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We all have vengeful thoughts sometimes.

Maybe we hope that the person who cut in front of us in line or pass us over for a promotion will get their just desserts.

For most of us, it's a harmless fantasy,

a momentary way to process our pain. We never

plan to act on it. But for others, their whole life revolves around turning that fantasy into reality.

And in 1980s, Mexico, Adolfo Constanzo took his dark thoughts even further.

Adolfo was no ordinary man.

He believed he possessed strong, mystical powers,

which he used to exact revenge on anyone who crossed him.

And it worked.

Pretty soon, Adolfo's power helped him a mass of following, and the results of their cult magic were deadly.

The human mind is powerful.

It shapes how we think, feel, love, and hate.

But sometimes it drives people to commit the unthinkable.

This is serial killers and murderous minds, a crimehouse original.

I'm Vanessa Richardson.

And I'm forensic psychologist, Dr. Tristan Engels.

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