The Matamoros Devil Murders (Part 1)

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

True Crime, Comedy, Paranormal, Dark History

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

(Part 1 of 2) In March 1989, twenty-one-year-old University of Texas student Mark Kilroy and some friends traveled south of the border to Matamoros, Mexico to celebrate the end of spring break, along with thousands of other American students that year. After drinking all night at a bar on the night of March 10, Kilroy got separated from his friends when they decided to call it a night a little after 2:00 am. No one would see Mark Kilroy alive again. As one of several towns bordering the United States, Matamoros was popular with American tourists; however, by the late 1980s, it was beginning to develop a reputation for drug-related crime. In fact, Mark Kilroy was just one of sixty people who went missing in Matamoros in just the first three months of 1989 alone. When Kilroy’s friends reported him missing to the Brownsville, Texas police a massive search began, with investigators fearing Mark might have been kidnapped by one of the local gangs. It turned out, the truth was far worse than anyone had feared.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash.
0:02.0	I'm Elena.
0:03.0	She's back.
0:03.9	I'm back.
0:04.8	And this is morbid.
0:06.8	This is morbid.
0:08.1	This is morbid.
0:29.8	Oh, guys. I'm alive. I'm alive. We made it through. We just had one of those things that, you know, the stomach bug, it just rolls right through. And then it paused and came back, which is really fake. It paused before it hit the last of us and then it hit the last of us.
0:36.5	And then we cleared it on out. That's bullshit. We say goodbye. Glad you cleared it out, though. Appreciate that. We did. We made it through. But, man, everybody, wash your hands. Wash your hands. Make sure your kids are washing their hands as much as possible. I know sometimes that doesn't do it, but trust me, because we're hand-washing house.
0:55.9	At least it's getting hot out again. I feel like when it's hot, you don't...
0:58.1	They don't do as well.
0:59.0	Don't thrive.
0:59.9	Well, some of them do, but I don't know if this one does.
1:02.5	I feel like tummy bugs don't necessarily.
1:04.0	Yeah, this one thrives in like cold weather, I think of best.
1:07.3	Yeah, which of course, it's literally about to get cold again. Of course. Like hotter than Satan's butthole outside. It's true. I got to announce this solo and it didn't
1:16.2	quite feel so right. So we just want to remind you one more time that we have a game.
1:20.9	We have a fucking game with Hunter Killer. This feels so much better that you're here and we can
1:27.0	talk about it together.
1:27.9	I'm real excited. It's nuts because I was saying when I announced it, that was our first
1:33.1	sponsor that we ever had on the pod. They were the first ones that reached out.
1:37.2	Hunter Killer. I was always a big Hunter Killer girly and I'm being so for real. I need,
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