Real Crime/Paranormal/Conspiracy Theories Book III

Adolfo Constanzo: The Narcosatanists & the Metamoros Cult Killings

Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo(November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989) was a Cuban-American serialkiller, drug dealer, and cult leader who led an infamous gang thatwas dubbed the Narcosatanists (Spanish: Los Narcosatánicos) by themedia. His cult members nicknamed him The Godfather (El Padrino).Constanzo led the cult with Sara Aldrete, whom followers nicknamed"The Godmother" (La Madrina). The cult was involvedin multiple ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico,including the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed inMatamoros in 1989.

Early life

Adolfo Constanzo was born in Miami,Florida, to Delia Aurora González, a Cuban immigrant mother in 1962.She gave birth to Adolfo at the age of 15 and eventually had threechildren, by different fathers. Delia moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico,after her first husband died and remarried there. Constanzo wasbaptized Catholic and served as an altar boy, but also accompaniedhis mother on trips to Haiti to learn about Vodou.

Constanzo's family returned to Miami in1972 and his stepfather died soon after, leaving the family with somemoney. As a teenager, he became apprenticed to a local sorcerer andbegan to practice a religion called Palo Mayombe, which involvesanimal sacrifice. Delia remarried and his new stepfather was involvedin both the religion and drug dealing. Constanzo and his mother werearrested numerous times for theft, vandalism, and shoplifting. Hegraduated from high school, but was expelled from prep school.

As an adult, Constanzo moved to MexicoCity and met the men who were to become his followers: MartínQuintana, Jorge Montes, and Omar Orea. They began to run a profitablebusiness casting spells to bring good luck, which involved expensiveritual sacrifices of chickens, goats, snakes, zebras, and even lioncubs. Many of his clients were rich drug dealers and hitmen whoenjoyed the violence of Constanzo's "magical"displays. He also attracted other rich members of Mexican society,including several high-ranking corrupt policemen who introduced himto the city's powerful drug cartels.

Constanzo started to raid graveyardsfor human bones to put in his nganga, or cauldron. Before long, hiscult decided that the spirits of the dead that resided in the ngangawould be stronger (providing the cult more powerful protection) withlive human sacrifices instead of old bones. The resulting killingssoon totaled more than twenty victims, whose mutilated bodies werefound in and around Mexico City. This process escalated untilConstanzo eventually decided that the gang needed the power of abrain from an American student, culminating with the 1989 murder ofMark Kilroy.

Murders

Constanzo began to believe that hismagic spells, many of which he took from Palo Mayombe, wereresponsible for the success of the cartels and demanded to become afull business partner with one of the most powerful families he knew,the Calzadas. When his demand was rejected, seven family membersdisappeared. Their bodies turned up later with fingers, toes, ears,brains, and even (in one case) the spine missing. Constanzo soonmade friends with a new cartel, the Hernandez brothers. He also tookup with a young woman named Sara Aldrete, who became the highpriestess of the cult. Constanzo made Aldrete second-in-command ofhis cult, and directed her to supervise his followers while he wasshipping marijuana over the border into the US.

In 1988, Constanzo moved to RanchoSanta Elena, a house in the desert. It is there where he carried outmore sadistic ritual murders, sometimes of strangers and other timesof rival drug dealers. He also used the ranch to store huge shipmentsof cocaine and marijuana.