Adolfo Constanzo has one of the darkest stories of any serial killer you have ever heard about. He died at the age of 26 but in his short life, he was linked to almost everything negative including drug-trafficking cult activities, and black magic.
Here is the story of the boy who started his life as an altar servant but by the time it ended, he was linked to the death of at least 26 people.
Adolfo Constanzo Was Born To a Teenage Mother
Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo was born on November 1, 1962, to a girl who was only 15 years old, Delia Aurora Gonzalez. Delia was an immigrant from Cuba. She settled in Miami, Florida, where she had her son before three more kids with different men.
Adolfo was Catholic at birth and was baptized into the faith. However, he also dabbled into the Voudou religion thanks to his mother who took him on trips to Haiti to learn the religion.
The kid found himself dabbling into yet another religion known as Palo Mayombe, a religion that was into animal sacrifices. His mother and grandmother were said to be priestesses of the religion. He was also an apprentice to a local sorcerer.
He Got into Crime at an Early Age
Constanzo was exposed to crime at a very early age through one of the men his mother was married to, a drug dealer. There were also reports that he was arrested many times with his mother for various petty crimes such as vandalism, theft, and shoplifting.
He attempted to get an education but that did not turn out well. Adolfo graduated from high school but when he got to prep school, he was expelled. That was the end of his educational journey.
Blessed with good looks, he initially worked as a model but he dumped it and moved to Mexico in 1984. It was here that he became a witch doctor, offering magic spells and performing cleansing rituals for people such as drug cartels, politicians, and celebrities. He also offered animal sacrifices for his clients.
His Magic Turned Violent And He Got Into Drug Activities
Initially, the activities of Adolfo Constanzo referred to as The Godfather, were limited to animals, but soon, he formed a gang that started vandalizing graves to get the remains of the dead for rituals. One of the people he hired was a lady known as Sara Aldrete. She rose to become his second in command, earning the title of The Godmother.
Animals and remains of the dead were not enough for Constanzo and his gang, so they moved to human victims which they claimed the gods demanded for greater powers.
Adofo felt his powers made many of the cartels successful in his business so he approached one of such families, the Calzadas, with the request to be made a full business partner. His request was turned down and this angered him greatly. The fallout saw seven members of the family disappear, only to return dead and their bodies decapitated.
The next family he approached was the Hernandez family and they agreed. Together with the gang, he was involved in various activities such as the importation of drugs into the United States as well as kidnap and murder.
Other Murders Followed and How Adolfo Constanzo Escaped Arrest
The most sadistic activities and sacrifices carried out by Adolfo and his cult members were done in a desert home at Rancho Santa Elena, in Mexico. The property was both their place of rituals and their store for cocaine and marijuana shipments.
Nicknamed the Narcosatanists, Constanzo, and members of his cult killed rival gang members, corrupt policemen, and random people. Reports claim they boiled the body parts of those they killed and made a drink from it for each member of the group. This was to make them invincible to human eyes or bullets.
One murder committed by the group, as reported by Texas Monthly was one carried out by the executioner priest of the cult, a man named Elio Hernandez. Elio commanded one of his men to capture and bring the first make he set his eyes on for sacrifice. As fate would have it, the executioner priest only got to know the hooded kid brought to him was his nephew after he chopped off the lad’s head.
On March 13, 1989, another order was given but this time around, it was by Constanzo himself. He asked his men to get him an Anglo male for human sacrifice. At the time, there was a tall and athletic American kid and three of his friends who were in Mexico for a spring break. The boy, 21, whose name was Mark James Kilroy, was a medical student at the University of Texas in Austin.
The group kidnapped the boy and took him to their ranch where he was sodomized and tortured before he was killed.
After searching for Kilroy and not finding him, his friends took the matter to the Mexican police who also searched around but nothing turned up. That was until April Fools Day when one of the members of Adolfo’s gang, Serafin Hernandez Garcia, also known as Little Serafin, was arrested through a drug checkpoint.
He led police to Rancho Santa Elena. The police only hoped to make a big bust on drugs, but one of the workers of the ranch told them he saw a young gringo tied to the back of a truck. When the police began asking more questions, Little Serafin confessed that he was the one who helped with the kidnap of the missing American who had now been killed.
When the police started digging for the remains of Mark James Kilroy, they discovered 14 more bodies of people murdered by the gang. However, it was reported that of these, only 4 were sacrificed while the remaining were drug smugglers.
Nonetheless, more than 60 people were missing in the area within the period of the activities of the cult group.
Knowing that it was over for him, Adolfo Constanzo fled to Mexico City with four of his followers.
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How Adolfo Constanzo Died
Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo remained in hiding in Mexico City until one day when police were called to the apartment where they were hiding over a dispute that had nothing to do with the killers. Constanzo lost his mind when he sighted the police and thinking that they had now been discovered, he opened fire on them.
Reinforcement was brought and when he saw that there was no way out for him, and not wanting to go to prison, Adolfo Constanzo gave the gun to Álvaro de León whom he ordered to shoot at him and another of their member, Martín Quintana. That was how the man known as The Godfather of Matamoros or the Witch Doctor was killed.
De León and Sara Aldrete (The Godmother of Matamoros) were arrested in the raid. In total, close to 15 cult members were arrested, prosecuted, and jailed for their crimes.
Adolfo Constanzo has been the subject of several documentaries including the ID Channel series Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil in 2018 and several films including Borderline (2007).
