Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes draws on exclusive access to the principals in the case and DEA materials to recreate this compelling, national headline-grabbing horror. The locals greet the students — and their swollen billfolds — with broad smiles and double Margaritas for two dollars. Exchanging Valentines can be an awkward process, especially when you consider “Vinegar Valentines” and other snarky sentiments - whatever your tastes, enjoy the sweet and sour cards alike in this gallery!

Then there was the missing American college student — the Mark Kilroy mess, with all its attendant bad press and official pressure to find the missing student. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

There's also interesting information on Mexican law enforcement and corruption, and the distrust between their agencies and US agencies. The narrative uses information from the files of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mexican police, Constanzo's personal journals, and interviews with both cult members and investigators.

Originating from the African Congo this practice/belief is one of the most feared and powerful form of "Black Magic". This book covers this religious sacrifices and durg deals made by the charismatic cult leader Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a Miami-born ex-altar boy who's love for power and money cause him to form his cult. For me, the job amounted to this: license to find out the things I had always wanted to know, about anything and everything that interested, touched or outraged me. The book concerns the Matamoros cult of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, the mechanics of how it came to be, and the inevitable end of the participants. It's odd with what is more or less a serial killer/true crime/satanic panic industry in books and documentaries these days that nobody even talks about this particular case anymore and even when it happened it seemed to be forgotten fairly quickly.Monkey Girl takes you behind the scenes of the recent war on evolution in Dover, Pennsylvania, when the town’s school board decision to confront the controversy head on thrust its students, then the entire community, onto the front lines of America’s culture wars. How did Constanzo convince people of his powers, and how did the very structure (and corruption) of the police and their internal politics allow such a man to stay at large for so long? Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California’s Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town and across the world hoping to enroll their children. As his involvement with the drug trade increased, so did the torture-murders he asserted were necessary to sustain his power.