Mark J. Kilroy was a University of Texas at Austin student who vanished in March 1989 on the streets of Matamoros, Mexico along the Texas/Mexico border across from the city of Brownsville, Texas.
Kilroy had traveled to South Padre Island, TX with several of his Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity brothers for what was known as "Texas Week." This specific week got its name from the fact that all the major Texas universities took this same week off for Spring Break and it had become the single busiest week of Spring Break for the community of South Padre Island.
At that time, college students across Texas would often visit Mexico during spring break because of its proximity to South Padre Island and its less stringent laws on alcohol and on entry into nightclubs.[1]
On March 13, 1989, Kilroy and his Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity brothers traveled from South Padre Island to Matamoros, Mexico. The following day Kilroy's fraternity brothers notified Brownsville law enforcement authorities that he had disappeared the previous evening. Authorities on both sides of the border began a massive search for Kilroy without success. [2]
The case was blown wide open when a Mexican national named Serafin Hernandez blew through a police checkpoint without ever trying to slow down. Authorities gave chase and Mr. Hernandez led investigators to a remote homestead known as Rancho Santa Elena. Authorities arrested Serafin and four other men including the ranch's caretaker after approximately 250 lbs of Marijuana was found in Serafin's car. While interrogating Hernandez, authorities learned that Kilroy and several others had been killed and their bodies had been buried at the ranch. [3]
On April 11, 1989, investigators discovered the mutilated body of Mark J. Kilroy and 14 others victims in shallow graves at the ranch. All the victims had been sacrificed by Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo and Sara Maria Aldrete, who were the High Priest and High Priestess of a religious cult known as Palo Mayombe, which was a satanic form of an Afro-Caribbean cult known as Santeria. This cult believed that sacrificing humans was required to protect the cult’s members and to conceal its drug smuggling activities from law enforcement authorities. [4]
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