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SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1989 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- A-5 Cult probe focuses on hunt for couple; 2nd ranch searched I four cult members "already In custody said the group practiced. Cuban-born Delia Aurora Gonzalez Del Valle called a radio talk show and said: "I'm not a Santeria or anything. We are Catholics. My children are Catholic." Santeria is an African-influenced Caribbean religion that includes animal sacrifice. The four suspects were arrested last Sunday at the ranch during a drug bust.

pretty hard to hide in this world." Constanzo and Aldrete, a 6-foot-1 blonde who led a double life as a respected student at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, were last seen Monday in a 1989 silver Mercedes-Benz at a Brownsville hotel. In Miami this weekend, a woman identified by friends and relatives as the mother of Constanzo denied she raised her son in the Santeria religion, which UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Matamoros, Mexico U.S. authorities concentrated Saturday on the manhunt for two of a drug trafficking cult blamed for the mutilation slayings of 13 people found buried at a ranch near Matamoros, while Mexican investigators searched for evidence at a second area ranch. Federal prosecutors in Mexico said Saturday night that authorities were combing the grounds of a ranch called Los Leones 30 miles south of Matamoros. but did not elaborate on the nature of the evidence they sought.

Mexican authorities in charge of the investigation at the cults Santa Elena ranch. 20 miles west of Matamoros, and U.S. officials said Saturday they believed the 13 bodies found in shallow graves Tuesday and Thursday included all of the "At this point, we have no reason to believe there are any more," U.S. Customs Agent Oran Neck said. With that development, the primary law enforcement effort turned to the two-country manhunt for 13 suspects, Including the cult's El Padrlno, or "godfather," 26-year-old Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo of Brownsville, Texas, and Sara Aldrete, 24.

possibly Constanzo's lover. She was identified In confessions by some of the suspects as the main recruiter of cult members. Mexican authorities told U.S. officials Saturday that they searched a Mexico City apartment belonging to Constanzo and found an altar similar to ones found at the Santa Elena ranch and at Aldrete's Matamoros home. Neck said.

Votive candles, blood and children's clothing were found near the altars at both suspects' homes, Neck said. Authorities A memorial service was conducted at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Hitchcock. Texas, on Saturday for one of the victims, Mark Kilroy. a University of Texas premedical student who disappeared during spring break. U.S.

and Mexican authorities have issued arrest warrants for Constanzo and Aldrete and 1 1 other people suspected of participating in the sacrifices, the smuggling ring or both. U.S. authorities said four more people, who were not immediately identified, probably would be named in arrest rants early this week. Neck said he thinks authorities soon will find Constanzo and Aldrete. "I have never seen such massive publicity on anything.

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