On this day, March 14, in 1989, University of Texas student Mark Kilroy disappeared during a spring break excursion into Matamoros, Mexico. The monthlong manhunt eventually discovered Kilroy’s mutilated body and 12 others in a mass grave at what came to be known as Hell Ranch.
Kilroy, 21, and the others had been offered as human sacrifice by the Black Magic drug traffickers, who believed that the slaughter protected them from police.
The leader of the cult was Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a 26-year-old model turned fortune teller to drug traffickers, politicians and high-ranking law enforcement officers.
When the police surrounded the gang at a hide-out in Mexico City, Constanzo ordered his lieutenant to shoot him because their satanic religion prohibited suicide. The man complied, killing Constanzo.
— Scott McCabe
