The Matamoros Necropolis (Unlocked True Crime) - Couverture souple

Davies, Steven J

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ISBN 13 : 9798237098105

Editeur : Steven J Davies, 2026

Synopsis

The Chilling True Story Of The Matamoros "Satanic" Cult, Cartels, Sacrificial Murders And The Abduction That Finally Brought Them Down.

In the spring of 1989, an American rite of passage collided with a borderland nightmare.

When twenty-one-year-old pre-med student Mark Kilroy vanished into the neon-lit streets of Matamoros, Mexico, during a collegiate Spring Break trip, authorities dismissed it as a routine case of youthful misadventure. But Mark's disappearance was no accident. It was the catalyst for an unprecedented international manhunt that would ultimately breach the gates of Rancho Santa Elena and expose a subterranean world of terror that shattered every conventional paradigm of criminal profiling.

Behind the bustling tourist district operated a transnational narcotics syndicate unlike any other. At its helm was Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, a charismatic Cuban-American who weaponised the ancient traditions of Palo Mayombe to build a multi-million-dollar drug empire. Alongside his high priestess, college student Sara Aldrete ("La Madrina"), Constanzo convinced hardened cartel hitmen and corrupt federal police commanders that human sacrifice would grant them supernatural invincibility. Their dark theology turned an isolated agricultural farm into an industrialised slaughterhouse.

Based on primary source archival research, official forensic exhumation logs, and binational law enforcement records, The Matamoros Necropolis is a definitive, beat-by-beat reconstruction of one of the most horrific mass-murder investigations in North American history.

Steven J Davies delivers a chilling, forensic deep-dive into the minds of the killers, the desperate race to bring them to justice, and the enduring legacy of a family who refused to let their son be forgotten in the shadows of the Rio Grande.

"A harrowing, meticulous exploration of how rapidly human empathy can be erased when immense criminal wealth intersects with absolute psychological subjugation and weaponised faith."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Husband material, father of three boys and an occasional tea drinker (as a Brit, he's legally required to).

After having grown up in South Manchester, and spent a portion of his adult life there, Steven moved around a few times, slowly working his way north, once joking that if he moves again, he'll end up in Scotland.

Writing has been a passion for a long time, even making a book while in school, stapling handwritten sheets together and drawing the cover with a Biro.

Over a decade of writing for other people for a living, as a professional content writer, he finally decided to start writing his own work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Steven J Davies
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798237098105
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible