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Episode 3: Feeling of evil | The Mark Kilroy story

Darkness

The Drag Audio Production House

True Crime

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The bodies unearthed at a Mexican ranch and the people who buried them lead investigators to believe there’s something deeply sinister going on. While tabloids publish screaming headlines feeding into the “satanic panic” and the border communities fear who has been living alongside them, Mark Kilroy’s family offers forgiveness.

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0:00.0

You're listening to The Drag.

0:10.5

The Sun hasn't completely risen over Rancho Santa Elena yet.

0:14.5

It's around 6 a.m. on April 10, 1989.

0:18.7

The ranch is normally quiet, but on this day, it's buzzing with law enforcement for Mexico

0:24.8

and the United States, and several suspects from the Armando Strait Gang.

0:30.2

Among them is CerefĂ­n Armando's.

0:33.5

He's the one who led police to Rancho Santa Elena the day he blew past the police roadblock.

0:39.6

The police have spent the past few days intensely interrogating him.

0:44.5

Here's George Cabuto, the Texas investigator who's helping with the case.

0:47.8

He started telling us how do you have anything to do with anything and all this.

0:52.8

And I was there because he made me be there and all this.

0:56.7

Police believe that Marcaro's body is definitely somewhere on the ranch.

1:02.0

But this ranch is pretty big.

1:03.7

It's at least a few acres.

1:06.0

So they're not even sure what a look or even start.

1:10.1

Someone throws CerefĂ­n a shovel and officers tell him to start digging.

1:14.6

As the Mexican son beams on CerefĂ­n's back, he starts to dig and dig and dig.

1:21.8

He's been digging for what feels like forever.

1:25.7

He pushes away layer after layer of soil and rocks, but then he just stops.

1:32.8

And there is Marcaro.

1:43.8

And as soon as I saw a mark,

1:46.8

there in the grave there was no doubt it was him, I mean, but really scum his,

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