with this religion or this
00:43:02
culture being like why would you burn
00:43:04
down
00:43:05
>> crucial evidence?
00:43:06
>> Well, that's the thing that would be
00:43:07
like you're just like I wouldn't quite
00:43:09
understand that but you're on their soil
00:43:11
and you have to do what you have to do.
00:43:13
>> What can you do here
00:43:14
>> now? Once the flames had died and the
00:43:16
structure itself was just a pile of ash
00:43:18
and rubble, the white witch crept up to
00:43:20
the cauldron with a 2x4 in one hand.
00:43:23
Humes wrote, "He approached the thing as
00:43:25
if it was a wounded animal capable of
00:43:27
attacking anybody who entered its den,
00:43:29
and then to everybody's surprise, he
00:43:31
rushed forward and smashed the cauldron
00:43:33
with the club and then leapt back,
00:43:35
almost like he was waiting for a
00:43:37
corresponding attack, like something to
00:43:38
come at him,
00:43:39
>> retaliation." When nothing happened, he
00:43:41
seemed satisfied that the black magic
00:43:43
had been neutralized. He spent a few
00:43:45
more hours at the property cleansing
00:43:46
with holy water and performing other
00:43:48
rituals and then gave Bonitz the
00:43:50
allclear that allowed them to continue
00:43:52
on with the investigation.
00:43:54
Now, as soon as the investigation really
00:43:56
got back on track, the story hit the
00:43:58
newspapers and all the sensational and
00:44:01
salacious details would continue to be
00:44:03
front page news in the weeks that
00:44:05
followed. Obviously, in the days after
00:44:07
the story broke, Brad Moore, who was
00:44:09
Mark Kilroyy's one of his closest
00:44:10
friends, told a reporter, "I'm still
00:44:12
really in shock about it. I know he's in
00:44:14
a better place. I know that he was a
00:44:16
very good person.
00:44:17
>> Just breaks your heart.
00:44:18
>> Yeah, that's awful. Now, in the days
00:44:20
that followed, investigators were able
00:44:22
to identify three more bodies that were
00:44:24
unearthed at the ranch. There was
00:44:26
Valenta Delierro, a local man in his 30s
00:44:28
who had been shot with a 9 mm. There was
00:44:32
Gilberto Garza Sosa, a railroad security
00:44:34
guard whose neckbones were all broken
00:44:37
from what the medical examiner believed
00:44:39
was a hanging. And there was Cesar Caita
00:44:42
who was a former Matamoros police
00:44:44
officer and his body showed signs of
00:44:47
torture.
00:44:48
>> Holy [ __ ]
00:44:49
>> Uh it was Ceada actually Seda who Elio
00:44:52
had shot prematurely which required them
00:44:54
to find a new victim and that obviously
00:44:56
resulted in the death of his own nephew,
00:44:58
his 14-year-old nephew.
00:45:00
>> 14 years old.
00:45:01
>> But unfortunately many of the other
00:45:03
victims would remain unidentified.
00:45:05
>> That's really sad.
00:45:06
>> It is. Now, while his family, Mark
00:45:08
Kilroy's family, struggled to process
00:45:11
the revelation that he was dead, that he
00:45:13
wasn't coming home, and the press had a
00:45:15
field day playing up all the shocking
00:45:17
aspects of the story. Authorities on
00:45:19
both sides of the border got to work
00:45:21
just trying to apprehend everybody who
00:45:23
was responsible and obviously doing
00:45:26
their best to hunt down Adalfo
00:45:27
Constanzo. By the time the agents were
00:45:30
searching the ranch, they had many of
00:45:32
the members of the gang in custody. But
00:45:34
like we said, as soon as he heard Adalfa
00:45:36
Constanzo of the raid, he and Sarah
00:45:38
escaped to Brownsville along with cult
00:45:41
members Martine Quintana Rodriguez, Omar
00:45:44
Francisco Orakoa, and Alvaro El Dubie
00:45:48
Deleon Valdez. And they were all wanted
00:45:50
for murder. Now, believing that
00:45:54
Constanzo and the others might be hiding
00:45:55
out at like a hotel or something like
00:45:57
that in Bronzeville, federal agents in
00:45:59
the US assembled a team and they raided
00:46:01
the hotel. But by the time they arrived,
00:46:04
the group had already caught a flight
00:46:05
out of Texas to Mexico City, and that's
00:46:08
where Constano actually had an
00:46:10
apartment.
00:46:11
>> Wow.
00:46:11
>> He had multiple places to stay on both
00:46:13
sides of the border.
00:46:15
>> It took several weeks, but Mexican
00:46:17
authorities finally caught up with the
00:46:18
fugitive cult members in Mexico City at
00:46:20
the end of April. When they raided
00:46:22
Constanzo's apartment, they found
00:46:24
altars. They found candles and other
00:46:26
occult objects inside, but they didn't
00:46:28
find any evidence that a violent crime
00:46:30
had been committed there
00:46:31
>> in that location.
00:46:32
>> In that location. So, that was a little
00:46:34
tough.
00:46:34
>> Yeah.
00:46:35
>> Now, a week later on May 6th, a resident
00:46:37
of an apartment complex in Mexico City
00:46:40
called the police to report a domestic
00:46:42
disturbance. Now, the police thought
00:46:44
that might have been Constanzo and the
00:46:45
others, so they brought reinforcements.
00:46:48
And the report actually ended up being
00:46:50
unrelated to Constanzo.
00:46:51
>> Oh wow.
00:46:52
>> But it did result in gunfire between the
00:46:54
suspect and the police. And in a b in a
00:46:57
bizarre coincidence, Constanzo was
00:46:59
staying in an apartment complex nearby.
00:47:02
>> What?
00:47:03
>> And when he heard the gunfire between
00:47:05
the police and the suspect in the
00:47:06
domestic dispute, he assumed that the
00:47:08
authorities had caught up with him.
00:47:11
>> What are the [ __ ] odds?
00:47:12
>> One of his followers who was on the Red
00:47:15
said he went crazy. crazy. He grabbed a
00:47:18
bundle of money and threw it and began
00:47:20
shooting out the window. Holy [ __ ] Now,
00:47:22
believing that he only had a matter of
00:47:24
minutes before he was caught, he ordered
00:47:26
one of the other cult members of Alvaro
00:47:28
Valdez to shoot him and his henchman,
00:47:31
Martin Rodriguez Rodriguez, excuse me,
00:47:34
who was also on the run. Wo. The story
00:47:36
was later confirmed by Sarah, who told
00:47:39
police Adulo had made the order, quote,
00:47:41
because it was the end and he wanted to
00:47:43
die with Martin. This is wild. It's
00:47:47
bonkers.
00:47:49
So, with Adalfo Constanzo and Martin
00:47:51
Rodriguez now dead, police took Sarah
00:47:53
Aldrrete, Omar Francisco Ora Okoa, and
00:47:56
Alvaro Deleon Valdez into custody,
00:47:59
bringing the manhunt for Mark Kilroy
00:48:01
murderers to an end.
00:48:02
>> A bizarre, wild end.
00:48:04
>> One of the strangest ends I think that
00:48:06
we've actually had in morbid history.
00:48:08
>> Holy [ __ ] So, it took some time to sort
00:48:11
everything out, but eventually everybody
00:48:13
who played a role in the murders of
00:48:15
those discovered buried at the ranch
00:48:17
were punished for their crimes. Good.
00:48:19
Not long after his arrest, Oraoa was
00:48:21
hospitalized and diagnosed with AIDS.
00:48:24
Um, as a result of the advanced stage of
00:48:26
his virus, he spent the rest of his life
00:48:27
in a hospital and died in February of
00:48:29
1990. Alvaro Vadez was found uh Valdez,
00:48:33
excuse me, was found guilty of the
00:48:34
murders of Adulo Constanzo and Martin
00:48:36
Rodriguez and was sentenced to 30 years
00:48:39
in prison. Sarah Aldrrete, Saraphene
00:48:42
Hernandez, Elio Hernandez, and Sergio
00:48:44
Martinez were ultimately convicted of
00:48:47
multiple crimes, including the murders
00:48:48
of Mark Kilroy and the others found on
00:48:50
the ranch. And they were sentenced to 67
00:48:53
years in prison. Wow. Um, I don't know
00:48:57
exactly why, but in 1998, a judge did
00:48:59
reduce their sentences to 50 years each.
00:49:02
Why? I don't know if it was good
00:49:05
behavior. I'm not sure.
00:49:06
>> Seems crazy.
00:49:07
>> Now, as of today, only Ovido Hernandez
00:49:10
and Malio Pon Torres have managed to
00:49:12
evade capture.
00:49:13
>> Wow.
00:49:14
>> Yeah.
00:49:14
>> As for the Kilroy family, uh, they
00:49:17
continue to support each other in the
00:49:18
years that have followed since Mark's
00:49:20
death. A few years after the tragedy,
00:49:22
they established the Mark Kilroy
00:49:24
Foundation, and that's an organization
00:49:26
dedicated to the prevention of substance
00:49:28
abuse among young people, which I think
00:49:30
is really incredible that they were able
00:49:33
to to do something with it. Exactly.
00:49:36
Since starting the organization, they
00:49:37
provided countless teens and young
00:49:39
adults with the education and
00:49:41
opportunities to avoid falling into
00:49:42
addiction. And even though Mark himself
00:49:45
never struggled with drugs or alcohol,
00:49:47
they obviously saw the connection to
00:49:49
addiction and what happened here. In
00:49:51
2009, Mark's mother, Helen, said a lot
00:49:54
of people weren't even alive when this
00:49:55
happened to Mark. So, we do talk to
00:49:57
people about Mark's story. They need to
00:49:59
realize that they have to be aware of
00:50:00
what is going on around them anywhere,
00:50:02
not just in a foreign country.
00:50:04
>> Exactly. Cuz that really is this kind of
00:50:07
[ __ ] can happen anywhere. And you just
00:50:10
like stories like this are so shocking,
00:50:12
but it's such proof that you do not know
00:50:15
what's lingering around the next corner.
00:50:17
>> And you don't know. Strangers are
00:50:19
strangers. You don't know them. You
00:50:20
don't know what they're about. You don't
00:50:22
know if they have good intentions. You
00:50:23
don't know anything.
00:50:24
>> Unfortunately, a lot of times people
00:50:27
don't want to help you.
00:50:28
>> No,
00:50:28
>> they want to hurt you. And like that's a
00:50:30
horrible thing to have to believe. But
00:50:32
>> but you have to at least have that in
00:50:34
the front of your mind now.
00:50:35
>> Yeah. And if now we have the
00:50:37
information,
00:50:37
>> let them let them prove to you that
00:50:39
they're not that before you fully trust
00:50:41
them.
00:50:42
>> But honestly, like we were talking about
00:50:44
this the other day with just a group of
00:50:45
friends. Anytime I've ever been helped
00:50:47
like getting or offered help like
00:50:49
getting my groceries into my car or
00:50:51
something like that. I No, thank you.
00:50:52
>> Yeah. No,
00:50:53
>> I'm all set. I got it.
00:50:54
>> I never want the help.
00:50:55
>> A ride? Nope. You don't need a ride
00:50:57
anymore. Obviously, not at this point
00:51:00
like when this story happened, but now
00:51:01
Uber. Nope. I'm all set.
00:51:03
>> Don't need it. It's just it's an awful
00:51:06
awful story. It's just awful that human
00:51:08
beings are capable of doing this to
00:51:10
other human beings.
00:51:11
>> That's honestly the thing that my brain
00:51:13
just never ever
00:51:15
>> can even conceive of. No,
00:51:17
>> truly.
00:51:17
>> But I really do commend his family for
00:51:19
like making something,
00:51:22
>> something positive come out of such a
00:51:24
tragic loss
00:51:25
>> cuz holy [ __ ]
00:51:27
>> Yeah, it's a horrific story.
00:51:28
>> It really is.
00:51:29
>> Do you have a fun fact for us as a
00:51:32
palette cleanser? I think it's your fun
00:51:33
fact, honey.
00:51:34
>> Is it my fun fact?
00:51:34
>> I did fun fact last time.
00:51:36
>> I'll find a fun fact for us then.
00:51:38
>> Okay. Sharks have been swimming in
00:51:40
Earth's oceans for about 400 million
00:51:43
years, making them roughly 50 million
00:51:45
years older than the earliest trees.
00:51:49
>> That's so scary and incredible all at
00:51:51
the same time.
00:51:52
>> It really is.
00:51:53
>> Like that's the ocean isn't my business.
00:51:56
>> No, it's just not.
00:51:57
>> I also just find it so scary that we
00:51:59
just stopped exploring the ocean.
00:52:01
>> Yeah, cuz I think we were like We have
00:52:03
we have more business up in space than
00:52:05
we have down here.
00:52:06
>> And I fully believe that.
00:52:07
>> Freaks me out. But we also scary
00:52:10
>> ocean scarier. Unthinkable.
00:52:13
>> But also like that's where our Wi-Fi
00:52:15
comes from.
00:52:16
>> Yeah.
00:52:16
>> Make it make sense.
00:52:18
>> I know.
00:52:19
>> Yeah. Mikey's looking at me like what
00:52:20
the [ __ ] Comes from like tunnels and
00:52:23
[ __ ] underwater.
00:52:25
>> It's weird.
00:52:26
>> Fall into a rabbit hole about that on
00:52:27
TikTok. You lose your mind. Girls, let's
00:52:29
do it.
00:52:29
>> Do that. That's how you pallet. fall
00:52:31
into that rabbit hole.
00:52:32
>> Fall into like a creepy rabbit hole, but
00:52:34
like that's like technological and
00:52:36
chilling
00:52:37
>> and we'll probably scare you as well.
00:52:38
Yeah. But like in a fun way. Yeah. In a
00:52:40
fun way.
00:52:41
>> So, with that being said, we hope you
00:52:42
keep listening.
00:52:43
>> And we hope you
00:52:44
>> keep it weird,
00:52:47
but also weird that you don't go down a
00:52:48
rabbit hole.
00:52:49
>> One that makes you feel good. Yeah. Or a
00:52:51
little bit scared. Spooky. Spooky rabbit
00:52:54
hole.

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Episode Highlights

  • The Grumbling Stomach
    A humorous moment as the hosts discuss their lunch choices and stomach noises.
    “Did you just hear my stomach grumble?”
    @ 00m 17s
    May 25, 2026
  • A Gruesome Case Unfolds
    The hosts warn listeners about the disturbing details of Mark Kilroy's case.
    “This is a very gruesome case.”
    @ 08m 34s
    May 25, 2026
  • The Dark Rituals of Constanzo
    The discussion reveals the twisted beliefs behind the murders connected to Mark Kilroy.
    “We did it for success. We did it for protection.”
    @ 10m 37s
    May 25, 2026
  • The Ritual of Horror
    Constanzo performed horrific rituals, including dismembering Mark's body for a necklace.
    “He just made his body easier to bury.”
    @ 18m 12s
    May 25, 2026
  • The Shocking Discovery
    Investigators uncovered 14 bodies buried on the property, revealing a pattern of sacrifice.
    “Holy [ __ ] 14 bodies of other men.”
    @ 20m 43s
    May 25, 2026
  • A Human Slaughterhouse
    Detectives described the scene as a human slaughterhouse, shocking even the most hardened.
    “That is the scariest thing I've ever heard.”
    @ 22m 01s
    May 25, 2026
  • The Transformation of Adulo
    Adulo's childhood behaviors foreshadowed his dark future, marked by violence and obsession.
    “Even as a very little boy, he was meticulous in ways that seem strange.”
    @ 25m 44s
    May 25, 2026
  • Transformation of Sarah
    Sarah's rapid transformation from a straight A student to a cult follower shocked her doctor.
    “It really was like a light switch.”
    @ 37m 03s
    May 25, 2026
  • Murder of Innocence
    A 14-year-old boy was tragically murdered as a replacement sacrifice.
    “Oh my god.”
    @ 38m 00s
    May 25, 2026
  • Bizarre End of Constanzo
    Adalfo Constanzo ordered his own death as authorities closed in on him.
    “This is wild. It's bonkers.”
    @ 47m 41s
    May 25, 2026
  • Mark Kilroy Foundation
    Mark Kilroy's family established a foundation to prevent substance abuse among youth.
    “They do talk to people about Mark's story.”
    @ 49m 24s
    May 25, 2026
  • Sharks: Ancient Ocean Dwellers
    Sharks have been swimming in Earth's oceans for about 400 million years, predating trees.
    “That's so scary and incredible all at the same time.”
    @ 51m 49s
    May 25, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • I love spicy, but spicy does not love me.
    Episode 788: The Matamoros Devil Murders (Part 2)
  • It's not what it's supposed to be.
    Episode 788: The Matamoros Devil Murders (Part 2)
  • Holy [ __ ] 14 bodies of other men.
    Episode 788: The Matamoros Devil Murders (Part 2)
  • Holy [ __ ] I I'm sure it was a red flag to Middle Earth.
    Episode 788: The Matamoros Devil Murders (Part 2)
  • It's so dark. Feels so scary to me.
    Episode 788: The Matamoros Devil Murders (Part 2)
  • This is wild. It's bonkers.
    Episode 788: The Matamoros Devil Murders (Part 2)

Key Moments

  • Lunch Talk00:17
  • Gruesome Warning08:34
  • 14 Bodies Found20:43
  • Unexpected Divorce34:14
  • Molding Young Minds34:32
  • Bizarre Coincidence46:59
  • Foundation for Change49:24
  • Ocean Exploration51:57

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