126: Cults: The Godfather of Matamoros

Corpus Delicti

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Adolfo Constanzo was told from a very early age that he was special. His mother was a Santerian Priestess who knew her son could see the future. As an adult, Adolfo used this to establish himself as a famed sorcerer who would sacrifice animals to provide protection to clients. That is, until he realized that fresh human bones were more effective...

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Sources:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-believers-cult-murders-in-mexico-53577/
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/08/us/leader-in-cult-slayings-ordered-own-death-two-companions-say.html
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-work-of-the-devil/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Constanzo

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.3	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.8	And this is Corpus Delictide, the podcast.
0:29.5	Welcome back to our newest series cult.
0:33.4	Yeah, so the first one obviously was Heaven's Gate.
0:36.7	So now we're going to venture into some new ones.
0:40.0	Real quick, before we jump into this episode, we did want to remind you guys, tonight, if you are listening to this on the day it drops, Tuesday, Cinco de Mayo, May 4th, 5th, May 5th, May 4th is Star Wars Day.
0:54.1	May 5th, Tuesday, episode drop day.
0:57.0	We are going to be on Instagram live at 7 p.m. Central Time for a little home sinko de Mayo party.
1:04.1	We know you don't have anything else to do, so we expect to see you there.
1:08.5	Come and have a margarita, glass of wine, Corona, if you're brave, with this.
1:14.6	So, with that said, let's go ahead and get into this week's cult.
1:19.0	Jen, you picked this one what we got.
1:21.2	Today we are talking about the godfather of Metamarrose.
1:25.0	So we are actually going to travel from the U.S. and take you to Mexico.
1:29.9	This cult has everything from drug running to human sacrificing to sorcerers and
1:36.7	priestesses. We are going to take you to 1962 where a little baby named Aldolfo de Jesus Constanzo was born to a little 15-year-old girl
1:48.6	on November 1st. She was a Cuban immigrant and she was seeking a better life. He would eventually
1:55.1	go on to have three additional siblings. Now he was baptized Catholic and would serve as an altar boy at his church. She would
2:04.1	eventually move with her family to San Juan Puerto Rico after her first husband had died.
2:11.6	When his father died, he left her mother with a large sum of money, so that allowed her to be able to move back,
2:18.6	and she did later remarry.
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