The Cameron County Sheriff's Department
says it was a drug ring, but with a
hideous twist, a satanic cult
that used human sacrifice, some
of the bodies were mutilated.
Horrible.
We just like like human
slaughterhouse.
One of the worst things ever.
I've been investigating for 15 years.
It's been the worst thing I've ever seen.
Police found the bodies on a ranch
outside Matamoros, just across the border
from Brownsville.
Four people are under arrest and there
could be others.
At least one has confessed to killing
Kilroy, a 21 year old premed
student from Houston.
He was apparently picked at random to be
sacrificed.
Why?
To, in effect, get the blessings
of the voodoo efforts to
to continue their smuggling activities.
Lieutenant Gavino says the smugglers
prayed to the devil so the police
wouldn't arrest them, bullets wouldn't
kill them. And to make more money, they
smuggled marijuana.
If police know, they won't say how many
of the other 11 bodies are Americans
or who they are.
All that will come out at a news
conference tomorrow when reporters will
get to see the ranch and the mass grave
and there may be other bodies.
There might be, uh, uh, questions
about how many are Americans.
Uh, and then, uh, questions of also
what kind of prosecution can take place,
how many of the crimes took place on the
other side of the border and how many
took place on this side of the border.
Kilroy and three friends crossed the
border March 14th, looking for a good
time. It is reenacted here for the
Fox network program, America's Most
Wanted, one of Kilroy's friends,
as he saw, Kilroy stopped to talk to a
man in an alley.
Nobody ever saw him alive again.
His parents went to Matamoras to offer a
fifteen thousand dollar reward, but it
never turned up any information.
Two weeks ago, nine bodies were found
on another Mexican ranch just across the
border from Douglas, Arizona.
Drugs were involved there, too, but
nobody knows if that's just a coincidence
Larry. A a Channel 5 news tonight.