Free EVIL CULT KILLERS (True Crime) by Ray Black Page B

towns to catch those who did the dirty work of passing the drugs from country to country for them. At one such roadblock just outside Matamoros, known drug-runner Serafin Hernandez Garcia failed to stop at the police checkpoint and ignored the police who followed him in hot pursuit signalling continuously for him to pull over. The police tailed Garcia until he eventually stopped at a nearby derelict ranch. Inside the property, the police found not only evidence of drugs but also of occult activity.
    Garcia and another man, David Serna Valdez, were arrested on drug-related charges, yet their behaviour in custody disturbed the police. Their situation appeared to be of little concern to them, and they claimed that their fate was in the hands of a much higher power which they knew would protect them. Unnerved by the pair’s comments, the police returned to the ranch where they spoke to a caretaker who confirmed that the property was used frequently by members of a drug ring run by Garcia’s uncle, Elio Hernandez Rivera. On the police’s presentation of a photograph, the caretaker also confirmed to them Mark Kilroy had visited the ranch, but just one time.
    On receipt of this information, the police returned with no delay to interrogate Garcia in custody. To their surprise, Garcia disclosed further details willingly. He told police that Mark Kilroy had indeed been kidnapped and killed, and that he himself had been involved in his murder. Yet, he didn’t describe it as murder but rather as human sacrifice, one of many he claimed, which were performed in order to ensure occult protection over the drug syndicate. He called it their religion, their ‘voodoo’. The leader of this group, according to Garcia, was Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo. He was a master of magic and ordered the murders of the victims, first raping them and then making a ‘magic stew’ from their internal organs and dismembered bodies.
    Police needed to amass the evidence, and so took Garcia back to the ranch. He accompanied them willingly and led them straight to the makeshift graveyard where he showed them where to begin digging to uncover the remains of the first of 12 bodies. One of the bodies was that of Mark Kilroy, his skull was split in two, and his brain had been removed. Garcia led police to where they could find the missing brain – floating in a mixture of blood, animal remains and insects in a cauldron located in a nearby shed.
    With all the evidence they had collected at the ranch, and Garcia’s willingness to assist them with their enquiries, the police were now evaded by only one last detail – the whereabouts of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo.
     
    A DOLFO DE  J ESUS  C ONSTANZO
     
    Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo was born to a Cuban immigrant in Miami in 1962. He had two siblings, and all three children had different fathers. The priest who blessed the infant Adolfo at the age of six months declared to his mother that the child was the chosen one, and destined for great things. The priest was of the Palo Mayombe religion, and blessed the young boy accordingly. Palo mayombe is an African religion, and believes that everything on earth is controlled by the spirits. Accordingly, its followers practise communicating with the spirits in order to control their own fate. It is considered an amoral religion as it allows each worshipper to create his own destiny using either black or white magic and drawing no distinction between the two.
    When Adolfo’s mother moved her family to Puerto Rico, she kept their Palo Mayombe faith a secret and allowed the San Juan society to believe that her son had been baptized a Catholic. In private however, she was devoted to her faith and began Adolfo’s education in witchcraft and magic with fellow followers in both San Juan and Haiti. When they moved back to Miami in 1972, Adolfo began his formal training with a priest in Little Havana.
    In school, Adolfo was a poor student. He was far more interested in the secrets of