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Eight charged for 'Santa Muerte' murders in Mexico
KGBT ^ | May 17, 2012

Posted on 05/17/2012 11:28:59 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

HERMOSILLO, MEXICO -- Mexican prosecutors have formally charged eight people in the grisly cult slayings of two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman.

The suspects are mainly members of an extended family whose purported leader has said they killed the victims as an offering to "Santa Muerte," or Saint Death, between 2009 and 2012.

The idol is usually depicted as a robed skeleton, and her followers include criminals and drug traffickers.

(Excerpt) Read more at valleycentral.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: culture; mexico; saintdeath; santamuerte

1 posted on 05/17/2012 11:29:06 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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To: Red Badger; knarf; sockmonkey

¡Silbido de bala!


2 posted on 05/17/2012 11:35:23 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Follow the money on both sides of the border.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

So lovely that we have people in this country who want such cultural diversity flourishing here.


3 posted on 05/17/2012 1:38:48 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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