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A group of friends takes a break from the rigors of college by hitting the beaches of South Padre Island during spring break. Just a short ride and a bridge crossing away, the Matamoros, Mexico nightclubs beckon the partying students with cheap alcohol and nonstop dancing. The friends get separated amid a swarm of students. They can’t find Mark, their buddy who goes to the University of Texas.

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Episode 1: Spring break in Mexico | The Mark Kilroy story

We pulled up, if this is the ranch like this, Rancho Sant'Alena, the highway actually

is over here and this is all fields and we came zooming down here and we came

and we parked right here like that and I'm looking out directly and I thought to

see my, I can remember very clearly thinking to myself, oh my God and as I got

out of the vehicle, I mean I had a feeling of evil that I've never experienced in my

lifetime, not before or not since. Only there I knew that there was something very

And I remember smelling the smell of decomposing bodies and I still remember that.

I mean that's a vivid memory for me still.

On a dry patch of land on the outskirts of Matamora's Mexico sits a small ranch.

It's about a 30 minute drive from Matamora's which is a coastal border city just across

the Rio Grande River at the bottom tip of Texas.

The drive from Matamora's to the ranch is mostly under its roads surrounded by farmland.

Dumbledie Bus, the Mexican state that Matamora's is in, is mostly known for agriculture.

So driving to Arrancho Sant'Alena you'll see Maís, Shurgercane, Tobacco, Cotton and Sorgum,

It comes with a type of plant that's used to make feed for livestock.

The fields around Arrancho Sant'Alena are full of sorgum.

On August 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin’s 27-story tower. Seventeen people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. Fifty-six years later, mass shootings make headlines nearly every week. And the University of Texas tower looms over campus, a reminder of one of the first mass school shootings in United States history that has long been forgotten.

In season four of “Darkness,” host Sara Kinney walks through the day of the University of Texas Tower shooting and outlines its legacy among the decades-long epidemic of gun violence in schools. Hear from survivors, heroes and family members about their day in 1966, their lives since then and the state of gun control today.

0:00.0	You're listening to The Drag.
0:07.0	We pulled up, if this is the ranch like this, Rancho Sant'Alena, the highway actually
0:16.8	is over here and this is all fields and we came zooming down here and we came
0:21.9	and we parked right here like that and I'm looking out directly and I thought to
0:29.1	see my, I can remember very clearly thinking to myself, oh my God and as I got
0:36.3	out of the vehicle, I mean I had a feeling of evil that I've never experienced in my
0:45.0	lifetime, not before or not since. Only there I knew that there was something very
0:50.7	evil about that place.
0:52.8	It was like death was all around us.
0:56.3	And I remember smelling the smell of decomposing bodies and I still remember that.
1:05.7	I mean that's a vivid memory for me still.
1:12.8	On a dry patch of land on the outskirts of Matamora's Mexico sits a small ranch.
1:17.5	It's Carrancho Sant'Alena.
1:24.6	It's about a 30 minute drive from Matamora's which is a coastal border city just across
1:28.6	the Rio Grande River at the bottom tip of Texas.
1:31.8	The drive from Matamora's to the ranch is mostly under its roads surrounded by farmland.
1:39.2	Dumbledie Bus, the Mexican state that Matamora's is in, is mostly known for agriculture.
1:44.1	So driving to Arrancho Sant'Alena you'll see Maís, Shurgercane, Tobacco, Cotton and Sorgum,
1:51.2	the state's most popular crop.
1:53.7	It comes with a type of plant that's used to make feed for livestock.
1:57.1	The fields around Arrancho Sant'Alena are full of sorgum.
2:03.8	The ranch doesn't look like much.
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Episode 1: Spring break in Mexico | The Mark Kilroy story

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