Who was Adolfo Constanzo, the narcosatanic of Matamoros

April 9, 1989. Matamoros police storm Rancho Santa Elena. The 110 kilos of marijuana found there are the least of the problems, inside there is an iron cauldron that gives off a stench that is impossible to breathe. Inside there is dried blood, a human brain, cigarette butts, forty empty bottles of liquor, machetes, garlic and a roasted turtle.

The horror continues: the surroundings of the house turn out to be a mass grave, a kind of catacomb with twelve hidden and stacked corpses. All dismembered and without brains or hearts.

The most curious thing is that it all started that same afternoon thanks to a fortuitous event. Hours before the operation at the ranch, David Serna Valdez, a 22-year-old man, was driving a truck on the highway that connects Matamoros with Tamaulipas, when he suddenly ran into a police fence that stopped him to do a routine inspection of the vehicle. . Inside they found traces of marijuana and a 38-caliber pistol. Reasons enough to arrest him. After a few hours of questioning, he confessed that he belonged to an occult sect of black magic, in which drug trafficking transactions were mixed with rituals in which people were sacrificed.

Those detained at the ranch confessed to the judicial police that they had committed all those murders, but they also said that a single person had given the orders: Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, an American son of Cuban refugees who practiced Santería and Palo Mayombe, a mystical cult of Afro-American origin that is characterized by the total absence of values (difference between Good and Evil) in its followers.

The life of Jesús Constanzo was from the beginning a maelstrom of imbalances. Before learning to read and write, his mother taught him to steal and "fardear" causing that throughout his childhood he was arrested on multiple occasions along with his mother for minor crimes such as theft and vandalism.

In 1980 he began to offer his services as a mayombero in Miami, but soon after he decided to move to Mexico City, where he began to have great success as a tarot card reader. Those who knew him said that he had a kind of magnetism or charisma that is difficult to explain. The purification or cleansing rituals left him earnings ranging from USD 8,000 to USD 40,000 per month.

Eager to increase his popularity and gain more power, he began to make sacrifices in his rituals to give them a touch of sensationalism and spectacularity. He was always assisted by a young divorcee who ended up being his muse and lover: Sara Aldrete, an anthropology student at the University of Texas, whom he met by chance in a cafe.

She herself declared having tortured some victims, among them Gilbert Sosa, a drug dealer whom she manipulated into hanging himself from a rope tied around his neck, with his hands free, so that he would at least try to save the life of him She then ordered him to be immersed in a barrel of boiling water, while his nipples were cut off with scissors.

She also recounted how one of the members cut off the penis of one of her victims and opened her chest to take out her heart while he was still alive.

After those statements, she denied her participation in the rituals, and assured that Constanzo had held her against her will. However, many pointed to her as the high priestess of the cult, who also actively participated in all the bloody ceremonies and was in charge of recruiting new members and promoting the activities of the sect.

Adolfo explained that the miraculous ingredients to put in a cauldron were blood and some mutilated human limbs, preferably the brains of criminals or madmen. The ideal was that these were of white individuals, because they were supposedly more influenced by the executioner. Constanzo made a lot of emphasis on this point, because, according to the cult, for the perpetrator, the torture of the victim was a very important factor.

Several of the victims were innocent civilians chosen at random. One of them was Mark Kilroy, an American medical student who had disappeared a month before police raided Constanzo's ranch. Shortly after, it was found that his spine had been used by the sect leader as an amulet in the form of a tie.

Before the police arrived at the Santa Elena ranch, Constanzo, Adolfo, Sara Álvaro Valdez (El Duby) and Martín Quintana managed to flee to Mexico City, where they met other "disciples".

After three weeks on the run, the authorities managed to intercept them thanks to the fact that Sara managed to send a letter in which she stated that she was a hostage and that she feared for her life.

When the police arrived at the Río Sena street apartment, she was greeted by a hail of bullets. When Adolfo saw that a large number of agents surrounded him, he ordered his partner León Valdez to shoot him with a machine gun that he threw into his hands. Loyal to leading him, Valdez decided to commit suicide with him. They both got into a closet and Leon fired.