On April 9, 1989, the search for missing Texas pre-med student Mark Kilroy came to a horrifying end when police chased a suspected drug smuggler onto a small ranch outside Matamoros, Mexico. In a shack, they discovered an iron cauldron containing dried blood, a roasted turtle, and a human brain. Nearby were the shallow graves of Kilroy and 14 others. In gruesome rites of human sacrifice, the victims were murdered and mutilated. Suspects arrested at the scene claimed that El Padrino, the Godfather, led them in their satanic perversions of voodoo rites, ancient religions and savage, ritual slaughter.
Now investigative reporter Gary Provost rips the bloody covers off the Metamoros killings: the manhunt for the charismatic cult leader, El Padrino, who ordered his own execution - and the chilling truth about Sara Aldrete, honor student by day, witch and temptress by night. Across the Border exposes the grisly details of this brutal cult--and reveals how such an atrocity could happen today.
