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Alma and Teresa Gonzalez were a pair of spree killer sisters and abductors who appeared in "La Huesuda".
Background[]
Alma and Teresa were passionate devotees to Santa Muerte, the Mexican Angel of Death, and had an older brother named Miguel who crossed the country's border at their home of Tijuana into America to make it for his own life. The sisters lost contact with him and, believing Santa Muerte was responsible, feared they were being punished and they needed to make an appeasement through sacrifice. As a result, the Gonzalez sisters prepared themselves for rituals they hoped they would contact Santa Muerte through to know where Miguel is, deciding on sacrificing humans in a killing spree.
La Huesuda[]
The IRT is called into the sisters' first murder, Lee Kern, who was smuggling medical drugs needed in the U.S. across the border. He was hanged in a public square painted red. Their next victim, American tourist Robert Miller, is found under a bridge, painted black with his arms cut off, with cigars and alcohol lodged in his throat. Cigars are also found in the throat of their next victim, gangster Julio Salazar, whose eyes are found cut out and stolen. As a final sacrifice, the sisters abduct the officer leading the team through the city, Roberto Calderon, to perform the final ritual at their hideout of cutting his heart out with a scythe. The agents interrupt the ritual just as he's about to die. The sisters refuse to believe the agents in that Santa Muerte isn't responsible. The agents break the heartbreaking news to the sisters they found out during research: Miguel was found dead in a morgue in America. Distraught, the sisters stare at Miguel's morgue photo, then at each other before nodding. Teresa grabs their revolver and shoots herself in her head, killing herself. Just as Alma grabs a dagger and tries to stab her heart, the agents catch on and tackle her to the ground, arresting her while she's in tears. Alma is soon after incarcerated for her crimes.
Modus Operandi[]
The Gonzalez sisters killed based off the rituals required to evoke Santa Muerte so they could get information on their missing brother Miguel. Their MO ran the gamut from dismemberment to painting postmortem to items lodged in their throats. They always wore traditional face paint and adornments as well as decorated the scenes of the crimes to complete the rituals, escalating in their murders to target riskier and more dangerous victims.
Profile[]
Real-Life Comparison[]
The Gonzalez sisters seem to have been based on Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo - All three were abductors who killed their victims with a single blow from a cutting tool (a machete in Constanzo's case, a sickle in the Gonzalez's), hanged their bodies with a wire, chopped off their genitals and removed head-based organs to be used in their rituals (each done to a different victim in the Gonzalez's case). Also, in both cases, the group killed a visiting American student (Mark Kilroy in the Narcosatanists' case, Lee Kern in the Gonzalez's), prompting a joint Mexican-American investigation that led to the discovery and dismantlement of the group.
Known Victims[]
- Lee Kern (painted red and hung in a public square post-mortem)
- Robert Miller (painted black, dismembered, stuffed cigars and alcohol down his throat, and dumped under a bridge post-mortem)
- Julio Salazar (stuffed cigars down his throat and removed his eyes post-mortem)
- Officer Roberto Calderon (knocked out, abducted, tied down, and attempted to cut out his heart with a scythe; was rescued)