September 6, 1964 - Sara Aldrete
Aldrete's case is notable for the degree of organizational authority she held within the Matamoros cult, a group responsible for murders carried out in the belief that ritual killing provided supernatural protection for drug trafficking operations. Her role as a leader — rather than a peripheral figure — distinguished her from many others prosecuted in connection with cult-related violence of the period. The killings occurred along the U.S.-Mexico border in the late 1980s, a time and place where the intersection of narcotics trade and fringe religious practice produced several such groups.
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Sara María Aldrete Villareal (born September 6, 1964) is a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of murder while heading a drug-smuggling and human sacrifice cult with Adolfo Constanzo. The members of the cult, dubbed by the media as The Narcosatanists (Spanish: "Los Narcosatánicos"), called her The Godmother ("La Madrina"), with Constanzo as "The Godfather" ("El Padrino"). The cult was involved in multiple ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, including the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989. She received a sentence of 62 years.
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