Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,

listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder, rape,

human sacrifice, torture, and body mutilation

that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

26 year old Adafel Kondonso was trapped.

Stuck in a dingy hotel room.

He tried frantically to think of his next move.

He needed to find a way out of this mess. If K in the darkened room were his two lovers as well as another two of his closest most loyal subjects.

Just weeks ago, they'd been willing to follow their leader, El Padrino, wherever he led. But now...

Circumstances had changed. It was getting more and more difficult to believe the lies

Kinsano had told them. He said he was powerful, that no authority could touch him,

that he would protect them with his dark magic. Everyone had believed him. It was the one thing they had in common, but as they sat on the hotel beds watching Constanceo flip through TV channels,

all they shared now was doubt.

Then something happened to turn the blood in their veins to ice, footage on the news of

a burning shed and a metal cauldron full of dancing flames.

To anyone else it was a curious but unremarkable image, but it was a dire omen for K The shed now crumbling into ash was their sacred temple, the home of their sacred and

ganga, the source of all Kostanzo's powers, but now it was burning, surely destroying all the

dark magic they'd created.

At that moment, an idea passed through everyone in the room.

One they'd studiously avoided considering for so long, like their power, their time was running out, and like

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