the book covers the early life and up bringing of the cult leader and how he rose to power using magic, and eventually capturing the young blonde spring breaker who was partying in mexico, tortured and killed him along with many many others.

Just one month he had been commander of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police Antinarcoticos office, yet already it felt like ten years' hard labor. Then, within the space and time limitations of a daily newspaper, I had the chance to mold it all into a story to pass onto others. The set is primed for the young Constanzo to go out into the world and become a priest by seeking his fortune and followers, first through his charisma and then through a world of drug deals, manipulation, murder, and power. The road to Matamoros is a serpent writhing toward the Gulf of Mexico, its twists and bends mimicking the flow of the Rio Grande and the U.

From bestselling, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward Humes comes a dramatic story of faith, science, and courage unlike any since the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. When Serafin was out of sight, they crossed the highway, turned onto the ranch road, and slowly drove into the property, following the path Little Serafin had taken before. As a newspaper reporter, I gravitated toward assignments that allowed me to dig behind the scenes and beneath the surface, looking for questions others hadn't asked or imagined about stories ranging from the cause of an airline disaster to exploring why our child welfare system saves some kids while destroying others.

Buried Secrets is a mostly ghastly account of a few of the Palo Mayombe cult members and the officers who led the hunt for these perverse fugitives. At night, others travel the road, silently and invisibly, the headlights on their new pickup trucks doused when they reach a certain spot, a certain dirt turnoff to a moon-silvered ranch.This unflinching, unforgettable story is brought to vivid, terrifying life in “One of the best true-crime tales in recent time. The old comandante, Guillermo Perez, and his men had created a cottage industry out of seizing drugs on the highway, then reselling them to the powerful crime bosses who controlled Matamoros and its various police agencies.

The comandante had come to Matamoros only a month before, and he had been beset with problems from the outset. It is a good look at how people can get involved in a cult and there is a lot of supernatural things happening here. Then there was the missing American college student — the Mark Kilroy mess, with all its attendant bad press and official pressure to find the missing student. Murderer With a Badge: The Secret Life of a Rogue Cop, is the true story of the dirtiest cop in Los Angeles. Humes doesn’t go into graphic detail during the sacrifice sequences, but he does clearly state what happens.The only sound was the singing of rubber on asphalt and the occasional wet thump of bugs striking the windshield. Buried Secrets begins with a young Constanzo being taught by his high-priestess mother and priest uncle the dark arts of Palo Mayombe. The locals greet the students — and their swollen billfolds — with broad smiles and double Margaritas for two dollars. The discovery of college student Mark Kilroy's mutilated body a month after his disappearance was the first of many buried secrets to be unearthed in a case so bloody it shocked two nations. Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes draws on exclusive access to the principals in the case and DEA materials to recreate this compelling, national headline-grabbing horror.

So it was with the Hernandez family of Matamoros, mid-level drug smugglers, neither big time nor small time — just one of hundreds of gangs with connections to the city's powerful crime and drug barons. The sun was low in the sky, glaring into the agents' eyes as they drove westward, squinting with concentration at the pickup ahead. After the ritual murder of Mark Kilroy, a student from America, Constanzo died in a shoot-out and many of his followers went to prison.As the net closes in, the corruption of the Mexican police, the double-dealing of Constanzo’s own world, and the terrifying demands of Palo Mayombe leave over 60 dead and usher in a new era of crime. The special treatment for Kilroy was a political reality, a given because the boy was a gringo, because he had connections, because economics and politics dictated that his life was worth more than the other desaparecedos.