1. Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo was a Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader who led an infamous drug-trafficking and occult gang in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, that was dubbed the Narcosatanists by the media.
18 Facts About Adolfo Constanzo
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Adolfo Constanzo was born in Miami, Florida, to Delia Aurora Gonzalez, a Cuban immigrant in 1962.
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Adolfo Constanzo gave birth to Adolfo at the age of 15 and eventually had three children, by different fathers.
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Adolfo Constanzo was baptized Catholic and served as an altar boy, but accompanied his mother on trips to Haiti to learn about Vodou.
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Adolfo Constanzo's family returned to Miami in 1972 and his stepfather died soon after, leaving the family with some money.
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Adolfo Constanzo graduated from high school, but was expelled from prep school.
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Adolfo Constanzo attracted other rich members of Mexican society, including several high-ranking corrupt policemen who introduced him to the city's powerful drug cartels.
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Adolfo Constanzo's cult was said to be associated with the notable Gulf Cartel.
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Adolfo Constanzo started to raid graveyards for human bones to put in his nganga, or cauldron.
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Adolfo Constanzo soon made friends with a new cartel, the Hernandez brothers.
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Adolfo Constanzo took up with a young woman named Sara Aldrete, who became the high priestess of the cult.
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Adolfo Constanzo made Aldrete second-in-command of his cult and directed her to supervise his followers while he was shipping marijuana over the border into the US.
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In 1988, Adolfo Constanzo moved to Rancho Santa Elena, a house in the desert.
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Adolfo Constanzo used the ranch to store huge shipments of cocaine and marijuana.
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On March 13,1989, Adolfo Constanzo's henchmen abducted a pre-med student, Mark Kilroy, from outside a Mexican bar and took him back to the ranch.
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Under pressure from Texan politicians, Mexican police initially picked up four of Adolfo Constanzo's followers, including two of the Hernandez brothers.
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Adolfo Constanzo fled to Mexico City with four of his followers.
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Adolfo Constanzo was profiled in the documentary Instinto Asesino, which aired on Discovery en Espanol in 2010.