the police interrogated another caretaker at the ranch. This person revealed to the police that the ranch had frequent visitors from Serafín's criminal group. The ranch's caretaker identified Kilroy through a photograph and stated that he saw him at the ranch. "Yeah", the caretaker told the police. "I saw him", and then pointed at the shack at the ranch. When the police interrogated Hernandez Garcia separately, he confessed that several people, including Kilroy, had been killed over the course of several months at Santa Elena. Hernandez Garcia said that the slayings had been ordered by Adolfo Constanzo, a cult leader who practiced a ritual form of human sacrifice in the belief that it provided supernatural protection for the drug gang. Constanzo believed that by sacrificing his victims, those doing the sacrifice were ensured strength, abundance, and immunity from law enforcement and injury. Hernandez Garcia said that Constanzo had ordered his men to find a white, Anglo male (Spanish: gringo) to sacrifice. According to Serafín Hernandez Garcia, he and other members of the gang had mingled with the spring-break students in Matamoros on the night of March 14. As Kilroy stood on the street near his friends, one of the men lured him close to a truck. As Kilroy approached the vehicle, Hernández García and another cult member, Malio Fabio Ponce Torres, grabbed Kilroy and wrestled him inside the truck. When one of the gangsters stopped for a few moments to catch his breath two blocks along the road, Kilroy broke loose and ran, but was intercepted by another vehicle driven by the gangsters' allies, who took him prisoner at gunpoint. He was then subdued and handcuffed in the back of the second car. The gangsters drove Kilroy through the back streets of the city and past an industrial area, passing through the city's outskirts to Santa Elena ranch. The men left Kilroy inside the car overnight; shortly after dawn, the ranch's caretaker went to see Kilroy and fed him bread, eggs, and water. About twelve hours after Kilroy was kidnapped, Constanzo and his men came to see him. They wrapped his face and mouth with duct tape and walked him through a field to a storage cabin with his hands still tied around his back. Throughout the night of the 15th, Constanza tortured and sodomized Kilroy. He was then led out to the field, where Constanzo killed him by chopping