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* THC NEWS-TELEGRAM. Sufehuc Spring*, Ttoran. WBdnaaday, *pri 11
Satanic drug smugglers are sacrifice suspects
. MATAMOROS. Mexico (AP) —
Satanic drug smugglers sacrificed a
University of Texas student and 11
other people just south of the
Mexican border in rites designed to
bring demonic protection to their
contraband activities, say officials
who found the victims’ bodies.
Police planned to continue dig-
ging today, searching for two more
bodies at the Santa Elena Ranch 20
miles west of the border city of
; Matamoros. Cameron County
Sheriff Alex Ptrcx said the scene
was “like a human slaughter-
' house.”
Mexican federal officials said
five men have been arrested in the
case. Among the victims was Mark
Kitroy, 21, a University of Texas
pre-medical student who disap-
peared March 14 while on a late-
night spring break outing hi
* Matamoros. Perez said suspects
confessed to removing Kilroy’s
*; brain and spine and chopping off
> his legs.
I
Sheriff’s Lt. George Gavito said
^ the killings were part of Satanic
< rituals in which the suspects prayed
t; to the devil "so the police would
< not arrest them, so bullets would
I. not kill them and so they could
:• make more money."
I Some of the victims’ brains,
*. blood and other organs were boiled
■ in a cauldron, and the cult prayed
^ for “demonic protection from any
• kind of evil that would affect
• them," said Texas Attorney General
Jim Mattox.
; Mattox said investigators believe
: there were 10 members in the cult.
The Mexican Attorney General’s
• Office said Tuesday the leader of
• the voodoo-practicing cult, a
• Cuban-Amcrican named Alonse de
• Jesus Constanse, is believed to
• have fled into the United States.
: Officials say he is known as “God-
• father” to the sect’s members.
Police reported finding the 12
bodies in a total of nine graves.
Mattox said.
Perez said the cult members
removed some of the victims' ver-
tebrae "to use them for necklaces."
Authorities declined to identify
other victims, but said all were
males. Police believe two of them
died after Kitroy.
“I've been an investigator IS
years and it’s one of the worst
things I’ve ever seen.” Gavito said.
Kilroy apparently was taken at
random after members of die cult
"were told to pick one Anglo male
that particular night,” Gavito said.
At least one of the suspects ad-
mitted involvement in Kilroy's
death, said Oran Neck, agent in
charge for U.S. Customs in
Brownsville.
The case is being investigated by
Customs, the U.S. Attorney’s
Office, Mexican federal authorities
and local law enforcement agencies
on both sides of the border.
It is the second drug-related
mass kilting discovered near the
border in less than two weeks.
Mexican authorities found the
bodies of three women and six men
March 29 on an abandoned ranch
near Apia Prieta, Sonora, just
across the border from Douglas,
Ariz.
Five were at the bottom of a
well, and four, covered with lime to
decompose them, were in an
earthen septic tank. All nine had
been tortured, mutilated and bound,
officials said.
On April 1, the bodies of three
more mei\ killed in similar fashion
were fished from the well All were
believed to be Mexican nationals.
Investigators said possible
motives for the Agua Prieta
slayings range from revenge for
lost narcotics or drug money to dis-
between drug-smuggling factions.
At a Tucson news conference on
Thursday, Pima County Sheriff
Clarence Dupnik termed as
“reasonable speculation” the
likelihood that the Afua Prieta
deaths were finked to those of five
Hispanics, two from Arizona and
three from Sonora, found March 27
bound and stabbed in a Tucson
shed
Law officers On both sides of the
border had been stumped by the
Kilroy case, with no clues despite
an intensive search, the questioning
of nearly 100 people and a $15,000
reward.
Kilroy’s disappearance also was
re-enacted for a segment on Fox
Television’s America’s Most W»-
ted program
The mother of Bill Huddleston,
one of the students with Kilroy the
night he vanished, took the Kilroys
from their Santa Fe, Texas, home to
the airport Tuesday for the trip to
Brownsville.
"Helen (Kilroy) of course is very
upset after finding out the news that
it really was Mark down there,”
Gwen Huddleston said. “They
went down there in hopes that it
wouldn’t be, but it didn't turn out
that way.”
Brownsville authorities called
the Kilroys on Monday night and
requested their missing son’s dental
records, Ms. Huddleston said.
Santa Fe residents had been
donating time and money to help
Mark’s parents with their search. A
citywide garage sale and car wash
last weekend went towards a fond
set up for the Kilroys
A yellow ribbon ceremony had
been scheduled for today *> draw
Zack Creech, who had been with
Kikoy shortly before he was abduc-
ted, said he now can only wish he
had kept closer tabs on his friend as
they wafted back to the interna-
tional bridge.
“I wished 1 would have went
with him.” Creech said. ”1 just
wish to God I was there. 1 wouldn't
have let this ftmar
Beatrice Cutiovit mid she and
orher Matamoros residents sym-
pathize with Kdrov’s parents, who
had offered a $15,000 reward seek-
ing information about his disap-
w”23lSSJters.B
aft* what they idMs. Crifcov*
said. “They should hang. They
don't deserve to five.”
Thera ft no federal death pom tar
in Mexico and ft has been abolished
in most of the country's states
Dealing with missing chromosome
Dear Ann I sihrr Our ft-yenr-
oid son has Klinefelter’s syndrome.
This is a chromosomal condition
that affects only boys. The male
children are born with 47 chromo-
somes instead of 46. These males are
sterile, they have enlarged breasts,
trouble with speech and language,
and a myriad of other problems.
My husband and I have talked to
many people in the medical profes-
sion. We did not learn much from
them, but I don't fault the doctors.
Limited information is available for
many of the chromosome abnor-
malities.
This condition, though rarely
spoken of, affects one in 409 males.
Parents of children with Klinefel-
ter's hesitate to tell family and
friends because of the stigma. I tried
to locate a support group but there
doesn't seem to be any. This is
where you come in, Ann.
There must be hundreds of other
parents who are looking for some-
one with whom they might share
their fcefings about this problem.
Please urge them to send their
names and addresses to me. I will
make a list, state by stale, of the
males who have this syndrome,
their parents and friends, and
Ann
Landers
Community calendar
attention ip Kilroy’s disappearance, perhaps we can get together or
The ceremony now will be a exchange letters. If they would
include a seif-addressed, stamped
envelope it would help keep the cost
down.
ceremony!
memorial service.
If your club or organization is
meeting soon and you wish to
remind members of the time and
location, please call for Community
Calendar at 885-8663. Deadline is
10 a.m. the day of publication.
Items submitted prior to the date of
the event will appear more than
once, space permitting.
Wednesday, April 12
PARIS SOFTBALL Tournament
sign-up deadline is Wednesday,
April 12. Tb register for the April
>
15 tourney, men's open and church
teams should call 785-3369, 785-
1126 or 732-4419.
Public
Notices
NOTICE OF BOARD OF
DIRECTORS ELECTION
To to* registered vowre of Hopkins Courtly.
Tum: Node* la hereby givart toot (ha poNng
places listed below will be open trom 7:00
nm. lb 7:00 p.m.. on May 6.1909, tor voting
In • Board of Directors election, to elect three
Board members.
Locations) of polling pieces: Sulphur
Springe High School. North Hopkins School.
Sulphur Bluff School. Saltillo School. Millar
Grove School. Como-Piddon School and
Cumby City Hall.
A been lee voting by personal appearance
will be conducted each weekday at Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital between toe hours
of 8:30 am. and a:30 p.m. beginning on April
17.1989 and ending on May 2.1999.
Applications tar ballots by mail she* be
mailed to: Mrs. Elizabeth Michel. P.O Box
27S, Sulphur Springs, Texas 78482.
Applications tor ballots by mall must be
received no later than toe doee of business
on April 28.1989.
Issued tots toe I6to day of March. 1999.
Charles Gilreato
Presiding Officer
ANYONE INTERESTED in a
five to 10 mile mountain bike ride
should meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday,
April 12, at Heritage Park.
SENIOR CITIZENS will hold a
dance at the Senior Citizens’ Ac-
tivity Center on Hinnant Street
Wednesday, April 12, at 7 p.m. The
Good Ole Boys will furnish music
for the occasion.
NEW LIFE group of Alcoholics
Anonymous meets at 8 p in. Mon-
days, Wednesdays and Fridays at
the Espicopal Church, 400 Houston
St Call 885-0295.
ROCKDALE BAPTIST Church
will be in revival through Friday,
April 14. The services begin at 7
nightly. Brother Henry Grubbs, pas-
tor, and Brother Michael Coker, as-
sociate pastor, will serve as evan-
gelists.
REVIVAL WITH J.B. Wascom
of Quitman will be at 7 nightly
through Friday, April 14, at lm-
' Baptist i
of He
tiway 19. For information call
-5828 or 885-3919.
manuel Baptist Church at the inter-
section of Houston Street and
kcvival /u rust na(
Church of Cumby conur
through Friday, April 14, with si
ices starting at 7:30 nightly.
AVISO DEELECCtON
JUNTA DC OIRECTORES
A to* volant#* registredos dd Condado <to
Hopkins. Taxaa: Nootiquese. por Ms pressnto,
qua las caaRaa alactoraMi iltadoa adajo sa
abrtran daada la* 7:00 am. haata la* 7:00
p.m. al Mayo da 9 da 1999 para votor an la
Elacclen para Junto da Dkactora
Direccton(ss) da lak caailas atactorala*:
Sulphur Spring* High School. North Hopkins
School. Sulphur Bluff School. SaWffo School.
Mllor Grove School. Como-Ptcfcton School.
Cuamby City Hall.
La votodon an auaenda an persona sa
levara a cabo da tones a v tames an Condado
da Hopkins Memorial antra Ms 8:30 da la
manana y las 4:30 da to tarda empezantto al
Abril 17.1989 y Mrminando al May 2.1989.
Las solicitudes para botetos qua aa votaran
an auaenda por correo deberan enviarae a:
Mrs. Elizabeth Mtchalt. P.O. Box 275. Sulphur
Sorinos Texas 78482.
Las sokdbdes para boletas qua aa votaran
an auaenda por correo deberan redbirse para
al in da las boras de negocto al Abril 29,
1989.
Emrtsda tsndia I6to de Mwcn, 1999.
Charles Glreato
Offdal qua Preskte
REVIVAL AT First Baptist
continues
serv-
starting at 7:30 nightly. The
guest preacher will be Royce
Measures, a former pastor who now.
serves as pastor of the Golden
Acres Baptist Church of Pasadena.
BRENDA McQUEEN and
Country Pride Band will be per-
forming at Lamar County VFW
Wednesday, April 12. and Friday
and Saturday, Axil 14 and IS.
Wednesday is Senior Citizen NighL
Thursday, April 13
REBEKAH LODGE meets the
second and fourth Thursday of each
month.
HOPKINS COUNTY Peace
Officers Association will meet at 7
p.m. Thursday, April 13, in the Dis-
trict Courtroom. Honorary mem-
bers will be recognized.
TOMMY PEUGH will be
ing gospel at Hopkins County
Nursing
ApffiH3.
THE SADDLEBAGS, a writing
club, meets each Thursday at 10
a.m. For more information, call
Peggy Wallace at (214) 383-2696.
MOTHER’S DAY Out is held
from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. every
Thursday at First United Methodist
Church. For registration or more in-
formation, caff 885-7803 after 3
p.m.
You may think it odd that I
choose to remain anonymous, but
no one knows that our son has this
problem. We don't want anyone to
know until the boy is old enough to
comprehend what ft ft all about.
cathy®
Just sign me - MELISSA, MOTHER
OF AN X-TRA SPECIAL BOY IN
TORRANCE *
DEAR READERS. If anyone ft
interested in contacting other femi-
Iks who are dealing with this
syndrome, please write to Melissa:
Klinefelter \ P.O Box 1612. TOr-
ance. Calif 90505 And don't forget
to enclose a self-addressed, stamped
envelope.
Dear Ann I aadeer Can you
stand one more letter inspired by
the woman in the restaurant who
w«s ttpwl wnrfi sw was srmeu near
the armless person who was eating
with his feet?
I am the mother of a 19-yearold
boy who was once handsome and
athletic. He ft now deformed and
cannot use his arms. "Jim” was hit
by a drunk driver. 1 want that
woman to know what it's like to be
a "bizarre sight.'' (Her words, not
mine.)
' Here are some thoughts that run
through my son's mind: I hale the
way I am and 1 wish I could end ft
all without disgracing my family I
dream about the things I used to do
and wake up realizing that I can't
do them anymore. My friends have
stopped coming by and I 'm alone a
tot When I look in the mirror I
wonder if any girl will ever be
interested in me. I live with pain
and wonder if any purpnre ft bring
served by imposing such a hardship
on my family
I pray that one day Jim will feel
good enough about himself to
display the couragr and determina-
tion of that man in the restaurant
My message to that woman in
Ohio ft this: life ft a game of
chance. No one knows when hfe
perfect world will he shattered
May ft never happen to you.
because I'm sure you would never
survive. - A MOTHER
DEAR MOTHER: Your story ft a
heart breaker I hope your mm ft
getting rehabilitation and counsel-
ing I don't know where you live,
but the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago does a fabulous Job. Write
to the medical director. Dr. Henry
Brits, for guidance The address ft:
345 E Superior St„ Chicago, III
60611.
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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS
meets at Saint Philips Episcopal
Church on Houston Street every
Thursday night at 8.
CEDAR SPRINGS Neighbor-
hood Ladies will meet with Mrs.
Faye Gilley, 117 HoUie Circle, al
1:30 p.m. Thursday. April 13, for
fellowship and refreshments.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 87, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 12, 1989, newspaper, April 12, 1989; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816203/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.