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🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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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. |
0:07.0 | The sun hasn't completely risen over this of Rancho Santa Elena yet. |
0:14.0 | It's around 6 a.m. on April 10th, 1989. |
0:18.0 | The ranch is normally quiet, but on this day, |
0:22.0 | it's buzzing with law enforcement from Mexico and the United States, |
0:26.5 | and several suspects from the Hernandez drug gang. |
0:30.3 | Among them is Cerrafine Hernandez. |
0:38.0 | He's the one who led police to Rancho Santa Elena the day he blew past the police roadblock. |
0:44.8 | The police have spent the past few days intensely interrogating him. Here's George Kavito, the Texas investigator who's helping with the case. He started telling |
0:48.8 | us I didn't have anything to do with anything and all this and you know I was there because he made me be there and all this. |
0:56.0 | Police believe that Mark Keroy's body is definitely somewhere on the ranch. |
1:01.0 | But this ranch is pretty big. It's at least a few |
1:04.8 | acres. So they're not even sure what a look or even start. Someone throws at |
1:10.9 | a finish shovel and officers tell him to start digging. |
1:14.4 | As the Mexican son beams on Cetaphine's back, he starts to dig, and dig, and dig. |
1:28.5 | He's been digging for what feels like forever. He pushes away layer after layer of soil and rocks, but then he just stops. |
1:33.8 | And there is Mark Kilroy. And as soon as I saw a mark, there in the grave, there was no doubt it was him. |
1:50.1 | I mean, what really scup his his we had his dental records but you could just see right |
1:57.4 | away where he had had some work done and it matched just like that. |
2:05.0 | They noticed the condition his bodies in. What you're going to hear next is investigators describing a brutal murder. |
2:11.0 | If you don't want to hear that, you can skip ahead a few minutes. |
2:15.0 | There was a certain amount of mutilation done to his body after his death. |
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